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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 7 June 2022)
Turkish Heartthrob as USA Trucker click here for
the story of a Turkish actor turned USA trucker.
The American Dream, with icing on top.
Can Harmanşah of Niğde began to work as a gardener after finishing
high school and then went to Eskişehir Anadolu University to study
management. However, campus life was foreign to Harmanşah who
noted that "it was a jarring step for me to go from the place I grew up to
a big university city." Finally, his girlfriend said to him "you have
no dreams!" and left him.
Now, though, Harmanşah is living a version of the "American Dream".
He explained that "I couldn't get along in the university setting. I didn't
get their jokes or have any fun with them. I felt that because of my
Anatolian accent I was looked down upon. But my older sister enrolled
me in an English course and I decided to get into the "Work And Travel"
program for young people to work in America. I was rejected four times
but finally I got a job in a restaurant. I had to ride my bike for two and a
half hours to get to work and I lost 12 kilograms. Again, my personality
and my clothes didn't serve me well, so my first "Work And Travel"
attempt ended badly."
"My dad sold his car so I could go to Spain for an exchange program in
2014 and I began to come out of my shell. When I returned to Turkey
I set out for America again and this time I worked as an organizer and
got a master's degree at Virginia Strayer University. In 2016, I started
a company to meet and greet people coming to America at the airport.
I used the profits to pay off my tuition of $20,000 and decided to settle
in America."
"The COVID pandemic of 2020 brought everything to a halt and I went
bankrupt. But I took a truck driving course, got a license and started
working for a trucking company in Ohio. I noticed that the number of
people interested in truck driving jobs was increasing, so with some
friends I started a course that will begin this month. There are 5
instructors and 32 students in the nearly 5-week course and the tuition
is $4-$5,000. Before February you didn't have to take a course to be a
driver but there were a lot of accidents. The law has now changed."
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