Employment Woes

Everyone is well aware of the credit crunch and the downturn of most countries all over the world, unless one has been living under a rock to notice this economic downtrend.

Here in the Philippines, a country considered third world, dollar remittances from its Overseas Filipino Workers stationed all over the world keep the economy afloat. Even with these coming in, employment problems hound its citizens like a proverbial dark shadow.

Even those who have graduated from college find it difficult to find employment opportunities that best fit their qualifications. They either end up going abroad in search of greener pastures or end up working the graveyard shift in business process outsourcing companies. Nothing bad about this though. Dreams can be on hold for the mean time. Not everyone get these remittances so there are those, like me, who like others, work in the different places of employment, laboring to earn a few bucks that are gone in a flash when its time to pay the bills and get needed supplies to be able to “live”.

There are of course those executives who earn a lot, more than the average sales person who tends a small stall in a bazaar. Their salaries and benefits are vastly different. Their working conditions all the more so. But both of them has one thing in common,  they both are not secured with their work.

Now, even Eurozone is officially in recession.

Knowing what has happened to the big companies that crashed, financial Armageddon is here is stay and we should expect hard times.

No one can say that his employment status is as secure as it was a few years ago.

So what do we do now?

We still work hard, harder than ever, and not lose hope. I hope so.