As soon as we introduce ourselves to any one in this world most people ask our name and forget it as quickly as possible or try to use complicated algorithms (as proposed by Dale Carnegie and other gurus who say your name is the sweetest word in every language to you!) to remember your name.
I can promise most people will forget your name (just like me!) and will ask you repeat your name or call you with some other name (That means they forgot 2 people , you and the other 'name' person).
The followup question after your name is mostly "Where do you work?"
When I came to US for the first few years - we go through H1/F1/L1/J1/B1 Labor Perm 140 485 Consular processing.. (lot of stuff) and finally citizenship if you opted to.
Till an Immigrant gets a green card I use to call it "the umbical relation" between you and your employer. Your stay in US and your job are tied by this umbical cord. The cord exits between you and your company and someone (your manager,HR or anyone else who can influence in this matter ) can cut this cord off. Once the cord is cut you cry and either survive here in US or in India or some other country (canada and Australia here I come!)
If you were born and raised in US you couldn't care less about this process unless you become a manager dealing with this process or a colleague who is bored with details of this hard and strenuous process(sometimes as interesting as a James Bond movie).
The key question "what do you do for living" must be answered all living,had to answered by all dead and had to be answered by all 'future' citizens of earth( I don't know any other planet where life exists!. Do you?)
How do you answer this question? Do you quote your company name? Your position? office location?
What do you do with what you do for a living" do we have an answer?
Keep Thinking
Sivakumar Manikanteswaran
I can promise most people will forget your name (just like me!) and will ask you repeat your name or call you with some other name (That means they forgot 2 people , you and the other 'name' person).
The followup question after your name is mostly "Where do you work?"
When I came to US for the first few years - we go through H1/F1/L1/J1/B1 Labor Perm 140 485 Consular processing.. (lot of stuff) and finally citizenship if you opted to.Till an Immigrant gets a green card I use to call it "the umbical relation" between you and your employer. Your stay in US and your job are tied by this umbical cord. The cord exits between you and your company and someone (your manager,HR or anyone else who can influence in this matter ) can cut this cord off. Once the cord is cut you cry and either survive here in US or in India or some other country (canada and Australia here I come!)
If you were born and raised in US you couldn't care less about this process unless you become a manager dealing with this process or a colleague who is bored with details of this hard and strenuous process(sometimes as interesting as a James Bond movie).
The key question "what do you do for living" must be answered all living,had to answered by all dead and had to be answered by all 'future' citizens of earth( I don't know any other planet where life exists!. Do you?)
How do you answer this question? Do you quote your company name? Your position? office location?
What do you do with what you do for a living" do we have an answer?
Keep Thinking
Sivakumar Manikanteswaran
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