Yes! You can get a career i Denmark as an immigrant

Some might have heard about the scandal in a firm called Gate Gourmet, which lives of delivering food to passengers on airplanes.

Gate Gourmet keep fraud case behind closed doors (Google translated article from business.dk)
Gategroup-Betrüger ausfindig gemacht (NZZ Online)

I am happy to say that for the first time I feel that I have a real chance of getting a well-paid career in Denmark. All for too long the politics designed by the people in the Danish people party has told us that our parents came to Denmark to work in low paid jobs and as result we are expected to serve in such jobs too.

And it is true that it is difficult to find a country where the social heritage matters so much as in Denmark.

Youth who manage to get a higher education is most likely to have parents with the same level of higher education. It you are from the working class, then forget all about education.

The rich people have hired students to hunt down classmates who have copied books instead of buying them because the books used in education in Denmark are overpriced because they are a part of the salery the teachers earn.

The government has recently worked to remove student grants for people over 18 expecting their parents to pay for them which would be possible only by rich parents.

Most immigrants and poor people have given up about their education as they could see that it would be impossible.

Now Amanda Jacobsen is living proof that you can break that circle. She arrived in Denmark in 1984 from Iran. She changed her name to a Danish one as recommended by many teachers because most Danish firms would prefer Danish workers and she made her resume quiet colorfull because a lot of firms are in fact lazy and have outsourced the work of hiring people to various firms competing for the cheapest price.

Resumes in Denmark are not checked as they should be. In the old days the firms took in new workers when they knew the parents of a applicant or the stole workers from a competing firm. But in the end they had too few options when the old workers retired and now it is way easier to fool yourself into a Danish firm because the firms believe that they need foreign workers and new inputs to compete in a globalized world.

Amanda Jacobsen did show us the way to money and jobs. She has made us believe that we have a chance.