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2025-10-15 09:00:00| Fast Company

A single stream of income is simply not cutting it for todays young professionals. Instead, income stacking is the new way young people are weathering an unstable job market and rising cost-of-living.  The annual Next Gen of Work survey from freelancer services company Fiverr polled over 12,000 respondents from both Gen Z and Gen Alpha across the U.S., the U.K., France, and Germany. It found that for almost half of Gen Z (46%), their biggest career fear is not making enough money to live comfortably.  Cue income stacking.  Gen Z is watching the single-paycheck model wobble, and instead of waiting for it to steady, theyre building safety nets of their own design, Michelle Baltrusitis, Fiverrs associate director of community and social impact, told Fast Company. Income stacking is their response to a volatile economya way to diversify risk and create stability on their own terms.  While its not unusual for young people to work multiple jobs through college and early in their career, Gen Zers are stacking jobs on top of jobs as a way to DIY their own careers. (One Gen Zer, Carissa Ferguson, says shes earned more than $144,0000 selling voiceovers, content creation, and copywriting on Fiverrs platform.) Of those surveyed, 67% said that multiple streams of income were essential for a sense of financial security.  Many are already striking out on their own, with 38% already freelancing or planning to startthe average age to start being just 19. The rising cost of living is just one part of the picture. Gen Z also isnt buying into what they see as a broken social contract, where a linear path up the career ladder is seen as the most reliable route to success and financial stability. Its also a generation in which freelance employment has been modeled in the form of influencers, content creators and podcasters online. As career paths grow less predictable, 56% of GenZ predict traditional employment will be rendered obsolete in the future. By forging their own paths, younger workers are no longer at the mercy of big companies that can lay them off at the drop of hat.  In fact, the desire to work for a household name corporation ranked as one of the lowest career ambitions for Gen Z, at just 14%. Early-career workers are not trusting anybody else to take care of their future.  For the first time, Gen Alpha was also included in Fiverrs survey, despite the oldest being just 14 years old.  Rather than lemonade stands, social media has made it easier than ever for the next generation of workers to start their own side hustles. Of the more than 4,500 13- to 15-year-olds polled, 31% said they wanted to freelance, with 30% crediting social media for introducing them to different career paths.  Their screentime is already paying off. A recent survey by social commerce platform Whop found Gen Alpha are pulling in an average of $13.92 per hour from their online side hustlesnearly double the U.S. federal minimum wage of $7.25. Based on those hourly earnings, that equates to a $28,000 full-time annual salary, all before turning 16.  Hows that for pocket money? 


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2025-10-15 08:30:00| Fast Company

