Human’ values

Recently I started looking around for hi-tech jobs, to see what kind of position I might find. Position requirements are frequently difficult match as described. You must be:

• Flexible
• Open-minded
• Willing to work hard
• Be nice

It’s easy to get confused to see if I'm reaching the right criteria’s. So I jumped into reading recruiter's advices on how to write good resume. How can you be the one out of the many? 

 

I also found different courses where you can learn techniques how to behave in an interview. For example body language, or how to use the tone of your voice. Important thing to show a future employer that you are the most attractive candidate in the world.

If I’m sure that I am a good candidate they must see it too. But why doesn’t it work that way? I guess after many refusals people are less motivated. And I wonder if the real problem is why do you want to find a job in the first place. Is it to earn money or find some sense for your life?

I surfed one article to another I ended up reading about successes stories where people get good jobs. I always love reading, and thinking about these stories. What made them so big? What were their paths so far? What kind of compromises they make or what they did not make? What did they do that most of us do not?

I read the articles carefully to see if I can find some secrets. They mentioned:

• Hard work
• Persistence
• Respect of work
• Humility
• Flexibility
• Adoptions
• Be brave
• Be the first one when look for challenges.

Share knowledge with others:

• Be a team worker
• Encourage others
• Never give up, no matter what you do.

Hmm...Interesting, no one mentioned luck. This seems to be an easy recipe for success. Or just different mind-set? I think most importantly is self-confidence that what I am doing -  who I am is valuable.

So I’m watching my youngest boy playing in the back yard. He’s only 15 months old not much plan for the future yet. But his T-shirt it says ’ Future Ceo’ and I smile and think to myself – what’s if it so?

I guess the future starts here and now.

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.