Hey friends,
wow! We are already on this last article for this week. Where did the time go?
A couple of days ago I was talking to a friend from Canada when she said this, “Here in Canada a lot of Canadians don’t trust Indians and Jamaicans because they lie so much. Our company lost so much money because of that.”
I had no idea to what extent she meant but when she said the company would lose in not petty money (like thousands of Candian dollars) she literally meant hundred thousands at a time is what a company would lose for the claims that foreign workers made.
I was like, Gosh! And I thought I was a liar, just to land a job where I could get paid better but I worked the best way I knew how for the company (alright I am trying to justify my lies to get better jobs) if you have watched my videos on YouTube from March 2020 you’d see that I didn’t make a company or a country lose out at all (as far as I am aware) but I’m not a saint, I said a few lies to land some wonderful jobs which I could carry out by the way, but I was just one little fish in the ocean. The taxes that I’ve paid in the five countries thus far didn’t serve me for anything, my commission for a massive sale in the year two thousand and sixteen wasn’t paid to me (this was another place where I felt that the systems/ some wolves in sheepskin of this world failed me), from all the losses I guess this one was the most recent one which I didn’t really recover from. It was massive and I didn’t get paid.
Say what you must, I had to lie to survive, I really had to. I’ve been living for too long a circumstantial life, too long. So, I lied to get better-paid jobs, wouldn’t you if your CV was a mess with moving to five countries learning languages and working different jobs, what about having a stalker like fire up your ass or even changing for natural reasons like a better-paid job? How can a CV be perfectly congruent? Working in the first full-time job, getting held at gunpoint, deciding to go and really live life then starting as a waitress in another country, then an awesome job in finance, then the visa comes to an end, trying something else, then back to basics to learn languages, then doing something else (because of the economic crisis), then an awesome job again … and it bloody goes on! Geez! And think about the house moves! Only people who live in comfort zones will have the perfect CV, staying in a job for twenty odd years very unhappy. Seriously, there are soooo many people in this world who do not even know that they are unhappy (Sorry, I didn’t put rant alert, I had no idea the ranting was going to even start).
Now, if I was just twenty-one years old when I moved overseas with one thousand three hundred pounds in my pocket after being held at gunpoint in my first full-time job then what is it like to relocate overseas with a child at forty-one years of age to start a brand new life abroad? You might not know what this involves, and you might not know how fighting for legalisation actually keeps you where the system wants you to be, i.e. it controls how much you supposed to have for that privilege. If you are lucky you will reach level three in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. What if I told you that in my entire life so far I’ve only reached once properly to level three of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (starting from the bottom) and scratched the surface of level three (starting from the bottom) only once in all my time abroad? The first time, born and reaching twenty-one years of age and the second lasted for a very short time (I was just about to gain traction) until I met the economic crisis in two thousand and eight. I want to say, that not many foreigners have been as lucky as me on many levels. I can tell you this because I met these people who relocated overseas with young children to start a new life, working hell over hard, their dignity did not matter for not even one second as long as their children’s future was going to be great. The truth is we are, all of us in this world (apart from those who make the systems) part of something which only one percent of the population really know and that is it’s time to leave that system and create one’s own otherwise you’re settling for less than the life you’re worth living. This is where entrepreneurship comes in.
I don’t know, in the underworld of immigration, lies are there and ever-present and believe it or not, in that world there are quite a bit of liars who want to build a better life lying the bare minimum to do better without hurting anyone and then the liars that my Canadian friend speaks about are massive damaging lies that are short cuts to exactly what I would ask, i.e. making thousands that one is not entitled to, I’ll repeat it, thousands that one is not entitled to by faking injuries in the workplace. So, this massive negativity just makes it so difficult for those deserving of making their lives abroad successful and from my account, I’d say there are just as much unfair bosses out there and just as much lying immigrants. This is from my own personal experience and with being in the immigrant underworld I can tell you it is a very vicious circle/cycle of one using the other, effectively.
Coronavirus making the whole world stop, I understand there are many deaths but at the same time I really think that this world needed a break from the daily grind and for some, the world was really a very brutal grind. The weakest are committing suicide, the weakest are getting sick, the weakest are fighting in every possible way right now. This is true whether you got the Coronavirus or not, there is some kind of virus you are fighting right about now, and everyone is fighting “a virus” in one way, shape or form, no one is off the hook.
“The world seeks honesty,” is what I heard recently. I believe so, I believe that every one of us is being called to start being honest with ourselves. I mean we really did a great job right! The younger generation is seemly asking a lot of questions.
Quotes
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists – Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are all immigrants some people have forgotten that – Moises Rodrigues
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
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