We Should Follow Our Minds For Our Lifetime Careers. Here’s Why.

We should follow our minds for our lifetime careers. We should not live a life fulfilling others, say being professionals. Here’s why.

Anthony Wong
8 min readApr 20, 2022

We should follow our minds for our lifetime careers. We should not live a life fulfilling others, say being professionals. Here’s why.

I was raised in an Asian family, and I echoed what Simu Liu’s tweet had said.

Tweet from Simu Liu, dated April 13, 2022. Picture courtesy of Getty Image.

soon it’ll be April 12th, the day I got laid off from @Deloitte. i owe my life to being let go from a career i hated. accounting = not for me.”

Below is the content from Simu Liu’s Instagram post:

“Ten years ago to the day, I was lead into my managing partner’s office at Deloitte and told that they were terminating my employment effective immediately. A lady from HR and a security guard escorted me back onto the floor in front of the entire open concept office. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Nobody moved, offered a whisper of encouragement or even looked in my direction. I fought back tears of humiliation, grabbed my things, and never looked back.

Ten years ago I thought my life was over. I had wasted countless time and money that my family had invested in me. Years…

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Anthony Wong

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