"I hated it and felt homesick. I'd call home crying to my parents all the time. The weather sucked, and I remember thinking how ridiculous it was to eat rice with a knife and fork. The turning point came in my last two years, when I finally got a good roommate. Life got easier. I started finding my own community, got into basketball, and slowly stopped fighting the reality that I was there for the long haul."
"I found the work boring, but it introduced me to UX. It clicked immediately, so I quit my job to attend an online boot camp and learn how to be a user experience designer. From there, I landed a UX designer role at Goji Labs in Los Angeles, a small digital product agency building apps and websites. At the time, there were only 10 people, and I was the lone designer. It was a crash course, cranking out designs ac"
Sutasit Srivisarvacha was sent from Bangkok to boarding school at 13 and initially struggled with homesickness and culture shock. He found community and activities like basketball during his later years abroad and chose UC San Diego to study social psychology. After graduating, he began a digital-marketing role in San Diego, discovered UX, completed an online boot camp, and became a UX designer in Los Angeles at a small agency where he worked as the sole designer. He later grew skeptical that apps could solve everything and moved back to Bangkok to open a fashion boutique last year.
Read at Business Insider
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