Scott graduated high school in three years at 17-years-old, after essentially skipping her junior year because she was ahead. Once she graduated, she started to think about whats next for her. Real estate and its promise of building generational wealth appealed to her. At 17-years-old, Scott started her pre-license real estate course, which overlapped with her freshman year at Louisiana State University. And a year later, Scott was a licensed real estate agent in the state of Louisiana, where she was born and raised, despite constantly being asked, why didnt she just wait until after college? 

I know what I want from life, Scott told Fortune. I kind of felt like why wait when the resources are here and I can do bothnow I have an earlier start than others would, and Im glad I [made] that decision. It was stressful and it still is kind of stressful, but the good always outweighs the bad. 

Now shes a 19-year-old real estate agent and a full-time student at LSU majoring in marketing, and she knows exactly what she wants.

I want to be successful, I want to inspire other people, so they can see that age has nothing to do with your level of success, Scott said. If you want something, you can go and get it, and I just want to be that inspiration for people. 

And at just 19-years-old, Scott is making six figures, typically over $10,000 a month, she said. In her first two months of being a licensed real estate agent, which was January and February of last year, Scott didnt sell a single home. The next month, she sold her first home, and said she was pretty stoked about that. After listing the home, the sale was pending 48 hours later, and she made $9,000 in commission. Scotts confidence went up with that first check, and she felt like she could keep this going. In April of last year, the month after her first sale, Scott said she made $21,000 in commission, selling three homes. Its been a trend, for the most part, for her to make a minimum of $10,000 each month, Scott said. 

Im not going to lie, when I got those first two commission checks, I kind of went crazy, Scott said. But after that, I was like, Ive had my fun, now its time to just save and invest. 

Scott wants to build duplexes in her hometown of  Plaquemine, Louisiana, and shes already looking for the vacant land. But for now, aside from being a full-time college student, Scott is working on building her social media platform along with an educational platform selling eBooks shes written to help those looking to get into real estate. Her eBooks cover everything from passing the real estate exam to getting sales as a young real estate agent. It all started with people asking her how she got her license and what shes done to become a successful real estate agent at such a young age, and from there she simply sat down and started writing, as it was one of the only ways she could think of to teach as many people as she could. 

In a typical Gen Z fashion, Scott catches the attention of others by capturing the seemingly glamorous parts of her lifestyle. With more than 125,000 followers on TikTok, youll see Scott posting clips of herself hopping out of a Mercedes Benz in a chic outfit, going shopping, and attending fancy dinners. But thats not all she posts, Scott frequently shares how she got her license at 18 and how she went from zero sales to making six figures in commission, which she said she did with the help of a good broker (her mom in her case) and a solid marketing strategy that helped her secure leads. 

When I first started, I was kind of like a ghost, Scott said. I wasnt doing any type of advertisement, I wasnt talking to anyone. I just kind of had my license and no one really knew. But once I came up with a good lead generation formula and stuck to itthings really changed for me. 

That meant using social media, marketing herself through digital advertising and physical flyers, reaching out to people and going door-to-door, letting them know shes a realtor. Her success is because of her discipline and her ability to find a balance in managing her school work and real estate, Scott said. But even just getting started in real estate at such a young age was hardworking with clients and all the paperwork were two things she had to get used to quickly. However, being able to help people and seeing their reaction after closing on their dream home has made it all worth it, she said.

People are eager to learn and youd be surprised at the amount of people who actually want to get into real estate but just have no clue how, Scott said. 

Harrys lawyer said the Duke of Sussex would be unavailable to testify after opening statements because hed taken a flight from Los Angeles on Sunday after the birthday of his 2-year-old daughter, Lilibet.

Im a little surprised, Justice Timothy Fancourt said, noting he had directed Harry to be in court for the first day of his case.

Mirror Group Newspapers lawyer, Andrew Green, said he was deeply troubled by Harrys absence on the trials opening day.

