WHY IMMIGRANT'S KIDS CAN FEEL DIRECTIONLESS IN THEIR CAREER

I think immigrant kids, myself included, can sometimes be the most ambitious people, but often end up the most directionless because we fall into the biggest golden handcuffs. We, because immigrants, chase money, title, and prestige. Those are important. They're important to our communities, they're important to our parents. And a lot of us come here with this weight of, I want to make something of myself, so my parents, like, so it was worth it, and I can provide things. So we get so scared of leaving that job because of like the monetary success of it. There's a lot of added guilt and shame about leaving if you pursue something that may not be prestigious or, maybe, a pay cut. I went into investment banking for those exact reasons. I wanted to chase prestige. I wanted to be the person earning the most in my community, wanted to be at this brand name bank, and it afforded me like a lot of credit in the community. But when I left to become a founder, so there was pressure, but there was this added weight of feeling guilty, feeling about what the community thought of me and having to explain to people what I was trying to do and having to work with the fact that my parents and people didn't understand why I would leave a job, why I would do this. You need to do, give yourself the permission to explore other things. Realise that you are an ambitious person, you've come this far, that if you want to take the jump or want to do something else that you think will pay you in the future and have a stronger upside, that you are totally valid to do that. And I think that we don't talk about this topic enough in community.