Today in Trinoma Mall in Quezon City, young professionals are in rush to get that dream job. The event is Adexhibit’s 2nd National Career Fair 2009. Mostly, as always, are BPO or Call Center industries are available jobs. There are Medical Conglomerate companies and Overseas Employment jobs that are open for hiring. In the overseas jobs section, Middle East countries are prevalent for job hiring.
What will happen to these young professionals if they will just rely on their job as their source of income? Their knowledge and skills becomes obsolete everyday. A lot here are registered nurses and some of them told me they are accountants. They have even no job to work f
or their skills. They end up in call centers which the turnover rate in the industry is becoming higher and higher.
Young Professionals should learn to look for business opportunities while they have a job. Having a single and limited stream of income will not bring you anywhere else. What we need in our time is to have multiple streams of income.
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MANILA, Philippines—Feeling the brunt of rising prices, Judith Calleja, a 36-year-old mother of two girls, tells her daughters to learn how to save.
She knows poverty by heart—she never finished high school and had to work at a young age—and it is something she wishes her children would not go through.
“I want them to learn how to save money while they are still young,” Judith says. Life is getting harder and what her husband earns as a seaman is barely enough for their needs.
But her eldest daughter Jovy Ann, a fifth grader in Liliw, Laguna, usually spends all of her P25 allowance every day. She knows it is important to save—her mother constantly tells her to do so—but she has not started.
The Department of Education (DepEd) wants to help her and other public schoolchildren start doing so.
“We want to educate our young people on financial literacy—what money is, how to use it properly and how to make it grow,” Education Assistant Secretary Jonathan Malaya says.
By Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:52:00 11/25/2008
This is the post from www.inquirer.net. The question is how will they teach the students financial literacy? Financial technologies and strategies are changing rapidly. Do they have enough resources and tools to be used in teaching financial literacy? Who will teach the students? If the teachers themselves mostly are struggling financially, could they transfer the skills to our children? You cannot give what you don’t have. There’s still a lot of questions how are they going to implement it. Hopefully, DepEd could come up with good curriculum and resources so that our children could be more equipped as they face the real world when they go out of the four corners of the classroom.
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I went to the mall yesterday, a little disappointed because I can't access my Gmail and I can't post my blog article regarding RK's book. I happen to see pass through this store and see this guy in black shirt intensely looking at HDTV for sale. A voice rang in my ears..Oooops! That's a doodad!
Doodads is a term to anything we buy beyond our basic needs which doesn't increase in value. Those are expenses which we could put in category called unnecessary expenses with no return in investment. we buy it because we want it even if it's beyond our means to afford it.
What other Doodads you might think right now and why do you consider it as a Doodad?
Feel free to post your entry in the comment section below.
