The sixth floor of the Albuquerque Embassy Suites was a ghost town on Halloween. With just a few hours to go until the night’s festivities, guests were out and about, making for a slow morning for hotel staff.

All that could be heard was the dull roar of Luc Nguyen’s vacuum as it swept over every square inch of the hallway’s patterned carpets. That day, Nguyen, a 20-year-old intern, was tasked with vacuuming almost every floor of the hotel.

But he didn’t mind the work – in fact, he welcomed it.

“It’s easy,” he said.

Nguyen’s a jack-of-all-trades at the hotel, mostly working in room service, and takes pride in getting his work done.

“He’s a hustler; he likes to work and stay busy,” his teacher, Terry Casey, said.

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