I don't think people in civilized countries even remotely understand the level of desperation poorer people from those countries go through. VICE's documentary about krokodil is actually quite good. Except when people watch it they think it's about someone particularly far away from the average - but it's not.
The chance of getting a visa to move out or starting a business, which can only be oriented towards civilized countries if you'd like to make any money at all... Is particularly low.
IT is one of those areas which you can still learn particularly well without any access to textbooks or academia.
For those interested in Krokodil, there's an excellent, harrowing and very NSFW documentary on it by Alison Severs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUH8llvTZo
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I don't think people in civilized countries even remotely understand the level of desperation poorer people from those countries go through. VICE's documentary about krokodil is actually quite good. Except when people watch it they think it's about someone particularly far away from the average - but it's not.
The chance of getting a visa to move out or starting a business, which can only be oriented towards civilized countries if you'd like to make any money at all... Is particularly low.
IT is one of those areas which you can still learn particularly well without any access to textbooks or academia.
For those interested in Krokodil, there's an excellent, harrowing and very NSFW documentary on it by Alison Severs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUH8llvTZo