Stories of four girls who moved to the USA and succeeded
'27.08.2018'
Source: SNC Media
These brave girls were not limited to dreams "someday ...", but decided to start a new life in the USA. Throw a stable career in Moscow? Move alone with the baby? Start a startup in a non-standard area?
All this seems impracticable. But the heroines SNC Media prove the opposite.
Anna Zheverzheeva, organizer of business events from New York
I remember my crucial 29 years: I work in Moscow as a TV producer for Moscow 24, I’ve graduated from Moscow State University Journalism Department, I’ve worked in BMW Russia, collaborated with the Moscow Ministry of Culture, and organized various festivals. But I was so eager to try myself in another country. I was discouraged by everyone, but a year later I won a grant and got the opportunity to study for free as a film producer. It remains to decide to quit a successful career, get out of the comfort zone, taking full responsibility for my son, and figure out how to pay for housing, food, and our move with the then three-year-old Arkhip. I was lucky - on the way an amazing lawyer Anna met, we collected a “case” with my projects in Moscow, opened a company to me in the USA. America believed in me and I got a work visa.
The first year was very difficult, I hardly remember how I was oriented, everything was alien, I did not know the city, people, slang, or traditions ... In unique New York, even Americans cannot be met, all residents from different countries, the city is boiling, in a hurry, not noticing anyone. But gradually I became acquainted with different kind people, my friends often flew in, and my best friend moved altogether after a couple of years, and it became completely comfortable.
The development of my company was gradual, because I didn’t know the local market at all, didn’t know the rules and subtleties of business in the USA, and here they are radically different from ours. It was a bright start - I worked in two different accelerators, where startups are going, as in my favorite show “Silicon Valley” (mandatory for watching for those who want to live in the USA!), With speakers on the forums as an organizer, and got up. Now I organize conferences on the popular topic of blockchain and cryptocurrency. The most important thing in New York is networking, networking at various events, dating. All my life my work is connected with communication - a puzzle has taken shape.
Now I’m 33 of the year, and 6’s son of years, he freely talks and reads in English and Russian, teaches poetry, plays chess, got into a school for gifted children, and I’m glad that I wasn’t afraid to decide once. We all have the right to dream, to travel and not to limit ourselves to one city or one country. I think that as soon as we stop dreaming, everything ends.
My New York
I like 7-8 in the summer early in the morning to go to Central Park in the Boathouse, where cute intelligent grannies and granddaughters and their amazing dogs gather for breakfast in a wonderful cafe. The audience in tracksuits, but in diamonds. Communicate between themselves and people, and dogs. There is something amazing and so New York about it.
Anna Aronova, American lawyer (New York - Orlando)
I was 17, I stood at Kennedy Airport in 9-million New York, where I did not have anyone, but my native Tashkent, family, and friends remained behind. My journey to the United States developed according to the standard immigrant scheme: working on 12 hours per day 7 days per week for $ 4.75 per hour and an endless struggle for US visa documents. But I remember how I came to receive my first American documents - rights. In the queue in front of me was a foreigner in poor ragged clothes. The employee after the tenth vain attempt to explain to him that he did not pass the exam, in response to which he continued to babble in the language she did not understand, threw the documents on the table in despair and called the supervisor. And then an amazing thing happened: the supervisor, after hearing complaints from her that the person did not leave, delaying the queue and did not understand anything, instead of pointing him at the door, asked a simple question: “Do you speak his language? Then how do you want him to understand you? And why are you annoyed at him? ” Then I realized that this city is truly an equal opportunity, and that my success depends only on myself.
Having experienced all the visa process and having gone from a tourist, student, work visa and green card to a long-awaited citizenship, I decided that I would certainly become a lawyer, moreover, precisely on visa and immigration law. I will help goal-oriented people realize their American dream! I studied as a lawyer in the United States and, in parallel, I worked continuously in law firms, gaining experience and earning my studies. It was then that my first son was born, but there was no time to stop, so after 4 the day after his birth, I returned to study and work. And it all came together. Today I am a sought-after lawyer, with my successful 10-year practice. My clients are amazing talented people who often become my friends. This gives a great drive in the work.
