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Financial Independence, Societal Impact

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Interesting Resources We Found for You

1. Everything You Need To Know About Getting a Job in 2023: [Click here]
    Looking for a job can be frustrating, especially in today’s market. If you’re struggling to land your next (or first) job, here are some quick tips to help you navigate the current landscape.

2. World Inequality Report 2022: [Click here]
    This report presents the most up-to-date synthesis of international research efforts to track global inequalities. The data and analysis presented in the report is based on the work of over a hundred researchers over four years, located across all continents and contributing to the World Inequality Database (WID.world), maintained by the World Inequality Lab.

3. YouTube: Big Ideas 2023 | Smart Contract Networks: Enabling Financial And Internet Revolutions: [Click here]
    In the aftermath of catastrophic failures of centralized crypto intermediaries last year, automated self-executing contracts on decentralized public blockchains offer the alternative of transparent and non-custodial financial services. Decentralization is proving more critical to maintaining the original value proposition of public blockchain infrastructure.

4. Twitter: The experience of selling baby photo props on Amazon: [Click here]
    In less than 4 years, the author and his wife sold over $3,500,000 of baby photo props online. They had no kids at the time and he worked full-time. Here’s how they found riches in the niches.

5. Twitter: Advice from billionaires to develop a billionaire mindset @FluentInFinance: [Click here]
    There is some advice from billionaires to develop a billionaire mindset and 5 important lessons from billionaire entrepreneurs.

Member-Made Videos

1. Consumer Debt I, Student loan: YouTube [Click here], Bilibili [Click here]
     Video author: Yongchen Huang, Stony Finance Lab
     Description: This video introduces federal and private student loans. It discusses the interest rates and characteristics of three types of federal student debts (Direct subsidized, Direct unsubsidized, and Direct PLUS) and the characteristics of private student loans. A comparison of federal student and private student loans is covered. The consequences of defaulting on student loans are listed and explained.

2. Smart Ways to Tap into your retirement savings: YouTube [Click here], Bilibili [Click here]
     Video author: Uroosa Islam
     Description: What are different & smart ways to save for retirement & Taking money out of your nest egg to make sure it lasts as long as it needs to be.

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Jobs Board: Blockchain and Crypto

1. Blockchain front-end engineer: Apply here!
    DappOS is looking for a Blockchain front-end engineer that you should have a solid background in front-end development, be familiar with Typescript, be familiar with major front-end frameworks like React and Vue, and be familiar with common engineering build packaging tools like Vite, Rollup, Esbuid, Eslint, etc. Experience with component libraries is a plus.

2. Solidity Contract Engineer: Apply here!
    DappOS is looking for a Solidity Contract Engineer. This position requires you to be able to research smart contract development, testing, in-depth study of smart contract systems in the blockchain field, including but not limited to smart contract virtual machines and programming languages, specifications, as well as the abstraction and definition of smart contracts based on business segmentation, form protocols and use smart contracts for protocol verification and testing.

3. Operation and maintenance engineer: Apply here!
    DappOS is seeking an Operation and maintenance engineer to join their team. The candidate should be familiar with the products and features of Amazon AWS and Alibaba Cloud, the configuration and deployment of common Web services and middleware, including the configuration, maintenance and tuning of application services such as Nginx/Redis/MQ, and the technologies of load balancing and elastic scaling.

4. Investment research intern: Apply here!
    7UpDAO is looking for an Investment research intern that will be responsible for analyzing and researching projects with investment value in the secondary market, regularly writing project investment analysis reports and analyzing data, integrating information, assisting team research and supporting investment decisions.

5. Operations intern: Apply here!
    7UpDAO is looking for an Operations intern who will be responsible for the daily operation of wechat, Discord, Telegram and other communities, arranging community interactions and following up implementation, planning online and offline activities, and working with partners to plan and implement promotional plans to increase brand awareness.

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