To reverse my streak of failures, I’m prioritizing this.

My professional life is separated into two chapters: pre-Harvard MBA and everything after. Little did I know that detouring from my investment banking career shortly after my MBA towards a supposedly entrepreneurial path would lead to perpetual turbulence. I got involved in my family business, thinking I’d help my father turn things around; I thought I could become super rich by the age of 35. Well, that turned into a huge mess. I tried starting a restaurant business while working for my family business — I failed again. My investors funded the start of the construction, but I started having problems in the main business and couldn’t honor my commitments. In the US, I failed at two more businesses, one brick-and-mortar and another one in the technology space.

Because my entrepreneurial failures were unsuccessful, I had to try to find my way back to the job market. That journey sucked, and it still does — as a failed entrepreneur, you’re both underqualified and overqualified for many positions. And the time is not on your side. You’re in no man’s land if you haven’t succeeded by your “mid-career” stage. My Harvard MBA from more than fifteen years ago is more of a liability than an asset. I could’ve continued taking risks and tried building new businesses, but I have a large family. It’s been a very difficult equation to solve — my career, my family, and my entrepreneurial instincts.

I’m starting to lose count of my unsuccessful gigs. It’s not even about being terminated, though, that I…