India, March 3 -- A Google techie has revealed that getting divorced worked as a "wake-up call" for her and she ended up tripling her earnings after her separation, now earning over $1 million ( Rs.8.73 crore) a year, CNBC reported.

37-year-old Venus Wang had moved from China to US in 2013 and landed a six-figure job as a sourcing manager for a tech company. Wang left her job to move with her husband and planned to take a year off to raise her daughter before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Left with no other option, she became a full-time stay-at-home mom and soon her marriage came to an end.

When the dust settled, she realised all she had $10,000 (about Rs.8.7 lakh) in savings and now she was a single mom.

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