Harry was scheduled to testify Tuesday, but his lawyer was told last week the duke should attend Mondays proceedings in Londons High Court in case the opening statements concluded before the end of the day.

The case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror is the first of the princes several lawsuits against the media to go to trial, and one of three alleging tabloid publishers unlawfully snooped on him in their cutthroat competition for scoops on the royal family.

Harry, 38, will be the first member of the British royal family in more than a century to testify in court. He is expected to describe his anguish and anger over being hounded by the media throughout his life, and its impact on those around him.

He has blamed paparazzi for causing the car crash that killed his mother, Princess Diana, and said harassment and intrusion by the U.K. press, including allegedly racist articles, led him and his wife, Meghan, to flee to the U.S. in 2020 and leave royal life behind.

The articles at issue in the trial date back to his 12th birthday, in 1996, when the Mirror reported Harry was feeling badly about the divorce of his mother and father, now King Charles III.

Harry said in court documents that ongoing tabloid reports made him wonder whom he could trust as he feared friends and associates were betraying him by leaking information to the newspapers. His circle of friends grew smaller, and he suffered huge bouts of depression and paranoia. Relationships fell apart as the women in his life and even their family members were dragged into the chaos.

He says he later discovered that the source wasnt disloyal friends but aggressive journalists and the private investigators they hired to eavesdrop on voicemails and track him to locations as remote as Argentina and an island off Mozambique.

Mirror Group Newspapers said it didnt hack Harrys phone and its articles were based on legitimate reporting techniques. The publisher admitted and apologized for hiring a private eye to dig up dirt on one of Harrys nights out at a bar, but the resulting 2004 article headlined Sex on the beach with Harry is not among the 33 in question at trial.

Phone hacking that involved guessing or obtaining security codes to listen in on celebrities cell phone voice messages was widespread at British tabloids in the early years of this century. It became an existential crisis for the industry after the revelation in 2011 that the News of the World had hacked the phone of a slain 13-year-old girl.

Owner Rupert Murdoch shut down the paper and several of his executives faced criminal trials.

Mirror Group has paid more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to settle hundreds of unlawful information-gathering claims, and printed an apology to phone hacking victims in 2015. But it denies executives including Piers Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror editor between 1995 and 2004 knew about hacking.

Harrys fury at the U.K. press and sometimes at his own royal relatives for what he sees as their collusion with the media runs through his memoir, Spare, and interviews conducted by Oprah Winfrey and others. His claims will face a tough audience in court when he is cross-examined by Mirror Groups attorney.

The opening statements mark the second phase of a trial in which Harry and three others have accused the Mirror of phone hacking and unlawful information gathering.

In the first part, attorney David Sherborne, who represents Harry and the other claimants, including two actors from the soap opera Coronation Street, said the unlawful acts were widespread and habitual at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, and carried out on an industrial scale.

Two judges including Justice Timothy Fancourt, who is overseeing the current trial are in the process of deciding whether Harrys two other phone hacking cases will proceed to trial.

Murdochs News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and Associated Newspapers Ltd., which owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, have argued the cases should be thrown out because Harry failed to file the lawsuits within a six-year deadline of discovering the alleged wrongdoing.

Harrys lawyer has argued that he and other claimants should be granted an exception to the time limit, because the publishers lied and deceived to hide the illegal actions.

The Microsoft co-founder has released his yearly book recommendations on his blog but added this year he wanted to mix it up by adding not only TV recommendations but also a Spotify playlist.

In previous years Gates has recommended the likes of The Power, Why Were Polarized and Hamnet to read over the warmer months.

For 2023, the billionaire philanthropist has suggested one fiction and one non-fiction read.

Gatesworth $128 billion according to Bloombergs Billionaires Indexhas chosen Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Savin as his fiction read. The story follows two friends who bond over Super Mario Bros and then begin making games together while they study at college.

The story, Gates said, reminded him of his friendship with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who died in 2018 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin disease.

