EXPERIENCE TO FOCUS AND RECENTER

In 2016 in Long Xuyen, Market Xẻo Trôm, I was asked what the ‘deal was’.

Back then all I had was a degree and some IT certs and a couple years of work in North America. Out of school and relaxing and vacationing kind of.

I told the seller I was going to return to America BUT Canada (as I am from Canada) to do computer programming, my dream.

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Basically, the seller asked what was up with ‘her people’ overseas doing here.

She kind of knew what kind of person I was.

I was a guy somewhere in his head most of the time.

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I thought I was average but below average in life even in Vietnam at that time. I lacked many skills back then. I did not socialize well, I did not have great work experience, I did not know the Vietnamese language well, I was stunted growing up in Americas because some people don’t think Vietnamese even 2nd generation need education and experience … More on this later. Yes, there are people like that.

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I set out to get and grab and reach.

But because we just generally knew what computer science was … we were at a lost both the seller and me.

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Vietnamese knows what is up.

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If you are unsure about life and your knowledge and skills, you are just surrounded by people that don’t support you and flip you. They are usually younger people in their young 20s who did not finish 4th year D-level university research course.

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Just go on your way and work away.

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