My profession is not on the NAFTA list?? PLEASE HELP!!

Hello,
I am a student in Canada, working towards a marketing degree at the University of Toronto. My dream is to live in the United States after i get my degree. Now to go a little off track, my brother is an american born citizen and i also have lived in the united states before for about 4 years. When we moved back to Canada we were planing to go back for a month or so and apply for a green card but decided that there was no use. Now my question to you is that accounting which is in the same field as marketing is stated on the NAFTA TN-1 status job list and marketing isnt? Why is that? Can i still get a visa to work in the united states? If so how long will that visa take weather it is TN-1 or the one where my brother sponsors me(i dont know that is called). People think it is nearly impossible to move to the united states but come on, i know more then 20-30 families in the past who have moved from canada to the u.s. Please if anyone can answer my questions i would appreciate it
Thank you very much

"I am a student in Canada, working towards a marketing degree at the University of Toronto. My dream is to live in the United States after i get my degree. Now to go a little off track, my brother is an american born citizen and i also have lived in the united states before for about 4 years. "
Are either of your parents citizens? That would help a lot.
"When we moved back to Canada we were planing to go back for a month or so and apply for a green card but decided that there was no use."
Ya it will be difficult for you to get a green card straight up without an american parent or spouse at that age.
"Now my question to you is that accounting which is in the same field as marketing is stated on the NAFTA TN-1 status job list and marketing isnt? Why is that?"
Basically NAFTA views certain jobs under tb-1 jobs that are eligible for immigration with a tn visa. This makes it easy to work in the us but not to immigrate ie. path to naturalization aka citizenship. Basically the accountants as a profession in north america are very similarly regulated as a profession. That is a Canadian and USA accountant work almost off the same rules and countries like Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman, and other small rich countries ie.uae hire accountants from canada, usa, uk routinely especially now that accountants are moving away from gapp towards internationally unified standards.
Marketing for whatever reason is not viewed as important part of nafta, it was a political decision. It takes 9 years to become an accountant but anyone can do marketing.
" Can i still get a visa to work in the united states?"
Yes just not a tn nafta visa
" If so how long will that visa take weather it is TN-1 or the one where my brother sponsors me(i dont know that is called)."
My brother is also citizens naturalized and the other is PR. i would never wait the 9-14 years it takes to sponsor a sibling to go to the states so forget that option. The best visa you could hope for is to work for a business firm like oil, that is very stable, then ask for a us transfer. The reason being it is difficult to switch employers once in the us because of the laws when you get there (must find employment within 10 days or leave the country), which means you must find a stable employer for marketing ie. oil companies rarely lay off peoplebut when any company does layoff people marketing are always the first fired.

Realize that even after you get your green card your not 100% safe, you need to basically always be employed and it must be in the same job. So you can't come in as a consultant and switch over to something else, or else there is high chance of visa denial. Also realize that if you lose your job you lose you chance to be citizen, which is what you want because then your free from green card bondage

"People think it is nearly impossible to move to the united states but come on, i know more then 20-30 families in the past who have moved from canada to the u.s. Please if anyone can answer my questions i would appreciate it"
It is not so difficult to move to the us on a temporary visa (ie you will be considered a non us resident) and it is moderately difficult to get a green card. However it is rather difficult to actually obtain citizenship. So lots of people move to the us, but most of them never become citizens because it is impractical or too hard. I know so many people who move to the us, and I say 90% come back after they lose their job once in a 5 year period as required by law.

For example, an accountant CA could move to New York and join a CA firm and get a tn visa in 1 day. His tn visa is only temporary even though it is renewable indefintaly techinically. However if the customs get the feeling your trying to immigrate they will deny your visa. He can even get visas to bring down his wife and send his kids to private school. To most people that would appear as a move to the usa. The second he loses his job, his wife loses her visa and so do all his dependents aka kids, he is only allowed to stay in the usa as a tourist at that point. Now if he manages to switch over to a green card in the eb-3 category aka professional workers, he would need at least 10 years experience to realistically get the green card. This is because the green card system favour professionals with 10 years experience. It is far more difficult for a 27 y/o canadian to immigrate to the states than any other country, which is why you have 30 million illegals down there. Now if he is 31 and keeps his job for 5 years then he can become naturalized by age 36. Problem is by age 36 who the hell wants to leave the country they have been in for so long. there are not really any benefits after having worked 5-10 years in canada to going to usa to start over. Even if he was only 31, by naturalization it just wouldn;t be worth the move that late in life. For immigration to be worth it you must do so when your under 25 imo.

First off, I want to thank you for such a detailed reply. Just a couple of more questions regarding a temporary visa. If lets say i finish my marketing degree in about 3-4 years, can i apply as a marketing assistant somewhere in the united states? Would they look down at a Canadian degree? Also if lets say i did move to the United States, can i apply for permanent residency? I asked my dad these same questions and he is a phD and a D.V.M, and he told me he went on an H1-B visa and all you need is a profession, a degree, and a job offer from the U.S and you are pretty much set to apply for an H1-B visa. Is this true? Thank you once again