Rahim Fazal, 36, an initiator of startups and co-founder of SVAcademy in San Francisco, clarifies how getting fired from his first job at McDonald’s changed his life.
I think of Canada as a mosaic and the U.S. as a melting pot. I don’t know if that was still relevant when I moved to the U.S. in 2006, but that was in my mind. I tried to fit in more than stand out. My name is ‘F-A-Zed-A-L.’ People have no idea what you’re talking about so immediately you stand out; it’s pronounced ‘ZEE.’
I was born in Vancouver, have wonderful parents. They came to Canada through the expulsion of the Asians in East Africa. That’s a big part of my identity, Canadian and Ismaili. You see the immigrant work ethic everywhere in the world. I see it here daily. My parents organized their lives around my sister and I; how they spent their time, I don’t know if I would make those trade-offs.
More at the source: The Globe and Mail / CYNTHIA MARTIN / March 26, 2018
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Congratulations Rahim. Be 100% focused on what you’re doing and you will soar like a bird. I am also from East Africa and though my name is Zinat, from back home i have been known as Zee. No worries, except when i arrived here, people thought to make it easier at work i changed to Zee. Good Luck
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