Things looked pretty different for Shang-Chi star Simu Liu 10 years ago.

The Chinese Canadian actor celebrated the 10th anniversary Tuesday of the day he was laid off from his accounting job at Deloitte in Toronto.

He recounted the way his managing partner terminated his employment and how he was promptly escorted out to collect his things by a security guard and HR staffer. I fought back tears of humiliation, grabbed my things, and never looked back, the 32-year-old wrote in an Instagram post .

Ten years ago I thought my life was over. I had wasted countless time and money that my family had invested in me. Years of schooling, gifted programs, trying to live up to my parents expectations. It all came crashing down in an instant, he wrote.

The next four years were spent running around like a headless chicken trying to figure out how to break into the [entertainment] industry, struggling with credit card debt and taking any job I could.

Another three years were spent trying to break into Hollywood, sinking my precious life savings into something many would call a pipe dream, he added. Its really only been these past three years that anything Ive done has begun to bear any fruit.