Gatess pick for non-fiction is Born in Blackness by Howard French, which explores Africas role in the creation of modernity, something largely obliterated from the history books.

A self-described student of Africa, Gates said he learned a lot from the book, adding: I mean it as a compliment when I say that Born in Blackness left me wanting to know more.

It also turns out that Gates is just like the rest of ushes partial to binging series on Netflix.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation creator said he has made his way through all four seasons of Danish political drama Borgen, which follows the story of the countrys fictional first female prime minister named Birgitte Nyborg.

Im fascinated by how political coalitions come together and stay together, and I loved watching the PM, Birgitte Nyborg, figure it all out, Gates wrote.

Shes a principled and talented leader whos also fallible and sometimes misguided. Borgen is entertaining above all else, but Ive learned a ton from watching it too.

Bill and Bono

Sharing his summer playlist Gates disclosed more personal anecdotesfrom childhood memories with Allen to more recent conversations with his children.

The 67-year-old said he cant imagine [his] life without music adding some of his fondest memories are of listening to Jimi Hendrix records in Allens basement.

He told readers that since then he has picked up inspiration from his childrennamed Phoebe, Jennifer and Roryand also friends like U2 lead singer Bono.

The result is a playlist that Gates hopes is not bad for a granddad (he became a grandfather for the first time in March), adding that as he has got older he has discovered the joys of listening to a great song while going for a drive.

Whether youre hosting a backyard BBQ, sitting on the beach, or just driving around with the windows down, feel free to make it part of the soundtrack to your summer, too, Gates says.

Gatess summer soundtrack 

The two-hour playlist is made up of 34 songs featuring artists from Nat King Cole to Enrique Iglesias.

The full list is:

1. Holiday Vampire Weekend
2. Feels This Good Jon Mero, LÒNIS
3. Feeling Good Nina Simone
4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street Billie Holiday
5. Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day Stevie Wonder
6. The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix
7. Lean on Me Bill Withers
8. Its a New Day Skull Snaps
9. This Love Maroon 5
10. Lady Tune-Yards, Angelique Kidjo, ?uestlove, Akua Naru
11. Bailando (English Version) Enrique Iglesias, Sean Paul, Descemer Bueno, Gente De Zona
12. Dont Fade Vance Joy
13. One U2
14. Eraser Ed Sheeran
15. Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler
16. No One Alicia Keys
17. Hercules Sara Bareilles
18. One Fine Day (Remastered) Natalie Merchant
19. Dont Rain On My Parade Barabara Streisand
20. Set Fire to the Rain Adele
21. Hey Jude (Remastered 2015) The Beatles
22. Daydream Believer The Monkees
23. Oogum Boogum Song Brenton Wood
24. A Whiter Shade of Pale (Original Single Version) Procol Harum
25. The Windmills of Your Mind Dusty Springfield
26. Its Only A Paper Moon Ella Fitzgerald
27. Get Out Of My Life Woman Joe Williams
28. Orange Colored Sky Nat King Cole
29. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Willie Nelson
30. Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers
31. Redemption Song Bob Marley & The Wailers
32. Weather Bird Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines
33. St. Louis Rag Max Morath
34. The Impossible Dream (The Quest) (Man of La Mancha/1965 Original Broadway Cast/Remastered 2000) Joseph Darion, Mitch Leigh, Richard Kiley

Thats according to the latest Markets Live Pulse survey, which found that roughly one in two people who work in finance would change jobs   or already have  if their managers required them to spend more time in the office. More than half of the 1,585 respondents globally, which included 1,320 financial professionals and 265 retail investors, prefer a hybrid arrangement, while only about 20% favor working from the office. 

The number of people responding to the survey was well above the average participants in recent MLIV Pulse surveys in a sign that return to the office is still top of mind for many professionals. Of course, pledging to quit over hybrid work is easier said under the veil of anonymity than followed through with actions.

