Living and Working in the USA
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Oh oh, and you'll always be worried that some immigrant will take your job from you, too!
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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I'm a SharePoint Developer and Administrator. Sometimes called a SharePoint Specialist or Expert in South Africa. My wife and I started discussion immigrating to the USA. Can anyone tell me what it's like to live and work over there? What is the job market like for SharePoint, etc. Please, don't sugar coat your responses. We would love to know how it really is.
I'll quote a friend of mine who lived in USA: "You have two institutional enemies in the US. One is INS (immigration guys) and the other is IRS (tax collectors). The INS is constantly trying to kick you out of the country, while the IRS is trying to get all your money before the INS kicks you out." :laugh:
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I'm a SharePoint Developer and Administrator. Sometimes called a SharePoint Specialist or Expert in South Africa. My wife and I started discussion immigrating to the USA. Can anyone tell me what it's like to live and work over there? What is the job market like for SharePoint, etc. Please, don't sugar coat your responses. We would love to know how it really is.
As Far as SharePoint skills go I can personally attest to the fact that if you really do know your stuff and are not just a paper certified whatever in SharePoint then you should be able to find work and get a decent pay for that work. We (my company) have been thru half a dozen so called SharePoint experts since converting first from SP 2003 to 2007 and now to 2010 and in every case we found that they were not the SP experts they claimed to be and these were recommendations from Microsoft. As for America.... You’d probably be better off not trying to immigrate here as our economy will be crashing sometime within the next 24 months. I don’t imagine anyone would want to move to a country where the politicians are more corrupt then the mafia and where in many ways the People’s Republic of China is more capitalist like then we are. Who would have thought that just 20 years ago. Here’s the stats for America as of today: 1) DEBT, DEBT & more DEBT - Our government has us so far into debt (trillions) that as of today each households share of just the unfunded mandates (the programs the government is or will implement and have not provided any way to fund) is just over half a million dollars. Our short term loan debt (the money we owe now to other countries) is around 14 trillion US dollars. At least if you move here you can help spread out the debt owed. 2) NO PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS – We have no more private property rights, at least not on anything of real value like land. Many still think they do because they can buy land or a house and not have to pay a mortgage on it if they can pay it off. They don’t consider the annual payment to the government called a ‘property tax’ for what it is, a never ending loan payment that no matter how much you pay you will never bee free of it. The government can take your home for non-payment of taxes and so that alone means you have no real private property rights any more. 3) The Bill Of Rights are now the list of outdated recommendations. Even though death by terrorist is not even in the top 100 causes of deaths annually in this country, we’re told we have to give up core protections and rights like the right to be free from searches and seizures (that’s where the TSA goons come in) so that the government can try to keep us safe. Sadly enough of the populace has bought into this line of BS that they’d agree to just about anything if the government promised to keep them safe. 4) The Dollar Just Don’t Buy What It Use To – The US Dollar which is techn
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I'm a SharePoint Developer and Administrator. Sometimes called a SharePoint Specialist or Expert in South Africa. My wife and I started discussion immigrating to the USA. Can anyone tell me what it's like to live and work over there? What is the job market like for SharePoint, etc. Please, don't sugar coat your responses. We would love to know how it really is.