The older Americans turning to blue-collar work

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Welcome back! A product manager has some advice for junior employees: Be the dumbest person in the room. Asking questions and listening rather than trying to tout your knowledge is the best bet.

This will be my last edition for a bit, as I'll be on parental leave until May. But don't sweat it! You're in the very capable hands of my UK colleague Hallam Bullock while I am out. The only thing you'll need to change is to imagine a posh British accent while you're reading it.

In today’s big story, people are getting worried about a potential recession. Here’s how to protect yourself.

What’s on deck

Markets: Find out what the PE giants are paying.?

Tech: Everyone wants to get rid of low performers, but doing so might not be as beneficial as you think.

Business: Older Americans told us how they’ve traded in their white collars for blue ones to make ends meet.

Top headlines:

• Elon Musk says he'll never turn off the Starlink terminals in Ukraine.
• The strange and disturbing rise of Taliban tourism.
• Meet the entrepreneur who quit her tech job to make purring plushies for anxious millennials.
• Female founders and execs talk about acts of 'micro-feminism' at work — and why they matter.
• The US Navy wants a robotic crawler to eliminate the most dangerous underwater threat: sea mines.
• Tractor Supply shoppers are snapping up all the company's baby chicks as egg prices soar.
• China's capital city is making AI education mandatory, even for elementary schoolers.
• Anti-Elon Musk stickers are being snapped up by Tesla owners who can't sell.
• Russia's arms exports are going bust as foreign buyers bolt and the Ukraine war chews through its weapons.
• The stock market is getting more turbulent. Here are four ways that's reshaped how investors behave.
• Ukrainian soldiers react to Trump: If we run out of American bullets, we'll find another gun.
• Trump handed these two Chinese e-commerce companies a double win — for now.

Curated by Dan DeFrancesco, Grace Lett, Ella Hopkins, Hallam Bullock, Amanda Yen, and Elizabeth Casolo.

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