You CAN do IT, PieMan...MAKE it happen !
YES PieMan...look into "student visas!" Then look into the mortuary sciences, goggle it here, where to learn to do it....what it takes for degrees.
LOOK, you already have a jump start...you are not some high school drop-out, you ARE a graduate of a university, have a degree which is valid in all parts of the world, you HAVE business experience, you KNOW how to run a website and HAVE marketing/fundraising/sales skills. YOU are young and attractive, articulate in English.
A plan would be....look into it by just gooling it ... here in the USA. "Mortuary sciences"...even "the business of marketing mortuary sciences." Maybe the way is to take up the business side of it for a while, study a bit more in business here, then get into the funeral industry...once you have that for a bit and earned $$$$ at it (good $$$ in this business here, man...cuz' PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DYING !!!).
Then go the mortuary science route.....or see what it takes to study it here, see if you can apprentice at a USA funeral home or morgue or hospital to make $$$ while you are in school, look for what kind of scholardships are available from Mortuary Foundations (hey, most people DO NOT want to go into this line of work 'cuz it reminds them of their OWN mortality ... but it is a BIG BUSINESS HERE, as all people DIE and need these services....never a shortfall of the need for FUNERAL SERVICES in the USA !!! ).
There have to be ways to come here, study it, go into it along parellel lines for a while even (like the marketing part of the funeral business, advertising, getting out PR on it)...hey, you could EVEN look into serving your own people's needs for such services in Chicago...which you well know has the LARGEST population of Bulgarians living here of anywhere else in the world outside your country.
YES, if you come to Chicago to do mundane work, or try to get factory work, whatever...jobs are hard to obtain, although the U S Dept of Labor today just released figures that unemployment in the USA is improving, best monthly improvement in terms of July 2009 unemployment since August 2008.
BUT the funeral services business is unique.....it is a "niche" kind of job here. You have much to offer this service industry.....in Chicago perhaps to get a foothold, study it part-time, get an apprenticeship in a funeral service that serves the Bulgarian community here....then as you learn more and gain more experience, hopefully a degree in a few yrs... in grad work.... then move onto settings you find more appealing.
Like servicing the needs of the GAY COMMUNITY...as Chicago has a huge gay community ... beginning on Halstead Street.."BoysTown" they call it. Google "CHICAGO'S BOYS TOWN"...
look for ways to get into the funeral business FOR THE GAY COMMUNITY....maybe in time you would want to relocate to New York City or San Francisco.
HEY , these are big steps, I know....you have hardship in your country, but it IS your country...and what you have shown us of it, it is really a beautiful country with mountains, lakes, ancient bridges, towns, castles....your family tradition is there, your relatives. NOT EASY to leave that behind and move to a new country, or a new place....your heart will resist it.
BUT PieMan...you are still young....and vital...and so intelligent...and THIS mortuary issue is your PASSION...and there are those who DO mortuary work, IT IS NEEDED .... it is an honorable profession, not everyone's passion, but it is YOURS.
SO you must at some point move on it....take small steps first...just sit on your computer and "google" what I have discussed above. Study it more....send e-mails out, look at what there is in Chicago for funeral services...mortuary science study, forensic studies...marketing studies for the mortuary business....professional mortuary societies in the USA...try putting in "AMERICAN SOCIETY of MORTUARY SCIENCES" and "AMERICAN SOCIETY of FUNERAL HOME DIRECTORS" ... "AMERICAN SOCIETY of FUNERAL SERVICES"...study it, see what it takes to get into this service profession. How others have gotten into it, where they went, the job propsects, the earnings, how much it takes to get started, how you can earn as you learn.
Then develop a cover letter and resume...send e-mails, call if you can...the schools, ask about scholarships, student loans...call the U S State Department about "student visas" and your own government, too...now these are BIGGER steps but still not all that threatening.
THEN hopefully something will "fall together" for you ... then think about it, ask your familiy and friends about it.....try to overcome the inertia and fear of leaving that which you know though it is limiting you ... there is e-mail back home to family and friends, phone calls....in time, you could go back and visit....I am sure your friends and family want you to do well, to be happy ... and you want this mortuary science, your passion is in this line of work...so take small steps at first.
Do not be destroyed by any setbacks, keep on at it, a little every day. Spend an hour a day at it....whittle away at it....in three months, you will have lots of new ideas, possibilities, insights....then take it from there.
I know you can do this, I do not want to see you "waste your life away" .... and yes, maybe less of CDG and more about putting PieMan FIRST and following your passion in ways that make you happy, fulfilled and make $$$$$$$.
It is all here before you, your life is full of opportunities ! Get started, small steps, one day at a time.
We have an expression here for projects that seem to big to tackle, to hopeless. It is called the elephant idea. ??? OK...
"HOW do you EAT an ELEPHANT???? YOU take ONE bite at a time."
Start eating YOUR elephant that blocks your way to happiness and success...ONE day at a time, my friend.
