leaving one's job as a white-collar worker and launching one's own business

leave one's job as a white-collar worker and launch one's own business

business

begin; start; initiate; originate

to start doing / to begin

conjunctive form of 始める (hajimeru) [ichidan]

Alternative spelling of 初めて

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend