Why Watching My Parents Fail Made Me Want To Risk More

Joseph Kim
4 min readMay 17, 2022

Being a part of a family going through failure is not easy. As a child, your parents will attempt to hide the truth through after school activities, family outings, and rare gatherings of family friends. But parental disagreements and their emotional frustrations speak louder, often breaking the fantasy that your parents want to draw out for you.

My father had received his Ph.D from the University of Madison-Wisconsin in Food Science. He was a microbiologist and a fast promoting employee of South Korea’s major conglomerate, Doosan Corp…

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Joseph Kim

Surface Warfare Officer, Sharing insights from a Navy Warship. Contact me on iamjoeyjkim@gmail.com. Check out www.dontbebeta.com