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What Business Or Big Goal Are You Currently Pursuing?

Name: What Business Or Big Goal Are You Currently Pursuing?
Uploaded: 2022-05-12T15:00:07+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker reflects on growing up surrounded by people trapped in unsatisfying, stable jobs—what he calls "golden handcuffs." He…

12 May 2022 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker reflects on growing up surrounded by people trapped in unsatisfying, stable jobs—what he calls "golden handcuffs." He describes the bleak routine of working, drinking, and mindlessly watching TV, which he finds painful to witness. Determined not to follow that path, he decides to pursue a degree in exercise science with the goal of becoming a personal trainer and building a business that helps others transform their lives, positioning this choice as a deliberate alternative to the conventional, unfulfilling career trajectory he observed.

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I would rather be broke and be poor than say this is the life I'm going to assign myself to because I feel like I will literally die with potential left in me. I saw people like my dad and many others who were in jobs where they felt like even if you could like the job, you still feel trapped because of all the things that people put in these roles to, you know, essentially golden handcuff people to them. I lived in a town where I feel like I was surrounded by that. I looked at it and I was just like, I don't know what I want to do, but I know it's not fucking that. That looks terrible. Watching all these people living in a town of people who essentially went to work, didn't like it, felt unsatisfied, exhausted, it was almost painful to watch, and then they would go home, either go to the local pub, go to the local bar, watch TV mindlessly for hours, and then go to sleep, and then wake up and do it all over again, maybe get drunk on the weekends. And watching that, I was like, no, I don't want to do that. I went to college, I got a degree in exercise science. I thought, I want to be a personal trainer, I want to help people transform their lives, I want to go into something in business.