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8 Niche Careers You Didn’t Even Know Existed

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Imagine the next time you ask someone what they do for a living and they respond, “Oh, I test waterslides for a living,” or “I study the curious contents found in the pockets of antique clothing.” The average salary range for ethical hackers is between $95,000 to $119,000, according to Crowdstrike. According to the U.S.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. Now, he was out of a job.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). I returned three years later to my City of Karma in a job with my then dream publication with four times the salary—with no love in tow. Broken. * * *.

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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

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Nearly every commercial is just Shaq being, well, himself: Shaq installing a security system, Shaq dancing to the Gold Bond theme song, Shaq standing in a cruise ship pool with his clothes on. He thanked his mother, who raised him on a secretary’s salary when his biological father left them. He calls her “the great Lucille O’Neal.”

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

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One perk of working for a star is the clothes, she said: “One assistant I knew was the same shoe size as her celebrity, so she got all her hand-me-down designer shoes.” Today, Low-Kramen said, a starting salary for a celebrity personal assistant on call 24/7 can typically hit the low six figures.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

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It costs a company 6-9 months of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. When she was hired, her manager said she would be on track for promotions and salary increases but in three years, she was overlooked numerous times. The third most important thing that staff wants is to be fairly compensated in salary and other benefits.

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