“And then I started to realize, as an Asian performer, I was getting a lot of opportunities ahead of my pay grade, ahead of my experience, because the talent pool is not big enough.”

This is interesting. Conventional wisdom is that non-white actors have more trouble getting roles, since there are fewer roles written for non-whites. Still, there were roles out there, including the play Banana Boys (2015) and the TV series Blood and Water (season 1). From the point of view of someone with a business degree, both roles had some form of businessman in them.