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How to Happily Abandon Your Fulfilling Passion for a Lucrative Career
I still believe I can fly but without wings on a flight.
I was a writer and an opera singer. I followed my dream of combining two passions and rolling out a very bumpy career. I managed to swivel on this rollercoaster until corona hit the world and threatened both my husband’s position in the USA and my opportunities to sing and write.
As an artist luck played a more important role than education. My husband is a sought-after IT professional, but IT professionals from a foreign country on contract in America had their very own problems. They were underpaid, overworked professionals, who could be shoved around here and there like a ball, in return for the hope of still lingering on in the land of dreams.
For an Indian who raised both his children in the world's most powerful country, this was also true.
When my husband’s dream of staying on in the USA and my dream of playing Carmen at the American opera was threatened, we decided to trade everything we had so that the children did not have to return to India — a country they only looked like they belonged to.
