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Non-Patronizing Advice for Gen Zs Who Want to Make More Money

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Part 1: Playing the invisible game

At Christmas I reconnected with a cousin who is 23 and stuck in a low-paying dead-end job doing customer service at an ecommerce company that sells lotions for babies or something. This job was a godsend when she got it, because she’d spent the prior 9 months depressed, applying everywhere she could and student debt bills for “business administration” degrees don’t pay themselves. But even though the job wasn’t bad, it wasn’t going anywhere. She could feel it and wasn’t sure what to do. She told me a better role had opened up in a different department and she wanted it badly but she really…

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