"I always knew I wanted to work in healthcare. Since I couldn't stand blood, I chose pharmacy and finished an accelerated program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in five years. I rushed through, eager to make money after growing up in a small inner-city home and envying friends with big suburban houses Looking back, I wish I'd taken time to enjoy school."
"I grew up happy in Boston and never thought about living anywhere else. My parents immigrated from China, and before high school, I often traveled back with them to visit family. My mother grew up with eight siblings and believed in staying close to relatives. During vacations to southern China, where my parents grew up, big family gatherings were the norm."
"In 2019, I quit my pharmacist job and took time off, traveling through Southeast Asia with friends. At the end of that year, I visited my family in Guangzhou, a bustling city in southern China, for the first time in seven years. I was amazed by how much had changed. Places once filled with unpaved roads and water buffalo now had malls, apartments, and orderly train stations."
He grew up in Boston in a family of Chinese immigrants and often visited relatives in southern China. He chose pharmacy because he wanted healthcare work but could not stand blood, and he completed an accelerated five-year program. He rushed through school to earn money after growing up in a small inner-city home. After a breakup following work in California, he quit his job, traveled in Southeast Asia, and visited family in Guangzhou at the end of 2019. He was surprised by rapid urban development. When the pandemic began, cousins urged him to stay; he took a systems manager job in Shenzhen, reunited with his ex, and remained. The first year was difficult; he hired a tutor to relearn Chinese and encountered stark cultural differences.
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