Below, Marc Brackett shares five key insights from his new book, Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want. Marc is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor at Yales Child Study Center. He is the author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel and over 200 scholarly articles, with his research featured in the New York Times, Good Morning America, and Today. Together with Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann, Marc launched the award-winning How We Feel app. He is also the producer of the documentary America Unfiltered: Portraits and Voices of a Nation and host of the podcast Dealing with Feeling. Whats the big idea? Emotion regulation is one of the most important skills for both personal and professional success. With the right training, we can all replace poor habits (yelling, isolation, blame) with better strategies (breath, positive self-talk, reframing) that strengthen connection and well-being. 1. We need to give ourselves permission to feel. Most of us grew up hearing things like: Stop crying. Dont be so sensitive. Shake it off. And so, we learnedexplicitly or implicitlythat emotions are problems to avoid, not signals to explore. But ignoring or suppressing emotions can lead to anxiety, chronic stress, headaches, digestive issues, sleep disturbances, and even long-term impacts on physical and mental health. It also makes it harder to connect with others and regulate emotions effectively. Giving yourself permission to feel means embracing all emotions with curiosity, not judgment. It means saying to yourself: This is how I feel right now, and its okay to feel this way. Let me understand it. That moment of acknowledgment is the gateway to healing, growth, and making wiser decisions. Emotions are not weaknesses. They are data. When we approach emotions with empathyfor ourselves and otherswe create the conditions for insight and resilience. The challenge is that only a third of people report having permission to feel when they were young. What will make us all feel that we have permission to feel? 2. Emotion regulation is 100 percent learned. Where did you learn how to manage emotions? Was it through watching your parents? Was it from teachers? Friends? Maybe no one ever taught you directly, but you still learned. We all did. Ask yourself, on a scale from one to five, how much emotional education you received growing up. And how much of that education helped you develop effective regulation strategies? My research shows that only about 10% of people feel as if they had a solid education in emotion regulation. Common default strategies (especially in moments of stress) include avoidance, yelling, eating, scrolling, numbing, blaming others, or blaming yourself. These are not character flaws. They are just what you learned. But the good news is that because emotion regulation is learned, it can also be relearned. My research shows that only about 10% of people feel as if they had a solid education in emotion regulation. You can upgrade your emotional regulation strategies to include techniques such as deep breathing, accurately labeling emotions, practicing positive self-talk, reframing situations, or seeking support. These are teachable, learnable, and they work. But they require intention, practice, and sometimes unlearning what no longer serves you. 3. Breathing is necessary but not sufficient. Breathing is a powerful tool, and I teach it to everyone, from kindergartners to CEOs. Conscious breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system, helping us move from the fight-or-flight response to the rest-and-digest state. It deactivates our stress response and creates space for wiser choices. Thats why I call it the master strategy. But breathing is only the beginning. The real transformation happens after breath. Once youve calmed your body, what do you do with your mind? What story do you tell yourself? What action do you take? Breathing helps you press pause, but it doesnt solve the problem. That takes reflection, strategy, and sometimes courage. The other day, I visited a middle school classroom and asked a student what hed do if someone were mean or hurtful to him. He said, Take a deep breath. I replied, Thats great, but whats next? He couldnt answer. Breath is only the bridge that takes you to the side where real emotion regulation work can begin. 4. You are what you think. When you make a mistake, whats the first thing you say to yourself? Do you call yourself an idiot, or do you say, Hey, everyone messes up. Its okay. Ill apologize, learn from it, and move on. That inner voice shapes everything from your emotional state to your behavior to your sense of self-worth. And that voice can be trained. Two of the most powerful strategies are positive self-talk and reappraisal. Positive self-talk isnt about pretending everything is fine. Its about being kind and encouraging to yourself, especially in tough moments. Its even more effective when spoken in the second or third person: Marc, take a breath. Youve got this. That subtle shiftcalled psychological distancinghelps us regulate better by stepping back from the heat of the moment. Reappraisal, or reframing, means choosing a new lens through which to view a situation. Its the difference between This is a disaster and This is a challenge I can learn from. I like to say: reframe instead of blame. That inner voice shapes everything from your emotional state to your behavior to your sense of self-worth. For instance, I tend to repeat myself a lot during keynote presentations. There are days when I say to myself, Really, Marc, this is what you are going to do for the rest of your life? But I know better than to go on stage with that mindset. So, I reappraise. Recently, I gave a big talk at a tech company, and I switched my internal dialogue to, Marc, you are going to present your lifes work to over 1,000 engineers, managers, and leaders. Think about the impact you can have on their personal and professional lives. With that mindset, I gave one of my best talks! 5. Focus on other people. When were anxious, angry, or overwhelmed, the instinct is often to withdraw, ruminate, isolate, or spiral inward. But research tells us that reaching out to support others who are suffering is a helpful strategy for healing not only them, but us too. This is a form of co-regulation. When we help others manage their difficult emotions, we simultaneously help regulate our own. Parents do this with their children all the time, but its just as relevant in friendships, workplaces, and partnerships. When you show up for someone else with empathy, patience, and presence, then you also create connection. You model emotional intelligence, and your kindness has the potential for ripple effects. Even witnessing someone else being emotionally supportive can inspire others to do the same. Next time youre feeling low, ask: Who else might be struggling? And how can I helpeven in a small way? You might find that helping someone elseis the most effective way to help yourself. This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.


