What are you doing to do when you grow up?
I want to be Doctor!
Lawyer!
Engineer!
Teacher!
I think almost everyone of us faced this question at least once in our life time. Most of us might have been asked to write an essay about it by our English teacher or Bahasa Malaysia teacher. During my schools days every time my relatives visit me I will asked the same question. During those days I wanted to be a doctor! I am not sure why I wanted to be a doctor, maybe after listening to my parents and people around me talking good things about doctors and doctors are highly respected. Not only me ask any Indian boy or girls the immediate response will be either Doctor or Lawyer and some times Engineer. Even today after 15 to 20 years have past the answer to the same question have not changed, but now we have more choices. From doctor, engineer, lawyer, Computer programmer, web designer, IT engineer, and list goes on and on. This shows we didn't see the changes happening around us! We all are in the same mentality as 20 years ago. Since, 1998 when the Berlin wall came down and the World Wide Web came up the world as changed dramatically. In this new IT Age we need to think differently, do things differently and plan our live differently. Those old thinking of Industrial Age is gone! Gone with wind! Old thinking like "study hard, get a high paying work, save money, buy house, buy car and have retirement plan are gone! During the Industrial Age the government through its education system was preparing us for mass employment in manufacturing industry and service industry.
In this IT Age if we are still have the Industrial Age thinking, we will be left out very far behind (my estimated is around 10 years behind). The world is in a fast track and everyone is speeding very fast. In this IT Age, more people will get rich and more people will become poor while the middle class will shrink. We need have to choose in which class we want to be.
We need to go beyond this mentality of being Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer which I call it as DOLE syndrome! DOLE syndrome is heredity disease and it is being passed on to us by our parents and grandparents and the society around us. I have seen many families sell the assets or use their hard earn money to send their children overseas to study medicine. Many of this poor children became doctors against their will. Fortunately, this DOLE syndrome it is not in our DNA it is in our Brain. We can eliminate this DOLE syndrome the sooner the better. After all being professional or working for company is not the only way to earn money ! If fact most or the rich people don't have a university degree and they don't work for others.
In this IT Age if we are still have the Industrial Age thinking, we will be left out very far behind (my estimated is around 10 years behind). The world is in a fast track and everyone is speeding very fast. In this IT Age, more people will get rich and more people will become poor while the middle class will shrink. We need have to choose in which class we want to be.
We need to go beyond this mentality of being Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer which I call it as DOLE syndrome! DOLE syndrome is heredity disease and it is being passed on to us by our parents and grandparents and the society around us. I have seen many families sell the assets or use their hard earn money to send their children overseas to study medicine. Many of this poor children became doctors against their will. Fortunately, this DOLE syndrome it is not in our DNA it is in our Brain. We can eliminate this DOLE syndrome the sooner the better. After all being professional or working for company is not the only way to earn money ! If fact most or the rich people don't have a university degree and they don't work for others.
I am not against one being doctor, lawyer or engineer but it should be forced by parents, family and society around us. Many of us are trapped by people surrounding us and our life's and thinking are very much influenced by people around us. I will take time for changes to come into our community but do we have the time and luxury to wait?
I don't a solution and specific answer to the above problems because everyone of us have the intelligence to think about it and make the changes. Changes start within us. I am making changes myself. I am not going to point at others are advise other until I see success in myself. Wow! There a lot to change and many negative influences an thinking pattern need to corrected.............! Thank got I live in oversea away from my family and society.........So it should easy for me to change myself.
Think iT!
