I’m grateful for my life. I come from a country in Africa. I used to work with my mum and the store opens at 5 am and closes at 11 pm, every day of the week, with a 3 hour break on Sunday for church. I worked for a couple of tech founders and never saw a payment. Standard of Leaving at Home is bad, talk about mosquitoes, malaria, poor health facilities, you cannot depend on electric power staying on throughout the day… Here in the USA, I work with Amazon, WLB is bad but I only work max 50 hours a week. I make 3x more salary of my home country’s president salary. I’m provided with Health Insurance, better health, a matching 401K retirement account, good standard of leaving in New York. Living a luxurious apartment. Company is sponsoring my Green Card. I’m making some properties at home that it takes people two lifetimes to do. With all the complaints on Blind, let’s remember it could be worse and be grateful for the good things in our life. #grateful TC: 275K YOE: 3.5, SDE II
Finally someone grateful for what they achieved. Fell blessed .
i’m proud of u bro, i hope to be able to do similar things for my family when i get a real swe position
Love the post. Stay humble and blessed
Happy for you OP. You’re an inspiration to your community.
Amazon needs more people like you.
Op, I truly admire people like you. Please keep it up and teach us to see things in a more positive light.
World needs more people like you to make it a better place everyday.
Thank you for sharing your story! I am grateful everyday and yet I still needed to hear this. ❤
Yup. People don’t even know how good they have it. They think they have it bad.
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Good for u OP. Stay humble and continue to make ur mom prouder with future life choices. One advise I tell myself is to avoid buying properties in the home country (unless u plan to retire their someday). I believe logistics are hard if u ever try to bring that money back in US.
I’m in the same boat, with property in Asia. As long as we declare the capital gains on the sale of the property, shouldn’t bringing the money to the US be straightforward?
Did u spend US dollars to buy that property? If yes then what was $ to ur country currency ratio back then vs now?