My family were upset when I dropped out of college, but now I earn £5,000 a DAY
In addition to mastering your chosen subject, university can also be a time when you learn a lot about yourself.
A young woman struggling with student life made the brave decision to quit and earns as much as $10,000 a day from her new career.
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Like many students during the pandemic, Chloe Zhu missed the classic college experience.
After starting her bachelor’s degree in 2021, the then-teenager felt “extremely lost.”
Even changing her studies didn’t help as she switched courses twice to study both finance and computing science.
Instead of just staying the course like most students, she made the courageous decision to try to change her life for the better – by quietly quitting.
Around this time, the young entrepreneur focused on her dream of starting her own beauty brand, with inspiration coming from the most unlikely source: COVID.
When she saw how many salons had closed due to the lockdown, she was in need of a manicure and decided to start nail press-on business Glowie from her one-bedroom apartment.
After coming across the idea in December 2021, it didn’t take long for her business to start blossoming.
Yet she still couldn’t tell her family about her success.
Knowing her parents would be disappointed, the academically gifted student hid the truth for eight months and feared her loved ones’ reactions.
Eventually the truth came out during the family dinner, where her brother dropped the huge bombshell in front of her parents.
She remembered the awkward moment and gave in 7Life, adding, “I felt bad that I couldn’t give my parents the life they dreamed of for me. But I knew I could make them proud.
“They were initially not happy at all and tried to convince me of the decision, even suggesting that I take a break from my life. company finish my studies first.
“But I knew I could make them proud and stay true to myself in my own way, and eventually they came around.”
Her meteoric rise was made even more difficult as the entrepreneur struggled with burnout and missed the company of friends.
At one point, she became so exhausted that she felt like she didn’t want to wake up in the morning after working non-stop for months.
Luckily, her gamble more than paid off, with the now 21-year-old making AUS$10,000 (£5,000) a day from her beauty brand.
In fact, the young woman finds it hard to believe how different her life looks just a few years later.
She said: “My life looks completely different and I’m still shocked at how you can change your career path in such a short space of time.
“Now I have a job that uses so many different skills that are analytical, creative and technical at the same time – from building the website, optimizing our SEO and of course designing our product launches – and I couldn’t ask for a job which is more satisfying.”
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