How to succeed in America: a step-by-step guide and the main mistakes of immigrants
'21.03.2021'
Source: Success diary
The United States has been, is and probably will still be a country for a long time, where people from different countries tend not just to admire the sights, but to stay here forever. The American dream firmly regained the consciousness not only of the Americans themselves, but also of foreigners who believed: much can be achieved in this state. But how to succeed in America, if you have to start from scratch? If you come here without any connections or money? Is it possible at all?
“Possibly,” the immigrants from the former Soviet republics who managed to become successful in the United States are sure, the project’s blogger writes Success diary.
How to succeed in America: general rules ...
You can succeed in the United States. This is proven annually by immigrants from various countries, including those who came to America from the former republics of the Soviet Union.
I selected the best tips 5 they gave to their compatriots so that they could repeat their successful path:
1. Take the difficulties you face, not as a punishment, but as a new experience.
If you think that America is a promised land, where it will be very easy to achieve everything, you are mistaken.
You will have to fall and rise more than once, overcome many barriers and, only with enduring all difficulties, you will be able to succeed.
2. Find the occupation that brings you pleasure.
In America, have a lot of work. Spending a lot of time on hateful work is unbearable. Think about what you would like to do. When you decide, start to gradually move towards the dream: get the appropriate education, improve your skills, etc.
Irina from Volgograd, having moved to Texas, continued to pursue her hobby: making paper flowers while working as a cashier at a supermarket. After five years, she acquired a successful business: creating paper flowers to decorate rooms for special occasions.
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3. Surround yourself with people who can learn something.
Many immigrants make the same mistake - they choose their friends by language and all the gatherings turn into nostalgic moans, how good it was at home and how many flaws America has. Moreover, they do not want to go home, but they also do not stop whining and throwing mud at the country that sheltered them.
Choose your friends who have succeeded, regardless of their nationality. You can learn a lot from such people.
4. Get an education.
Let it not be a university if you don’t have time or money for it, but it’s very difficult to achieve success without education in America.
If you are dreaming of a profession, which you cannot work in without education, you will have to learn. Financial investments will gradually pay off.
5. Stake on demand and originality.
To be realized successfully in America is possible only in that sphere which is in demand, but at the same time is not oversaturated with offers.
But it is important that the chosen field for implementation is legal, otherwise you can also be imprisoned in prison.
Important! Sometimes you need to expand your life 180 degrees to achieve something. If you see that in a certain area in a particular locality you have nothing, do not be afraid to drop everything and start from scratch. That is what they do in America. Success without risk is not achieved.
How to succeed in America by choosing the right profession?
If you are not the heir of a rich daddy and not the wife of a millionaire, but an ordinary immigrant who come to America by the thousands, then you need a job.
Finding work in the US is easy, only not all professions are paid well enough.
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a) 5 professions that can be mastered fairly quickly right in America.
If you are ready to invest in training, then right in America you can learn several promising professions that will help you to succeed:
- Realtor You can earn in the real estate market in different ways, but the realtor is probably the easiest and cheapest. Salary: how you work. Maybe 100 000, and maybe nothing.
- Medicine worker: doctor's assistant, ambulance worker. You need to study much less than for a doctor, and it brings good money, and it will be easier to enter a medical school in the future, if such a desire arises. Salary: Physician Assistant - over 30, Ambulance worker - at least $ 000 per year.
- The trucker. You need to have: an American driver's license with a CDL category (commercial driver license), driving experience of at least a year, social security number (SSN) and proof of residency (A-number, green card, citizenship). Salary - from 40 per year.
- The organizer of the celebrations. Wealthy people do not even want to organize children's birthdays on their own, and we are not talking about a wedding. You can take advantage of this and start doing such an interesting job. Income - from $ 30 per year.
- Beauty Industry Worker. There is a wide choice: a master of manicure and pedicure, a hairdresser, a beautician, a master of permanent make-up, etc. Earnings - from 20 per year.
Important! If you have chosen to live in a particular locality of America, you should find out what specialists are missing in it. So you can choose a promising and profitable profession.
b) What professions help to succeed in America and do not require special education?
