There's gotta be a limit to all this. I came to this country following my brother because we were going to start a business of our own. It all sounded very good and exciting. I was very thrilled to be able to do something of our own and not depend on anybody else.

Then after a very long wait, my brother finally quits his old job, but instead of doing as we'd been talking for several years now, he joins another company. He's got a pretty damn good position. He also said that he'd bring me in with him and all the stuff. You hear him talking about this company, and you'd believe that they can practically walk on water.

I see that in this new company, my brother is treated like royalty. Good for him, cause he really deserves it.

But where does that leave me? I quit my high paying job in Japan to come to this third world country, and now that he's finally found good fortune, I'm still in this laboral limbo. Not belonging anywhere, still waiting to see if it's possible for him to bring me in, not having achieved practically anything regarding any of the grandiose plans we had for ourselves.

This is starting to frustrate me. I'm not sure whether to keep on "being patient" like he sugests, or start doing something all by myself. Fuck, when he joined this company, he told me from his comfortable excecutive chair that he'd "take care" of me. I wonder if that phrase has a different meaning in this country than the meaning they taught me in school.

The interview he finally got me after a two month wait was all shit. He'd joined a couple of months ago, and told me he wanted to join him as soon as possible, but wasn't able to get me an interview. Then a couple of days ago, I was visiting his office and he tells me that for that day, he'd finally gotten me an appointment, but had been cancelled cause the guy is too busy. So I figure nothing's gonna happen again. And then after lunch, my brother comes running and asks me to hurry up cause we're going upstairs for the interview.

In this interview I'm supposed to show a piece of software I made as a demo of my abilities. But I didn't get even two minutes to change the configuration of my laptop computer, much less to test that the new configuration was correct. Then comes the interview guy, and he's all impatient. When he sees that the demo is not changing screens (cause I hadn't had the time to test it), he lost total interest. But he hadn't been waiting even 30 seconds! He just turned his head to talk and never glanced again at the screen.

Fortunately my brother convinced him to give me another chance for an interview. And I'll do my best to improve the demo. But what I've seen so far is very different from the wonders my brother had told me this place would be.