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Is your monthly salary a reward for your value, or a precisely engineered chain — just enough to pay for today, but with no surplus left to invest in a better tomorrow? This piece breaks down three brutal reasons most people stay stuck at NT$56K a month, and offers three keys to unlock the chain: choose the right industry, build skill combinations, and invest your after-hours.
Have you ever wondered what becomes of the person who lived everyone's "correct answer"? Lin Zhi-Min was a Principal Engineer earning NT$2 million a year, with an NT$15 million mortgage on a brand-new Sanchong apartment. Then one rainy Tuesday, an email from HR wiped out 3,000 jobs in his division within a month. Three months later, he discovered he was like an F1 driver dropped onto Taipei's streets — completely lost outside the closed system he had mastered. The real tragedy was never the layoff. It was a "Stock-Market Mindset" bankruptcy of someone who did nothing wrong.