Jobs...in Nyc? - Page 4

Originally Posted by gebodupa

God, the irony of someone not being able to speak the native language and being here legally, hell even a citizen sometimes, is something that will never seize to amaze me.

While having an accent is rather involuntary, knowledge of English at an at least intermediate level should be required. There are literally millions of legal and illegal immigrants who were way too lazy to learn that eventually the system did not want to deal with it anymore and started to provide translations in other languages, most often Spanish.

When you actually stop to think about it, this problem affects virtually all areas of the economy and government. When you go to a govt. building and you see instructions in two different languages, they did not get translated on their own. Somebody had to do that, and thus somebody had to be paid for this service. Everything has to be printed twice as well, and all this stuff costs money, which either comes out of your taxes or causes an increase in the price of a given product.

Unfortunately, the system just decided that it is less problematic to make a child wear a helmet, than to make him learn through his own mistakes.

Originally Posted by Gr0wTesK

4 days away from my move and Ive been hammering craigslist replying to ads, no luck yet but I'm optomistic

Originally Posted by HunnyB384

Yaaaaay, I now have an account with Bank of America! that wasn't so hard..i feel like i should have done this years ago, just goes to show how crippling fear of the unknown can be. The account specialist I had was very pleasant and just asked for my passport, which i gave her along with my ITIN and in a matter of minutes I was taking a picture for my debit card. Whoop whoop