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28 y/o lost and confused guy from Iran :( Need your advice please!
rstofer:
If it were me...
I might try to capitalize on the linear algebra I have taken and learn everything I could about Machine Learning. This field is exploding.
NVIDIA has some terrific tutorials and development systems. At the lowest level in terms of performance, this work involves Python and a series of excellent libraries with a fancy video card in a PC. Further up the line, Fortran and C++ are coupled with NVIDIAs CUDA units to gain higher performance. Then there are the racks and racks of specialized processors in a datacenter configuration.
But that's just me...
I wouldn't overlook the possibility of getting an MBA (Master of Business Administration) or something similar for Data Analysis.
eti:
--- Quote from: jonpaul on December 15, 2022, 11:39:48 am ---Bonjour, disturbing storey.
First I Suggest you edit way down this long complaining post, and focus on your EE job objectif.
Our industry is thriving, Huge need for EE s in power, nuclear, energy, quantum computing, robot/ AI hardware, cinéma, mobiles,, etc.
Find a way for migration.
Beware of security and infosec risk of any webpossting, socialmedia.
Suggest secure VPN, Proton email
Finally Please drop the emoticon!
Just the ramblings of an old retired EE
Jon
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They’re his feelings. To edit would be dishonest. Allow him to express, it’s good for the soul.
CatalinaWOW:
If your goal is to avoid military service you can't worry about legal emigration. You are unlikely to achieve it, and if you go through legal channels they can always come after you.
The US, and I believe several other countries have political asylum rules that allow entry under special circumstances. With Iran's standing in the world today it is likely that you will be able to show the need for political asylum fairly easily in several countries.
BUT, before you make such a move, make very sure that it is what you want to do. In addition to the risks leaving your country, think through very thoroughly what it means to leave behind everything. As bad as your country might be, it is the country and culture you were born into and grew up with. Even if you find an expatriate community to live in you will be far from family, far from friends, far from the stores, far from the climate and everything you have now. It may be the right step for you, but many find they regret it. Two years of hell in the military must be compared with the rest of your life grafted into a totally different and possibly not totally satisfactory culture.
WarlikePuberty:
--- Quote from: rstofer on December 16, 2022, 02:05:48 am ---[...]with a fancy video card in a PC.
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I can't afford one due to the hyperinflation and cheap local currency, unfortunately, and AFAIK, even free cloud computing services need credit card info which I do not and cannot have (due to sanctions). :(
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 16, 2022, 02:29:03 am ---If your goal is to avoid military service you can't worry about legal emigration. You are unlikely to achieve it, and if you go through legal channels they can always come after you.
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Well, that's not such a big deal as you may think. If you leave on bail and don't return, only the money (which isn't a big fortune anyway) would be gone, and they will ban you from leaving again should you ever return. I know many people who've done this.
--- Quote ---The US, and I believe several other countries have political asylum rules that allow entry under special circumstances. With Iran's standing in the world today it is likely that you will be able to show the need for political asylum fairly easily in several countries.
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That would be great, but from what I've heard so far, it's not possible unless you physically go to one of the American territories, which would be quite dangerous and expensive. I wish there existed a way. :(
--- Quote ---BUT, before you make such a move, make very sure that it is what you want to do. In addition to the risks leaving your country, think through very thoroughly what it means to leave behind everything. As bad as your country might be, it is the country and culture you were born into and grew up with. Even if you find an expatriate community to live in you will be far from family, far from friends, far from the stores, far from the climate and everything you have now. It may be the right step for you, but many find they regret it. Two years of hell in the military must be compared with the rest of your life grafted into a totally different and possibly not totally satisfactory culture.
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That's really not the case here. Many people who have successfully emigrated tell of their recurring nightmares of being stuck in Iran and unable to leave, or being pulled off the plane at the last minute :palm:. And thanks to globalization, the borders between cultures are disappearing. Most zoomers here are already Americanized.
Scrapcollector:
How much money would you have to leave as a "return security"? Just aproximately. Is it all you have, or would you be able to take some with you to pay for your journey after you've taken the first step out?
Will they confiscate everything valuable when you leave which you carry on person? Normally, wearing a gold necklace or arm ring is said to be a good option to take small amounts of cash with you, but it shure would catch the border guys eyes if you look like a rapper (wearing more than one piece).
"That would be great, but from what I've heard so far, it's not possible unless you physically go to one of the American territories"
Thats true, but you mentioned Italy - it maybe easier to reach, and they should also give asylum like the US? Once you got a job, you should be able to move on to the US some day.
Unfortunately, it is not so easy to be allowed to work if you are in asylum status if I remember correct. At least in Germany this is a big issue, people wait for years and are not allowed to work. You should write to some refugee help centers in different countrys and ask them how easy you can get a work permit with your education
Or ask how to apply for a job visa without your home country knowing. Probably harder to get, because I suppose you have to apply for a job abroad first and show a work contract? Thats a question for immigration experts in those countrys, so maybe we should focus on the technical education question again.
I can agree on wikipedia as a source of endless knowledge, but has its limitations. For example, it does not show you those free university lecures that where mentioned here, but through the links to other articles and the sources given you can get a broad understanding of technical history for example and find out your interests. The most interesting wikipedia journeys for me where always those when I was late doing other more important things.
How good is your algebra/methematics? If you know your maths and its fun to you, you can choose a wide range of university studies. If you hate it, you should go for something more practical, maybe not even a second degree, but more a "on the job training" (how is this called in english when you go to a job school after work to get a "craftsmans diploma" instead of a university?) and be a service technician or installation chief to bring things into service or roll out new software in companys. If you like to develop completely new things, forget the last few lines.
Being a really good programmer starts early, you can still learn it, but you have to be good at learning new programming languages (there are a ton of text and youtube tutourials, but I can not recommend one). I am a bad programmer although I played around with GWBASIC as a kid. But there are many programmers, and less analog electronics freaks, so I don't feel bad for it.
If you want both, programming and develop newest analog electronics, you should go for Physics and then experimental Physics. In Europe, there are many facilities to graduate/make your Doctor title after the uni and then work there.
By the way, if you still have the full version of your text saved, you can send it to me as a direct message, because detailed reports like this from people who "think like us" (technical people) are quite rare from your country and I think it is interesting to read (also if some think it may be offtopic in this forum - a short text is always better because people don't have time these days, but can have appendixes for further reading).
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