Svetlana, 41, immigrated to the United States from Russia and has been living here for 15 years. She recounts her difficulties in finding a job at first:
At first, it was pretty difficult to find work, mostly because we didn’t know English and also because our degrees were worthless here. We had to settle for very basic entry-level jobs… like I said before my husband’s first job was as a Sear’s repair guy and he was lucky to get that and I worked mostly temporary office jobs. After I got my degree and my husband got more experience here though, it became a lot easier and we were able to find good jobs.”
