Yu-ping Vickie Wang
1 min readAug 4, 2016

Hi again, Ned!

Modeling was never meant to be a long-term thing. It’s too physically and mentally draining to constantly watch my weight and going on casting after casting. But the experience was priceless.

The intent of communication is why I love translation so much. But over time I realized that the type of events that can afford to hire interpreters (investment meetings and academic seminars etc.) tend to have speakers that don’t really speak to communicate, they speak to hear their own voice.

The effort to communicate is just not there. That’s why I now work for a design firm. I much prefer helping designers tell stories than convince a room full of people why multi-level marketing can totally make them rich.

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Yu-ping Vickie Wang
Yu-ping Vickie Wang

Written by Yu-ping Vickie Wang

Taiwanese writer and stand-up comedian, based in Taipei/NYC | www.vickiew.com

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tend to have speakers that don’t really speak to communicate, they speak to hear their own voice.

ah, I truly understand! How we need to impress ourselves with our own brilliance. If only people would pay better attention to me I could enhance their fate!
Listening really is an art form … when done with focus and humility.

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Yu-ping, thank you!! I really appreciate your thoughts on all this. And I’m glad you have a function which, hopefully, grants fulfillment and puts your talents to good use. I get the impression Shanghai is a very energized urban and cultural…

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