If you keep at it, it'll get better eventually.  I mean, it's not going to be happy happy dream days straight from day one.


When my parents first came here, they were sweating in a fucking restaurant for $4 an hour, while trying to studying at the same time.  And they came with no assets, very little cash, no connections (don't know a single person), pretty much nothing.

And life was pretty fucking bad at the start.  They have like almost non-existent language skills (much worse than your Japanese), so they can't even get bottom jobs that a 15yo schoolkid can get with ease.  They can only get these (technically illegal) jobs in shifty restaurants that take advantage of people like that and pay below the legal minimum wage.  Well, it's either that or starve.


Now wee earn like $160,000 a year or something and own an (almost) million dollar house.  So I often think my parents are WAY too stingy on money (remember me bitching about my fucking internet?), but it sort of carries over from back then during the dark times.  Old habits die hard I guess.

(This post was last modified: 01/03/2011 08:29 PM by Assassinator.)