Mercor
‘Unemployment is my best friend’: He has an engineering Ph.D, applied to 2K jobs — and has nothing. Is this the future?
Oct 28, 2026
Yahoo Finance (syndicated from Moneywise/Wall Street Journal)
A Wall Street Journal-sourced story syndicated by Moneywise/Yahoo Finance about a Princeton-trained chemical-engineering Ph.D. unable to find a permanent job features his stint as a $70-an-hour AI trainer for Mercor as his only paid work in nearly two years, including how the contract abruptly ended.
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