Wall Street chiefs have been among the loudest in pushing for a return to the office five days a week. JPMorgan Chase & Co. ended remote arrangements for its managing directors in April, saying they now must be in the office every weekday. The policy comes on the heels of comments from the banks Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon earlier this year that working from home doesnt work for younger staff or bosses. 

About 40% of financial professionals say they already work from the office four days a week or more, according to the MLIV Pulse survey  roughly double the number that said they prefer working from the office.

Though the financial sector hasnt seen layoffs at the same scale as tech or retail, a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., an executive coaching firm, shows that the industry has cut nearly 37,000 jobs in the US so far this year, a figure up 320% from the same period last year. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is working on what would be the third round of layoffs in less than a year as deal-making remains sluggish. Morgan Stanley has embarked on its second round of cuts in less than six months.

Despite these high-profile layoffs, Andy Challenger, senior vice president at Challenger, says the picture for job-hunting banking professionals isnt as dire as it might seem. US employers added some 339,000 jobs in May, a payroll boom that far outstripped expectations and reinforced the perception that workers economic position remains relatively strong.

When we look at the overall labor market, and we look at finance, unemployment remains really low, historically low, Challenger said. There still are job opportunities available and companies are still hiring. So its not an awful job market to go out and look in. 

According to the MLIV Pulse poll, layoffs havent influenced how often people have come into the office. Only about one in 10 Wall Street professionals said the recent downsizing has motivated them to badge in more frequently.

What would be more difficult would be to find another job in the sector that has a more flexible schedule, Challenger said, as many of the big financial firms change work-from-home policies in lockstep. Still, more than two-thirds of banks offer either full flexibility or a structured hybrid arrangement, according to a survey by Scoop Technologies Inc., a firm that helps companies coordinate hybrid teams.

Moving from requiring two days in the office to three may give rise to some grumbling but likely wouldnt be a walk-away point, said Rob Sadow, co-founder and CEO of Scoop. But when trying to cross the four-day threshold, employers may start to see the dynamic change.

Four days a week or more, a lot of people will pick their head up and at least look around and see what their options are, even if a rocky macroeconomic environment ultimately steers them to stay put, he said.

Employees are really nervous to give even a fingernail on flexibility. Because they think if they give an inch, the employer might keep pulling, Sadow said of the number of survey respondents who said theyd quit if asked to come in more. So you might see really strong rhetoric or response on flexibility because they think its not just that theyre going to be asked to come in a day more  it feels like a gateway to being asked to come in full time.

For now, the most powerful determinant of how much time people spend in the office appears to be company policies: About 86% of financial professionals are complying with their companys in-office mandates. Those that arent meeting the requirements say that most of the time, theyve faced no consequences. Of the 1,320 financial professionals surveyed, only 28 said theyve been reprimanded by their manager or HR for failing to comply. Five respondents said theyd faced compensation-related penalties and two said theyd faced termination.

City leaders have been among the most outspoken in calling workers back to the office, concerned about the impact remote work has had on their downtowns. New York City, for example, is losing more than $12 billion a year as workers spend 30% fewer days in the office and therefore give less business to Manhattan vendors during the week, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. New York, along with Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia, are still seeing a deep decline in weekday lunch traffic compared to before the pandemic, according to the restaurant management software provider Toast  a trend attributable both to hybrid work and to inflation bringing up the cost of eating out. 

MLIV Pulse survey showed that even financial professionals, who typically have more disposable income than the average city resident, are reigning in their weekday spending: While half reported that their dining habits post-pandemic havent changed at all, about a third are packing their lunch, eating office food or going straight home without grabbing after-work drinks more often than they used to.

MLIV Pulse is a weekly survey of Bloomberg News readers on the terminal and online, conducted by Bloombergs Markets Live team, which also runs a 24/7 MLIV Blog on the terminal. The survey about return to office, conducted May 29- June 2, drew responses from portfolio managers, researchers, strategists, economists, traders, investment bankers, as well as retail investors.