Is this course for you?

Lesson 2. Is this course for you?

In the previous lesson I asked one question — what is the problem. Now another one — where are you, right now. The answer decides what to take from this course. And whether to take it at all.

Three portraits

I have sketched three portraits of people for whom this course works. Not as “target audience A, B, C” — as three living situations. Listen, and check whether you recognise yourself.

Portrait 1. Curious how things work in the US

You sit and study everything about the US. Maybe you want to move there; you are looking for options. You read forums, chats, blogs, YouTube channels. And every day you accumulate more questions than the day before.

You dream of the US but fear mistakes you will spend years untangling. You want to arrive with a clear understanding — not a stack of specific instructions, but a deeper grasp of the subject.

Portrait 2. Already here, settling in, everything is hard

You arrived a year, a year and a half ago. You already have papers, housing, a car, maybe a decent job.

But every week you sign new documents and think: am I doing this right? You move on autopilot, on advice from friends. What if the friend himself doesn’t know? What if what was normal ten years ago is no longer normal?

Portrait 3. Long in the US, but with gaps

You have been in the US many years — five, eight, fifteen. From the outside everything looks fine. Car, house, work, maybe a business. The textbook successful immigrant.

But sometimes — in the news, in a letter from the IRS, in a new contract — you bump into something you don’t grasp at a basic level. And it feels awkward to ask: all those years in the country, and you don’t know this?

This course is NOT for you if…

Now, honestly — who this course is not for. I will say plainly: do not buy from me when I can see my product does not serve your task.

1. If you need step-by-step instructions — how to get an SSN, how to open an LLC, how to file taxes. This course is about principles, not procedures.
2. If you have an acute legal situation right now — a court summons, an immigration crisis, a fight with an employer. Go to a licensed attorney.
3. If you are an attorney licensed in the US, or someone who has lived in the country twenty years and knows the system well. I do not want to waste your time.

If you recognised yourself in one of the three portraits and did not recognise yourself in the three “not for you” — great. In the next lesson I will not yet talk about how the course is structured. Instead I will show what the thinking this course teaches actually looks like, on one small everyday story.