Simu Liu recalls day he got fired 10 years ago; extends gratitude to ex-bosses

Simu Liu gained widespread popularity with success of Marvel's Shang Chi and Legend of Ten Rings. As actor is doing good on professional front, recently, Liu went down memory lane and recalled how ten years ago, his 'life was over' after being fired from a company in Canada's Toronto.

Moreover, he also thanked his former boss at Deloitte for firing him from his accounting job as he partly owes his acting career to that humiliating termination.

Simu Liu recalls journey after being fired from accounting job

On Wednesday, Shang Chi star took to his Instagram handle and penned a long te recounting  way in which his managing partner terminated his employment. Marvel star re-posted a screenshot of a tweet about his previous job. tweet read: “Soon it’ll be 12 April, day I got laid off from Deloitte. I owe my life to being let go from a career I hated. Accounting = t for me. (sic))”

Sharing tweet, actor captioned post as "Ten years ago to day, I was lead into my managing partner’s office at Deloitte and told that y were terminating my employment effective immediately. A lady from HR and a security guard escorted me back onto floor in front of entire open-concept office. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. body moved, offered a whisper of encourment or even looked in my direction. I fought back tears of humiliation, grabbed my things, and never looked back."

He furr recalled how he felt his life was over and added, "Ten years ago I thought my life was over. I had wasted countless time and money that my family had invested in me. Years of schooling, gifted programmes, trying to live up to my parents’ expectations. It all came crashing down in an instant."

Furr thanking Paul Gibbon and offices of Deloitte Toronto for taking step so that he could be where he is today, Liu wrote, "To Paul Gibbon and offices of Deloitte Toronto; sincerely, honestly, THANK YOU. You did for me what I never had cour to do myself; you destroyed a life that I was building for someone else, so that I could finally begin to build a life for me."

Take a look at his post here:

For unversed, Liu graduated from college with a degree in business administration and finally got a job at Deloitte, where he worked for eight months before he left from re in 2012. actor became famous with Canadian TV drama Kim's Convenience and later grabbed  Marvel superhero film.

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