Courtney Tenz

Courtney Tenz lives in Cologne, Germany, where she writes for publications including The Cut, Marie Claire, Artsy and the Art Newspaper.

Her first paycheck: “I earned $4.25 an hour as an accounts payable intern at a local frame-making factory while still in high school, an experience that taught me the old-fashioned semantics of payrolI: cutting checks, balancing books and filing invoices. I didn’t get to sign my own paycheck, but I did use it to buy my first shoulder-padded suit for the office.”