Working Girl’s Guide #48: Prepping for 4/20 with Hostess and flying to LA (not for Coachella... weird)

Young accountants are rising up, I went to a movie premiere, and my advice for anyone looking to start an LLC. Let’s get into it.

Zingers and Ding Dongs and Ho Hos and…weed?

When you’re trying to seem cool and smart to your younger brother, and he asks what you’re planning for 4/20, hit him with your knowledge of Hostess’s cap table. The company, which was purchased by the J.M. Smucker Co. for $4.6 billion last year, has been inspiring fewer munchies than anticipated, reporting a net sales decline of 2% YoY. Apparently, people are cutting down on snacks. But Smucker is betting big on the lack of willpower that this much-lauded holiday brings about: Hostess just rolled out a Munchie Mobile, which will be handing out free snacks outside various dispensaries on 4/20.

There’s a hot new career in town, and it’s not DJing or influencing

Are you sick of your Gen Z cousin/sibling/friend venting about how there are NO cool jobs out there anymore? They might be sleeping on accounting, which is a surprisingly booming career for the youths. Is it boring? Um, yeah. Does it consistently pay six figures? Also yes. In the past 5 years, 340,000 accountants have quit their jobs, many of them boomers heading for retirement, and that’s causing a talent shortage crisis, which is drawing a surprising number of recent grads. It might not be the most glamorous job on earth, but it can have a surprisingly outsized impact: last year alone, 280 student accountants who were part of a program that helps low-income Americans claim the tax refunds owed to them helped over 9,000 taxpayers claim almost $11 million in refunds and $3.6 million in tax credits. For many of these tax payers, that money was life changing.

Should you scramble to buy a new iPhone?

If your tax refund comes back and you have some cash to burn, a new iPhone could be the move. New tariffs on goods imported from China could mean the cost of an iPhone could jump from $580 to $850, although it’s possible that Apple will get around the tariffs. For now, they’re sourcing iPhones from India, which means smaller tariffs; they also have factories in Vietnam, Ireland, Thailand, and Malaysia. Wouldn’t expect a U.S. factory any time soon, but the news cycle keeps me in constant surprise, so… you never know.

Weirdly my invite to Coachella got lost in the mail, but I took advantage of LA being cleared out to 1) get extensions (my hair guy is always booked, so had to capitalize on all his clientele spending the weekend in the desert!) and 2) see a friend's movie premiere! The movie, which is called California King, will be available on Apple and Amazon on April 25th. One of the lead actors, Jimmy Tatro, was one of my childhood YouTube favorites, so getting to see him on the big screen was extremely dope (even if it wasn’t Lady Gaga live, Jimmy, you are like Gaga to me!).

Extremely hot take: the communal mirrors in Aritzia aren’t...that…bad? To be fair, I went on a weekday (can imagine weekends get crazy) but the other girls were hyping me up, and honestly the vibes were immaculate! Helped that I had the best salesgirl who could not miss with her picks for me, including these jeans (fit like a glove) and this sweater (giving Jenni Kayne at half the price).

When I graduated college, my best friends and I would lay around on our couch watching movies all Saturday in our SF apartment (perhaps after taking it too far the night before at the club, but that’s beside the point). Every time we’d do this, we joked that we should incorporate into Lazy Girls, LLC (the name we use for our group text to this day), and make rotting on the couch our full-time job because we were so dang good at it.

That story has basically nothing to do with what I’m about to say, but I felt the need to share. This week’s LGH is for my semi-lazy business girls (because let’s be real, truly lazy girls aren’t out here starting businesses unless they’re Lazy Girls, LLC adjacent). If you have a genius business idea but the thought of legal paperwork makes you want to take a nap—same. But hear me out: outsource it.

One of my top hacks for early-stage entrepreneurs is letting an LLC formation service, like Northwest Registered Agent LLC, do the boring-but-important stuff for you. Their corporate guides (real humans, not robots, I checked) handle everything from LLC formation to website setup to reminding you of annual filings—because, let’s be honest, you were never going to remember that on your own. Not including Lazy Girls LLC, I’ve actually founded four companies in my life, and there’s nothing worse than not being able to speak to a real person when you have a silly little question.

Next time your parents hit you with the classic “But is it a real business?” line, you can confidently say it is 💁‍♀️

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