Days Of Our Lives

Had a chat with my boss today with FLS and he said something really interesting. He said, "I think that you guys are born in a harder time compared to the my time." It raised my eyebrows hearing it from him considering that we always here the older generation telling us how lucky we are and that we should appreciate it. Hmmm so who is right?

His main point is that every year, there are thousand of graduate graduating, hence creating an environment of stiff competitiveness in the market looking for jobs. It was not like the older days where graduates are only to few fortunate enough to be able to continue their studies in higher education. So finding a job for them is easier with less competition and higher, more attractive pay and priorities were given to them. But these days, too many of graduates are out there. Every graduate is like any other graduates. We are thus a bottle of yogurt, as Hiro from Heroes said. Having a degree is a necessity and has lost its edge in the market.

Harder still when companies still give preference to overseas graduate for openings. Are local higher education that bad that they won't hire us? Might as well just hire veterans from overseas to just do the job right? That way they don't have to waste time training fresh graduates.

But at least, the government is doing something about it. In the oil and gas industry, such as my company that I am doing my training in, oil and gas companies that want to set up a company here has to acquire a license from Petronas and few of the criteria to obtain the license are to the company must employ a majority of local people and they must bid for local job even though they know they won't get the job.

As for being a minuscule part of a bottle of yogurt, its not anyone's fault but ones own. Everyone is different but most people chose to be the same as others. Its about knowing ones self worth and what they can do because that differs from everyone else and that becomes an unique edge.

I think the older days and the now, its the same thing. Both times have their challenges and people then got through it fine and so will the generation now. Harder or easier challenges is up to each individual on how they look at it. We all gotta live and make it a better place for the future generation.

OMG... Here I am talking adult stuff... This is a first for this blog.

-Live Long & Prosper