You need to be canny, careful, and assiduous in your search for an agent or a publisher, but—this bears repeating—the most important thing you can do for yourself is read the market.
Back in the late 1800s in Minnesota, Richard Sears was spending his days as a railroad station agent, until one day, he sold some watches from a local jeweler and realized he was really good at selling.
They say that they've already put in place more than 9,000 soldiers and also thousands of border patrol agents as well to try and prevent people from coming across that border, and making it into the European Union.