19, మే 2024, ఆదివారం

The 12-step Script

 The 12-step Script that an Indian Software Engineer, who arrives in the USA mostly follows


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟭 

As a student,work hard to fulfill 3 goals

 (A) Pay off the Student Loan 

(B) Get a  job anywhere in USA

(C) Get *H1-B* approved 

(most important Goal) 


Simultaneously make elaborate plans to return back to India within 5 years

 ✈️


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟮 - 

H1-B approved🥳 

Enjoy the influx of Green Currency. Buy a Toyota Camry or Honda Civic or Nissan Altima

 Also, buy a property somewhere in India


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟯 

Invite Parents from India on Visitor Visas. 


Take them on the

*Char Dhaam Yatra*-

*Niagara Falls* 

*Statue of Liberty* 

*Charging Bull in the Wall Street*

*White House*

 🙄

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟰 

 Go to India,proposals and get married in 3 weeks - Of course it's the arranged marriage way !!

Come Back to the USA with your newly-married Spouse


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟱 

During weekends and lunchtime with other Indian friends, endlessly discuss 3 topics 


(A) When are you going to get your Green Card, and what is your priority date currently? 


(B) How Modi is transforming India 


(C) Cricket 🏏 Buy another property in India


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟲 - 

Buy a Home in the U.S Have 2 kids. Spend the next 15 years dropping them off to various Classes, attending Birthday parties, and visiting Home Depot for various Home projects


 *Step 7 -*  

Green card waiting is over.


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 *8* 

By the time, you are in 40s, you have saved enough Funds. The plan for returning back to India, has not worked out. Now find new ways to spend money. 


Buy a Tesla or BMW or Mercedes Also your India Properties aren't lucrative anymore as INR has further depreciated against USD


So enroll into a difficult struggle of selling off the properties in India,paying a hefty *Capital Gains Tax* in India & remitting the funds back to US


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 *9* 

Now comes the time for a Midlife crisis. Another shiny new Car, bigger Home, Green Card, and a High-paying job doesn't add anymore substance to your life. 


So do something exotic to add flavor to ur existence. Marathon Race, intermittent fasting or a new start-up


𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 *10* 

In your 50s and 60s, after your kids have graduated from Stanford or MIT or Princeton, discuss how your life would have been Very different, had you returned to India 5 years after coming to the USA

 🤔

 *Step 11* 

With Children going away & enough time in hand, cram each year with trips to Europe, visiting Pyramids in Egypt, enjoying Turkish Delights, & visit Italy.


Start rediscovering India and share with friends back in the USA how India has improved a lot in the recent Decades


 *Step 12* 

When Functional Mobility decreases - ponder over the big Question - whether to

Go back to India (or) 

stay in an Old Age Home or Assisted-living in USA


*Indian H1B Visa-holder's life in the USA in 12 Steps*

 


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