I haven't posted or commented on LinkedIn for almost two years. Especially after I left my last company, I felt ashamed about being so-called unemployed. When I visited New York in December 2024, I didn't tell my friends my status.
Then somehow I commented on a LinkedIn post recently, and a friend asked me — are you doing your own startup? I still feel so shameful talking about it.
I wouldn't even call it a startup. It's just the natural reaction of a girl to a new environment. She misses home so much. She will be back. But in the meantime, she's trying everything she can — on her own, without anybody, just her and her AI — to set up a comfortable circle, a place, a zone where she feels safe enough, ambitious enough, as safe as her old home.
She has a natural sense for finance — how to be an asset manager, how to be a broker, how to build that kind of circle, so naturally — but she also has her own view of seeing this world, and she just tries to reach the best on her own, without any definition.
Even though it's virtual. Even though it's invisible. It's solid enough that everyone in her community can feel she sacrificed everything in return for it.