Aihui Ong was a successful software engineer consultant taking home a six-figure salary when she decided to quit her job and spend a year traveling the world.
In 2014 she told Fast Company, "I got burnt out. I lost my love for technology." The decision, however, was met with criticism from friends and family. "You’re in your early thirties,’ they told me. ‘You should be having a kid or being VP of a company, not staying in dirty motels,’" she says.
