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For 35-year-old Singaporean Eugene Chow, disillusionment with the corporate world led to an unexpected career change: leaving Wall Street to become a professional clown and performing artist.
Landing a job at accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) in New York straight out of school in 2015 felt like the culmination of all his ambitions.
“When I got the job there, it felt like I’d arrived,” he says. “There were all the tick marks of success – as we Singaporeans call it – money, prestige, a clear growth trajectory, being in the big city.”
Chasing conventional markers of success, the Temasek Junior College alumnus pursued his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, followed by a graduate programme in management at Columbia University in New York.
During his time in New York, he earned between US$72,000 and US$95,000 (S$94,000 to S$124,000) as a consultant annually. But his initial excitement soon gave way to disillusionment.
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