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A lot lessons were spoon fed to me by @gandalfar who happens to know his stuff when it comes to building a social network around yourself. An opportunity won’t come after you, you have to get it. Go to IT events, hang with people, give talks if possible, make people think you are really really good. It will be easier to convince them if you really are 
, but in first impressions ability to sell yourself (appear as highly skilled) is much more important than skills themselves. Later on if you want to get any real work done you of course have to know what you’re doing. A thing that greatly helps at building a social network are the business cards, don’t leave home without.
(almost) No-one cares about you over email. It is MUCH easier to convince people of anything (like hire me) in person or at phone than over email. Which kinda brings us to the above paragraph, go out meet people.
Physical activity is important, i started regularly cycling and i find it much easier to concentrate afterwards, gets rid of the annoying feeling of too much energy. While we are at the healthy life i also started eating more more vegetables. I find that kind of food tires me less after the meal.
It is damn hard to stay and work in USA if you don’t have the diploma :/, the options you have:
- 12 years of experience (or diploma) + a sponsor (company that will employ you) and you can go for H1B
- A company (or institution like an university) providing you a “training spot”, thus willing to be your sponsor and you can get 12-18 months on J1
- Have at least 50.000$ to invest and prove you will hire people etc and you can go for L1
As a side note you can literally buy the green card, it is called EB5 and you get it if you invest more than 500.000$ in state of Vermont.
