Matt Cates
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As a freelancer, Matt has written for 300+ clients in almost every niche imaginable! He also served in the Air Force for 21 years, retiring as a Master Sergeant.
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The Ultimate Guide to Living 100+ Years (Backed by Science) . AI-Generated.
Ready to live past 100? It’s not just about having good genes. Science shows that our personal lifestyle choices play a massive role in longevity, and the world’s longest-living people follow habits that you can adopt today.
By Matt Cates10 months ago in Humans
Should I Join the Military to Get My College Tuition Paid For?
College is expensive. And our military needs recruits. These two growing problems seem to offer the perfect solutions to each other. But—perhaps because of misconceptions regarding military service—the dots don’t always get connected and many students miss learning about opportunities that could be right up their alley!
By Matt Cates10 months ago in Education
Tips for Military Members Leaving the Service to Go to College
As anyone who has served in the military can attest, the culture is very different from that of the civilian world. Most troops fall in love with the sense of belonging to a giant, diverse family spread around the globe. So when the time comes to separate, the transition can be tough.
By Matt Cates10 months ago in Education
How to Make Money on Upwork – A Guide to Earning More from Freelancing in 2023!
If you want to know how to make money on Upwork, you came to the right place! The below is just free info that I want to share with my fellow freelancers, so you can see how I made over $140,000 freelance writing on Upwork (so far)!
By Matt Cates3 years ago in Lifehack
Six Degrees (or Less) Between You, Me & Everyone Else
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You know the game (if you don't check out the Oracle of Bacon), and you know it came from an actual theory called Six Degrees of Separation. So my goal here isn't to dive into the scientific studies or even discuss the validity of them. However - I recently ran across an old article by The Guardian called "Poof! Just six degrees of separation between us." The article notes that Microsoft Messenger connections indicated that the theory was pretty accurate (Microsoft came up with 6.6 degrees, but close enough).
By Matt Cates6 years ago in Humans
Jessica Jones, Santa Clarita..and Resurrection: Ertugrul!
Note: after coming up with the ideas for which shows I wanted to write about, I completely ran out of time to actually write about them! So I reached out to my friend Feyza Ogutcu for emergency assistance in drafting this. As always, she saved my skin! We hope you enjoy this list of the Top 3 Underrated Shows on Netflix! In the off-chance this post earns something, it'll be divided equally!
By Matt Cates6 years ago in Geeks
The Aegean Awaits...Just Over My Balcony
“They’ll kill you. It’s not safe!” “Who’ll kill us, Mom?” “ISIS…” As it turned out, ISIS didn’t kill us when we moved to the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. In fact, the only thing that killed us was the kindness of the Turkish people we met.
By Matt Cates6 years ago in Wander
The Most Unbelievable Thing I Witnessed in the Military
Someone on Quora asked this question, so I gave them an honest answer. In 2006, I was an Air Force embedded trainer in Kabul, Afghanistan, and we drove out to see the local military guys using sledgehammers to tear up the exterior of a new facility we'd had built for their army. That was the most unbelievable thing I saw in my 21-year career. But the fact is, all my days over there were just one scene after another that made me wonder what we were trying to accomplish.
By Matt Cates6 years ago in Serve
Vincent Vega - Worst Criminal Ever?
Recently a Quora user inquired if real-life criminals might hold intellectual interests similar to Vincent Vega's? As you may recall, Vega, the hitman played by John Travolta in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, certainly had some interesting conversations with his partner Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson). But classifying feet tickling and cheeseburgers as intellectual interests? That seems like a stretch.
By Matt Cates6 years ago in Criminal