My Orlando
I love to escape from cold New York for a couple of days with my children and just 3 hours of flight to find myself in the fairy tale city of Orlando, in sunny Florida, where there is Disneyland and the amazing amusement parks of Universal Studios. Here I can be in childhood for a moment.
Alina Trigubenko, an entrepreneur from Los Angeles
I settled in the US 7 years ago, first in New York, then in Los Angeles and San Francisco. But Russia will always remain my beloved homeland.
The most important thing that you develop in your work with the Americans is a kind of seventh feeling. We have very different cultural codes, and the learning process of your neural nets for new local data takes on average 3 of the year. Americans have many shades of the same good or cool. To operate in the local business market, you need to sharpen the "chuiku" on the meanings and local laws of business. For example, how to properly ask to introduce you to someone in the industry, how to build sentences so that they are the most culturally neutral, and how to be as respectful as possible to other people's time.
In general, the time resource is the most valuable thing that can be in the USA: this is especially acute in San Francisco and New York. Intimate meetings with girlfriends? Unprecedented luxury. In San Francisco, all sorts of optimization is very much appreciated. Los Angeles is more open to pleasure and comfort.
In the USA for women, of course, there is more competition on all fronts, the statistics confirm this. Only 5% of venture capital investments are in the hands of women founders, and only 14% of women work in leading positions in the US tech industry. I myself have repeatedly come across sexism in California, unheard of in Russia. My business is related to the development of human and corporate awareness, we select licensed coaches and integrative psychologists from around the world who help reduce stress and increase productivity, better understand the signals of your body, and deal with psychological trauma. Here, in the USA, there are more such studies and a lot of media cache in this industry. We in Russia have grown up on a holistic approach, here this is an innovation. Americans or Russians - we are all people, and we divide by stages of internal development more than by nationalities. The people of the world-centric level (“we are all one”) are much more sensitive and, often, more erudite, easier to communicate with. And if you find such people everywhere in the world, that same spiritual connection will be anywhere.
My los angeles
I like to walk around the city, for example, in Malibu - you can go there for a whole year, every weekend on different paths, and never to repeat. I like to find unpopular, but charming parks, for example, Huntington Gardens, where you can get the feeling that you walked around the parks of the whole world during 4-5 hours.
Maria Yurina, San Diego Photographer
7 years ago, I, a happy graduate of Moscow State University, embraced with a red diploma, went to study in Beijing. All roads were open to me, but I did not even know what the future was preparing for me. There I met a handsome American, a marine, and now, two months later, I was crying at the airport: he was leaving for work in Brazil, and I was from China to Moscow. Another 5 months, and I'm back at the airport, but in Brazil, I'm flying home again, but this time it's a ring on my finger! The last landmark airport happens as early as a year, filled with stress and migration papers. And here I am standing under the arch of flowers and I can not stop laughing: I am shocked by what I have done! I moved to another country, I get married, I am a passionate adventurer in love!
The shock disappeared not so soon: after half a year, with great enthusiasm, I began to look for work in international organizations and companies in my specialty. Countless resumes flew to personnel departments in different parts of California, but they were not going to answer. So I wanted to write after the summary: “Attention! MSU, diploma, Chinese, English, Russian, and even a little Spanish, work experience! ” My enthusiasm began to fade away rapidly, with a smart education, I started serving all sorts of assistants, and there were no answers.
It was at this moment that, with the support of my husband and family, I decided that I had enough! I decided to turn to my great passion - photos: she brought me a lot of pleasure and even some money. Cosmos heard my pleas and pushed me in the right direction. I began to learn marketing in order to promote myself in the profession. After 3,5, I’m a happy American business woman: I still love weddings, happy lovers and beauty, incredible places I’ve been in and the opportunity to take vacations, travel and see loved ones when I want! Of course, your business is an incredibly lot of work, but is this a high price to pay for a dream? The moral of my American dream is obvious: you should never despair! An open mind, a positive attitude and the support of loved ones invariably work wonders!
My san diego
San Diego is, of course, the beach! It can not be in any other way! For me, the most colorful - Mission Beach, although it is one of the most tourist. You roll yourself on a towel, drink some cold latte from a plastic cup with a sand covered bottom, look at surfers and small groups of cheerleaders or football players (as in American comedies about schoolchildren). Well, sometimes you run into the cool ocean to freshen up. What is not paradise?
