A Chinese friend of mine had a similar experience. After getting her undergrad & masters engineering degree at MIT, she lands her first job as a writer. The j

A Chinese friend of mine had a similar experience. After getting her undergrad & masters engineering degree at MIT, she lands her first job as a writer. The job pays less than what she earned as a graduate student at MIT, but I've never seen her happier. Her parents were both born & raised in the same memorization culture back in China. Let's just say knives went flying when she broke news to her parents about her writing job...