Updates (June 26, 2025)
It seems to have health and face is to do 1 of 3 things here in Canada as a Vietnamese born in Canada:
- Work a normal job after going to school and doing your thing for 5 years. Keeping aware that normal life is OK and it does get boring and you are penny pinching.
- Have your own business like the staple Vietnamese businesses (nails, pho, banh mi, cafe and real estate – rent out rooms/basement to international students). Keeping aware that normal life is OK and it does get boring and you are penny pinching.
- Do study and research on your own for life like a Westerner to have that good healthy ego and good feeling. But not too far out??? As a man the most stable thing and healthy thing to do is build apps and operating systems stuff that Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds does all day. Keep making them more efficient and more feature rich and accommodate change. Going further makes you go crazy???
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After working with my dad for a week or so … I realized the blueprint to live good as a coloured person in the Canada.
- Go to school and get your degree in what you love.
- You find that what you love doesn’t work really after you work a bit and then decide to go back to school.
- Get a computer programming diploma so you can do most things on your own. Doesn’t matter how long it takes but you got to find support and do it. I got Vietnamese from Vietnam support to do coding. I think in Vietnamese when I code when I found myself stuck. That is the trick no one tells you about. Your people from homeland have the answers to overcoming adversity in all forms. Culture is a real thing and will not go away really.
- Do your own thing in coding.
- Do some work in web development. You get scared as you don’t have 20+ years of coding real experience.
- Do more of your own thing to become recognized. Go so far out that you get recognized in ‘developer’ magazines.
- Do more work in web development trying to get global skills. Now you know how hard life is and accept it.
- Now go back to doing apps development for your own sake solving problems you want. Keeping in mind web development is the mammoth that is in the background that you have to learn to do and attack. This keeps you alert and learning for life so no more depression in your entire life. Always something to do. Basically putting everything on the web including yourself. The number of layers is out of this world.
- But really it is app and operating systems development that keeps you sane … These are reasonable pursuits that allow you to have a life beyond the computer.
When you go to work after getting your degree (1st step) you realize school is flawed and media is flawed. Everyone needs to learn everything just to do simple jobs too. Always learning and growing. Racism and culture doesn’t matter. You figure a way to work with everyone and make it work at any job really.
The people that are racist and prevent you from doing stuff have too much time on their hands.
When people actually work, work you can not think racist. People standing around doing not much think bad.
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Yes … yes … I am looking for the secrets to the best life in the West.
It is growing, socializing and developing all the time till you do stuff like the greats.
The more talking and stuff you do, you then reach their lives.
Socializing with like minds is the most important thing. But also knowing life is about enjoying that wonderful hot cheesy greasy pizza and rich warm sugary coffee too.
Isn’t searching like this (background/foreground) is what is life is about? Always looking for more? More after 35 years old? Mid-life crisis? What to do for 40+ years more?
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The problem with doing your own app development is find a problem, finding a problem you like to do and starting.
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