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Alex Ponomarenko: I earned money in the USA and returned to Ukraine, where there are more opportunities

Founder of educational projects The British Club and ANGLOZONA Alex Ponomarenko threw the Ukrainian university in 2012 for the sake of the American dream.

He began working as a dishwasher, and left the United States after work in Newman partners и OCCwho collaborated from list companies Fortune 500. Now Alex lives and develops a business in Ukraine - he is confident that there is an amazing amount of opportunities, a complete lack of competition and a very cheap life.

The entrepreneur shared the details of his overseas life, and told why he returned to Ukraine, in an interview with Marketing Challenge.

Came to the US by Work and Travel in 2007, washed the dishes, worked as a waiter

I studied at the Kiev University of Trade and Economics. In the summer of 2007, he left for the USA on a program. Work and Travel and stayed in the country.

He began his career with the dishwasher, then became an assistant to the waiter, and soon the waiter. As a result, he worked in the two largest catering companies in New York. I managed to work as a model. This is the beauty of America - you walk down the street, they come up to you and say: do you want to get a model? So you can be on the podium New York Fashion Week and earn $ 300.

My next stage is a jewelry company. Tiffany. Christmas is the most important holiday in the USA, and Tiffany needed additional staff. I got five interviews to get a job. There was a crazy competition - 100 people for one place. All competitors are Americans.

Then I felt like in a movie. Take coffee in the morning and go to the main office of the company on 5-th Avenue.

Soon I grew to a company manager from FIn parallel, he developed his own business and advised on political asylum in the United States.

Political Asylum and Sham Marriage

First worked as a student Work and Travel, then as a student of an American educational institution. Then he received political asylum and arranged a fictitious marriage with a citizen of Belarus.

In New York, there are schools that draw up training that allows you to work legally. All you need is to provide a deposit certificate for $ 15 thousand or find the person who will vouch for you. Schooling costs $ 250 per week. You learn English, you post $ 1000 a month, but you have a legal status.

Every student dreams of becoming a new Zuckerberg or Mask

There is fierce competition everywhere in America. The education system is America’s pride. And the competition in colleges is as strong as in business.

Education is not cheap, for the sake of a diploma people get into loans. And the first decent job is found for 30 years. Until that time, they live an easy life and do not bother about the future.

Technical students tend to be like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. For business youth, they are icons and role models. Students of innovative colleges say: sometime I will become a new Zuckerberg.

Book Ilona Mask read everything. Many of my friends are ready to give nuts for free at the factory Tesla. Because Musk is an idol.

In Ukraine, national heroes are determined after a segment of history. In the US, such people immediately become trends.

Ocean of opportunity

When I lived in the States, the freelancing search platforms were not as famous as they are now, and everyone was spinning as much as he could. Now everything is different.

A friend of mine, a photographer from Lugansk, moved to New York several years ago with empty pockets. Two years later, she rents a studio in Manhattan and pays $6 a month in rent.

Trump opened Pandora's box

In the summer, on the streets of Florida or New York, you can easily see people in fur coats - the so-called freak peoples. It is not clear what nationality or religion they are. But the environment is respectful to them. States for many years created a system of mutual respect.

Now President Donald Trump enters immigration laws. People of Arab origin can additionally be checked, even if they have all the necessary documents in their hands and they work in state institutions. Border patrols are interested in non-American kinship ties.

The United States has always been famous for pluralism. The negative manifestations of nationalism America experienced 50 years ago, closing them in a Pandora’s box. Half a century later, Trump opened this box. The new president has become the litmus test of society.

You can work illegally in America, but you need to be careful

In America, you can forge documents. If you do not attract too much attention to yourself, no one will be satisfied with additional checks.

My friend from Chisinau opened a business in the USA and earned a lot of money. Bought a property, a few decent cars. Once he went to rest in the Bahamas. Upon his return, he was stopped by passport control. From the documents of the guy dropped a payment check, which drew the attention of control.

The patrol noticed that the guy’s documents allowed him to work until August 31. A pay check was issued in September. A big check began with this trifle, which ended with deportation for 10 years with confiscation of property and imprisonment for 2 a month.

I earned money in the USA and returned home to raise virgin soil

He sat down and calculated: in Ukraine you can earn at the American level, but spend much less. With the efforts that America requires, in Ukraine you can get several times more.

It cooks deliciously, clean air, close family and zero competition. Having gained experience in the USA, I realized that in Ukraine it is possible to realize myself better. Wherever you stick it with a stick, it will germinate everywhere, because it is empty.

Friends from Australia came to me in Kiev. Brought currency. We went to the "Puzatu Hut", gathered a whole tray of food. Then they divided 150 uah from the check into 25 and were shocked.

“6 bucks are a ball,” they said. And familiar Australians are not the first to understand how cheap everything is in Ukraine.

Two days ago I talked with the Dutch, who came to buy Ukrainian real estate. For their capital, they see more opportunities in Ukraine, and not in Europe.

Ukraine without Russian, but without English

I returned to Ukraine in 2013, I opened an English school in one of the residential complexes. My goal is to develop English learning. In Ukraine, mass English was supposed to appear even 20 years ago.

Everyone quotes a book by the creator of contemporary Singapore, Lee Kuan Y. He made English the official language to attract international business into the country.

When I left Ukraine, everyone argued around the Ukrainian and Russian languages. Returned - argue about the same. Nobody raised the question of English. But if you know English, then you can do without higher education. Many large companies no longer look at the diploma.

The Chinese character for the word “crisis” consists of two parts: danger and opportunity. These two words are interdependent. The crisis creates opportunities for development. And Ukraine is a great place for that.

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