Why some H1B immigrants fail in USA

 Why Some H1B immigrants fail in USA

why some h1b immigrants

don't succeed in america but before we

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so let's jump into topic so number one

thing folks understand one thing so

when i'm talking about h1b aspirants or

people who are working on h1b people are

working on f1 visa opt

now there are always some people who

will be exceptions to the rule

there are now you you may say like hey

but like immigrants are so successful

um like the google ceo is a indian

uh immigrant um the microsoft ceo is an

immigrant

and i understand that folks and i you

know

kudos to them and that's really good

that you know there are some immigrants

who are

able to represent um international

people

at such corporation and that's great

news but

you have to understand what you

and i as maybe average individuals who

may not get there or who don't have

those kind of opportunities can do on a

regular basis to succeed in our jobs can

do on a regular basis to get ahead in

our careers

and what stops us from doing that why do

people

fail sometimes and that's the things i

want to cover with you

so let's jump into that so understand

one thing folks

i'm talking about average people who are

graduated with mechanical civil

automotive engineering degrees who are

electrical engineers these are the

normal degrees people have graduated

with

not all of these people will get up to

high levels like that

most of these people will be stuck in a

rat race for next 40 years

by the time they graduate by the time

they actually retire they may have

a nice home couple of kids

house in the suburbs maybe a couple of

cars maybe even a tesla

but will these people ever really

achieve

everything one they want in life or will

they just like try to get under the

radar

so that is what happens with most of the

people i know

i have met here and that's what's

happening with the people i've known so

why does this happen why is

these people not able to succeed so the

number one reason what i have been able

to figure out from my own perspective

through my own experiences of working in

us for about

last four to five years is the number

one thing that stops us

is fear now fear is

very very interesting

now sometimes this fear can be real and

sometimes this can be

made up you know like they say fear is

false evidence appearing

real similarly what happens is

these people who are kind of working in

corporate world for example let's say

you're an f1 visa student

you just got a job uh you just got a job

okay so

it starts right from the time you start

an interview you go into an interview

you're afraid to ask sponsorship you are

like i just need a job right now i don't

care about sponsorship

this is where it will start because you

think like if i ask for

sponsorship they not they may not give

me a job this is where it starts

now what you're doing you're setting

these bad habits

from the beginning and that's why you

will have trouble in future i'll tell

you how it happens

now let's say you start work you did not

ask for it

you didn't ask for a sponsorship or

maybe you just mentioned it you said

i may need it in the future but i don't

need it right now to start

working here's what happens now let's

say you started working

you bought bottom that topic a year

later you want an h-1b visa

now you have to do a lot of song and

dance about h1b visa you have to prove

that hey you are

like good enough candidate so that they

can sponsor your h1b

now let's say they do your h1b okay in

april

now you want a one month let's say you

get accepted

now you want a one month break in

october to go back to india or like

november december time frame to go to

india

and come back so what will happen you'll

take this month off you'll talk to your

boss you'll say you get three weeks four

weeks off

now suddenly you're like oh i just came

back from my country now i just i need

to perform really harder

and yeah that's great great news but

then let's say you get your salary and

you get only a three percent or four

percent raise

even though you performed really well

you worked hard you were expecting maybe

six to eight percent but you just got

two and a half percent this is where

immigrants

miss immigrants make mistakes they will

never go to their boss and ask them

hey why did i not get a six percent why

did i not get an

eight percent what can i do to get those

raises you will never ask this question

i never asked these questions

before and i just took whatever they

gave me whatever they gave me i was like

oh thank you so much i really appreciate

i really appreciate because i remember i

was making 54

000 in 2017 at a company in ann arbor

they gave me

i used to and they gave me a fifteen

hundred dollar raise which is like

three percent at that time two and like

two point five three percent raise

and i was so happy i was like oh wow

thank you so much i really appreciate

money i was like oh my god fifteen

hundred dollars hundred dollars extra

per

per month which is like fifty dollars

per paycheck that's a lot of money

squat folks that's not a lot of money

understand one thing folks

this is where immigrants don't

immigrants fail because they are not

willing to be bold to ask what they

deserve you need to be bold you have to

develop this boldness it will come

it won't happen in the night it will

come over time but

understand one thing folks just the way

you need the company the company also

needs you

you have to understand that as much as

you need the company to do your h1b

green card and stuff like that

they also need you that much recently i

went through a project management

training in my company and i found out

