Bhumika G writes: "I left my home, family, decent job and came here to work as a Server in a restaurant..?" Enjoyed reading the article, but With this sort of middle-class Nepali attitude (see the quote above), with its overtones of obsessions about prestige and credentials and instant sucess, sorry, you WILL have a hard time in the US. The American dream is NOT about seeing your job as a server in a restaurant, and then feeling (vaguely) embarrased about it, as though what you are doing is so beneath you and then consider yourself some sort of a failure. Once you go down the "seeing yourself as a failure" path, you will continue to spiral down all the more, and eventually will become a certified failure. The American dream is all about having a relentlessly single-minded ambition/focus that frames even this low-level server job as a TEMPORARY stage in your life and as the FIRST of MANY long steps toward eventually owning your own business or doing whatever else that you want to do in and out of America. Every overnight success, they say, takes about 20 years to be so! And so, in America, as in life and elsewhere, more than credentials and talent (which are ONLY entry-tickets!), it's the attitude toward your work that CONTINUOUSLY defines your step-by-step professional success. The winners have grit, the fire within, a burning desire to succeed no matter what. The losers give up too easily. Here's an article: - http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20051017-000003.xml Best wishes, oohi ashu