Hi, welcome to my blog, I’m Thien and currently work as SE at Saigon A.I. I started this job almost 2 years ago, at that time I’m still a third-year college student and preparing everything for my graduation thesis so I was determined to get an AWS SA Associate certification. So, how did I do it? There are a few rules I applied to myself I want to share with you with this blog.

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Find your goal, work your butt off, discipline, have fun and become the person you always wanted to be.

#1 Discipline is key

Tell me what your normal day would look like? You work 8 hours a day, go back home and do your own thing, wash dishes, make dinner, or go out with your friends, my timeline is different from that, how so? After the job, I still have work at my college to do, such as study for exams, homework, even projects. I work till 2 in the morning then wake up at 5, it happens like that for more than 6 months. What am I trying to say? Anybody would give up at this point if they don’t have discipline or they don’t love what they’re doing. Aside from discipline, I rather do anything I can to achieve goals so I don’t have any regrets. But still, even if I have regrets, even if I have remorse, I must fight. You too, If you have made the decision for yourself to fight, to struggle, then fight with all you have. Do not give up for one second, one moment, or one instant. Cling greedily to the victory you have within your sight. If you can still stand, if your fingers still move, if all your teeth have not broken, stand and fight. You must fight! The pain you've been feeling can't compare to the joy that is coming, as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves.

#2 What do you want to be?

Power without ideals is rubbish and ideals without power are pointless, don't you think? To finish, you need a goal; without a goal then there’s no direction and you’ll end up nowhere; but to start you need a step. I managed to work hard because I have a goal. Two years ago, I decided I’ll become a cloud architect, helping companies build cloud solutions. Now, I am still on that path, and managed to get a certification myself. For anyone reading this curious about my schedule.

5:00: Wake up

7:00 Study AWS

8:00 Full time job

7:30 Got back home

9:00 Homework/projects/study for exam

12:00 Study AWS

Someday, I’m able to squeeze a maximum of 3 hours of studying AWS, but usually it’s 1 hour; all time left is used for work and homework/projects. Not to mention, I easily get colds. Besides my schedule, I also want to be a person, someone who is willing to depend on me. In order to do that, from my point of view, trust is essential, and the only way to earn trust is to produce results consistently. At this point, you might ask, what would you like your life to look like? One tip is stay true to yourself, abandoning your uniqueness is equivalent to dying. Make decisions as circumstances dictate if you have to, trust your gut and make the call. All I’m saying is whether you get a good hand or a bad one, if you want to be satisfied with your life, you have to live life as hard and as fully as you can. In the end, what really matters is how much effort you've put into achieving your dreams and staying true to your wishes. If you did, that would make you the coolest person. You don’t let me down.

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#3 Mental

You can't protect what matters to you without mental discipline. Reach for it, go for it, dream it. Find what you want and stick with it. But don’t overthink, Sometimes people could limit themselves by overthinking and never get a job done. For me, my reason for working so hard is there is a person I wanted to protect, they've been a part of me since the beginning, it’s part of who i am. To become that person, I’m willing to do anything, and I feel, the worse I am at something, the better I feel when I work at it and learn how to do it. Another reason is I don’t trust tomorrow, I always do what I love.

Jobless Reincarnation: Giving His Best When Transferred to Another World

#4 Curiosity

The key is to have fun, even if you suck! Because being disciplined is hard, anyone would quit when it gets hard. For example, there are some concepts that are super hard to grasp like the permission boundary in AWS. It took me a whole week to know, another week to understand and another week to be able to demonstrate the concept. Of course I also doubted myself at that time, but I think it is normal to doubt yourself, we’re human after all, and humans weren’t capable of living up to their full potential at every given moment. What mattered wasn’t whether you always successfully lived up to your ideals, but whether you made them the key to how you approached the world.

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If you have read this far. Thank you for reading this. Take care.

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