Here's an INTERESTING way double your pay: Work two full-time remote jobs, don’t tell anyone and, for the most part, don’t do too much work, either.
This
@RachelFeintzeig
story is incredible. Try to read it without screaming.
Some news! Today I start my new gig as deputy coverage chief of
@WSJ
's new Life & Work coverage area led by
@wallernikki
.
I'm SO excited as I am all about journalism that helps people make big decisions -- from $$$ to what time to wake up in the morning.
Some personal news! I'm back to work this week & absolutely thrilled to be joining
@WSJ
as Bureau Chief of personal finance. Talk to me about all your $$$ feelings (and questions)!
Read
@francescamarief
on escaping student debt + why managing the impossible didn't feel like a win:
"I shudder to think about all of the minutiae, the small breaks and chances I got that, only when stacked atop one another in the right order, allowed me to escape student debt."
As a low-income, first-gen college student, I managed the impossible: I paid my way through school, graduating without debt.
But I didn't leave school touting the American bootstrap myth. I left thinking the system is broken.
My latest column for
@WSJ
:
I've always wondered: If I had gotten married earlier, would I be richer?
The money gap between young married couples and singles has widened, thanks to inflation and rising home prices reports
@juliaccarpenter
Big smile this morning, and probably all day/week/month: Went to
@penguinrandom
to hand in the manuscript
@juliaccarpenter
and I have been working on the past year! Our book comes out next year 👯♀️ (She’s in Venice but here in spirit)
✨ I’m celebrating 5 years at
@WSJ
today! Longest job I’ve had in news✨
Exactly 5 years ago today I walked into the newsroom looking for the Mother’s Room because I had a 3 month old at home and needed to pump twice a day. (Snuck back in there for a bump photo 🤰🏻 last week)
It's been 9 amazing months at
@WSJ
, and now for more exciting news: I'm hiring! There are two open reporter roles on my team -- both really exciting jobs
Sweatpants? Furniture? Welcome to the summer of surplus: Retailers are getting ready to cut prices of goods that were popular during the pandemic. Expect ‘discounts like you’ve never seen before.’
The past two years, we've been told to stay resilient through the frustrations, the languishing and the exhaustion.
Now,
@AlexLJanin
reports on a phenomenon called resilience fatigue: the exhaustion that comes after having to stay positive for so long.
We sent photographer Luo Yang &
@kchungdawson
to talk to millennial women in a matrileanear society in China about how they felt about other people's fantasy being projected on their society
Finally caught him creeping on my conference call! (Thanks
@GRogow
for flagging why everyone was smiling while I was talking about Extremely. Important. Finance. Things.)
I felt so happy as someone with some mahjong skills when I saw that scene near the end in
@CrazyRichMovie
So I'm going to try to explain what happened *cracks knuckles*
And here's some more personal + happy news!!
@juliaccarpenter
and I will be taking our personal-finance-as-recipes approach to the next level w/ cookbook publisher Clarkson Potter!
So excited to join their community of innovative chefs, cooks, designers, artists, writers.
A lot of details in here: "She did everything for me and for the family. She provided everything. She worked every day, 12 hours a day, so that me and our family would have a better life,” Jami Webb said of her mother."
My favorite thing I’ve overhead in the Hudson Valley this vacation is a young woman telling her date: “For me it’s TikTok or Russian novels. Everything in between is skippable.” He nodded enthusiastically.
It has been 22 weeks since Evan was detained for doing his job.
#IStandwithEvan
Our newsroom this morning in solidarity with Ella and Mikhail, Evan's parents.
I’m nearly 6 months pregnant and def had a little fun tonight on the MTA: walked up to 3 suits talking v loudly about “wrapping it up” bc “you don’t want to miss out on life” and asked for their seat. They all got up & one lady slow clapped me as I sat down 🤣🤣 🙌
Happy launch day to
@WSJ
's Six-Week Money Challenge!! Written by me and
@juliaccarpenter
and made by a whole team of talented colleagues, you’ll get one email a week with a challenge aimed at improving your knowledge of your finances. Sign up here!
👏👏👏 to my
@WSJ
colleagues for vigorously reporting this historically important and visually stunning series of 9 stories on Black Wall Street.
You can see them all here, in front of the paywall:
Yesterday marked two years at
@WSJ
for me! It somehow seems longer and shorter than that? Really grateful to be in the company of such incredible reporters, editors, and strategists everyday 🖤
Do you ever think about how it became cool to own less stuff + we became less judgy about buying cheap things/meals/beers/gifts, etc.? Wrote up something I've been thinking about for a long time for
@WSJ
's special The Decade in Review section!
When I joined
@WSJ
in 2019, I remember thinking what an honor it was to work at the place that broke and owned the Theranos story. I still feel that way.
It's happening!!! Our book cover has landed. It is getting real
@juliaccarpenter
@jessiekuronen
@WSJ
You can now PRE-ORDER The New Rules of Money, out this December:
👏👏👏 to
@AlexLJanin
for this one:
"Patients who have taken Paxlovid have described it as sun-baked trash-bag liquid, a mouthful of dirty pennies and rotten soymilk. They have tried to erase the taste with salves from cinnamon to milk to pineapple."
One more cool thing on the education front: We recently learned
@WSJ
's Six-Week Money Challenge, written by me and
@juliaccarpenter
, is now part of a graduate level personal financial planning course at
@NCState
's Master's of Accounting program. Very excited to read the feedback!
