Last month, thousands of job seekers, trooped to job fairs conducted by the government and private companies in different areas within the city and the country in celebration of labor month. I went there to observe. What I observed was that everyone was in a hurry to fill up forms to get in long lines for an on the spot job interview for a possible good paying job, with no guarantee of being hired. Conversing with different people in search for a probable cause of decent living and feeling their sentiments, made me realize how hard life really is, especially in these times of global crisis. And I felt the feeling of being jobless, how it feels to be in search for a job.
I started asking myself, why am I here? Where will my education as an entrepreneurship graduate end up, am I worth being called an entrepreneur with me lining up with the unemployed? I felt a feeling of remorse, sympathizing with these people who wanted to work to earn a living to survive, a feeling of regret of not having the power to help them. It made me ask further, where are the entrepreneurs needed to augment such shortage of employers? Where are the entrepreneurs who would employ even the lowest educated individual.
It is easier said than done, that’s what a lot of people say, but with entrepreneurial mindsets being ignored, and the lack of capital and financial support to brilliant ideas formulated by aspiring entrepreneurs, and the government's inadequate support to small and medium scale entrepreneurs, the prophecy of having 113M Jobless Asians Seen would come to reality, and if this pursues, God forbid chaos.
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