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Get A Real Job
Years ago, when I first moved to Texas to be with the stranger I met online, I watched in confusion as he tore up my Subway job application. No, he wasn't doing it to be an asshole. He was promising me a dream wrapped up in a big red sparkling bow. He wanted to be the provider and wanted me to sit back and soak up my 'feminine energy'. He wanted me to be able to enjoy the peace of being a stay at home wife and mom.
By Sara Wilsonabout a month ago in Journal
The Cheapest Genius I've Ever Used
I first heard the name DeepSeek the way I hear most tech headlines, half-scrolling past it on my phone while doing something else entirely, catching only the part where a Chinese AI startup had apparently rattled the entire industry and wiped a genuinely alarming amount of value off some very famous tech stocks in a single day. I remember thinking it sounded like exactly the kind of story that gets overblown within a week, filing it away as background noise and going back to whatever I was actually doing. Then it kept coming back. Friends mentioned it in passing. Writers I follow started comparing notes on it. And I kept nodding along in conversations about a tool I had never actually opened myself, which eventually started to feel a little ridiculous even to me.
By Zohan Khan2 months ago in Journal
Experience Is the Only Teacher I Ever Had
Experience Is the Only Teacher I Ever Had I used to think advice was enough. My father would sit me down, my teachers would lecture me, my friends would warn me — "don't do this," "be careful of that," "you'll regret it." I nodded every single time. I even believed I understood. But understanding words and understanding life turned out to be two completely different things.
By Zohan Khan2 months ago in Journal
5 Websites That Actually Pay Writers Well in 2026 (I Checked Every Payout Myself)
I spent an embarrassing number of hours this month doing something most writers never bother to do: I actually went and checked. Not "someone on Reddit said," not "a 2022 blog post claimed" — I dug into current contributor guidelines, payment pages, and traffic data for five sites that regularly get recommended to writers looking to earn something real from their words. A couple of the numbers I found matched what's commonly repeated online. A couple didn't, and one platform has quietly shrunk so much that I don't think it belongs on most "best paying sites" lists anymore, even though it still gets recommended constantly.
By Zohan Khan2 months ago in Journal
