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Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by jdotjdot »

Tichy wrote: post #55
jdotjdot wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally 15 seconds of googling: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html No, America did not have full employment in 1998. Closest was 1.5 unemployment in 1944 (which, to be fair, is really impressive.) Not to mention the inherent xenophobia and nativism in your post. You should maybe look into labor economics and what Sacco and Vanzetti might have to say about your comments.

"Closest was 1.5 unemployment in 1944 (which, to be fair, is really impressive.)" Could using up surplus workers in a world war have anything to do with that?

Of course it does. Doesn't make it not impressive.

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by mazenne »

djt wrote: post #39

Some thoughts: 1. Would be good if you had a HN account before now. People are more likely to give help if you have given others help in the past. It gives them confidence that you're legit too. 2. What is your girlfriends name? What companies has she worked for? What jobs titles has she had? 3. If you're a US citizen then consider marriage if you are serious about your relationship or consider going to her country i…

Thanks for your constructive feedback. 1. I had no HN account in the past, I have been following this community for a while but never posted anything. I don't have a blog neither and the email address I added was created for the purpose of this post only so I didn't have to post my regular email address publicly. The name on this address is fake. 2. In the past she has held the titles of Senior Business Analyst and Marketing Manager. 3. I am not a US citizen and marriage for a visa is IMHO a direct way to shoot ourselves in the feet. 5. I'm not a blogger. Just a regular engineer with no blog, and no open source contribs. 6. She did all this. She got some help, obviously not enough to land a job..

Thanks for your suggestions!

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by mazenne »

troels wrote: post #34
onemorepassword wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No joke. Most of the world is more open to immigrants these days. The US seems to have completely forgotten its roots.

Just pray she's not from an EU country then ..

ahah that's funny I'm myself from a EU country. Although I agree with the fact that there's plenty to do outside the US, we are not willing to relocate because we come from different countries and we would experience work authorization issues elsewhere as well.

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by mazenne »

wpietri wrote: post #33

At my last startup we looked at trying to get H1-B visas for engineers. I forget the details, but the basic answer was: impossible. Or, rather, too expensive, difficult, and slow to be a useful option in a startup context. (FWIW, E3 visas, which are limited to Australians, were supposed to be much easier.) As others suggest, I think your best option is to find an established company, one for whom getting visas is a w…

yes we got to the same conclusions. wise advice. thanks !

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by mazenne »

treyguinn wrote: post #45

Don't marry for a visa. As an American with an English wife and having lived as an expat for the past 8 years in expat communities - marring for a visa is a likely to ruin the relationship. One person will always think it is for love and the other for the visa, and this imbalance is hard to overcome.

totally agree.

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by mazenne »

ignaciogiri wrote: post #46

Same happened to me. But in my case I was the non US citizen boyfriend. You know what happened? I'm back to my country, shes got a new guy, I'm still alone. Move on. Life is hard. Nevertheless, I'm still looking for a H1-B job for myself. Good luck anyway, marry her!

good luck to you too!

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by wakjob »

josh2600 wrote: post #32
wakjob wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sergei Brin emigrated at age 3, grew up here, was born here, and educated here. He's more American than foreign. And Larry Page was born here. And it's a well known fact Google was funded by CIA. It wasn't just an accident. Can you name any companies founded ENTIRELY by Indians that are profitable and creating jobs? Didn't think so. And you forgot all the companies they destroyed including Bell Labs and Sun: Companie…

OH MY GOD A BUNCH OF PROJECTS THAT FAILED. You act like no White anglo-saxon male has ever FUBAR'd an IT project or stolen data, or lied. This is ridiculous to single out Indian developers like this.

Can you name the projects White anglo-saxon males have destroyed?

Re: Need job to save my relationship

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Post by wakjob »

jdotjdot wrote: post #29
wakjob wrote: post #21

GO HOME JOB ROBBERS. TITLE 8, SECTION 1182 - INADMISSIBLE ALIENS says you are BOTH illegals and need to go home right now. We have smart US citizens living in tents and smart US citizen PhDs working at Staples. GO HOME NOW You people have destroyed 28 million US jobs since 1998 and now there are not enough jobs to go around, are there? In 1998 the USA had FULL EMPLOYMENT. That was before the dark times, before the po…

Literally 15 seconds of googling: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html No, America did not have full employment in 1998. Closest was 1.5 unemployment in 1944 (which, to be fair, is really impressive.) Not to mention the inherent xenophobia and nativism in your post. You should maybe look into labor economics and what Sacco and Vanzetti might have to say about your comments.

"Full employment" is a term used by economists. Usually around 5%. You're so brilliant you don't even know that. Maybe US needs more of you.
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