From beautiful Vietnam, to the world.
Vietnamese, now traveling across the continents and making the best experience for wonderful memories.
Here is my story:
I came from a small, lovely village in Vietnam. Ever since I was little, I always had this desire to pursue innovation and artistic interests. Thanks to my dad, who let me use his computer for the first time when I was in primary school, I was able to quickly adapt to the world of technology as I was growing up.
After high school, I was accepted to a top technology school in Vietnam to study Information Technology. Even though I knew this was a great direction for my life, I couldn't help but feel something was missing from my life, and it was artistic.
While studying at my university back in 2019, I started a new journey as I built my new travel photography career. Using my old iPhone 6 that I bought in high school, I was able to capture the beautiful scenes from Hanoi, the first city that I ever lived in, and posted them on Instagram to quickly attract thousands of audiences around the world who shared the same interests:
Saw my potential in art and marketing, and my cousin, a design agency founder based in Hanoi hired me to help with his agency on their current social media marketing. This was the first time I was exposed to the world of designers and digital products, which brought me closer to the perfect mix of technologies and artistic expressions.
In two years of working in this exceptional agency, I was able to play in many fields, did many experimentations, and joined countless amazing projects… I was their social media manager, graphic designer, photographer, market researcher, and everything else, you named it. We achieved many small goals and big milestones together, and the experience I gained there was priceless for a young designer.
In 2022, me and my girlfriend decided that we would move to a new city across the country and travel the world for our own experience. So we decided to leave our company and pursue full-time freelance to be able to work anywhere in the world without compromising our careers.
I was working as a full-stack product designer remotely for a super cool new startup based in San Francisco (one of my favorite cities). Me and my girlfriend were working remotely in Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, etc. It was indeed a dream come true for us:
While working in my new startup with my co-founders who are based in Singapore and England. I was directly involved in the digital product development world, I was their first and only designer so I really have to learn and try and fail so many times. I'm so thankful for this experience, it really opened my eyes to how hard and complicated it is to have a beautifully working product that is also aesthetically attractive.
After a year of working remotely with startups and saving enough money, I decided to make my lifelong dream come true: Living in Europe in my 20s. I was looking for universities in the European Union and finally landed in the stunning Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic to study International Business in their #1 business university.
Now working as a part-time product designer while judging business school in Europe, I find my journey as exciting as ever. Looking back at the years of my career, I saw myself never stop learning new things, figuring out difficult but helpful problems, and try building kinds of stuff to know what is a failure and what is a success. And I really appreciate all of these lessons because it guides me toward achieving all of my dreams.
Hope you find somewhat inspiring from my story. Here is a picture I took when I completed my lifelong dream — Capturing the sparkling Eiffel Tower at late night in Paris:
