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Jessica Mudditt is the author of Our Home in Myanmar and a Sydney-based freelance journalist covering business, technology and lifestyle. Her articles have been published by The Economist Intelligence Unit, BBC, CNN, GQ, Australian Geographic, Marie Claire and Westpac Wire. She is an accredited newspaper journalist and spent seven years reporting from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Rosie Spinks is a freelance writer based in the U.K. She was previously on staff at Quartz, where she covered lifestyle and travel, and Skift, where she covered the global tourism and travel industry. As a freelancer, her work has been published in The New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Vice, NPR,

Karen Gardiner is a freelance travel and culture writer from Scotland, currently based in the United States. Her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, National Geographic, BBC and Condé Nast Traveler. Her first paycheck: “I was a chambermaid at a hotel in St. Andrews, Scotland. I earned about £3 per hour and was paid

Annabelle Liang is a Singapore-based freelance journalist who works for media outlets including NBCUniversal, the Associated Press and BBC World News. She previously covered financial news for Citywire. Her first paycheck: I earned it at a pet store, picking out hamsters for excitable children.

Based in India, Aishwarya Jagani is an independent tech journalist who has written about authoritarian tech, climate change, racism and diversity. She has written for publications including The Postscript, Bustle, The Quint, Unbias the News and Secure Futures.  Her first paycheck: I got my first paycheck in 2015, while I was in college, for tutoring

Nazlee Arbee is an independent multimedia artist and journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. They have contributed to publications including ZORA, Elemental, Afropunk and IJNet. Their first paycheck: I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have a hustle — a side gig. When I was 13, I made about ZAR 500 from working part-time

Dr. Lou Martin is an associate professor of history at Chatham University, a cofounder of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, and a member of the advisory council of the Ohio River Valley Institute His first paycheck: I was a busboy at a thoroughbred racetrack near my hometown. My coworkers convinced me to place a

Zoe Cooper is a writer and designer from New York, based in Berlin. She covers the intersection of visual culture (art, design, film) and technology for publications including Vox, Artsy, TASCHEN and Disegno. Her most memorable paycheck: “When I was in high school, I was paid $120 to organize a retired historian’s book collection.”

Based in Brooklyn, Matthew Zeitlin is a business and economics journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Barron’s and the Guardian. His first paycheck: “Helping out teach Hebrew school classes at my synagogue. I can’t remember the amount, but considering the quality of my Hebrew at the time, it was certainly too much.”

Based in Banjul, Gambia, Modou Joof is an award-winning freelance journalist. He is a correspondent for Bloomberg News and has written for Africa in Fact magazine, and reported for Voice of America radio. His first paycheck: “It was in 2013 and was $64 a month. I was working at The Voice, a local newspaper in