In high school, I was curious about law. I was curious about medicine. I had real interests — but after enough people told me those paths were too long, too expensive, too hard, I let those interests go. Not because I chose to. Because I didn't have anyone in my corner who could show me what those paths actually looked like from the inside.
So I chose accounting. Not because I wanted to — because my brother had started there, because people said it was safe, because I felt the pressure of time and just needed to pick something. I doubled my major with MIS because that was the "hot" major. I floated through college, got internships I didn't truly connect with, graduated, and landed a Big Four consulting role at Ernst & Young.
I know how fortunate I was to land that job. I was grateful. But I felt no passion. I didn't care about getting promoted. I was living in a timeline that didn't feel like mine — always searching for the thing that made me feel alive. I tried personal training. I got my real estate license. I kept coming back to the same question: what am I actually meant to be doing?
One night at EY, lying in bed and trying to trace the root of that feeling, I realized something. I had gone through all of college and into my professional career without ever really learning what was out there. I never got to sit across from a surgeon, a patent attorney, a product manager at Google, and ask them — honestly — what their job was actually like, how they got there, what it paid, whether they'd do it again.
I thought about my parents, who immigrated here and gave everything so my brother and I could have opportunities they never had. Parents like them aren't going to know every major, every career path, every option. Students who grow up without that access deserve just as good a chance at figuring out what they want to pursue — and knowing they can actually get there.
So I searched the web to see if something like this existed. A show where real professionals talked honestly about their careers — the salary, the tradeoffs, the day-to-day, the honest advice they'd give their younger selves. It didn't exist. So I built it.
What started as a podcast in 2024 has grown into a full EdTech platform — with career roadmaps across 15+ industries, episodes featuring professionals from Apple to the New York Knicks to the U.S. Coast Guard, and more tools on the way. The goal has always been the same: make sure no student has to float through a decision this important without the right information in front of them.
I searched to see if something like this existed.
It didn't. So I built it.
The platform every student deserved — and nobody built.
Career Tea exists because the real information about careers — what jobs actually pay, what the day-to-day really looks like, how people actually got in — has always been locked inside people's heads. We're getting it out.
Not through textbooks. Not through generic career fairs. Through real conversations with real professionals who are willing to be honest.
For High School Students
Choose your college major and career path with clarity and intent — not because it was safe or because someone else did it.
For College Students
Navigate the professional world before you're in it. Find what you actually enjoy before you're three years into a job that doesn't fit.
For Early Professionals
Pivot with confidence. If you discovered a new passion late — that's not a setback. That's information. Use it.
How we got here.
Ready to find your path?
Whether you're a student figuring it out, a professional ready to pivot, or an institution looking to bring Career Tea to your community — there's a place for you here.