How can you build a career for yourself when you have many interests in life? Quynh Xuan Nguyen has had many, many passions and is not the type of person who easily focuses on only one activity or job all day, everyday. In the first part of our interview, she describes how she developed multiple interests overtime to build several side hustles and careers ranging from becoming a yoga instructor to a banker to a data analyst, worked for different companies around the world, and what she learned from her adventures.
Multiple side hustles, I have found, are particularly common in Southeast Asia, like in Vietnam where Quynh lives. There many young adults such as her often must develop multiple careers and income streams to withstand unreasonable jobs, limited opportunities for advancement, changing economic conditions, and other societal trends she discusses in our conversation. These problems definitely occur in other parts of the world as well and may well be something you have faced. Not everyone enjoys doing one thing, or has the ability to do so in the contemporary economy, and her life provides helpful inspiration for how exploring multiple paths at once can build self-satisfaction and resilience.
Here is more information about her life coaching, yoga, and self-improvement initiatives: https://songthanhthoi.me.