While there’s a large percentage of people, especially the youth, who endeavor to get a university education to advance their earning power, there are equally groupings of people who couldent care less about education or skills or academic advancement.
The problem we face, especially on island, is that despite the advancement in education and quality if life, few unemployed and employees care to put their best foot faward.
To them, It’s all about the better – pay, not the quality of output.
One would have thought that the better the education should result in better services, or a better quality of support to those in need, but that does not seem to be the norm.
On the other hand, despite the fact that more opportunities are available to learn, to improve skill levels and gain independence, some people reject such modules, because it takes up too much of their time. This idea of working for eight hours or more a day, for years, is not seen as a lucrative lifestyle, or given choices, most think that with their private endeavors they can in most cases earn more for less committed time.
Getting rich is an art: the more chances you take or the more you chalenge the status quo or regular way of life, the better your chances of profiting from the system. Hence one mindset teaches us to earn through commitment and endurance, while the other says: make shortcuts and go underground, because the profits can come quicker.
The rise in criminality is all about dealing with the black market and adopted culture or dealing in the illegal way of life. Plenty of people find it more attractive to go that route rather than going through the straight and narrow and enduring path. Some have come to the conclusion that to get rich is all about breaking all the rules.
And on the other side of the coin reflects a longer time to achieve, but they, with time, will gain by taking up responsibility without being responsible, but due to their academic achievements we hire such people by qualifications.
We are breading a society of con-people, everyone trying to gain maximum by doing minimum. Qualifications is one route and the other is going below the radar. So, many try to maximize the cost of their goods and services, but will cut corners in whatever way they find possible.
Some rob time, always late, or always sick and seldom on the job, some pretend to know what they are doing but have no expertise. In other words, everybody is a contractor and only work with contracts no more working by the day, no aprantices.
Some give the impression that they can and will deliver and at the end they con more than they deliver. It is sad that so-much selfishness exists, but it is also sadder that it is the larger percentage of people who are that way inclined.
And as for gratitude, so few are thankful and appreciative for past support, and opportunities. Take for instance in St. Lucia, Cuba as a country has assisted us in obtaining a higher education and given scholarships to hundreds of local students and medical care for nationals, yet now that their very existence is being threatened by geopolitical sanctions and associated threats to their very existence, apart from the St. Lucia-Cuba Friendship Association, not one of the past students or benefitting people, who was educated there or were privileged to obtain their services and support, have found it fit to have a fund raiser or give a personal contribution to their plight, far less fight for their cause, or make a statement in solidarity
So many people have become vain and self- centred and so few remember the good deeds and the sacrifices that their parents or the stat afforded them through the years and don’t see the need for giving back, or being supportive or contributing from a humanitarian point of view, just to uplift the down trodden or the less fortunate
I wonder how many can and will be buried with all their so called accumulated wealth, and material gain, but woe be to this present generation that cares only of self and not their countryman or the region.
As long as they leave the shores of the island, and go to their greener pastures, all is forgotten, no consideration or contribution necessary anymore and there is no need to be concerned or supportive to our growth or development. In fact, they will praise Uncle Sam or the Motherland England before their own land of birth.
Plenty of colonized minds still exist and plenty only see value in receiving not giving, but that will not take us nowhere, so we better put on our thinking caps and give better thought to these matters, otherwise, we will wait until thy kingdom come for something that will not come because we refuse to work for it. We cannot continue like that.
Let’s stop turning our meat into poison!