Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kanish Shah hoped to land a software engineering job at a traditional Big Tech company. After interning at Walmart, he became more ...