How much money can you make? Do you have better career chances? What about paid holidays or paid sick days? What is the Social Security? What about Health Care and other benefits like the 411k system?

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Welcome back another great and exciting I would say like information video I have for you or if you listen to my podcast also something very interesting about working in the united states what should you expect what can you expect and what is really the reality and the reason why I bring this up is that I have seen also other videos from immigrants especially from Germany who moved to the United States.

and they came after a while to the conclusion then they said like actually it is really tough to be in the united states or to work in the united states and you don’t have all those benefits you might know like what i knew of course like when i lived back in in austria or also in germany it’s a different system so let’s get started and let’s dive into it and let’s talk about what you can expect and and how things are really rolling here in the united states once you are employed at the company so first of all it totally depends on um the offer from your employer

right so the company you’re working for smaller companies have most of the time the tendency to not have such great benefits so to speak you might have no benefits at all that means you might not even get insurance health care premiums offered you might not even get like any paid sick days or vacation days it really depends on that company deal you you are making but in general let’s say if you have the chance to

get a job at a bigger corporation and that corporation basically has let’s say a thousand employers or whatever right then usually you get some good benefits out of it and let’s talk about those benefits what does it mean first of all vacation always comes up and people like me in austria i’m used to have like paid sick days you know if maybe per year you are two weeks sick because you got the fl you get the flu or something like this and it wipes you out or anything else happens and you know you are covered so to speak and the

company is paying for you even if you can not work now the united states works here a little bit different because in general in general and you know please don’t attack me don’t shoot me you know uh if i bring this up i’m i it’s definitely not for every situation it’s just in general okay so very very broad you can think that you will get paid most likely 10 sick days per year or that’s not even just called sick days it’s also like paid days off okay so whatever that is so you decide you would like to go on vacation uh or you don’t go on

vacation and you want to keep it because you might get sick in general but it’s a very broad general term right uh you should be able to get like 10 days off which the company is compensating uh your time okay so which you should get paid but also keep in mind this only applies if you’re truly employed and if you’re not in any other circumstances like for instance a contractor because if you would be a contractor that might be completely different you’re not even employed and most of the time if you’re just a contractor you need to make sure that you know you don’t work you don’t get paid and that you have the funds you need to do

whatever you would like to do so if you know that then and there is nothing more and you compare this for example with of course the system what i was used to were born like austria maybe also in germany maybe they’re you know in in other states some really good uh you know i would say like healthcare systems and systems where the employee is really very much protected this is definitely different here in the united states and now a lot of people got shocked and they say like this is crazy this is nuts because like you know if i if i calculate this and i’m at least a month sick or whatever and i don’t even get paid then my salary goes down

etc well well well uh might be the truth yes on the flip side i can tell you one thing for sure this this is definitely what you should be ready for is if you’re thinking to move to united states the united states is definitely a country that offers you a lot a lot you have a lot of job opportunities you can really follow your

career path you can really make a lot of money etc but you have to understand it’s a high productive country that means you will be compensated very well if you’re ambitious if you work hard and you know if if if you’re basically constantly uh involved in in work you know so let me maybe try to also bring up a better case to ahead once a friend i mean still a friend of mine and we had always funny discussions and he also said to me bernard so like but when i see the system but you also try to explain me all the time isn’t that better if i just i’m okay with like working 30 hours a week and i’m not so ambitious and you know i don’t need to make so much money that i just do any job here in austria back in austria and you know i don’t make a hundred

thousand dollars or whatever a year but like i live well or okay and i don’t need anymore i don’t want anymore and maybe i get also unemployment paid after six months working over a year and then i’m for six months unemployed and i get that money paid and i have full health care on top of it and one day i’m going to retire and i get my minimum payment dollars and i will retire and this is definitely true so what i can tell you is if you’re not ambitious if you are not willing to crush it here in the united states you know then i would think definitely twice three times four times five times about it if this is the right country for you because

keep in mind the corporate america it’s capitalism and it’s hardcore capitalism that means you know it’s not for everybody the best like um and i i can also say this loud enough hopefully and very clearly that if you compare the system to a very social system in austria it’s definitely different it is a hundred percent different but that depends now on what you would what you prefer like in the environment on on the system can i say for myself that pure capitalism uh is the best so this this is something i was confronted many many times and

people said bernard when i listened to you and whatever you said in the past it’s crystal clear you are a hundred percent capitalist you’re like just go for it right and this is actually not true so who really knows me uh what really gets under my skin is actually the fact that pure capitalism um at its absolute peak i i don’t really 100 believe in it you know i believe in all the the freedom you you can get and so on but i truly believe that for example what i’m what i know how i was born like in austria right that for example this system is a

very very great system and it works for the vast majority the best because it’s not such a big contrast in like you have either super rich people or like super poor people and if you compare this big contrast here in the united states it’s absolutely clear you will see people in the big cities literally living in tents being homeless and yes it’s happening all the time the people it can go like this bomb like they lose their job because they get sick or whatever they don’t have the funds they don’t have any family anymore they get divorced uh and they’re going down this this spiral and it can hit you really hard here in the united states and there is no other

help and um a social help like a network like what you might be familiar like in in austria especially austria i can talk about my home country because you know people always confront me and then say how can that be that i love so much austria i do i love my home country and i also speak in in in terms of the health care system of the support you get uh of the care of the of the social support system and opportunities and possibilities you have that’s a golden island i mean it i haven’t seen anything better maybe there might be i

haven’t been living there like finland sweden you know like the northern countries in the european union might be even better um i can say i lived also in germany that was definitely not better than austria from those from from those points only right um that this question always came out but beyond when you speak so highly from your home country and from the system why the heck did you then actually leave austria if you love it so much and this is also a big misconception again because what people do have to understand is that i love this fact and like i said you have pros and cons but what i didn’t like for example and where i was

very limited was the job i do and the career path i chose what i love to do there is literally nothing the industry i’m working in it’s so tiny it’s so small it’s so limited that especially in when when i was younger right and in my age when i started that i felt like i’m dead like i can’t do this because whenever i was trying to find a job or do something like this it was nearly impossible back then today it’s maybe a little bit better i have to

say so but even so the opportunities are much smaller and the compensation is also much much less that means for me it was crystal clear that i’m moving to the united states because my passion my job the the opportunities i get here is so much bigger the compensation is so much bigger whatever that uh you know i felt like it was a no-brainer if i love what i’m doing then this is actually the best move for me for me personally but that doesn’t mean that this is the right move for you right so that’s why i i think it’s very very