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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u201c[My proudest moment] was deciding post-college what to do [in my life] and not asking for advice anymore. It\u2019s one of those things where I love asking for advice but sometimes almost too much where I feel like it over influences what I want to do. And in my career, it was the same way. People would keep telling me, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re really good at this. You should probably go into this position, or you should try this.\u2019 Now, I sit in certain moments and decide, is this a position I want to take and pursue, or do I really want to do [something else] instead? And then, if I fail or succeed, at least it was my choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, that moment, that first time [post-college], I realized I had built enough confidence to pursue and do things I wanted to do, whether or not it was something that other people could see me succeed at. I am the type of person where I can succeed at a lot of things because I work hard. I\u2019ll put in my effort, but if I don\u2019t have that interest in it or if it doesn\u2019t align with my current values, I\u2019m not going to get very far in it, and I\u2019m going to be miserable, so I don\u2019t know why I kept trying to entertain that idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese days, I can still take advice from people but not let it totally dictate or control the path that I want to go down or the decisions I want to make because it\u2019s my choice. Much of my path stemmed from my confidence in making the decision, filtering out the judgment of certain people, and realizing that someone might think differently about me this way, but does that really matter?\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0Anh Nguyen, Parachute Engineer, Commercial Crew Program, NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center<\/p>\n
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Interviewer: NASA\/Tahira Allen<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTahira S. Allen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"