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Assuming you grew up with Asian parents (disclaimer: I did), how'd breaking the news to your parents go when you decided to leave school and run a website full-

• arn 15y ago
  parents took it surprisingly well. don't think they would have taken it well if I had tried to quit years earlier. the site had grown pretty big/successful, and they mellowed over the years.
• inportb 15y ago
  I grew up with Asian parents (who are doctors themselves, no less). Before I went off to med school, they were actually pretty open to other career choices. We spent quite a bit of time making sure that medicine was the way to go before confirming my enrollment. But after that, they've been committed to preventing me from giving up ;p