Hey pellius my friend, thank you very much for your reply
It was really really helpful, I am doing some searches based on what you said to see if I can reach some companies or business owner to have a little chat, maybe I can get someone to listen to my experiencie and desire to move.
I am a very easy guy to do any kind of business, as long as I can afford just to have a home to live and food to eat I will be happy because I know that I will work my way up.
I mean even here in brazil I managed to do a lot with what I had. Those opportunities that you guys mentioned here I couldn't imagine to have here even in my wildest dreams.
Here we do not even have the opportunity to begin with. Like with all my background I am about to become jobless because my current job at the general electric (GE) is becoming to its end (it was a temporary job agreement) and there is no way in hell those guys can hire me as a ge employee, I talked even with the CEO here, the most I got was an invitation to stay tuned to the company's job webpage. lol
The jobs opportunities that show up in the site for brazil many times come up and disappear sam day, it is all marked cards
For what I take in the USA the general electric is doing anything they can do find talents.
Soon I am going to be struggling to get another job.
Again, it's being able to move here that will be the first obstacle. When it comes to the U.S. it makes a huge difference which state you move to as far as opportunities and cost of living. I'm in Hawaii and most jobs are entry level service type jobs because tourism is a major industry. Fast food, hotels, restaurants, driving... it is also the most expensive state to live in. If I had to pick a state I'd pick Texas. Decent cost of living, a lot of opportunities. If you have experience working at GE you will have a very, very good chance getting a position there in Texas. I'm pretty sure you'll easily start at $20/hr with tons of chances to move up. But when you first come here, unless you have a lot of money saved up, you might have to get a job quickly so you have some income. For any kind of entry level job if you start applying right away you should be able to get something in a couple of weeks. Like I said before, entry level jobs are ridiculously easy to get here. Most states pay more than the minimum wage because it's hard to find workers. With Texas you start at $10/hr and cost of living is cheap compared to a lot of other states and you can rent a decent studio apartment and survive on that until other opportunities pop up. And I've been to Brasil and a studio apartment here is like luxury compare to what the average Brasilian has to live in.
Again, when I talk about entry level jobs it jobs like stocking, retail, fast food, restaurants. You apply at places like Walmart, McDonald's, Target .... When I first move to Cali I just went to the nearest mall and just applied at the various stores I wanted to work at. I got hired within a week at Sears.
Transportation will be a challenge but the bus systems are really great in this country. You can go on the net and find the bus system for your state and type in where you are and where you want to go. Also, you can just call and they'll tell you step by step what bus to take. When I first moved back to Hawaii I didn't have a car and had to take the bus for around the first two weeks I was here. Very easy. Right now I work in town where parking is $15/hr or $400/month so I take the bus. And because it's at a time when everybody is going to work and going into town they have Express buses that has much fewer stops and gets you right into town. And you don't have to worry about all the bums and low-lives you usually encounter because they don't get up that early since they don't work but live of welfare.
If you can only get here and take advantage of all the opportunities available to those willing to work hard you'll do fine. America is not perfect but it's really a great place to live. I only wish I could do a swap and send one of our many ungrateful, self-entitled, crybabies living here to your country and have you take their place. People born and raised here have no idea how lucky they are.