If you have some talents, but are not willing to spend your time in college and on training courses, you can try to succeed in three professions that will be profitable, but interesting.
You can succeed in America by becoming:
- Model.
Beauties (to a lesser extent - beauties) are in great demand here. It will be easier if you come here already with a contract from the agency, but you can start everything from scratch, nursing on castings, making a portfolio, etc.
Of course, you need to meet a number of requirements: tall, model parameters, a beautiful face, knowledge of the language, etc.
Irina Sheik, Anna Semanova, Alla Kostromicheva and other Slavic beauties were able to achieve success in the United States.
- By the artist.
In America, successful artists can feed themselves, because their paintings / sculptures are sold, and accordingly - generate income.
An alternative option is the realization in the fashion world (designer of clothes, jewelry, shoes, hats), interiors, landscape design, etc.
Ivan, still living in Riga, painted. Having moved to the USA, he had to go to work in the service sector, but he did not break up with his hobby. And even selling the first picture, did not give up work. And only when the earnings became impressive, Igor focused on art. So everything is possible.
- A blogger.
Here, of course, to succeed, it is important to give people what is really interesting to them. View profiles of successful bloggers working for an American audience.
For example: Naomi Davis, who writes about her three children, or Michelle Fan with her beauty rollers. And you can earn on advertising.
c) Private business is a good way to succeed in America.
If you have start-up capital and a good idea for a startup, you can succeed by opening your own business in America.
Spheres in which it is possible to be realized:
- Innovative technologies
- Real estate
- Investment
- Public service
- Internet projects
Why not succeed in America?
Of course, it would be wrong to say that everyone who comes to America immediately succeeds.
In this country, as in any other, you need to work hard and hard, find your niche and enlist the support of fortune, then you can count on something. Otherwise, you will find a shaky existence in low-paid work in poor neighborhoods.
Often, immigrants themselves make mistakes that prevent them from succeeding in America:
Trying to transfer local practices in the United States.
This primarily concerns businessmen who, without having familiarized themselves with the legislation, the market, the demand, or the rules, try to realize the idea that it was good at home in America.
For example, they are trying to open a credit union, promising annual interest rates much higher than in banks. As a result, they come under police surveillance, because the activities of all financial companies are controlled by the state.
Immediately want too much.
Anna has her own cleaning company in America. She remembers how 15 came to this country from Dnepropetrovsk years ago, how difficult it was for her, how she dreamed that someone would give her a helping hand.
Mindful of her difficulties, Anna hires only compatriots for work. Firstly, Ukrainian women are really well cleaned at home - there are no complaints about their work, and secondly, she wants to give her work exactly to her, to support them at first after the move.
The woman says that there are different cases: someone thanks and starts working with full dedication, someone perceives this work as temporary, because she wants to achieve more in America than to do cleaning all her life, but while she works for her, she works well .
There are also those who from the first day start to complain about the small salary, tell that they have a higher education, demand bonuses for themselves, on the basis that “we are countrymen”, etc.
It’s one thing if you come to America as a multi-billionaire, and another as a semi-legal immigrant with a meager amount. Grab for the work that can feed you, even if it will require physical effort. In the future, you will find something better.
The reluctance to learn and accept the rules that play local.
Forget about your previous experience if he cannot help you in a new place. Watch how the locals live, learn from them, become a little American.
This does not mean that you have to forget who you are by nationality. Speak at home in your native language, honor national holidays, wear ethnic clothes, prepare familiar dishes - it is always welcome.
It's about working habits. In America, to succeed, you can not:
- Just serving time in the office, instead of working.
- Do not do any work “finish anyhow”, the result must be immaculate.
- Do not load others with their problems: small children, sick parents, etc. In the US, hourly wages are everywhere and a childless colleague does not have to do your job, because you should. Do you want to leave earlier because you need to take the child out of the garden? No question, only you get your salary for 7, not for 8 hours.
- Work a little. Overtime work here is common. Forget the standard eight-hour workday.
Perhaps the most honest answer to the question “How to succeed in America?” Is: “Not easy.” It will be really difficult, but the result will pay back the time and effort invested.
