I actually admire those who live in vans to save on renting costs for their big home. The guy in the above video is one example. He has a really nice van though with good furniture like a sink, stove, oven, and even a work desk in his van. I mean if I imagine living like him I probably can, but the point is that I don’t really want to drive around that often therefore it’s better to have a stable house to settle rather. But he is speaking about a point where he thinks about giving Vans life and starting a marriage. It seems like he has all the conditions he needs to start a family, I think he has somewhat financial security, like a savings account and a stable income. As long as he can make a good living he’s probably or even certainly starting a family and raising kids, because what is more important than afford a living and afford of raising kids? Generations have been fighting for their own survival, not only able to feed themselves but also feed their children and giving them a good education and healthcare, I believe that’s the responsibility of all human beings: to be able to survive (feeding themselves) and able to reproduce (raising kids).
As an individual at 28 years old, I feel like I’m very different from when I was around 24. I have been having a job and saving for a long time and building up my mindset just to be stable enough to know exactly what I want. It’s just that I’m not dreaming big enough and passionate enough to really achieve bigger goals. My primary goal right now is to build a condition, both physically and mentally conditions to really be able to focus on my career and be able to achieve more. Like being able to build a better network, grasp more business opportunities, and gather more wisdom (from studying and experimenting)
Today is a rainy day and I’ve been doing some frontend work (ReactJS), and a FastAPI side project, it’s just for me to practice my programming skills while still maintaining knowledge about my field. I kind of slowed down a bit in the past few months, I spent the whole year of 2023 building a home lab and automating my home-lab data center infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform. I am right now realizing that it’s impossible to maintain a remote data center from Vietnam since there is a lot of work to be done regarding network configuration on network devices and it requires me to be around the data center quite often. Being in Canada is disconnecting me from continuing my journey of self build OpenStack with Terraform and Ansible, I imagined building my own cloud server and provisioning multiple Kubernetes clusters and a full fledge CICD (with Jenkins and ArgoCD) and GitOps stack to deploy my infrastructure as well as my applications. I wanted everything to be represented as codes and I was halfway there. Sadly, by deciding to leave Vietnam and be here in the United States, I’m no longer able to continue building my home lab cloud server. Therefore I’m deciding to invest in a virtual machine that is going to run for life lifetime (probably) to host my applications. At least for now, my WordPress sites are being hosted for 3 years continuously (I spent like 500 dollars for it), but compared to an EC2 instance or Kubernetes cluster it’s still very cheap. To be frank, I always think that public clouds are so expensive. I mean it’s surely highly available but it’s only good for real production workloads, not labs/experiments or testing workloads. Overall, I’m kind of misdirected right now, hopefully by the end of September, by taking a week-long vacation I can see my motivations as a technology enthusiast once again.