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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and

this is Hello Monday. The economy is shifting dramatically. it's why the show exists technology

automation rising inequality these things are restructuring companies and they're

reconstituting our very notion of jobs and for a lot of people that's really painful.

We're trying to figure out what our jobs look like exactly in a decade

and what we need to learn to be ready for them. It's an equation that feels

like it's changing all the time. But in the midst of this there are some people who seem

to have just figured it out. I'm not talking about startup millionaires here or

Instagram influencers. I mean people who've turned their own skills into careers

that allow them to cover their bills and to live well. People who are making it. I do believe that we have

entered an economy where for people who have curiosity, who have passion or have a passion to develop a passion have a bit of

ambition a bit of hunger a bit of willingness there's so many ways to thrive and to thrive in ways that their

parents never could have and their grandparents never could have. That's Adam Davidson, and you might recognize his voice.

He's a business journalist whose credits include

founding Planet Money, the wildly popular economic show for NPR.

He's also a staff writer for the New Yorker. And throughout

his career he's covered a lot of crises from the aftermath of the earthquake in

Haiti to the financial crisis back in 2008 and along the way he's met a number of these

people, the ones who've figured out something about how this new economy works.

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