I know most of us here were raised to believe that we had to get good grades and work for someone else until retirement so we can get that gold watch at 65 or 70. I'm just curious how people started thinking about cutting the umbilical cord of employment and went off on their own.I'll start. Like most people out there, I was raised to get good grades in high school so I could go to a good university and get good grades there so I could find a good, safe job and work there until I retire. And I did just that. Graduated as one of the top of my class. Went to engineering school. Got my engineering degree. Got a job at an engineering firm. Got recruited to an even bigger engineering firm. Everything was going great.At this really great engineering firm, I went in with another guy that had almost identical resume as I did. Same age. Same everything pretty much. Just different race. He's white, I'm asian. After a few years, there was an opening for promotion. I got the promotion and became his boss.Here's the kicker. With the promotion, came with certain knowledge that I didn't have before. And one of them was people's pay. Turned out when that other guy came in with me they offered him a much higher pay than me. So much higher that my pay bump from the promotion I was still making slightly less than him.When I found out about that, I started trying to come up with an exit strategy to get out of this corporate game. Statistics say that asian americans on average make a lot less than their counterparts. Who knew I would fall right into this stat?It took about 6 years, but now I own my own business and no longer have to rely on begging other people to get paid fairly. Nowadays, I get paid on my own terms. And my business is currently paying me about 4 times more than I ever made as an engineer. So, I guess the not being paid fairly was a blessing in disguise.Edit.I'm kinda a younger version of Andrew Yang. I might run for political office in the future. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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