These three digits are the real magic number. More than half (51%) of Americans say they wouldn’t marry someone with a bad credit score, according to a survey released Tuesday by Wallethub. And more than four in 10 people (42%) say that knowing someone’s credit score could impact whether or not they went on a date with that person, according to a survey released by Bankrate.com. No doubt, some people reading this will think this is shallow: Just because a person isn’t so great with money...

Whip your finances into shape. When money writer Lindsay Goldwert began interviewing dominatrixes for her new book, “Bow Down: Lessons From Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want,” she “thought it would be a fun idea, ‘dominatrixes whip me into shape,’” she tells MarketWatch. (A professional dominatrix, according to the book, is someone “educated in BDSM technique (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism) who safely, ethically and skillfully manifests her client’s kinky fantasies. A “true...

Creativity counts. And it may help you more than many skills succeed in today’s job market — at least according to career site LinkedIn, which examined data from its users, as well as more than 20 million job postings, to create its list of the most in-demand jobs skills for 2020. Creativity topped the list of the most important soft skills for 2020, as it did for 2019, with LinkedIn noting that “organizations need people who can creatively approach problems and tasks across all business...

Sink your teeth into this. On Tuesday, U.S. News released its list of the best jobs for 2020, and MarketWatch asked the publication to share data on which jobs offered the best pay (six figures or more) for the least stress. Sadly for all you stressed out workers out there, there was just one high-paying job that also was low stress: orthodontist. People in this profession rake in an average of $225,760 per year. Why aren’t they as stressed as the rest of us? “Orthodontists have very...

For eight years, this suburban Virginia couple dreamed of traveling the world with their kids. They just didn’t know how they’d do it. “The idea was to travel for a year, at first we thought we would do it by plane,” attorney Paul Carlino, 49, tells Marketwatch. But then the family spent a couple weeks traveling through Hawaii in a rented Volkswagen VWAGY, -0.55% van, and after that they knew they were heading for #vanlife. “I was immediately on Craigslist looking for vans after that trip,”...