Redefining Career Path

I almost burst into tears after listening to a set of New Yorkers on a Vox Pox with CNN - last Friday, where the sudden jump in the unemployment rate in the US and in some European countries were being discussed. Young people like me were pouring out their sad experiences in the face of an alarming unemployment situation. I listen to some fast thinking students who were able to proof that they're tougher than the prevailing situation by the kind of answers they gave the CNN interviewer.

Indeed those who answered to "redefining their career path" actually bought my heart and respect. It is not unusual to have some people get carried away by times reality. Yet there are some who are tenacious and resilient in their quest for survival. So for those of us who are yet to find our footings in the prevailing circumstance; the answers of the said wise youths could serve as a lesson for us all.

It is true that the global economic crisis is the handiwork of some reckless policy formulators and implementers, and the impact or mistake is of course suffered by all. But the question of how we'll all survive it is rather a general one, yet with individual answers and solutions. So how do we address a problem caused by some public officials whose mistakes’ repercussion is suffered by all and sundry? But I think it shouldn't be so. Instead the bailout, which in no small measure could savage the situation if properly managed, should be used judiciously and pragmatically to address the general problem arising from the meltdown.

And the question again is; is anyone following the performances of the bailout funds? Are people listening to the yearnings and aspirations of the global citizenry? Can we do something of a radical difference instead of politicking with the fund? Something like setting up functional micro finance institutions in all shops in our globe with an interest free loan offered to as many people as possible?

There's no doubt that in the face of this global financial crisis, many out there are still making millions of cash weekly if not daily. Well we must all realize that, as the unemployment rate jumps, national wealth plummets, while poverty goes hay-wire. And if after four months of a bailout of $3 trillion pronouncement, young men out there in the streets are that confused and hopeless, and then I'm afraid a great danger is looming in the air, which of course portends danger to the future of many of our wards. We may have provided so much protection and security for many of them; but who can predict what may happen when we are no more? Did anyone imagine or envisage the mammoth crowds that protested at the London G20 Summit early this year?

We honestly don't need a prophet to tell us that, if we don't do something drastic to salvage the situation or help the needy at this biting moment, then we may as well be heading to an unimaginable jeopardy. But all the same, we can all heal our individual situations if we do the right thing at the right time, especially the beat of redefining our career paths at a time when we need to do something to survive the hard time we're all in.