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☆ I'm a 26-year-old software engineer making $75,000, and still dream of becoming a professional e-sports athlete. Here's how I balance work and my gaming endeavors
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andy Collins, a 26-year-old software engineer from Chicago pursuing a professional esports career playing the first-person shooting game Valorant. Being a professional esports competitor wasn't the most well-known or traditional career path at the time. Valorant has only been out for four years, but its professional esports scene is rapidly growing in popularity. Even though I'm playing far fewer hours per day than before — I only spend around four hours after work each day playing other teams and strategizing for my weekly matches — I'm in my best-ever form. Are you a professional esports athlete and want to share your story?

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☆ Best ways to earn extra money while driving for Uber, from the 'Rideshare Queen'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Ananya Vahal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After about six months of driving, I set up a dashcam and started making content with my Uber passengers. I'm now known as "the Rideshare Queen" and make money through ads, sponsorships, and driving for Uber full time. AdvertisementHere are four of the best ways I earn higher tips driving for Uber in Atlanta. Sometimes airport riders book their Uber trips in advance, so I have guaranteed pickups for those days. Sports fans help me make good money and good contentSports fans usually help me create the most interesting content for my social media and are good tippers.

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☆ What Jordan Neely’s Death Tells Us About the Subway - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And not only one’s children: I fear that the current situation on the subways may foster racial bigotry more broadly. I’ve heard this past week that we should tolerate the reality that these men make us “uncomfortable” on the subway. New Yorkers these days have read stories of people being pushed onto the tracks or stabbed by troubled individuals in subway stations. I am going to venture an idea that may be unpopular: Jordan Neely, in all of his innocence, did deserve restraint. The system needs to help both the Jordan Neelys and the rest of us.

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