How
to be rich in Singapore 100218
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.
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