Then the quarter-life crisis hit me hard.

I started to question everything in my first job. I wasn’t happy nor satisfied. Most importantly, I was lost. Why the heck did I choose accounting? Was I supposed to sit inside my cubicle, punch figures every day for the rest of my life? Was it really a right choice to stay in Sydney after I graduated? What did I really want with my life? At that point, I knew what I didn’t want but not what I wanted.

I quit cold turkey after 1 year and 8 months. I thought of quitting accounting and my CPA studies altogether and went back to Hong Kong. But what would I be doing otherwise? No idea.

At that time there was a small voice in my head asking me to go back to Hong Kong and walk with millennials eventually due to a social movement that broke out in Hong Kong during late 2014 (google “Umbrella Movement”). It pulled my heart knowing how much the next generation had to suffer due to poor government and policies. But what could I do? I thought of being a social worker but I didn’t have the relevant degree for a license. Then I started to wonder the posibility of starting a music career because that was the only hobby I had in my whole life. I had always enjoyed making and playing music and I could get lost in it forever.

But how?

How do you change career path from 0?

How do you know if it’s the right choice?

As people grow older they become more realistic and would measure the costs and benefits before making any decision. Some call it being careful, but to some it means being risk averse.

After one month of being jobless, trying not to spend all my savings and enjoying Aussie sunshine every other day, I got myself another accounting job.

Yep I had no idea what I was doing. I needed money, and I thought I would decide after I got qualified as a plan B.

And the problem with a plan B is that you won’t pay 100% effort to what you really want to achieve in life because you know there is a safe net at the bottom of the cliff.