How may I help you?: an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage
"How May I Help You? is Deepak Singh's insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn't care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BB...
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| Summary: | "How May I Help You? is Deepak Singh's insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn't care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BBC. Like many immigrants before him, Singh discovers that in America employers only trust him with a minimum wage job as a clerk, but his disappointment and embarrassment soon give way to shock when he realizes that in this world of low-wage work he is joined not merely by other immigrants, but by many Americans, a whole swath of the citizenry who goes unacknowledged and unassisted in their struggles to make a living wage. In sincere and straightforward prose, Singh takes the reader along on his journey full of dismay and compassion when the expectations he had of the United States, built around interactions in India with well-educated, affluent expatriates, collide with the reality of a coworker who must skip lunch until payday and the customers who buy in anticipation of a paycheck."...Provided by publisher |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 263 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780520293304 9780520293311 |
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/ SINGH, DEEPAKYYD1973-YYEAUTHOR
: 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
ANSWERING MACHINE
LUCKNOW
TRANSIT
MY AMERICAN WIFE
JOB APPLICATION
HIRED
FIRST DAY
MONTH S NOTICE
ENGLISH
COLLEAGUES
OLIVE SKIN
CAMERA KING
DON T BUY IT
FOREIGNER
MY NAME IS DEEPAK
I M STRAIGHT TODAY
HOLLY AND I
ALL HANDS ON DECK
LONG TWO YEARS
THE GOLDEN QUARTER
TWO AMERICAS
PAULA
CAMERON
DON T SUE ME
POST CHRISTMAS BLUES
A HANDFUL OF DIMES
INDIA VISIT
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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