that in order for

them to hire one new employee it takes

about

it cost them 35 000

so if you are an employee at a company

and they had to replace you

it will cost them 35 000 dollars

just to replace and the bigger the

company it is the more

money it cost them for example let's say

so let's say if you got a four percent

raise which is two thousand dollars

and you go to your boss and say i need

eight percent which is

five thousand dollars your boss is gonna

be like well

if i so first of all they're not going

to

you know a lot of people have

misconceptions like oh if i ask a raise

will they let me go will they fire me no

people don't just fire you because you

asked a raise

now if your performance was really bad

and still you're asking for a raise

they're gonna be like man

why are you asking a race like is this

an entitled mentality

but if you really believe that you

performed exceptionally well last year

you did really hard work then that's

fine for you to ask a five percent raise

is if you wanna if economy is doing

great it's fine

for you to ask that five percent raise

folks that's totally fine

because the reason is you are making

money for the company you are an

asset to the company so just because

i know a lot of my friends you know even

me i remember one year i was going to do

my h1b and i was like well should i ask

for a raise this year or not because my

company is filing for my h1b

understand one thing folks your h1b your

green card application

is independent of your work and how much

you put into your work

it is not dependent on you know oh

i'll give you 80 000 i'll give you 60

000 salary but i'll do your green card

no that's not how it works folks

green card immigration yes these are a

little bit extra cost

than hiring a local person but

understand there

is a reason they are not hiring local

person because they can't find it

you will not get a job if there is a

local person who is able to do this job

so understand there is a reason they are

hiring you and they have to justify that

reason to the government of the usa

and you know what they have to pay that

extra money so that they can hire you

so your income has nothing to do with

your hmb or your green card you should

be able to ask

what you deserve in my opinion so here's

what i say

so so that fear you know that fear will

keep you

behind folks that fear will be like you

know it will

take hold of you and you will never be

able to succeed in your job and that's

what happened to me

i wasted two three four years just being

afraid just being afraid to ask what i

deserved

and when i started to understand that

hey you know what

if i'm putting in the work then i'm

going to ask

for things i need i became bold i

started communicating with my hr i

started coming talking to my

managers i started communicating with

them that hey this is what i need this

year

this is what i need i need tuition fees

for my school i need

green card application done this year

because i don't want to be worried

i don't want that stress when i'm

working i want to i want my performance

to be really really good

because sometimes what happens folks

let's say if your company is not able to

do your green card properly or your h1b

properly

you will start resenting your own

company and you don't want to go through

those kind of things you will be like

you know you start daydreaming about

other companies

who may be able to do your green card

faster who may be able to do that

and that is detrimental to you and your

company because you will not be able to

give your best

if it's a good company you love it you

got in there because you saw potential

they

really treated you well and you still

love the environment

then i feel it's your you need to start

talking to them that hey you know what

i need this to be done recently i had an

experience in my company you know i had

to reach out to one of my hr managers

and i had to talk to them that hey this

is what's happening i'm not able to

communicate with people people are

reaching back to me i really need your

help can you help me

and guess what my hr took in charge

they said don't worry about it we'll

take care of it and that's what it is

all about folks it's about

you stepping up and having those

conversations with people

who will help you to get ahead but it

starts with becoming bold

it starts with having the courage to

speak up

all right so number two why why the h1b

people don't succeed in my opinion

number two

is flying under the radar you know like

getting by attitude what i mean by that

is

what these people will do is like they

will go to work thinking

monday is a drag for them friday they

look for friday

they live for the weekends they can't

wait for friday afternoon because they

know they're gonna get done

friday night saturday sunday they're

gonna travel they're gonna go here and

there

and that's what they live for folks they

don't live for monday to friday

understand if you if you came to america

all the way from your country you left

everything behind your parents your

family all those things

for you to live for the weekend then

guess what folks

in my opinion there's something really

wrong with that because

you should be looking forward to monday

monday should be your favorite day of

the week

because isn't that why you came to

america to the land of dream

isn't that what you think this is the

land of the dream land of the

opportunity to make that income

so why why are we so

why are we so negative or why are we so

harsh towards like going back to work

why is work such a pain

now i understand it is dreadful like you

know after a couple of days of like

relaxation it's hard to get back into

the group but you shouldn't be hating it

