Unemployment – Sleeping Beauty woke up, and was sent back to work

We are officially informed that unemployment can reach 11.3% this year, however according to unofficial data this can be as much as 50%. The state of unemployment is not new – so shall blame the Financial Crisis? - in fact Unemployment has reached a 16 years peak.

 

 

Although several positions have been posted by companies sometime I have got a feeling it’s posted to someone else already.  To get a nice job you need experience and new skills right? Companies look for motivated, creative candidates who can achieve unrealistic expectations. But how do you get motivated if you haven’t been able to work for 2 or 3 years? Why study and get new skill training, if the skills are never enough for the employers to hire you. Also what happens when all the training you take makes you over educated? And what about my dream job, I can get hired, but never make enough money to pay my bills doing this work. Do I work where I want to?, or work where I have to so I get paid enough to pay my bills?

Many Hungarians struggle with same questions and under sell their live. But that’s not a reason to give up, really something is still missing….a kind of mind-set, I would say.

It’s hard to understand how such a great nation like Hungary, cannot stand up on its feet? When you look around your home, walk the street, look up the sky you always find something that was invented by a Hungarian. Did you know that the following inventions are Hungarian? The noiseless safety-match, The biro (ball point pen), helicopter, carburetor, H-bomb, Ascorbic Acid or Vitamin C and so many more.

Definitely we have brains but do we have self-provisioning ability as well?

Maybe it comes back to the historical fact that we have been looked after for so many centuries, by others. Capitalism in Hungary has grown up it’s - 18 years since we have had this ‘new’ system – Hungarians are still having a hard time to look after themselves however. Older generation – like my parents-couldn’t catch up with the new challenges such as saving money and self-provisioning. Sad, but true!

I guess Sleeping Beauty Hungary was woken up and sent to work, but the world hasn’t taught her how to do it. Someone always took care of her, she finds it difficult to stands her own feet.

The rise of capitalism in Hungary … the real life at the present

       We have told that we can leave… Many people think Hungary is not going in the right direction, and many of people are leaving the country to survive and make a bit more money elsewhere.  94% of the Hungarian describe the country’s economy as ‘bad’- according to Pew Research Center.  

 

This is the highest level of economic discontent in the country, and comes from the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. But what does it mean in the long run? Do Hungarians actually wish to have communism come back? The general belief in the populations mind, and the whisper is that ’life was better, at least there was work’. With Communism you could feed your family.    

Educated people vanish from the county never to return. Lots of Hospital have been closed, doctors are hard to find and the younger educated generation is leaving in mass. The brain drain is extreme, as all the valuable people have left. What’s going to happen to the country that created the great inventions I covered in my previous blog?  Our government is burning all the bridges and hoping someone outside will fixes the problems.  

 

 We see more and more demonstration on. These have been going on for several months now, and now you can see Universities in the country forcing it’s students to stay in the country by getting students to sign a contract forcing them to stay before they graduate. 

What about taxes? Americans would not believe how many taxes we have to deal with…the country taxes us for cellphone services, bank withdraws, and event for bill paying...the tax list goes on and on. Then the cost of living is just as high as in many other western country, Germany, France… but the salaries  are meager about a fourth of the westernized nations. Salt this with a bit of corruption— 76% said corrupt political leaders are a major drain on the country.  What’s interesting is that old communism leader just have become leaders of the new supposed democratic Hungarian system.  It doesn’t matter what political party in the former Soviet satellite countries you follow, left or right, they are created and are run by former communists. 

 

And…again. What’s if you don’t like to live here? Well, the Prime minister’s solution to the economy is to tell its citizens that they can leave the country. Guess what, many of talented citizens have left.  

 

Big hopes -- sweet treats

As far the big hopes and this coming weeks can be summed up by look forward to the Google announcement at Google IO event, which will take place 15 May to 17 in San Francisco.  

 

What will happen? Well - Hopefully we will hear more about their latest sweets - Key Lime Pie – which is the dessert-related codename for Android 5.0. It follows Jelly Bean, Honeycomb, Donut and the first Android version from 2008 which was codenamed Cupcake.

May I note here that - while we wait for KLP- in the Hungarian market Jelly Bean - just became available on a few devices -  Those Hungarians who have decided to start with Android 5.0 better save up some money and buy some luxury brand from Samsung, such as the Galaxy or Nexus 4. And of course wait patiently while it comes to Hungary.

Sync

Now guesses are taking place what we can expect from Key Lime Pie, since Google has not released an official statement. So all we know is based on rumors. Since everything is on your phone these days, how nice it would be if Cloud back up would be built into Key Lime Pie? Google’s rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft already offer their high quality cloud service integration. Will Google launch a cloud services platform at its annual developer conference? I think we need a solution where everything is automatically saved on a Google IDrive...I mean Apple has its iCloud right?

Security

What about more device management security? Will we see more security in Android 5.0, at last? Well, looking around a bit what other users wishful thought might be and what Google would considered in a first place.

Other things to watch for are, new performance profiles, integrated social networking, multi-device support and built.in video chat. And some wishes go to manufacturers as well, such as a great camera – not too many pixels but high quality and– at least it should work.

Ohh!!..and one more thing! Can we proud to hold our new phones, please? Many of us are tired of the cheap feeling plastic devices…

Hungary must think ahead!

When a young boy discovers his surroundings all you can do as a parent, is think ahead and look out for his safety. I find that I’m already one step ahead before he takes his next step... no question that my job is to teach him what to do next. 

Based on my experience cloud computing issues are still quite immature in Hungary. And I’ve also noticed that there is very little content or information about cloud computing written for the Hungarian market. I’d expect that Big companies like Microsoft, and Google would pay attention a small markets like Hungary. So they can help us grow, and mature with them in mind. Most of the time they do not…. But sometimes there are surprises.

I was looking for information about secure cloud computing and I found that last Monday Microsoft published a cloud paper on ’trusting’ the cloud in Hungarian. So it’s really interesting to finally see how a big company like Microsoft is thinking ahead and trying to take advantage by working to provide more intelligent and comprehensive information to help educate the Hungarian market about cloud computing issues.

And what is this report? This information is extremely technical, so be ready for a hard read!.....But I tell you I think this is a big deal! To have a big company commit and to try and get companies around Hungary thinking about the Cloud in a more logical way, is about time..

The paper is called ‘The Microsoft Approach to Cloud Trasparancy’  and provides Microsoft’s perspective on using an open standard called the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) in framing what companies need to consider when adopting cloud services. The paper references a repository of papers that includes information from most major cloud providers, such as Amazon, Box, and yes Microsoft to help pick a good cloud provider!. The repository is called the known as the Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) for its cloud solutions. So this is how the cloud providers are working to try and help us grow up, and become a real player in the cloud market.