Hopeful
Dinah S. Ventura 12/20/2010As the year draws almost to a close, most companies make their year-end evaluations or wrap up their last 12 months with celebrations, whether lavish or simple, and prepare their teams for the year ahead.
For their part, workers appease themselves with thoughts of using that much-anticipated 13th month pay and, if they are lucky, even a Christmas bonus. Though fleeting pleasures, these little extras somehow alleviate the prospects of another grueling year ahead.
With the unemployment rate still dismal, chances of better opportunities hereabouts remain slim. Even those encouraging words of entrepreneurship sound foreign, as the mere words “investment” or puhunan seem daunting enough.
It’s barely believable that another year is about to pass, yet here we are, striving to feel the joy of Christmas — sadly perhaps without all our loved ones in our shores. Maybe a brother, sister, mother, father or friend may be working in other lands, and we might have to bear another Noche Buena wishing they were here. If only greener pastures did not have to be sought elsewhere... but then again, greener pastures are always exactly that..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101220com9.html
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