MAKE it happen, make it ra-RAWK !!!
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YES PieMan...look into "student visas!" Then look into the mortuary sciences, goggle it here, where to learn to do it....what it takes for degrees.
LOOK, you already have a jump start...you are not some high school drop-out, you ARE a graduate of a university, have a degree which is valid in all parts of the world, you HAVE business experience, you KNOW how to run a website and HAVE marketing/fundraising/sales skills. YOU are young and attractive, articulate in English.
A plan would be....look into it by just gooling it ... here in the USA. "Mortuary sciences"...even "the business of marketing mortuary sciences." Maybe the way is to take up the business side of it for a while, study a bit more in business here, then get into the funeral industry...once you have that for a bit and earned $$$$ at it (good $$$ in this business here, man...cuz' PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DYING !!!).
Then go the mortuary science route.....or see what it takes to study it here, see if you can apprentice at a USA funeral home or morgue or hospital to make $$$ while you are in school, look for what kind of scholardships are available from Mortuary Foundations (hey, most people DO NOT want to go into this line of work 'cuz it reminds them of their OWN mortality ... but it is a BIG BUSINESS HERE, as all people DIE and need these services....never a shortfall of the need for FUNERAL SERVICES in the USA !!! ).
There have to be ways to come here, study it, go into it along parellel lines for a while even (like the marketing part of the funeral business, advertising, getting out PR on it)...hey, you could EVEN look into serving your own people's needs for such services in Chicago...which you well know has the LARGEST population of Bulgarians living here of anywhere else in the world outside your country.
YES, if you come to Chicago to do mundane work, or try to get factory work, whatever...jobs are hard to obtain, although the U S Dept of Labor today just released figures that unemployment in the USA is improving, best monthly improvement in terms of July 2009 unemployment since August 2008.
BUT the funeral services business is unique.....it is a "niche" kind of job here. You have much to offer this service industry.....in Chicago perhaps to get a foothold, study it part-time, get an apprenticeship in a funeral service that serves the Bulgarian community here....then as you learn more and gain more experience, hopefully a degree in a few yrs... in grad work.... then move onto settings you find more appealing.
Like servicing the needs of the GAY COMMUNITY...as Chicago has a huge gay community ... beginning on Halstead Street.."BoysTown" they call it. Google "CHICAGO'S BOYS TOWN"...
look for ways to get into the funeral business FOR THE GAY COMMUNITY....maybe in time you would want to relocate to New York City or San Francisco.
HEY , these are big steps, I know....you have hardship in your country, but it IS your country...and what you have shown us of it, it is really a beautiful country with mountains, lakes, ancient bridges, towns, castles....your family tradition is there, your relatives. NOT EASY to leave that behind and move to a new country, or a new place....your heart will resist it.
BUT PieMan...you are still young....and vital...and so intelligent...and THIS mortuary issue is your PASSION...and there are those who DO mortuary work, IT IS NEEDED .... it is an honorable profession, not everyone's passion, but it is YOURS.
SO you must at some point move on it....take small steps first...just sit on your computer and "google" what I have discussed above. Study it more....send e-mails out, look at what there is in Chicago for funeral services...mortuary science study, forensic studies...marketing studies for the mortuary business....professional mortuary societies in the USA...try putting in "AMERICAN SOCIETY of MORTUARY SCIENCES" and "AMERICAN SOCIETY of FUNERAL HOME DIRECTORS" ... "AMERICAN SOCIETY of FUNERAL SERVICES"...study it, see what it takes to get into this service profession. How others have gotten into it, where they went, the job propsects, the earnings, how much it takes to get started, how you can earn as you learn.
Then develop a cover letter and resume...send e-mails, call if you can...the schools, ask about scholarships, student loans...call the U S State Department about "student visas" and your own government, too...now these are BIGGER steps but still not all that threatening.
THEN hopefully something will "fall together" for you ... then think about it, ask your familiy and friends about it.....try to overcome the inertia and fear of leaving that which you know though it is limiting you ... there is e-mail back home to family and friends, phone calls....in time, you could go back and visit....I am sure your friends and family want you to do well, to be happy ... and you want this mortuary science, your passion is in this line of work...so take small steps at first.
Do not be destroyed by any setbacks, keep on at it, a little every day. Spend an hour a day at it....whittle away at it....in three months, you will have lots of new ideas, possibilities, insights....then take it from there.
I know you can do this, I do not want to see you "waste your life away" .... and yes, maybe less of CDG and more about putting PieMan FIRST and following your passion in ways that make you happy, fulfilled and make $$$$$$$.
It is all here before you, your life is full of opportunities ! Get started, small steps, one day at a time.
We have an expression here for projects that seem to big to tackle, to hopeless. It is called the elephant idea. ??? OK...
"HOW do you EAT an ELEPHANT???? YOU take ONE bite at a time."
Start eating YOUR elephant that blocks your way to happiness and success...ONE day at a time, my friend.
MAKE it happen, make it ra-RAWK !!!
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