Your 🇨🇦 friends don’t want you to be successful if they say this…

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”

— Mark Caine

I want to address a controversial topic.

"Pehle PR lete hai, fir dekhenge"

I've coached 100s of mentees, and all of them had one thing in common. Can you guess?

All of them had at least 1 friend who said this.

Maybe you even got influenced to think that way by your friends, so let’s play the scenario out:

Picture this: It's 3 years from now.

You're still stuck in that minimum-wage or supervisory job, on your way to getting a PR, but struggling to make ends meet.
Your dreams? They're collecting dust on a shelf labeled "someday."
Your parents are getting older, and you can't even afford to buy them the little luxuries they deserve.
That bucket list of yours? It's becoming a distant memory.

This isn't just a scary story. It's the reality for many immigrants who think getting a PR is an achievement.

The truth is, most people think, once they get PR, opportunities will fall into their lap and their lives will change but…

It’s far from the truth.

You grow your career with experience and skills, not PR.

If you wait for your PR to enter your field job, you' would be in for a tough awakening.

It would be difficult to get a white collar job because:

PR is just a change in your residential status, not a change in your income potential.

You won’t magically become rich or successful the day you get your PR.

But if you enter your field job now, that will serve both purposes:

Remember, the life you want in future depends on the choices that you make today.

Choose what your future self would be proud of, not what your non-ambitious friends tell you!

Keep Blooming,
Bani Singh

There’s a 99% chance that you are answering this interview question wrong