Do you think there is still a future for our kids...
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Frankly speaking, I'm feeling very depressed ever since the GE2011. After reading and seeing what we have become now as a society and people are writing about \"accept that the world is flat\" and globalisation... I feel very sad and worried what type of future lays ahead for my only son.
I hope that I'm the only one who is feeling this way and hoping that this is just my \"geng nien qi\" :gloomy:
I have not been working about 7-8years but I can feel the changes and pressures that my family & friends are encountering in their everyday working life.
Eg.1 My friend was really upset that her foreign boss was complaining about paying so much for local employees and how much he can save by employing \"better\" foreigners\" etc.
Eg.2 My sil, a senior executive, was telling me that the future will be very tough for the future generation as most of our kids are study-smart but not street-smart like those \"hungry\" foreigners. She is also worried for her only teenage son.
I just told my dh, maybe we should consider not to put down too much money for our future home, just in case we need to relocate.
I think the most depressing thing is I feel my family has nowhere else to go except to stay here. That's why I feel so helpless.... -
lim72:
My sentiments too..i have nowhere to go but stay here...Frankly speaking, I'm feeling very depressed ever since the GE2011. After reading and seeing what we have become now as a society and people are writing about \"accept that the world is flat\" and globalisation... I feel very sad and worried what type of future lays ahead for my only son.
I hope that I'm the only one who is feeling this way and hoping that this is just my \"geng nien qi\" :gloomy:
I have not been working about 7-8years but I can feel the changes and pressures that my family & friends are encountering in their everyday working life.
Eg.1 My friend was really upset that her foreign boss was complaining about paying so much for local employees and how much he can save by employing \"better\" foreigners\" etc.
Eg.2 My sil, a senior executive, was telling me that the future will be very tough for the future generation as most of our kids are study-smart but not street-smart like those \"hungry\" foreigners. She is also worried for her only teenage son.
I just told my dh, maybe we should consider not to put down too much money for our future home, just in case we need to relocate.
I think the most depressing thing is I feel my family has nowhere else to go except to stay here. That's why I feel so helpless.... -
tankee:
If we have a world class educational system, why aren't we good enough? Our workforce is the product of our educational system no?
maybe we have only ourselves to blame for not being good enough? :?Chenonceau:
My friend is mid-level banker. All her bosses (barring 1 or 2) are foreigners. Those are not low paying jobs. How many of the major banks in Singapore have local CEOs?
It's a bit like me telling my son: \"You're no good. So and so's son is better than you are. I love him more and will give him your inheritance.\" In truth, how my son turned out is a reflection of my own failure in grooming him into a person I CAN love and respect enough to give to him his inheritance. -
Chenonceau:
OUCH!!! :gloomy:
If we have a world class educational system, why aren't we good enough? Our workforce is the product of our educational system no?tankee:
maybe we have only ourselves to blame for not being good enough? :?
... but how true
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Depends on which kettle the fish is in mah. If you are on scholarship, young, parents rich or you rich, no health problem, got mountain to back you up, of course life is good here lor. How to compare to those struggling. And it is not fair to conclude that all jobless singaporeans have themselves to blame.
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If we are not good enough is it because of the kind of system we have been put through? 2 generations counting from the 1960s. Chinese saying, if you are put in black ink, you become black, if you are put in white ink, you become white.
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imo, it is not that there is no future here. just that there are bound to be people (regardless of wealth, qualifications etc) who do not mind staying put here and others who want to explore the flat earth.
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let me rephrase, maybe we don’t have enough good enough people?
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Chenonceau:
If we have a world class educational system, why aren't we good enough? Our workforce is the product of our educational system no?
maybe we have only ourselves to blame for not being good enough? :?tankee:
[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]
My friend is mid-level banker. All her bosses (barring 1 or 2) are foreigners. Those are not low paying jobs. How many of the major banks in Singapore have local CEOs?
It's a bit like me telling my son: \"You're no good. So and so's son is better than you are. I love him more and will give him your inheritance.\" In truth, how my son turned out is a reflection of my own failure in grooming him into a person I CAN love and respect enough to give to him his inheritance.[/quote]Excellent! I totally agree. CEOs complain our kids don't take risk and blah, blah, blah....right up to the lates 80s...we already have the \"class\" distinction what EM1, EM2 etc....with such crap, how do we expect our kids to take risk. All they/parents care about was to avoid the \"lowest class\" at all cost. Then next came school ranking system .... why can't all kids be given the same playing field esp. at primary school level?
It is not true that foreigners take up jobs which SGreans do not want to take. Look around you, in fact those lowest level job such as food court dish collector, sweeper, office cleaning ladies...a large majority is done by our seniors. The foreigners came because it was easy access.
Why must scholarships paid by tax-payers' money go to foreigners? Why can't we channel these funds to educate the slower learners, the special kids...give special schools bigger budget, grant scholarships to kids of returning Singaporeans who have excelled overseas...there is so much to do at this homeland, for her own people..yet we see them go to foreign kids. :roll: -
Just to share my personal mission and belief, 'cos I really want to stay positive and encourage my kids knowing how hard it would be for them in their generation:
I want to raise my kids up with the right values and character, that they will grow up to be resilient and to be problem-solvers. So that they will stand tall amongst the foreign talents amongst our midst. So that they will work hard for their future and not be afraid, to believe in themselves, to be thankful for whatever circumstances and what they have - not comparing, not complaining, and to trust God our Provider. To be happy! If they run away from this country their parents and grand parents have built up, they are giving away their inheritance. If they run, they will always be running away because in life, there will always be obstacles, no matter where we are.
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