Turning to work in the opposite direction, quitting a job at a top 100 US company to join Bill Gates for charity
Once featured in the list of “Influential Women in the Business World” of Fortune 2020, Ly Nhat Nac is considered a talented girl with integrity when she became a doctor at the age of 27 and managed Bill Gates’ philanthropic foundation.
Behind an excellent female general is a great mother
Li Nhat Nau was born in 1978 in Jinan, Shandong, China. Her mother worked as a worker in the Jinan chemical factory. Unable to accept reality, she studied while working and was later accepted into the Chemistry Department of Shandong University. After graduation, she returned to the factory as a workshop manager. When Ly Nhat Nac was 7, her mother was sent by the factory to Germany to study.
As a person with a strong ideal of life, however, the relationship between Ly Nhat Nac’s mother and her father was not very good. In Ly Nhat Nac’s childhood memories, her parents often quarreled and discorded, and the atmosphere in the house was always tense.
Finally, when Ly Nhat Nac was 12 years old, her parents officially divorced, she lived with her mother. At that time, factory wages were not high, so they moved out of their previous house and lived in a relative’s attic. Every day, Ly Nhat Nac’s mother has to work hard to earn a living and spend time taking care of her.
Ms. Li graduated from the prestigious Tsinghua University. Photo: Toutiao
Life is so difficult, but her mother never blames or complains but is always optimistic to face all difficulties in life.
Her mother’s optimistic attitude to life greatly influenced Ly Nhat Nac, making her realize that it is better to be happy in an incomplete family than to suffer in a complete family. Perhaps the first lesson in life is that we must learn to choose.
Ly Nhat Nac’s mother is a person who always tries her best and is responsible. Thanks to that, she became a deputy director and chief engineer at the age of 38. Under her mother’s tutelage, Ly Nhat Nac was always a good student from elementary school to high school. At the age of 18, she was excellently accepted into the Department of Biology of the prestigious Tsinghua University.
Not long after graduating from college, she chose to enter the American business world. After graduating from Tsinghua University, Ly Nhat Nac received a full scholarship from the University of California. In 2004, she earned her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Get involved in a new environment
What surprised everyone was that she gave up her studies and further researched in her field of study to choose a completely unfamiliar field.
She applied for a job at McKinsey & Company in the United States (an organization dedicated to helping businesses achieve business performance, build and nurture talent, and improve business competitiveness).
Ly Nhat Nac successfully reached the set goal. Photo: Sohu
Although applying for a job in the wrong industry, Ly Nhat Nac excellently became a member of this top 100 company in the US. She is the only Chinese working in the McKinsey & Company office, Los Angeles with an annual salary of 110,000 USD (~ 2.75 billion VND).
During the working process, Ly Nhat Nac realized that even a company with a good mechanism like McKinsey & Company has injustices in the workplace.
However, when she calmed down, she realized that there is another way to change this reality – by becoming a rule-maker. Therefore, Ly Nhat Nac was determined to strive to become a higher-level leader of the company to be able to change the working environment in a certain extent.
New goals give birth to new strength, Ly Nhat Nac works harder and harder. In 2011, she was promoted to global managing partner of McKinsey & Company.
It is worth mentioning that while many women work and are busy with their careers, they do not have time to take care of their families, but Ly Nhat Nac, on the contrary, has a very fulfilling married life.
Ly Nhat Nac gave birth to her first child in 2010, a year before she was promoted. Over the next four years, two more children were born. As a mother of three, Ly Nhat Nac not only fulfills her responsibilities as a mother well, she is also an excellent person at work.
Meet Bill Gates and take on a new role
Ly Nhat Nac has been invited to work at the Gates Foundation many times, but it was not until 2015 that she officially set foot in Seattle to meet Bill Gates.
Ly Nhat Nac and billionaire Bill Gates. Photo: Toutiao
The Microsoft boss is one of the people that Ms. Lee admires. During the meeting, Bill Gates gave Ly Nhat Nac a brochure: Tens of millions of people around the world get malaria every year, and this mosquito-borne disease will infect 200 million people worldwide. sick. Every year about 500,000 people die from this disease, and 70% of them are children under 5 years old.
This is a dangerous disease but research funding for it is only 500 million USD worldwide. Meanwhile, research funding on hair loss in men is up to 2 billion USD.
Bill Gates’ words had a great impact on Ly Nhat Nac, she realized that she needed to do more to help more people.
In 2015, she resigned from McKinsey & Company to become the chief representative of the Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation in Beijing. Because of this decision, Ly Nhat Nac lost 2/3 of her annual salary, but she has no regrets because her current job is what she has always been looking for.
Every turning point in Ly Nhat Nac’s life requires courage and courage, love. But all will not be possible without the unremitting efforts moving forward. Her story is still ongoing and has become an inspiration to many.
According to Toutiao
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