Drunkenshad
20 Jun 2007
News / EU or America - which country is better to work now? [56]
I currently live in North Carolina, where we have a very large Mexican population. I see both Educated and Non Educated Mexicans working bottom rung jobs, but mostly because there are illegal. Most legal Mexicans I have met are educated and hold pretty decent jobs.
Most of these Mexicans are hard working, and have aspirations for the future. When I was in High School I delivered pizza for a company that had in its employment an illegal Mexican. He was the hardest worker in that place, and I suggested that he buy a car and put some payments down on it to increase his credit. He bought a Firebird and he and his wife worked their tails off for 5 months, sometimes making two payments a month, to get the car payed for. The result was a good enough credit score to merit a house loan.
There are bad apples in this bunch of course, who come here looking for nothing more than an easier way to be lazy bums, since in Mexico this is much harder to pull of than here in the US. This is the case with any nationality though.
Overall I would say that Mexicans are pretty essential to America's economy at present, but they really should strive more to enter the US legally or atleast take some steps to legalize themselves once here.
I would also have to say that in regards to living here in the US, as opposed to living in Poland, I am a prime example. I was born in Poland, but have lived in the US for most of my life. To me, the US is good for two things: Living a pretty comfortable life while doing minimal work, or working very hard to put away money.
The US is the crappiest place I have ever been when it comes to being young. All we have to do here is work, or go to College (usually both). I've lived all over the US, and when it comes to having fun or just in general being entertained, the only place that is even remotely applicable is New York. The clubs here are so god aweful they are not even worth visiting, and American's have absolutely no party sense. Parties here consist of people posing in their most expensive clothing and standing around in tight "klicks" talking to each other. Have fun? No way! Dance? Hah, FAT CHANCE!
Most of my friends here are young Poles who have little education. They came here to make money and come back to Poland. They ended up staying for years. They work 4-5 days a week, just enough to get bye and what do they have? Apartments, cable TV, computers, and playstations. They spend their lives laying on the couch playing video games, since there is nothing to do regardless of where you go. In the beginning we where always trying to organize parties and have fun, but those efforts where are futile and eventually ended all together. Half of them speak of coming back to Poland every other day, but instead resign to the couch and order some pizza. They have become in a sense "Americanized".
I've had more than enough America for a lifetime, so over the last few months my main concern has been putting away money. Now that this is completed, i'll be moving back to Poland in August, and see absolutely no reason to move back in my lifetime.
I currently live in North Carolina, where we have a very large Mexican population. I see both Educated and Non Educated Mexicans working bottom rung jobs, but mostly because there are illegal. Most legal Mexicans I have met are educated and hold pretty decent jobs.
Most of these Mexicans are hard working, and have aspirations for the future. When I was in High School I delivered pizza for a company that had in its employment an illegal Mexican. He was the hardest worker in that place, and I suggested that he buy a car and put some payments down on it to increase his credit. He bought a Firebird and he and his wife worked their tails off for 5 months, sometimes making two payments a month, to get the car payed for. The result was a good enough credit score to merit a house loan.
There are bad apples in this bunch of course, who come here looking for nothing more than an easier way to be lazy bums, since in Mexico this is much harder to pull of than here in the US. This is the case with any nationality though.
Overall I would say that Mexicans are pretty essential to America's economy at present, but they really should strive more to enter the US legally or atleast take some steps to legalize themselves once here.
I would also have to say that in regards to living here in the US, as opposed to living in Poland, I am a prime example. I was born in Poland, but have lived in the US for most of my life. To me, the US is good for two things: Living a pretty comfortable life while doing minimal work, or working very hard to put away money.
The US is the crappiest place I have ever been when it comes to being young. All we have to do here is work, or go to College (usually both). I've lived all over the US, and when it comes to having fun or just in general being entertained, the only place that is even remotely applicable is New York. The clubs here are so god aweful they are not even worth visiting, and American's have absolutely no party sense. Parties here consist of people posing in their most expensive clothing and standing around in tight "klicks" talking to each other. Have fun? No way! Dance? Hah, FAT CHANCE!
Most of my friends here are young Poles who have little education. They came here to make money and come back to Poland. They ended up staying for years. They work 4-5 days a week, just enough to get bye and what do they have? Apartments, cable TV, computers, and playstations. They spend their lives laying on the couch playing video games, since there is nothing to do regardless of where you go. In the beginning we where always trying to organize parties and have fun, but those efforts where are futile and eventually ended all together. Half of them speak of coming back to Poland every other day, but instead resign to the couch and order some pizza. They have become in a sense "Americanized".
I've had more than enough America for a lifetime, so over the last few months my main concern has been putting away money. Now that this is completed, i'll be moving back to Poland in August, and see absolutely no reason to move back in my lifetime.