Ho Chi Minh, real name Nguyen Tat Thanh (1890-1969), Vietnamese Communist leader and the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle against French colonial rule.
Ho was born on May 19, 1890, in the village of Kimlien, Annam (central Vietnam), the son of an official who had resigned in protest against French domination of his country. Ho attended school in Hue and then briefly taught at a private school in Phan Thiet.
In 1911 he was employed as a cook on a French steamship liner and thereafter worked in London and Paris. After World War I, using the pseudonym Nguyen Ai Quoc (Nguyen the Patriot), Ho engaged in radical activities and was in the founding group of the French Communist party. He was summoned to Moscow for training and, in late 1924, he was sent to Canton, China, where he organized a revolutionary movement among Vietnamese exiles.
He was forced to leave China when local authorities cracked down on Communist activities, but he returned in 1930 to found the Indochinese Communist party (ICP). He stayed in Hong Kong as representative of the Communist International. In June 1931 Ho was arrested there by British police and remained in prison until his release in 1933.
He then made his way back to the Soviet Union, where he reportedly spent several years recovering from tuberculosis. In 1938 he returned to China and served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed forces. When Japan occupied Vietnam in 1941, he resumed contact with ICP leaders and helped to found a new Communist-dominated independence movement, popularly known as the Vietminh, that fought the Japanese.
In August 1945, when Japan surrendered, the Vietminh seized power and proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh, now known by his final and best-known pseudonym (which means the “Enlightener”), became president.
The French were unwilling to grant independence to their colonial subjects, and in late 1946 war broke out. For eight years Vietminh guerrillas fought French troops in the mountains and rice paddies of Vietnam, finally defeating them in the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Ho, however, was deprived of his victory. Subsequent negotiations at Geneva divided the country, with only the North assigned to the Vietminh.
The DRV, with Ho still president, now devoted its efforts to constructing a Communist society in North Vietnam. In the early 1960s, however, conflict resumed in the South, where Communist-led guerrillas mounted an insurgency against the U.S.-supported regime in Saigon.
Ho, now in poor health, was reduced to a largely ceremonial role, while policy was shaped by others. On September 3, 1969, he died in Hanoi of heart failure. In his honor, after the Communist conquest of the South in 1975, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh was not only the founder of Vietnamese communism, he was the very soul of the revolution and of Vietnam's struggle for independence. His personal qualities of simplicity, integrity, and determination were widely admired, not only within Vietnam but elsewhere as well.
-- Interviewing President Ho Chi Minh (English subtitle), June 1964
-- The Path Which Led Me To Leninism
-- Bài Ca Hồ Chí Minh! Ballad of Ho Chi Minh!
-- Basic Introduction of Ho Chi Minh ideology
-- Think Like a Vietnamese Commie
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So one of my coworkers made a really obnoxious comment to me the other day and it's sort of pushed me over the limit with this shit job. I'm better than this place. I've only stuck around here because I became complacent and depressed. But I know I'm capable of more than this.
I've started seriously looking into going back to school. I've procrastinated long enough. I'm still undecided on what I want to pursue, but I need to get the fuck out. I love history and artsy stuff, but maybe I need to go for some basic shit like accounting or marketing. Or maybe I can become an epic techbro. It's very overwhelming but I'm tired of giving up.
Anyone else been in a similar position?
Edit: the more research I'm doing the more disheartened I'm becoming. Seems like every career is oversaturated and people are miserable. Maybe I should do a trade instead
Accounting, like with a CPA designation, is actually not oversaturated as far as I know. It's pretty mundane, but as far as I can tell pays well and there isn't the expectation to work overtime or weekends (with maybe tax season excluded). But the early career can be stressful, the training incubator is the big 4 accounting firms, and from what I've heard it's underpaid and involves a lot of travel.
If you go this route, I'd personally try to avoid ones that are too damaging to the body. Like electrician seems fine (maybe a bit stressful in that doing your job poorly can kill people), but I'm not sure how physically intensive other trades are.
Yeah, accounting seems relatively stable but brutally boring and stressful early on. That's why I'm leaning towards marketing, because I find it somewhat interesting even though it probably is oversaturated and a meme degree. But one of my old coworkers got a pretty cushy marketing job not long after graduating. And as insidious as it really is, I think understanding consumer psychology is fascinating in a weird way. Maybe this stems from my interest in modern politics - so much of it is just branding. I'd kind of want to dig deeper into it, which is why I think I'd be pretty decent at it.
I actually thought about that angle with electrician too lmao. I'm pretty focused and diligent as a worker in general, but I do worry I'd slip up and accidentally cause like, an electrical fire in someone's house. I'm occasionally absentminded.
So going for accounting and through the big-4 might actually be an easier way into marketing than a marketing degree. I worked at a marketing firm for a while and I think all of the account managers were either CPAs or CFAs from KPMG or Deloitte. I may be wrong, but I think marketing degrees are meant to prepare you for the business side of marketing, and a lot of the time I think there's a bias toward hiring from the big 4. This is probably less true outside of like NY/SF/LA/Chicago tho.
Also, I did work at like a marketing consultancy, so in-house marketing places, or marketing shops which don't brand themselves as consultancies might be drastically different. Lol, take it as very anecdotal experience.
Hmm, I'll take this into consideration. I appreciate it, anecdotal or otherwise. I'm just bouncing ideas off of people irl and online right now. My parents didn't go to college and I was inadequately prepared growing up lol. Plus I'm just sort of aimless in general.