Eye Opener
What is in store for our graduates?
By end of March 2006, more than a hundred thousand graduates in the country will march through the portals of their alma mater. What is in store for these graduates? Where will they go? Does the government have ready jobs for them? In the private sector, only hundreds of the unemployed graduates will be taken in. On overseas employment, thousands more queue the job line in Metro Manila since two years ago and have not been accommodated yet. In several hotels in Iloilo City, seminars have been conducted enticing the unemployed graduates to work abroad. But when will they get the job in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, America and some European countries. Many graduates who aspire to go abroad don't have enough money to pay the reported excessive fee being charged by recruitment agencies.
Meanwhile, hundreds of college graduates are taking the menial job just to help support their parents and families. A few graduates have ventured into small businesses. Many graduates abroad are doing menial jobs because money equivalent of their pay here in the Philippines is three to five times or even more. That's the reason why OFWs are popularly referred to as "heroes" of the present time since the foreign money they send home helps strengthen the peso against the U.S. dollar. Working abroad is risky. A number of Filipino OFWs in the Middle East are abused by their employers and these women have no recourse but to kill their abusive "amos". Filipino engineers were instrumental in building high rise buildings and industrial factories. Filipina domestic helpers are also in demand in Europe and the Middle East but many of them ended in tragedy.
When the Philippine population was only about 15 million during Pres. Manuel L. Quezon's time in the 1930s, he thought that preferring Filipino politicians to govern the Philippines like hell than the Americans like heaven, he was thinking that the unemployed would be absorbed by the government and the private sector. Politicians today are lording it over the country and the unemployed and employed are suffering due to the high cost of living because of the unending political bickering. Let's stop the political upheaval and attend to the multifarious problems of the Philippines. Let's not wait for God to punish the dishonest politicians. In my own thinking, like in Sodom and Gomorrah, if there were only ten Christians at that time, God would have spared the two wicked cities. In the Philippines today, there are millions of wicked Christians. God has His own timing. When He sees that the wickedness of the Christians and non-Christians alike is intolerable, God knows! Keep on praying for our nation that God will spare it from destruction.