Am I racist?

SilverClouds said:

Have you tried doing business with/freelancing for americans? They're broke af too. And everything is paid (can't even post a sales post/mini-ad in US/english lang groups without paying to the group admin). I ended up freelancing mostly for small polish companies again because surprisingly enough they have more money (no joke) and I can get leads for free (which I can't from these US groups, unless someone please give me a hack lol). I do have some foreign clients sporadically (and not necessarily US either, mostly Australia and Europe) but they're not richer than polish companies, I only work with them due to exchange rate (polish currency being slightly weaker than $/£/€). If there were no exchange rate advantage I'd probably not work with foreign clients at all, since these small companies have only couple houndreds here and there for marketing... (Yes, I'm shocked too, I hoped foreign clients would skyrocket my earnings but not so.)

I still struggle, etc, as you can see from me almost crying/screaming hysterically in some threads, eh. But american's didn't magically solve my problems. Just saying, from a business perspective. I like some aspects of their culture, people, music and movies too, but I think people underestimate how broke some americans are.

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I sell commodities mostly right now. The thing with English is that you have a large audience and more people to reach out to.

For now buying power in my country is about 2 mill people and if I switch to English, my potential reach grows to 400 mill.

This is a very rough, biased estimate, but there are things I just can't do in my country I would be able to do in the US.

I want to provide my product at scale. For now, my country doesn't allow me that cause there isn't enough people to buy it.

Your chances of getting a large deal or a high ticket client increase if you do your business in English.

Why would I want to work with a broke businessman? Those I already have and I'm not happy with the outcomes. My business won't grow with these sums of money.

What I want to achieve is I want to work with big clients and agencies. I will outsource the work and run my business as a supplier, not a freelancer.

And freaking culture. When I speak with people in my native language, I get emotional and unhappy. I feel like everyone around me is mean. It might be childhood trauma problem or something that causes me to see my country and people here that way, but that's what happens and I'm not able to fix it easily.

I was on the outside a moment ago. It's sunday, middle of the city and guys in cars can't stop on pedestrian crossing even though it's more enforced by law now. They do this on freaking sunday on a jammed street. I know, it will happen everywhere else. But people seem more arrogant and rude too. You can talk to mods here and they'll answer most of your questions. I had hard time in exchanging knowledge and experience with people locally. A day on BHW teaches me 10 times more than a month of work here.

For some reason English feels milder to me. Something like taking away all that cultural burden.

I just feel much better doing things in English. Also, consider all major things are created in English like GPT-3, Google etc. If I work for some business and they target English market, the client has much broader audience to reach and their growth potential is just higher. Plus the work can be delivered faster.

You see, you have your own reasons to work for xyz. I have them too. And who should we work with? As a wise man would say - "it depends" - on a lot of stuff.

If I come off as greedy, I'm not. I just realized my value with time and understood I joined this forum when I was 14. I have a lot of experience and insights under my belt. It's impossible to go back. I have to engineer and pick up my serious role in life. Do the most serious thing you can do in the most serious conditions that extract the value off your skills.

I still struggle, etc, as you can see from me almost crying/screaming hysterically in some threads,

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If you think of it, it's mostly mood, right. If you want to have better mood, drink a little bit less coffee. 60% of people here have magnesium deficiency. Magnesium citrate at doses ranging from 200 - 300 mg ions and you will fix it. That's about 6 average magnesium citrate pills. It's available in pharma.

If you already do this, get more sunlight. If all fails, move to the US cause it's probably money and you not getting enough value for what you do.

I went to gym to try my American mindset. I did all my 5 exercises like the true American I am. And in an hour I finished all. Since 5 days I have DOMS like never before.

That's how you work in the US. No wonders why Arnold S. is so big!