But actually pursuing that desirable career path isn't easy, or even seen as "normal."

For Brooke Miccio, a recent University of Georgia grad, leaving the job she accepted in June to pursue an influencer career full time was scary and hard to explain to the people close to her, she told Business Insider. 

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Alice Hall was having trouble making ends meet. She was working full time as a cover teacher in a high school, as well as in a bar at night and promotional work at weekends.

Determined to make a change, she spotted a gap in the market for what she calls “glam fashion online”.

Read more at Mirror.

You might have heard the old adage “renting is throwing money away.” It seems like common sense. You don’t buy anything when you rent, but you keep to keep the house you buy. However, nothing could be further from the truth.

As personal finance blog Afford Anything breaks down in massive, incredible detail, buying a home is a lot more complicated than “Rent, except you get to keep it.” Not only are there major additional costs that you’ll be paying for the rest of your life (like repairs, renovations, and property tax), but for the first several years of your mortgage, you’re barely even gaining any equity!

Read more at Life Hacker.

My husband passed away 10 years ago at age 66. I called then to see if I could collect Social Security, because he was receiving benefits when he died. Our daughter was still a minor, so she was able to collect survivor benefits until she turned 18. I was told I couldn’t collect benefits as I made too much money. (I asked what too much money was and they said around $14,000 annually.)

I am now thinking about retiring at age 66 or 67. I am a mid-career public school teacher, so I’ve been told the “windfall elimination provision” will wipe out my Social Security benefit. I had my own business and worked previously but am told I can’t receive the Social Security benefits that my husband earned, nor will I most likely receive much, if anything, from the Social Security contributions I made. My friends tell me this can’t possibly be right.

Read more at LA Times.

To her 10,000-plus Instagram followers, Kashlee Kucheran had the perfect life. She sold 90 per cent of her possessions to travel the world with her husband as a travel blogger.

Her journey was all documented online with glamorous pictures of the places she visited and hotels she stayed in. But her hobby of uploading photos soon became an addiction: staging photos to get the perfect shot.

Read more at CTV News.

When it comes to heart health, you might already know that eating healthy and avoiding junk food is a good place to start, but it can be more complicated than you think. Plenty of foods that you enjoy every day, even foods that are otherwise healthy for you, might actually be doing a lot of damage to your heart. Because of this, it is always important to be aware of both what you should avoid and why you should avoid it. 

We are always concerned with letting you know just what you need to have a happy and healthy heart, so we are sharing the foods to avoid if you need to clean your arteries.

Read more at Homify.

It’s a damp, midweek afternoon. Even so, Cardiff’s walk-in stress management course has pulled in more than 50 people. There are teenagers, white-haired older people with walking aids, people from Caucasian, Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds. There is at least one pair who look like a parent and child – I’m unsure who is there to support whom.

The course instructor makes it clear that she is not going to ask people to speak out about their own stress levels in this first class: “We know speaking in public is stressful in itself.” She tells us a bit about previous attendees: a police officer whose inexplicable and constant worrying prevented him from functioning; a retired 71-year-old unable to shake the incomprehensible but constant fatigue and sadness that blighted his life; a single mother unable to attend her daughter’s school concert, despite the disappointment it would cause.

Read more at The Guardian.

A sponsored post from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign states: “Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook just endorsed Donald Trump for re-election.”

The statement is immediately clarified as being false, but the shock-factor employed by the ad has two aims – first to highlight Facebook’s recent policy decision to exempt political ads from fact-checking, and second to bring attention to the Trump campaign’s alleged use of false information in their own ads.

Read more at Techspot.

On a recent episode of Man Up, Aymann Ismail tumbled down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos of men proposing to women in public. In one video, Evie Allen’s boyfriend, Matt, pops the question on live TV on New Year’s Day while she’s reporting at the anchor desk. But there’s more to the story: Evie was auditioning for a full anchor job at the TV station—so his proposal could have gone badly not just for their relationship but for her career. Aymann talked with both Evie and Matt to see how they feel about the proposal now, almost two years later. This excerpt of their conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Read more at Slate.

When the phrase "life insurance" comes to mind, we often think of protecting our families. Most of us have been taught that life insurance is important, especially if you have a family, as it can ensure your spouse and/or children are cared for in the event you pass away.

Read more at Business Insider.