Kayla Jones

Learning as I grow 🌸 aspiring to inspire ✨ | PhD student @cornellbpp📚

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Dedicating my PhD to my laptop because I feel sorry for it.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Normalize being in your 30s & REBRANDING your whole identity bc in your 20s you were brainwashed.

[Marcos Alvarado @marcosalvarado_]

Uncommon advice: If you don't know what to pursue in life right now. Pursue yourself. Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, most healed, most present, most confident version of yourself. Then the right path will reveal itself.

[Mofiyinfoluwa Odubanke. @__mofiyinfoluwa]

very hard to have FOMO if you understand the importance of your current season. it’s been my biggest lesson this year. be where your feet are. there’s a reason for this current placement, this current happening. observe it and respond. if you look elsewhere, you’ll waste it.

[Symoné B. Beez @SymoneBeez]

Our community is going to have an extremely rough time over then next 10-20 years, if we do not upskill immediately.

8.3% unemployment rate for Black Americans. I have ideas for some solutions but yeah the data isn't looking good...

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

The US economy is in a hiring recession.

Almost no jobs have been added since April.
Wage gains are slowing.
710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024.

November +64,000 jobs
October -105,000 (impacted by shutdown)
September +108,000
August -26,000
July +72,000
June -13,000
May +19,000

I believe it's a combination of tariff impacts, AI, and cost cutting. Americans are feeling it. #jobs

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Millennials and Gen Z waiting for the housing crash

[Kayla Jones @kaydotjones]

@husslequeenE i was just thinking of doing this lol

[NaNa🌼✨ @sil_vee_yah]

This year has taught me that sometimes God doesn’t change the situation. He changes you, so the situation no longer has power over you.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Another worrying sign: Black unemployment rate is 7.5%, up from 6.1% a year ago.

In downturns, it's typically young people and Black Americans who suffer first with layoffs. Both Black men and women have seen unemployment rise a lot.

[Fwiw, the unemployment rate for white Americans is 3.7%, which is lower than 3.8% a year ago]

[Wavy🍊 @omfgWAVY]

as you move on from disappointments, remember to come back home to yourself. one day at a time you will establish a deeper level of self-trust. so you can move forward with integrity in your heart, the gift of clarity, and safely into your new timeline.

[TDB @TabithaDBasia]

There is no life hack.

You have to choose the life you want and relentlessly persue it.

[Brennan McLachlan @EconBrennan]

Halfway done my PhD and I feel stupider than ever

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Writing Day:

The plan vs the reality

[kemi @kemimarie]

life is just so much better when the sun is out

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Katy Perry went to space before I finished my thesis.

[Kayla Jones @kaydotjones]

@charlie_ccb 😂😂😂😂

[Loky @lokymann]

Quickest 6 years of my life I swear

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

before you go to bed tonight remember that there is no need to be stressed. you are okay. you have time to slow down and calculate your next steps. your whole life is still ahead of you. you got this.