PS : Sourced this from Linkedin ; Credit to Nihar R
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟭 - As a student, work hard to fulfill 3 goals (1) Pay off the loan (2) Get the job (3) Get H1B approved! (3rd one being the most important). Simultaneously make plans to return back to India in 5 years ✈️
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟮 - H1B approved🥳 Enjoy the influx of green currency, buy a toyota camry or honda civic! Also, buy a property in Hyderabad!
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟯 - Invite parents on visitor visas. Take them on the 4 Dhaam Yatra - Niagra Falls, the Statue of Liberty, the Charging Bull of wall street, and the White House 🙄
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟰 - Go to India, finalize a girl, and get married in 3 weeks - the arranged marriage way! Back to the USA.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟱 - During weekends and lunchtime with other Indian friends, endlessly discuss 3 topics (1) When are you going to get GC, and is your priority date current? (2) How Modi is transforming India (3) Cricket 🏏
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟲 - Buy a home. 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 - By the time, you are in 40s, you have saved enough. The plan for returning back to India has not worked out! Now find ways to spend money. Buy a Tesla or BMW 🚀 Also your Hyderabad property isn't lucrative anymore as INR has further depreciated against $ so enroll into a difficult struggle of selling the property and getting funds back to the states
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟴 - And comes the time for a midlife crisis. A shiny car, big home, green card, and a high-paying job doesn't add substance to your life. Now do something exotic to add flavor to your existence. A marathon race, intermittent fasting or maybe opening a side business!
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟵 - In your 50s, after your kids have graduated from Stanford or MIT, discuss how your life would have been different had you returned to India 5 years after coming to the USA! 🤔
Step 10 - Your parents pass away in India while you’re in USA, and you regret that for your entire life that you couldn’t spend enough time with them in their last stages of life. (Not exaggerating, seen 3 cases around me, 2 in my family)
I have seen many kids living in the same city and hardly visit their parents. Or kids who left parents in ashrams. There are NRIs who regularly call their parents to the US.
Living half across with visa challenges definitely is a BIG impediment to spending time with family. Regular calling is not good enough IMO, at least personally. Some Kids treat might their parents shit but for those who don’t, living halfway across the world ain’t worth it.
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The 12-step Script that an Indian Software Engineer, who arrives in the USA, mostly follows
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