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.