I quit my $250K/year tech job—now I make $33K/year selling matcha

I loved working at Starbucks. Look who I found while I was still at my software engineering job, I worked from 4:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. to my first meeting at my software engineering job. It was hard, but it was very exciting. So like really fun to like do something physical and like learn this completely new skill when I've been sitting behind a computer for the last five years. If I enjoy something and I feel passionate about it, I'll go all in. And if I start to lose sight of the purpose of it, I'll just dial back and I will be very demotivated, and that's kind of what started to happen towards the last few years as a software engineer. I realized pretty soon that I was doing it because of the amount of money that it was providing me, and the work itself just felt like fake work. I started to realize I needed to switch careers completely, and I was making matcha at home for like years at that point already. I decided I really wanted to open a store in New York. I was on my own little mission, and I had these own little tasks I needed to complete before I'm able to open, and it was just this little training that I set up for myself at Starbucks.