Ocean Vuong
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I could have went home to my mom and said, Mom, I tried.
I can't do it.
I'm not cut out to go to chase J.P.
Morgan like all my colleagues are with their suits.
I don't have a suit.
We have one suit.
It's called a funeral suit.
That's all I had.
I didn't even bring it.
I was optimistic going to New York.
I was like, I'm not going to bring my funeral suit.
I went to enough funerals.
So that's all I had, you know?
And I didn't even conceive that you had to wear a suit for an internship.
So I was so out of place that I just, I felt like a fool.
And I didn't have the wisdom I had now.
I couldn't show up to that place and just see how much of an outsider I was.
So I dropped out and I roamed the streets, couch surfing, doing open mics.
And
Someone would say, why don't you just go home?