Sayugianya..

Well, I decided to start a 10 day blog post since I had enrolled in the 10 day course. One post each for the issue of the day. The course is great and I get to meet all kind of people. Ranging from 55+ to as young as 23 years old, the course acts as a melting pot, and blend is indeed what we do. Apart from one weirdo though, ahaha. I thank Allah for giving me Taufik and Hidayah when I asked for it, and less that I know that He intent to it in a way that you will only notice it after it has happened. Rediscovering yourself is totally easier said than done. You hear motivationist or preachers blab self improvement techniques and to do be a better person but 99% will not make a change. The 1% discovered it through the hard way. And don’t be surprised to find a Malay version of the post as well. I’m in the process to ‘melestarikan bahasa’. So, without further ado, here goes my so called blog-a-thon.

Day 1-The unemployment issue

Well, there was the introduction phase and later on, we chatted around. And thanks to that great enquiry instinct women possess, my cover was blown and I was made the leader of the course. Great, another burden to carry, but I suck at leading and soon they shall see. The food‘s being given twice so, we get to mingle during that period. Then, after many conversations, I found out that 5 don’t have a job, 4 don’t have a real job and 3 have jobs but looking for a job to make ends meet.

They might not tell it to your face but you can sense it from the desperate facial expression and voice tone. The 3 with the jobs actually have great remuneration but still, expenses are killing Malaysian families nowadays. Lots of graduates are being produced yearly but, without jobs to match their skills, what a waste. The Talent Corp is a waste of money because we have great human resources; it’s just we don’t create enough opportunities for them. And don’t get started on the financial crisis issue. A country with a financial crisis won’t be spending RM 5 billion lavishly on a building that have no importance and could only create 300 odd jobs.

Last week, when I went to the BBQ party in Port Dickson, the same issue arise again. We got this guy who had been training superbly and finishes with flying colors, comes out with no job. And for the recent post of trainee at the institute, only 10 out of 2000 applicants are hired. What’s the percentage? Only 5% were hired! And that’s to become a friggin trainee, not for a permanent post. So, what the 95% going to do? Re-apply to other place, get rejected and then, either they re-train, which is a complete waste of their spent time for their previous skill, or return to their parents. Thus, leading our workforce to have low experience and the only way to get better is through experience.

When you ask our leader, they say ‘oh, you have to improve your skills (which they already have), become an entrepreneur (which is friggin difficult due to governmental red tape, the only option is to open a stall), don’t be choosy la (how can you be choosy when there’s nothing to choose?). The best part is this, ‘we had offered 4,000 jobs at the recent job fair (I won’t say which one) and we are proud of this’. Numbers that attended the job fair? 400,000.

You might say I’m complaining without offering something concrete right? So, here’s some of my suggestion.

Reduce inflation. With reduced inflation, the people purchasing power parity will increase. Thus, leading to a better quality of life and people can enjoy their lives more and families will be happier.

The current method to increase wages will only lead to further inflation as there are more money circulating. In the end nobody wins and it will only devalue our currency. There’s no need to look good on financial papers saying that we have the highest GDP/ GDP per capita when that doesn’t reflect the actual situation.

Curb inflation by implementing ceiling price, forming unions that act upon traders who shoot up prices, increasing supply and make sure that it is not ok to increase price whenever oil price comes up.

Hence, by reducing inflation, people don’t have to look for a second job. People won’t have to be choosy. People will be braver to become entrepreneurs. I end this sad speech with Salam 1malaysia.