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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt

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Writer, editor, old mom, nice person. #UU. she/they I write about careers, money, and life. Sign up for my newsletters: ✅ https://thejobhopper.substack.com/ ✅ https://oldmomthings.substack.com/

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · Feb 3

Henry Rollins: "This is not a time to be dismayed. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for."

Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of people are out of work right now and looking for ways to keep the lights on until things get better. Here's how to make money fast when you can't wait for a weekly paycheck.
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How to Make Money Fast

When you can't wait for a weekly check, these jobs pay in a day or two.

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 7d

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Jobs Data Paints a Grim Picture, Even Without a BLS Report
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Jobs Data Paints a Grim Picture, Even Without a BLS Report

The monthly jobs report from the Labor Department didn’t run today, so we turned to other data sources to show what's going on in the job market.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

Worst ADP print since March 2023.

Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 9d

*ADP US SEPT. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT FALLS 32,000; EST. +51K

"greatest economy in the history of the world"

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Alison Doyle @alisondoyle.bsky.social · 9d

In another sign of a shaky job market, ADP reports that private employers dropped 32,000 jobs in September.
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ADP Employment Reports

The ADP Research Institute® works in close collaboration with Stanford Digital Economy Lab and its experienced team of labor market researchers to publish employment reports.

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 10d

I think I'd rather be a sloth or a turtle.
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It's Extremely Hard to Be a Person Right Now

I think I’d rather be a sloth or a turtle, to be honest.

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 10d

Our leaders are so embarrassing.

Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 11d

Very much in line with our discussion on your podcast, @aboutibd.bsky.social !

Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 11d

Whether you're between jobs or just struggling with the price of everything, side gigs can help you make ends meet. Here's where to find legit gigs. (Big thanks to @careersherpa.bsky.social for her insight!)

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How to Find a (Legit) Side Gig

Ask any long-time freelancer: the cure for economic anxiety is adding to your bank balance. Side gigs can help you build your savings, even during tough times.

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 12d

Listen, if there really were medbeds, I'd jump into one, thyroid first. But COME ON.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 13d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18d

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 17d

A few days ago, @alisondoyle.bsky.social and I stumbled across a serious contender for worst career advice of 2025. A career expert suggested that people who are not passionate about their jobs should quit.

Please do not do this.
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Please Do Not Take This Terrible Career Advice

Sometimes, we read career advice on social media and wonder if we’re being pranked. It would make the most sense.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22d

if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23d

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23d

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 24d

I've had it with this timeline.
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Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · 25d

Just because you’re aware that you’re lucky to be employed doesn’t mean that you enjoy what you’re doing.
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10 Tips for Making the Best of a Boring Job

If you're like most workers right now, you're holding on to any job you can get. But what if that job is, well, boring?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29d

I am begging political editors at legacy outlets to wait for confirmation before publishing misinformation that contributes to targeting vulnerable people. You don't need to be first on this. I promise you there are things more important than being first. Like your integrity.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 29d

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Sep 10

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Sep 10

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

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Jen Hubley Luckwaldt @jenlucky.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Listen, There's Always a Leak Somewhere in Your House.

It's just a matter of *how* leaky and what size leak and where it is.

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