I Make $2,800 Per Month Fixing Drones

Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Thomas Lau, and I'm the founder of Reboot Hub — Hong Kong's specialist in chip-level DJI drone repair and Pristine Pre-Owned DJI drones.

I graduated from Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) — consistently ranked the world's #1 hospitality management school — with campuses in Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore. I trained across properties in Shanghai, Prague, and Singapore, including an operations internship at Marriott International's Regional Office covering Singapore, Malaysia, and the Maldives. My last role was in the marketing department at The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong. By every external measure, the career was going well.

But I kept coming back to the same thought: I didn't feel like I belonged there. So I made a decision that surprised everyone around me — I quit, moved to Shenzhen, and enrolled in a professional drone repair programme. I came back with a MOHRSS certification (China's highest national credential for drone maintenance technicians) and launched Reboot Hub.

What makes Reboot Hub different isn't...