How to be rich in Singapore?

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In Asia News Channel, a study conducted by Mediacorp revealed the following facts – to be rich in Singapore, one must have three things going for him/her, namely: connections, education and hard work.

Connections refers to the people you know, who could push you along to your path of success.  Education refers to specialized knowledge that one attained via a college education (or even an advance degree such as a masterate degree or a doctorate degree).  Hard work refers to the willingness of the individual to go beyond the normal eight (8) hours of work, of sacrificing holidays and important personal dates and anniversaries just to produce the necessary work outputs.

There were two classes of respondents that were tested.  Those that belongs to the upper class and those that were categorized as lower class.

For the lower class; the ranking of the criterions were:  education was number one, followed by hard work and connections.  For the upper class, the ranking was connections, education and hard work.

Now since this was a research based in Singapore, I will not attempt to extrapolate conclusions and recommendations of the said research.  Suffice to say that this particular research stated three elements/criterions on making it big in Singapore and by extension, how to be universally rich in any country.

Being an educator, I cannot overemphasize the importance of education.  Centuries from now, when humanity have finally licked the problem of poverty, education would prove to be one of the main bullet that slayed and ended the horror of poverty.

Hard work is hard work.  There is no substitute for hard work.  Hard work refers to the willingness of an individual to roll up his sleeve and do whatever is necessary to make things happen.  I have yet to meet a person who is rich and successful who is not a hard worker.

Now, I have some reservations about connections.  Because one cannot actually plan and produce notable work that is geared towards connections.  Personally, connection is just an accident or just an incidental factor.   Having the right environment (like the right school, right church, and right geographic origin) however, open doors that is usually closed to anyone who does not share the same element of similarity.

So, there you have it, such is true in Singapore and by extension – such is also applicable in the Philippines.