@cnbcmakeit: Michelle Yeung, 29, used to earn around $250,000 a year as a software engineer in New York — enough to stop worrying about money for the first time in her life. Despite the high salary, spending her days behind a computer screen no longer felt meaningful to her. Today, Yeung runs Matcha House, a cafe on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. See how she built her business in the link in bio.

Gravitas01 :

How are you able to live in the most expensive city in the US on 33k a year?

AgentK168 :

How do you make so little opening a matcha house in NYC? We made over 900k opening just one bubble tea shop

Greatest Comeback Reviews :

$1,500 on rent???? you crazy!!!! that's dirt cheap

Geneva Elyse :

But let's not forget that the savings from that software engineering job actually let her to leave the job and start another job. If that's not the case than probably her parents or a partner is helping with finances in a big city.

MagicMushroomWarrior :

SWE jobs is such easy money it’s literally like owning a money printer…

tok1610 :

Thank you gen z for breaking the curse 😭

Mikhail Shakh :

Why not? She just wanted to be happy and cover own costs

rich lady stuff :

the burnout is real

JerryJones2000 :

if you kept working for 10-15 years you could've retired. Wait till you're 40 and tired and you won't be so happy about the path you took. Early retirement is better.

teddyl85 :

the best way to make sense of this video is that it is just a small business being shoehorned into an advert here on tiktok in order to market her struggling tea shop

Mukhtadar :

She sounds like she is paying herself a salary of $33k per year. The profit margin could be even higher than that in folds.

James Lee :

So was it worth it? Will it be on 10 years?

Ben Balach :

If you aren't interested in computers, don't get into any field to do with this subject, no matter how much money. If you enjoy it, then it doesn't matter how much they pay you, if you don't enjoy it, no amount of money will make it worth it.

Jaydime :

Damn that new budget is tuff

Graffito Studio :

Love it

Bleycngz 🇲🇼 :

This is the life..if I was able I ditch computers and become a truck driver in Europe 😁

Veyla101 :

Reminder she got the money first 😅

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Offgrid Family :

May this kind of happiness never locate me 😏

thehomeruler :

Is this an ad?

Pierre Feryl :

amazing

idorenyinimeh :

This is one of my best channels on YouTube 😂😂🥰

BRYSON* :

Less is more

Capo :

Good job 👏 Working for yourself is always better than working for someone else. No matter how much you make, just keep pushing, improving, and scaling the business. 💪 I’m also a full-stack developer, and I’m currently looking for ideas 💡 to start something new. If anyone here wants to build something together and give it a shot, feel free to contact me. Let’s try something and see where it takes us! 😂🚀

ando.zip :

love this