As you have probably guessed (if anyone even cares), in this section I will tell you how hard it was for me to get my job. So...
When I registered for the program, I was told that I had to create an email account on a portal like Yahoo or something similar, which I actually did that very evening. By mid-December, I had already received the first newsletter, but I didn't pay any attention to it because it lacked the most important thing - a job in New York. "How can that be?" I thought. "If I'm going on the program, it has to be to the city of contrasts." And then so much happened that I have no words...
In short, I won't beat around the bush... I'll just say that I came to my senses in early March and realized that either I take the bull by the horns right now, or I'll be slaving away all summer in Russia for peanuts. For two weeks straight, I went to the agency's office, but there was still no newsletter. With each passing day, my hope grew thinner, and in the mornings, I just didn't want to wake up. The agency staff made the atmosphere even more tense, saying that about 150 people were still without jobs and it was quite likely that not everyone would get one. Only my friends continued to believe in me.
One day, as usual, I arrived at the office in the morning, they told me there would be no job listings today, and I left empty-handed to go to work. By the way, I work a 25-minute walk from that office. Around noon, I'm sitting at work, drinking coffee, and suddenly I see a message on my new email. I opened it, and there were the vacancies. I called the office, angry and indignant. Like, how could this be, you said there wouldn't be a newsletter. It turned out that someone had just turned down the job because they couldn't travel on those dates. My happiness knew no bounds. In a matter of minutes, I was already at the office, learning about the job conditions, and signing the contract. But my euphoria didn't last long, because 5 minutes later I found out that to finally get this job, I had to pass an interview with the employer...
But more on that in the next blog...
