An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany
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#2Najibullah's finance, and defence ministers are famously working in Moscow as taxi drivers.
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#3Not sure food delivery would be as stimulating as express documents, but I have fond memories of my days as a bicycle courier. I'm sure it is just rosy retrospection, but if I only had the two options I would choose messenger over politician in an instant.
I often pitied the lobbyists and office workers. It was a carefree time.
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#4Dude knew when it was time to wash his hands of the whole thing.
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#5The DoD used to hire Afghans who could speak English to train soldiers in certain scenarios.
Common instances of this included civil engineers in AFG who couldn’t get licensed here, that drove Uber and spent a few months training Americans somewhere in the Louisiana woods to make ends meet. Such a waste.
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#6Like many engineers (mechanical, nuclear, electrical etc) were doing low paid jobs in the west when the east block collapsed. I guess it's what it's, in this situations better be alive and have food on the table than struggling to meet end meals
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#8The DoD used to hire Afghans who could speak English to train soldiers in certain scenarios. Common instances of this included civil engineers in AFG who couldn’t get licensed here, that drove Uber and spent a few months training Americans somewhere in the Louisiana woods to make ends meet. Such a waste.
> Common instances of this included civil engineers in AFG who couldn’t get licensed here,
Welcome to reality of 3rd world immigrants to the West. Near complete untransferabbility of career, skills, and credentials.
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#9Like many engineers (mechanical, nuclear, electrical etc) were doing low paid jobs in the west when the east block collapsed. I guess it's what it's, in this situations better be alive and have food on the table than struggling to meet end meals
> were doing low paid jobs in the west
This fails to mention that US plumbers were getting higher salaries than Russian engineers, or higher on average than most of people in the West.
In my small hometown in Russia, everybody can't get more amused that the best wage for immigrants there is paid by agricultural college diplomas.
The biggest mansions in the town are of: 1. local gang boss, 2. agronomists who went to US for work. (Russian agronomist salary was like 9000 roubles a month 15 years ago)
Re: An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany
#10Like many engineers (mechanical, nuclear, electrical etc) were doing low paid jobs in the west when the east block collapsed. I guess it's what it's, in this situations better be alive and have food on the table than struggling to meet end meals
> were doing low paid jobs in the west This fails to mention that US plumbers were getting higher salaries than Russian engineers, or higher on average than most of people in the West. In my small hometown in Russia, everybody can't get more amused that the best wage for immigrants there is paid by agricultural college diplomas. The biggest mansions in the town are of: 1. local gang boss, 2. agronomists who went to U…
You also fail to mention that not everybody is driven by money. Russian engineer and scientist knew pretty well that they could get better life conditions in the US for example, yet they decided to live their life in Russia.
These are personal choice beyond what me or you think about, need to be respected.
So said, many researcher today are paid very little and they could get a better pay in private sector yet they don't bother to.