Making a Living Writing — How I Designed This Life (Part 1 of 5)

<p>This photo is from October 2020, when Mom and I went for a holiday and I told her &lsquo;I want to quit the corporate world in 6 months&rsquo;. Of course, she laughed it off thinking it&rsquo;s just a phase.</p> <p>Imagine you&rsquo;re in your mid-twenties, and nothing makes sense to you at work. Why are you pulled into all these meetings? What is this race that you don&rsquo;t know how to win?</p> <p>It feels strange.</p> <p>Like a battle between who you are and what is expected from you.</p> <p>E.g. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to be b!tchy for a few brownie points or suck up to a leader. But I probably should?&rdquo;</p> <p>It doesn&rsquo;t feel right if it&rsquo;s not a part of you, isn&rsquo;t it?</p> <p>This is what I felt 3 years ago. And the feeling stayed for way too long.</p> <p>It kept lingering over my head and weighed me down.</p> <p>Naturally, I thought I was a lazy millennial who didn&rsquo;t want to work hard.</p> <p>Until I realised &mdash; Who makes these rules? Who taught us there&rsquo;s only one way to live and one path to success?</p> <p>We push people to follow a path, yet applaud the musician or entrepreneur who made it big and made everyone proud. But we won&rsquo;t tell our kids to follow it, because it&rsquo;s not &lsquo;certain&rsquo;.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/side-hustle-club/making-a-living-writing-how-i-designed-this-life-part-1-of-5-b2cbbd074179"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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