Even metaphorically, I'm not sure the question makes a whole lot of sense. My whole life has been a series of progressively more independent and progressively more important choices. I chose to go to a charter school instead of my public high school when I was 14. I chose not to go to college when I got out at 19, instead working at a tech startup. A year later, I reversed my choice. I chose to study abroad for a semester in New Zealand my junior year. I chose to switch my major from physics to CS in my last semester. I chose not to immediately get a job upon graduation, instead finishing up a volunteer project I'd been working on all through college. I chose to work in a financial software startup for a couple years, and then chose to quit and found my own company when the opportunity came up with a friend. I chose to abandon it when it became apparent we weren't going to succeed, and get a job at a big company.
There's no single point where I "switched on" and said "Okay, now I'm going to take charge of my life." That's the stuff of movies - most of the time when people try it in real life, they go right back to the routines they had before.
Thanks for the feedback. I should've been more specific. But I felt asking a specific question while easier to understand, excludes people by definition. Like if I asked, why did you decided to startup? That excludes employees. So I asked "take greater control". But I never said "get complete control".
I meant share a story about a time when you were prompted to become more independent; like why you became an entrepreneur, consultant or employee for instance. Or if you left home, why? What happened? Why the choice of more independence? Frustration? Drive to do good? Forced by circumstances?
Maybe I'll ask again but differently next time. I didn't think asking for the full story was trivial.
There's no single point where I "switched on" and said "Okay, now I'm going to take charge of my life." That's the stuff of movies - most of the time when people try it in real life, they go right back to the routines they had before.