{"id":547,"date":"2010-03-04T00:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:45:19","slug":"it-was-deep-puff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/it-was-deep-puff\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a deep puff &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day I started my own business as an entrepreneur I felt the same as the day I bid goodbye to my built success. It was a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Saying goodbye to the conventional working environment just prove to everyone I was a fool. A big one, I must add. As my mother put it in her own words &#8220;You straight A student in university, get your face on newspaper, and you open a tuition centre ???!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I held my tongue and swallowed my pride. I couldn&#8217;t explain to her. The red tape and office politics was draining every drop of sanity I have in my soul. I was drowning.<\/p>\n<p>With no money, I started home tuition. A year later, I opened a licensed tuition centre. And yet, the words still sometimes flash in my mind &#8211; am I doing the right thing ? I was a fool for one year, then a hero for the next 4 years as my ex-associate would gladly look up to me at my courage for leaving a high corporate position.<\/p>\n<p>3 days ago, the deep breathe was once heard again. That exact puff. It sounded familiar, I heard it before. \u00a0Watching the new owner sign the cheque and handed it to me, the sigh couldn&#8217;t be any louder. The whimpering groan. Am I a fool ? Not this time.<\/p>\n<p>What do I do for a living now ? Well, you gotta come back and find out more. Its good enough for me to sell my tuition centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day I started my own business as an entrepreneur I felt the same as the day I bid goodbye to my built success. It was a sigh of relief. Saying goodbye to the conventional working environment just prove to everyone I was a fool. A big one, I must add. As my mother put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-thoughts","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}