In 2001, Cary Carbonaro and her then-husband were on their way to buy a new car when he told her, “I can’t put the car in my name because of my credit.” Carbonaro was confused. The newlyweds were living in New York, and she was under the...
I was fired as a writer’s assistant on The Cleveland Show because I couldn’t type fast enough. You had to be a veritable court reporter to keep up with Seth MacFarlane’s staff of snarky motor-mouths, and I was hunting-and-pecking and missing jokes. After the executive producers gave...
Don’t have piles of money to invest? Lacking the time to constantly scan the stock exchange? Just want to be able to afford to live? This is the finance guide for you, fellow regular human. … The Woman Mathilda, Los Angeles, CA Age: 36 Occupation: Senior packaging...
You probably think that there’s not much financial advice a millionaire CEO could give you that would apply to your life. And you could argue that there’s little relevant wisdom that someone who’s already retired can impart when you’re still in the process of starting out. Same...
Whether they preferred a quick jaunt or a four-hour trek, some of the greatest minds in history — Einstein, Gandhi, Beethoven and Jesus to name just a few — walked to relieve stress, mend relationships and write novels, source code or symphonies. “I’ve hung around a lot of brilliant people, and...
Don’t have piles of money to invest? Lacking the time to constantly scan the stock exchange? Just want to be able to afford to live? This is the finance guide for you, fellow regular human. … The Man Ian, Los Angeles, CA Age: 24 Occupation: Journalist Goal:...
In the first installment of our new “What Makes Me a…” column, we asked 10 people what kind of behavior they consider jerk-ish. It turns out that jerks, like beauty, are very much in the eye of the beholder. … Kristeen LaBrot, Wedding Planner: Someone’s a jerk when...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Over the past year, MEL has interviewed 11 people who paid off large amounts of debt. We started the project — which became our personal finance series Into the Black — in May to learn more about the different means by which people make their way out of debt. America is...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Mark “The Shark” Quartiano has been running shark-fishing expeditions off the coast of Miami for 40 years. His first was in 1976, shortly after the release of Jaws, and he estimates he’s caught more than 20,000 sharks since. The 65-year-old former fireman and policeman is famous on...
For most of us, the eight hours of the day we spend at the office are not our own. They belong to the entity that pays our rent, provides our health care and gives us a reason to go on vacation. It can get existentially exhausting to...