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My Dubai Salary: From Dh690 per month to Dh40,000, but I want $1 million per day

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Shabbir Mithaiwala, managing director of Glass R Us Industries in Dubai, grew up in the UAE before moving to Mumbai to put himself through university. He worked night shifts at a call centre to fund his studies and eventually enrolled for a chartered accountancy qualification. In 2013, he returned to Dubai to rescue his father's struggling picture frame business, which was carrying almost Dh1 million in debt . He pivoted the company into architectural glass, built it into a supplier to five-star hotels across the UAE, and today takes a monthly salary of Dh40,000 while reinvesting the rest in the business. He has big ambitions for the future. Tell us about your career path I was working at a call centre in Mumbai for a UK bank, taking calls for Barclays clients. I was doing that because my family couldn't finance my education, so I was working at night and studying in the morning. I was pursuing chartered accountancy at the same time. Morning college until 11am, then chartered accountan