you shouldn't be like

oh my god i can't wait for this week to

be done because

it's fine sometimes you will have that

you will have a lot of stress you have a

lot of work

but if you're always looking forward to

the weekend

then something is wrong you need to

change that folks and that's one of the

reasons i see a lot of my friends

who are graduating newly who are in the

industry for two three years

they don't enjoy their work they don't

really enjoy

what they're doing and that's what keeps

them behind they will

look for ways to get out of work earlier

they'll try to skip work

they'll you know if people are getting

out at 4 they'll try to skip at 3 30

they'll

you know they think nobody's looking but

guess what folks you yourself are

watching

and there's always someone watching you

don't worry about it

trust me there's always someone watching

you if no one else is watching you're

watching yourself and guess what it's

gonna hurt your self-image

so this attitude of getting by will not

take you ahead in life i've done it

i'm not saying i'm i'm a perfect human

being i've done i've been where you are

i've done it i've taken shortcuts i

remember in my internship i used to

leave early

i was like oh i don't have enough work

what's the point in staying here

but understand one thing folks this is

where you need to change your attitude

especially in your beginning stages of

your work

first three four five years this is

where you have to put in the maximum

amount of work ethic

and effort because the habits you build

now will stay with you

eventually for next 20 30 40 years i

have friends who are 15 20 years in the

industry

and they have this bs attitude they try

to get out early they try to work from

home

they wanna they wanna do the minimum and

expect the maximum

results the only place you'll get

success before work

is in dictionary folks so you have to

understand you have to put in the work

you have to be honest you have to go the

extra mile

this is where i kind of take advantage

of

what has been given to me is i will

always be that person if my company

wants me to work on some project

if they want need me to work on

something and i know it's very important

for them that i work on it i will always

say yes i will never say no

i will always say yes i'll always go the

extra mile because

when you go the extra mile the company

will give you extra folks

there is a saying that a person who does

more than what he is being paid today

will eventually make much more money

than what he does for work

so the amount of value you're giving in

today maybe it's maybe more than what

you're making but eventually

it will add up and the money you'll be

making will be immensely more than the

value you're adding

it will happen to you folks it happens

to me multiple times

through this platform or through my work

through other platforms

and i am really grateful that i kind of

understood this principle

and these are really great people in my

life who taught me these principles

and that brings me to the part three

that why some people don't

succeed in america is the reason is

because

they don't have proper mentorship they

don't have proper

friendships in their life they don't

have proper friends

who are setting a right example for them

most of their friends are just like that

they're looking for friday afternoon

they're like i can't wait to get out of

here so that we can go party we can go

to the club we can do this

nothing wrong with that you deserve to

have fun but after a

hard work hard working week that's when

you deserve

you have to earn the right to have fun

folks now you may think i

may come here like a dad or something

like that i don't want to come across

like that but

sometimes you just need to understand we

just need to reflect

about why are we here why did we

leave the best life we had the

pleasures the family all these things to

come here and build something

because understand immigrants have

always built another countries

immigrants are the people who will come

to that country and build something new

so you have been given this opportunity

why don't why not make the best out of

it

so here's what needs to change you need

to find out people in your life

who will who are doing the things you

want to do

you need to find people in life who are

where you want to be

or you need to find in life people who

are doing

more than what you're doing who are

paying that price who are hard working

who

don't take shortcuts and these people

will

make you grow they will make you

uncomfortable because

you will look at them and you're like oh

my god i have that potential why i'm

i'm not performing like that and they

will help you grow

and that's what gets ahead folks just

like an iron sharpens an iron

people will sharpen people so make sure

you associate yourself

with people who are better than you who

are going ahead

or people who are in life where you want

to be who are more productive who get

every ounce of that productivity back

from their day so saying that this is

what pretty much what i had you know

these are some of the

things i have identified that

what i used to do as an immigrant

mistakes i used to do as an immigrant

and some of my friends who did mistakes

and i hope you don't have to go through

that and if you're watching this you're

in us already i hope maybe you can learn

something from my mistakes

and get ahead because i really want my

friends my peers my fellow immigrants

and as a matter of fact the community

itself to grow and get ahead because

these are the things we need to start

becoming aware of

to get ahead but i think that's pretty

much what i had for you today

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