eralps
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
I have a master's and one of the biggest reasons behind my education was the opportunity in the US after the master's. Sole benefit of it has been the OPT (~3 years work visa). I learned small things here and there during my education but as an SWE I don't use them at all and I forgot the rest of my classes. I wrote a thesis but it was nowhere near a PhD level research.
Additionally higher entry level areas such as ML and AI often require PhD so getting a master's is not getting your foot in the door.
For some reason it means “I also” in Indian English and it sounds weird to non Indian dialect.
Like “Even I don’t understand this” sounds obnoxious to me because in my mind it means “Even I, an almighty being, don’t understand this, who are you to think you can understand it” but it means “I also don’t understand” in Indian English.
According to google “Even” as adverb: used to emphasize something surprising or extreme. So I assume what I think at first is what native English speakers also think.
I hear this daily and I know what it meant to mean now, I had a friend who did not know this and thought her Indian colleague was talking down to her.
But it would not be feasible to use this for most of the people. Tax is often vastly complex and it ignores all those parts. I don't have any capital gain, any properties or any uncommon income such as from rent but even for me this would not work because I get 1099-INT forms from bank (for 1.25$) and there is only W2 option under income.
I am also a nonresident so I need to use 1040NR another block there but I am not even talking about that.
Kind of off point but I actually do have a compulsory military service in my country of birth as well.
If I end up going back to the country I was born in and leave the US what benefit do I have as a US citizen? This has been a scary scenario for a long time for me and I don't think I would be able to pay tax to the US with my income in that country.
If I basically stop being a citizen of the US by moving to another country why do I need to continue paying for it?
Is there any other country that does this?
Edit: This post made me finally read about this scenario. FEIE [1] exclusion for about $105,000 as of 2020. Is a relief because I can never earn that amount with the exchange rate in my country of birth.
1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
Is it possible that they pivot the whole business to Uber Eats only?
I would recommend watching this talk [0] from Kevlin Henney to anyone who likes that book.