Career — Blog — Linh S. Nguyễn

The Road Less Travelled: Three artists reimagine success and career

It’s easy to romanticize quitting your job on a whim and pursuing art. The reality is steeped in challenges of opportunity, financial constraints, and stress-filled planning.

CareerLinh NguyenJune 14, 2021Career, writing, artist, Learning, writer, Arts, Work

Leap of Faith

The thing about decisions, as I learned recently, is that the right ones can be messy as hell.

Self-Love, WellbeingLinh NguyenOctober 4, 2020confidence, self-love, self-esteem, Self-care, Choice, Career

I’m Done Being An Aspiring Writer

I am not aspiring to write. I have been writing stories since I was 7 years old.

CareerLinh NguyenAugust 16, 2018art, artist, Career, creativity, failure, Life, Literature, Reading, work, writer, writingComment

My CV of Failures

On March 2nd this year, I was rejected from the only graduate program I’d applied for: a Masters of Arts in English in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.

Student Life, CareerLinh NguyenAugust 16, 2018Academics, advice, Career, jobs, Lessons, Life, school, Student Life, University, University of Toronto, work, writingComment

Three Factors to Finding the Work You Love

Do I pursue a career in writing or education or management? Should I be working alone or with human interaction? Only recently did I begin realizing those might be the wrong questions to ask.

CareerLinh NguyenAugust 9, 2018advice, balance, Career, job, stress relief, student health, Student Life, Wellness, workComment

The Career Advice I Needed to Hear

7. No one has it figured out.

CareerLinh NguyenJanuary 28, 2018academia, advice, Arts, Career, college, Humanities, major, post-secondary, school, Student Life, Study, UniversityComment

Saying Goodbye

It is a week of goodbyes. Very shortly, I will be turning 22, graduating, and heading off into what feels like the void. For the first time in my life, I see no structure when I look ahead, and that has yet to stop feeling scary.