Practical pain-relief advice from someone still figuring it out himself.

My story — twelve years in hospitality. My body paid the price.

“I started in hospitality as a teenager. By the time I was in my mid-twenties I had been working day shifts and overnight shifts for years, always on my feet, and my body was hurting in places that did not seem to go away.”

I tried everything. Regular massages helped temporarily. Chiropractor visits gave some relief. Acupuncture was soothing. But the pain kept coming back — because I was treating the symptoms, not the cause.

When I started spending more time at a desk as a supervisor, I noticed the same pattern. The wrong setup was putting my body under constant strain every single day. That is when I started researching ergonomics — and slowly trying to fix it for myself.

I wrote about both journeys in my books — moving from Vietnam to Canada at fifteen in Pursuit of Success in a Foreign Land, and building a different kind of life on the side of a hospitality job in Alive After Hours.

This site documents what I am learning, in real time, as I work through my own desk pain. Honest about what I have tested and what I have only researched.