Lolade Fadulu

Jimmy O. Yang Spent Years Getting Ready for Crazy Rich Asians

The actor worked in finance and at a strip club before committing to comedy.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Aug 11, 2018

The Upside of Career Restlessness

Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, on figuring out when to leave a job

• Lolade Fadulu
• Aug 2, 2018

How to Love a Jamaican Complicates the Idea of Home

Two Atlantic staffers discuss the writer Alexia Arthurs’s bright, complex debut collection of short stories and the larger tradition of immigrant literature from which it draws.

• Hannah Giorgis and Lolade Fadulu
• Jul 26, 2018

Not Everyone Can Afford a Job They Love

Why the founder of Girls Who Code stayed in a role she hated before leaving the private sector

• Lolade Fadulu
• Jul 17, 2018

The Wisdom of Going Back to School in Retirement

The historian Nell Painter discusses her lifelong love of art, and how it felt to finally pursue her dream after she left the workplace.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Jun 22, 2018

DeRay McKesson Talks About the Hardest Job He's Ever Had

How the activist made a career of social justice.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Jun 2, 2018

Life Before Coffee

Lemuel Butler, one of the world’s most celebrated baristas, had a string of odd jobs and dropped out of college before devoting himself to his craft.

• Lolade Fadulu
• May 17, 2018

'I Was Aspiring to Be Like My Grandmothers'

How Paulette Jordan’s roots influenced her campaign to become the first Native American governor in the United States

• Lolade Fadulu
• May 9, 2018

The Experiment in Irresponsibility

How the writer Leslie Jamison navigated service jobs, elite institutions, and alcoholism

• Lolade Fadulu
• May 3, 2018

'I Don't Know How Professors Teach Without Fighter-Pilot Experience'

Missy Cummings discusses her first job, her experience as one of the first female fighter pilots, and her time as a Duke professor.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Apr 26, 2018

'I Expected to Have a Day Job for the Rest of My Life'

How Philip Glass went from driving taxis to becoming one of the most celebrated composers of our time

• Lolade Fadulu
• Apr 20, 2018

'I Knew I Couldn’t Work Because of My Status'

How Cristina Jiménez went from doing under-the-table jobs to becoming a MacArthur Fellow and immigrants’ rights activist

• Lolade Fadulu
• Apr 4, 2018

Employers Are Setting Workers Up for Failure

Artificial intelligence could bring huge revenue increases for companies—but not if they don't train their employees for the new era.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Feb 1, 2018

Why Aren't College Students Using Career Services?

Harnessing the resource could help them achieve the graduate’s dream: finding a job.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Jan 20, 2018

Filling America's 6 Million Job Vacancies

Real-time data on the labor market promise to finally help employers and job-seekers make better decisions. Will it work?

• Lolade Fadulu
• Jan 5, 2018

Why Is the U.S. So Bad at Worker Retraining?

The strategies used to help workers displaced by technology and globalization in the 1980s ultimately failed. So why do the country’s policymakers continue to resort to the same tactics?

• Lolade Fadulu
• Jan 4, 2018

Employers Are Looking for Job Candidates in the Wrong Places

Those places? Colleges.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Dec 25, 2017

The New Casualties of Automation

Jobs that are dangerous or involve repetitive labor are most at risk of becoming obsolete. And that means some racial groups will suffer more than others.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Dec 21, 2017

How Tech Companies Could Keep the Workforce Alive

Do innovators have a responsibility to help workers whose livelihoods are threatened by machines?

• Lolade Fadulu
• Dec 11, 2017

Do Employers Overestimate the Value of a College Degree?

Worker-training programs could bring companies good workers at low costs.

• Lolade Fadulu
• Dec 2, 2017