So I shouldn't complain? You vote for a senator and that person does not do what they promised to do and acts against your interests. Would you not raise your voice against them even in private about the situation? I'm still going about my job but just raising awareness here.
No, I don't have that lifestyle. Except for house everything is paid off. Live relatively frugally except for eating out a few times a month (no expensive restaurants $12/person max)
How about the reverse? You move to France, have a kid that's a French citizen and when the child is 18, you are kicked out but they are allowed to stay.
I'm in the same boat. 17 years here. Masters plus 15 years of experience. Getting paid >$500k per year yet I'm dependent on my employer to stay here legally. I'm still a temporary worker. I cannot take a sabbatical or take up side gigs (consultant). If Canada weren't so cold, I'd already be there.
Honest question. Instead of institutions declaring that so and so is certified in a field, why not let employers make these decisions based on the work that the student has produced. Particularly for the STEM fields, let each student publish their thesis or project work in a publicly available repo and rather than evaluate someone on GPA or degree, evaluate them on whether their domain knowledge is good enough.
I'm strongly considering that. 17 years in the US, $550k in annual pay, $750k+ in taxes paid in the last 15 years, American-born kid but I still don't have the freedom to switch jobs at ease or even take a break between jobs, start my own business or work at a small startup, take part-time jobs from advising companies, rent my place out on Airbnb, etc. My wife, who teaches special needs kids, cannot work soon after H4-EAD is revoked. Trump has made some noise about fixing immigration for high-skilled immigrants but no progress on that and no one else seems to care. Thinking of moving to Canada or Australia or back to my home country. The other option is to start a SuperPac and raise $1000 from every Indian stuck in GC limbo.
"The only rational move as a real estate investor in most of these markets is to continue pumping capital and re-leveraging on the basis of accrued equity." - Can you ELI5? I recently sold a home that I bought for $600k a while back in a decent school district for $1.15M and bought a $1.8M home near Sunnyvale. Was that a stupid thing to do?
I got a Pixelbook last week and have been using it as my everyday laptop for the last few days. Hands-down best keyboard I've used in a long time, probably better than the older Macbook ones.
Not really. They could sell their technology to a car company and all cars sold by that company could be self-driving enabled. Maybe we'll get true ride sharing then. I'm at home and not planning to use my car for the day. It could be used to give someone rides without me having to go drive. Waymo/Lyft could still own some cars but not all.
Self-driving cars will be feasible only if LIDAR/camera costs go down to $10k/car or lower. No one is going to pay $250k for a self-driving car. At $10k/car, it's $5B for 500k cars, something that Google can easily afford.
Exactly. Also, having self-driving cars does not mean that you only have self-driving cars in your fleet. They could still employ drivers strategically (in areas where demand is high which in turn will increase profitability and distribution to drivers) while using self-driving cars for commutes.
Once Waymo has fully autonomous vehicles on the road, they'll look to acquire Lyft for a decent price. Lyft has the brand value and the infrastructure for ride calling (intentionally not using ride sharing) except that drivers will no longer be needed. Profits will be through the roof when that happens.
Everything you've said is true. My wife is not even in tech.
"the relationship deteriorates to the point where the non-working spouse goes back to their home country because they are unhappy here." - this is what we're close to right now.
Sorry if it came off as asking for sympathy. I mentioned my compensation only to highlight the fact that I'm not cheap labor that's taking American jobs away. I happen to have some skills that top employers in the country deem enough to be worthy of half a million dollars per year.
At what point do they stop being considered visitors? I've been here 17 years, have paid my taxes on time, assimilated as best as I can and am patiently waiting in line.
The system is fundamentally broken and it's partly my own countrymen to blame. I've lived here for 17 years (in 4 years, if I live here, I'd have lived here longer than in my home country), earn more than $500k per year and recently got an offer for $600+k/yr. I've probably paid at least three quarters of a million in taxes. I'm still on a H1, cannot change jobs easily, cannot do anything on the side like advise companies and though I get opportunities for VP roles, cannot take them up since companies usually don't want a VP that's on a H1. This news is devastating since my wife quit her job after my kid was born and only recently has used the EAD to work with autistic children which has been her passion all her life. If HR1044 does not pass, we've decided to move back. I'll take my $1.5M, which I could have invested here, with me and invest it in my home country instead (or I'll come back on a L-1 visa like so many of my lesser-qualified friends and get a green card in a couple of years).
As an Indian, I completely agree. I don't consider anyone with Infosys, CTS, Wipro, etc on their resume. If they worked at startups in India, I'll consider them. I'm usually very skeptical of the technologies and skills they list on their resume. Most of them don't write any code and just do project management. They try to bullshit their way to full-time jobs to escape from the company that's holding them hostage in the US.
The Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (by Jim Corbett) is an even more chilling tale of an animal being cunning. I read Jim Corbett's books when I was younger and enjoyed them but now I've questions about the numbers themselves. Seems too far-fetched for a leopard to kill 125 humans.