{"id":35649,"date":"2018-06-30T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35649"},"modified":"2018-06-30T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T16:02:28","slug":"what-life-is-like-for-venezuelan-refugees-the-crisis-isnt-over-when-you-escape-the-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35649","title":{"rendered":"What Life Is Like for Venezuelan Refugees: The Crisis Isn\u2019t Over When You Escape the Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Life Is Like for Venezuelan Refugees: The Crisis Isn\u2019t Over When You Escape the Collapse<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I find the most difficult aspect of survival is to keep a positive mindset. Definitely, it is. The crisis is not over when you escape the collapse. While I expected when I got my family out, our struggles were over, they have just begun.\u00a0 Once you have been a successful professional, with an entire life ahead of you, and a good amount of the road already left behind, and find as refugees in a foreign country\u2026this is where you really know about how strong you can be.<\/p>\n

Or how weak, in my case. Don\u2019t misunderstand me, please. I have been much more fortunate than many of my people, and I give thanks to God for that.<\/p>\n

Some reflections, some advice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These days have not been easy. There are a lot of people already in the labor\u00a0marketplace around here, working for less money than they should, and rents are increasing because of the people looking for a place\u2026and somehow finding something to work close to home has been uphill. My reserves have been in a slow decrease, and I am starting to worry a little bit.<\/p>\n

I have you, unknown friends, but a wonderful prepping community that has avoided that the water covers my nose, and I appreciate that much more than you would believe (Receive our blessings please!). I had some cash stashed away that worked for buying my ticket and left just in time. I hold a professional degree that many people would kill to have, and skills that made me earn some degree of respect everywhere I arrived to work at some facility. I wanted to use this opportunity to spend some more time with my young kid, as a regular engineering work consumes a lot of time, and I was without my son \u00be of a year\u2026but you know how it is.<\/p>\n

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What Life Is Like for Venezuelan Refugees: The Crisis Isn\u2019t Over When You Escape the Collapse I find the most difficult aspect of survival is to keep a positive mindset. Definitely, it is. The crisis is not over when you escape the collapse. While I expected when I got my family out, our struggles were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,2924,2288,20744,18249,536,648,8880,5756,851],"class_list":["post-35649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-preparedness","tag-escape","tag-j-g-martinez-d","tag-money","tag-preparations","tag-refugee","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35650,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649\/revisions\/35650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}