Key Highlights
- in that tough situation, you need to survive, you’re not really (thinking) about burnout.
- I mean, either you survive or not, right?” He still works 80 hours a week today in his late 40s, he added.
- Sharing his experience of funding his studies abroad through blue collar jobs, Zhang told the publication he moved from Qingdao, China to Melbourne, Australia alone at age 15.
- Living with a host family while speaking limited English, Zhang said his parents had financial difficulties and he had to support payment for his computer science degree at the University of Melbourne, and daily expenses.
- “I (had) two choices: either I just return to China and try to go back to the education system there, or I continue to stay in Australia and figure out how to pay tuition and living on my own,” he stated.
