the "Iron Rice Bowl" is a Chinese metaphor for job security and stability (aka, what we, as artists and entrepreneurs, didn’t exactly choose.)
this is a beginning of a series about wayfinding, in which I’ll share the phases of my own decade long journey, from (almost) the very beginning.
I’m unveiling the ghosts of my head, and untangling a few themes:
- inherited cultural blueprints of what “success” means
- immigrant Chinese-American values, and de-programming
- quitting the marathon of accomplishment & prestige
- the SOS alarm bell of panic
- on choosing to be a writer, with a 9-5 day job.
then, I begin to open the question: if not Iron Rice Bowl, then what?
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