The harsh truth is that if you can't compete and outshine someone that has zero skills and no English language you are very very vulnerable to automation and eventually either a Chinese made robot or those Optimus robots are going to make your job obsolete.

It's especially important to obtain skills to make you a viable candidate in today's world. Hard mule-like low wage work is over, only technical and specialized skills will survive automation and even then maybe not if tech bros get their way. Somehow you have to hold on until universal basic income, or maybe until the AIs decide humans are obsolete. Oh yeah. Roko's basilisk