Brazil, the land I was born and currently dwell, has undergone a profound recession since 2013, caused by outrageous corruption scandals related to the exploration of petroleum in the recently discovered pre-salt fields - principally found in sedimentary basins reaching up to 8,000 meters below sea level, in addition to hosting an installment of absurdly expensive international events such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games: it was revealed that national and multinational corporations had slyly bribed the granting authority to prevail in tender processes to obtain concessions, and that public funds, reserved for the defrayal of these sumptuous events, were being deliberately drained to private accounts of unscrupulous top-ranked politicians.
As a consequence, the Brazilian economy lost upwards momentum leading up to insecurity in the stock market and among the population. Fearing the crisis, citizens and stakeholders alike shunned from purchasing services, shopping products, vacationing, and acquiring estates and commodities, which only further worsened the recession. In the end, millions of laborers were dismissed and hundreds of thousands of university graduates were hampered from obtaining their first source of income.
A growing outcry could be heard throughout the land with people eagerly demanding prompt corrective measures: this clamor culminated in massive throngs taking to the streets to jointly march and demonstrate against the rampant corruption. To appease the multitudes, the Public Ministry responded with a nationwide operation, which later became known as the Car Wash Operation, initiated in 2014 and still going on, to identify and prosecute the culprits. The main product, delivered to the Brazilian society by this conjoint operation among the polices and the judiciary, has been the fastidious investigation of hundreds of house representatives, deputies, senators, governors, mayors, conglomerate CEOs, lobbyists, and other career bureaucrats, and their vehemently applauded imprisonment thereafter.
In 2015, the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, one of the best institutions of tertiary education and research of Brazil, the establishment I inhabited for nearly a decade, honorably awarded me a diploma of bachelor in Electrical Engineering, and, deeply imbued with dreams, I boldly ventured out into the corporate jungle in the pursuit of my first employment, registering on talent-hunting websites specialized in recruitment and repositioning, visiting companies and schools, and sending thousands of carefully written emails, with my resume attached, to human resources departments of countless known and unknown brands. However, after 3 years of search, nearly 2 thousand resumes delivered, a dozen interviews, and a collection of excuses I recognized that, to attain the dream of acting in engineering and, thus, have a decent salary, I would need to start my own business and advertise my services as an entrepreneur and not exclusively as a worker.
At the time I was made an engineer, by the aforementioned institution, I already held 5 years of exposure to teaching English to Brazilians, and this expertise in teaching, that native speakers do not naturally possess, permitted me make ends meet: It was by teaching English that I, relatively, dodged the smiting pangs of long-lasting unemployment, and it was through tutoring that I met the very clients that would subsequently provide me opportunities to work in consulting for electric power distribution companies, therefore, finally, achieving one of my highest dreams.
In September 2018, the consulting firm, RF Consultoria, was started with the principal objective of catering to these clients.
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