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2025-10-15 08:00:00| Fast Company

Your interest in longevity may be entrepreneurial; after all, people who want to live longer, healthier lives are a huge market. Or maybe, if you hope to be wealthy, theres what Warren Buffett called the Methuselah technique: a long life and a high rate of return. More likely, though, your interest in longevity is personal. We all hope to live a longer, healthier life. The problem is, the recommendation bar for living a longer life can seem impossibly high. One study found you need between 150 and 300 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity to mitigate the risk of death associated with sitting. Another study found you need to jog five days a week for 30 to 40 minutes for your body to have the age progression of someone nine years younger. Fortunately, theres an easier way to add years to your lifespan. Two studies, one that spanned 10 years and the other 30 years, found that high optimism was linked to 11 to 15% longer lifespans, even after taking into account factors like health and socioeconomic status. As the researchers write: Among psychosocial factors that appear to be potential health assets (e.g., social integration), optimism has some of the strongest and most consistent associations with a wide range of health outcomes, including reduced risk of cardiovascular events, lung function decline, and premature mortality. Investigators have speculated that optimism may facilitate healthier bio-behavioral processes, and ultimately longevity, because optimism directly contributes to how goals are translated into behaviors. Thats a lot, so lets break it down. Social integration directly correlates with living longer. A clinical review of nearly 150 studies published in PLOS Medicine found that people with strong social ties had a 50% better chance of survival, regardless of age, sex, health status, and cause of death, than those with weaker ties. Make and keep a few close friends, youll likely live longer. Yet optimism also directly correlates with living longer, since optimistic people tend to behave differently: While everyone has goals, people who fall on the less optimistic end of the spectrum are much less likely to try to achieve their goals. Why start a journey that feels impossible?  On the flip side, the researchers say optimism directly contributes to how goals are translated into behaviors. When the journey seems possible, starting feels much easier. Sounds good. But still. Knowing you should be more optimistic, if only to extend your lifespan, is different from actually becoming more optimistic. There isnt a more optimistic switch you can flip. Or maybe there is. Research shows that approximately 25% of our optimism set-point is genetic. That means 75% of your level of optimism can be shaped and learned.  For example, participants in a study published in Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry who spent five minutes a day for two weeks imagining their best possible selfin terms of professional, relationship, and personal goalsexperienced significant increases in optimism. If visualization isnt your thing (it isnt mine), try another approach. If, as Jim Rohn says, we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with, simply spend more time with optimistic people. Theyll be more encouraging. Theyll be more supportive. Their enthusiasm will naturally rub off on you. (Plus, youll reap the social integration longevity benefits.) If spending time in groups isnt your thing (it kind of isnt mine), then take a step back and think about your mindset. Generally speaking, people fall into two camps: People with a fixed mindset believe that intelligence, ability, and skill are inborn and relatively fixed; that they are what they were born with. Someone with a fixed mindset might say, I didnt handle that well. Im not cut out to be a leader. People with a growth mindset believe that intelligence, ability, and skill can be developed through effort; that we are what we work to become. Someone with a growth mindset might say, I didnt handle that well, but next time Ill make sure Im more prepared.  People who embrace a growth mindset believe success is based on effort and application, not innate talent.  Think about a challenge you overcame. A goal you achieved. A time when you doubted yourself, but still persevered. Youve done it once. You can do it again. That, in effect, is a growth mindset. Embrace it. Not only will you be more successful, youll be more likely to live longer, too. Cant beat that. Jeff Haden This article originally appeared on Fast Companys sister publication, Inc. Inc. is the voice of the American entrepreneur. We inspire, inform, and document the most fascinating people in business: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters that represent the most dynamic force in the American economy.


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