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cyphercryptI talked to my wife yesterday about our plans for the next six months. It seems there may be some plans we can or cannot execute on. The economy doesn't seem to be doing well right now. Employers are hiring for the lowest salaries possible, and we are both stuck in my wife's country at the moment. I'm looking for bottom-of-the-barrel Remote IT support jobs, but even those are not available, or extremely competitive right now.
Practice tests for my A+ exam are going well. 3 of them I scored 80% or more on. I feel like I need to practice with some performance based questions, however.
I think it was my first blog, I mentioned someone named Ahmed. He was a family friend who slowly began losing my trust in fall of 2024. He lost it completely 2 months ago. Unfortunately, I feel as though his hand is pushed so far up my father's posterior that he is manipulating my father's vocal cords and prefrontal cortex. For brevity, I made a cut to this post, and we can skip to my fitness / education aspirations further below if you are not interested.
Every single day, I struggle with telling myself, "I should report him to USCIS to stop him adding any more unnecessary difficulty to the life of me and my wife." He has given terrible advice / counsel regarding immigration, including but not limited to:
1. Encouraging my wife to get a B2 visa, overstay it in America, and give birth to a child. There are people literally being deported for this now.
2. He thinks he can take Nigerians from his farm on the Arabian peninsula and bring them to America to work. He cannot. When I asked him, "How do you do this?" He could not answer the question.
3. He talked about bringing the people in my wife's family to America to work on a farm or at a business that he wanted to start. He does not understand the difference between a B2 Visa and an H1B visa. He doesn't even know that to qualify for an H1B visa, you have to go to college!
Every time I speak to him he thinks I am wrong, he lies to me to make me think I am wrong, or he criticizes me because he thinks that I am wrong. Every time I articulated the above three points to him and told him that he is wrong, he never listened to me. He gave me an insulting facial expression that said, "You are wrong. You don't know better. How many people are actually hurt by illegally immigrating to America?"
I am extremely tempted to report him to USCIS just to show him he is wrong, and to wipe that smug fucking expression off of his face.
Unfortunately, the worst part about talking to Ahmed can be summarized this way: Imagine you know someone who is in millionaire territory, thus creating an appeal to authority in a financial manner, then you simply do not know what words come out of that persons mouth that are real or fake.
It is because of my interactions with people like Ahmed, and because of some future career aspirations, that I think I would like to get physically fit again. I want to have muscles with definition that tell people like Ahmed to back the fuck down, and respect my boundaries just by looking at me. I lost 7 kilograms since the beginning of Ramadan. In pounds, that's about 14.
I think once I pass the CompTIA A+, my educational priorities will change to refining my Mandarin, brushing up on Russian, and then earning a few other CompTIA certifications.
Practice tests for my A+ exam are going well. 3 of them I scored 80% or more on. I feel like I need to practice with some performance based questions, however.
I think it was my first blog, I mentioned someone named Ahmed. He was a family friend who slowly began losing my trust in fall of 2024. He lost it completely 2 months ago. Unfortunately, I feel as though his hand is pushed so far up my father's posterior that he is manipulating my father's vocal cords and prefrontal cortex. For brevity, I made a cut to this post, and we can skip to my fitness / education aspirations further below if you are not interested.
Every single day, I struggle with telling myself, "I should report him to USCIS to stop him adding any more unnecessary difficulty to the life of me and my wife." He has given terrible advice / counsel regarding immigration, including but not limited to:
1. Encouraging my wife to get a B2 visa, overstay it in America, and give birth to a child. There are people literally being deported for this now.
2. He thinks he can take Nigerians from his farm on the Arabian peninsula and bring them to America to work. He cannot. When I asked him, "How do you do this?" He could not answer the question.
3. He talked about bringing the people in my wife's family to America to work on a farm or at a business that he wanted to start. He does not understand the difference between a B2 Visa and an H1B visa. He doesn't even know that to qualify for an H1B visa, you have to go to college!
Every time I speak to him he thinks I am wrong, he lies to me to make me think I am wrong, or he criticizes me because he thinks that I am wrong. Every time I articulated the above three points to him and told him that he is wrong, he never listened to me. He gave me an insulting facial expression that said, "You are wrong. You don't know better. How many people are actually hurt by illegally immigrating to America?"
I am extremely tempted to report him to USCIS just to show him he is wrong, and to wipe that smug fucking expression off of his face.
Unfortunately, the worst part about talking to Ahmed can be summarized this way: Imagine you know someone who is in millionaire territory, thus creating an appeal to authority in a financial manner, then you simply do not know what words come out of that persons mouth that are real or fake.
It is because of my interactions with people like Ahmed, and because of some future career aspirations, that I think I would like to get physically fit again. I want to have muscles with definition that tell people like Ahmed to back the fuck down, and respect my boundaries just by looking at me. I lost 7 kilograms since the beginning of Ramadan. In pounds, that's about 14.
I think once I pass the CompTIA A+, my educational priorities will change to refining my Mandarin, brushing up on Russian, and then earning a few other CompTIA certifications.