We didn’t have to go far to find our book literally on bookshelves 📚🤩😭 (I’m emotional!)
Stop by the 5th avenue
@BNBuzz
we’re stocked on the ground floor!!
For those looking at interest rates and thinking more seriously about home buying: There's a historic shortage of homes for sale, reports
@NicoleFriedman
Happy launch day to WSJ Money!
@WSJ
’s new audience-based, mobile-first experience that answers personal finance questions. No paywall. Let’s figure out 💸💸💸 together:
This
@rorysatran
column is too good. I never had AirPods bc I found them too expensive and now I can say it’s bc they’re out of style:
“In short, AirPods have become too widespread to be cool.”
We're big on the
@WSJ
homepage today! Whether it’s retirement or a down payment, academic research says New Year’s Day is one of the best times to initiate change. So if you're thinking about your finances going into 2020, you're not alone -- and we've got readings for you
Read the
@WSJ
story on the transforming Greenwood district nearly 100 years after race massacre: “It’s not a sense of ‘Let’s do it.’ It is ‘Let’s bring it back, because our ancestors did it so well’ ”
Thank you to my dad Tak for raising me while my mom killed it at work. Here's a photo of us at mom's office back in the day. My dad took me to school & made my lunch everyday (PB&J triangles). Sometimes when I behaved, we got to visit mom at work
Exciting Monday news: We're looking for a personal finance reporter to join my team at
@WSJ
! You will be involved in the
@WSJpersfinance
group’s multitude of digital offerings and break newsworthy service $$$ stories.
More details here:
Meet the class of 2022. They are the most in-demand college graduates to enter the job market in years. They have the expectations to match, reports
@lindsayaellis
.
The pandemic, and inflation, sharpened their focus on pay.
Last summer, we launched
@WSJ
's first ever email course about money and personal finance. We had an overwhelming response. You asked to learn next about investing, and we listened. Presenting the
@WSJheard
@WSJpersfinance
5-Week Investing Challenge!
We have some great personal finance stories today at
@WSJ
. The first is a topic that's become really relevant: How do you build an emergency fund if it's already raining? We asked 35 financial advisers, behavioral economists and other experts to help
There's extra significance in this for those in NYC: The park where this interview was filmed is just a block away from Christina Yuna Lee's apartment. I recognized it immediately.
“It's the stereotypes around Asian women that make us more likely to be hunted, right? We're supposed to be submissive.”
@AmaraCNN
speaks to Asian American women who say they live in fear over the rise of violent attacks against Asian Americans across the country.
Insider EIC
@nichcarlson
addresses the newsroom post-strike, says “after a few years of drift,” the media company is returning to its core focus of business, economy, and tech coverage and becoming “the next-gen WSJ”
The role of workplace friendships is now getting a big test, reports
@lindsayaellis
.
As part of "quiet quitting" more workers are saying they're not here to make friends, cutting back on workplace socializing and bonding.
I like when random stuff I wrote 10 years ago starts trending!
"Additionally, the researchers also found that for both men and women, there's a strong relationship between health insurance coverage and first marriage: Men with healthcare had 30% higher odds, and women 16%."
I started working at
@WSJ
after giving birth for the first time. I was so tired I would just blurt out "I'm pumping!" to anyone who asked where I was.
I am in awe of
@SabrinaSiddiqui
and her story on pumping on her historic trip to a war zone with President Biden. Read it.
Very excited to show off the new
@WSJ
~Flexicle~ an experimental feature to make our coverage more accessible and a step towards personalization. A great collab between R&D, Innovation, and Market teams!
@a_zeisler
@RobinKwong
@GunjanJS
@WSJmarkets
Found my
@WSJ
colleague
@DionRabouin
in Tokyo! He won our bet that I wouldn’t be able to find a single trash can our entire walk through Minato and Shibuya
This column is 🔥. How to fail up at work from people who've done it: "“The bigger the organization is, the more room you have to move around and fail," writes
@callumborchers
Some news: My department is joining
@WSJ
's new initiative to provide our readers with important information and insight for the big decisions in their lives, from how they spend, save, and invest to how they plot their careers, pay for school & more.
As another pandemic year wraps, this is the thing I'm most proud of professionally! This was such a collaborative newsroom win for us at
@WSJ
, down to locating this trophy which required bureaucratic sleuthing by
@H_Canada
and mailroom help from our clerk John McGoorty.
#OJA2021
Some people take their birthdays off but for me it's Chinese New Year. I'm not going anywhere I just have to walk around my apartment and eat turnip cake and talk to other Chinese people about astrology and random auspicious stuff we're all going to do
Congrats to our
@WSJ
Life & Work intern
@j0urnalistkatie
for her first story this summer!
Yes, there are people out there who are really happy with their paycheck, she reports
Tonight NYC felt the same as it always was: the ladies stayed to finish drinks as
@juliaccarpenter
@jjmccorvey
dashed off to Friday night dates. Thanks to the
@WSJ
PF team, for lots of stuff but especially a really great 3 years.
Our
@WSJ
TINY MONEY series is all about small, doable financial tasks, habits, and tips to help you achieve your 2021 goals. Read
@juliaccarpenter
on why a micro budget makes sense when time feels so weird right now