Chris Rose
Since 1979, Popovich and his team have repossessed 1,986 planes and helicopters.
This is what his job is like, as told to freelance writer Jenny Powers.
Growing up in Northwest Indiana, I never took my father s advice except once. I was 16 years old when he told me to get my pilot s license because it might come in handy one day. I did.
After graduating from high school, I went to Indiana University for a semester, but school wasn t for me. Instead, I started flying for Braniff International Airways. It turned out that wasn t for me either. I hated wearing a jacket and tie, and I felt more like a bus driver than a commercial pilot. When I got the chance to become a partner in a small Caribbean charter operation in St. Kitts, I jumped on it.
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Jen Glantz is an entrepreneur and founder of the company Bridesmaid for Hire.
She says having a short, strong elevator pitch is key to networking your small business successfully.
Start your pitch with what you do, detail who you do it for, and close with what makes you stand out.
When most people hear the term elevator pitch, they think they have at least 30 seconds, maybe more, to showcase who they are and what they do. But they re wrong.
When I first started my business, Bridesmaid for Hire, I d find myself gushing about what I do and all the services I offer. I even tossed in a few big accomplishments and business wins. But although what I do is unique and odd to some, even I couldn t hold people s attention after the first few sentences.
Alice Everdeen
Alice Everdeen is a 29-year-old voice-over artist in Austin, Texas.
After years working in radio and TV, Everdeen quit her full-time job and now can make thousands a week as a freelancer.
This is what her job is like, as told to freelance writer Rose Maura Lorre.
I launched my full-time voice-over career just last year, but even as a kid, I was always doing voice work in some way. I would constantly mimic the people I heard in commercials and on the radio and I made tons of prank phone calls, but I never really thought about it as something I could do as a career.
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Many industries started to examine their racist pasts. Journalism in particular began to reckon with the lack of diversity in newsrooms, and the racist rhetoric it used in coverage of diverse communities.
These reckonings felt like an empty PR attempt, since the same behaviors are still present at many publications in 2021
Despite these attempts, we re left with a lingering question of how can journalism actively change to be as diverse as the communities it reports on. One way is to hire diverse candidates with intersecting identities, such as Black queer journalists who navigate the industry with the added stress of implicit bias rooted in racism and queerphobia.