FREDDIE Kissoon’s world seems to be his mind. What his mind tells him that what he writes. In his article “the sexed up picture ant the ancient mariner, he said the young graduates in Guyana do not have a future.
What kind of future do young graduates in Kissoon’s world have?
In North America there are thousands of young graduates that cannot find work in the fields in which they are qualified. Those who find work have a student loan worth over US$40, 000 hanging over there heads. In the USA a young pilot after spending over US$100,000 to graduate earns about $18,000 a year. To supplement his income and pay off his loan he has to take a second job. With that kind of money that he earns when he finishes paying his loan with interest it will amount to about half a million dollars. There are many young pilots who work in factories doing physical work. In the supermarkets there are graduates working as cashiers. A friend who lives in Canada told me that his son has a Master’s Degree in English Language and the only place that he can find a job is Loblaw’s supermarket.
Many of them find work through agencies and are paid $12 an hour, if some are lucky they may get a few dollars more.
Many qualified people from third world countries in Asia and Europe are told that the pastures are greener in North America and many jobs are available in their field only to find that they were fooled. Many of them left good jobs and sold out what they have only to find that there are no greener pastures in North America. In Canada there is a shortage of doctors, yet one can find doctors driving cabs and qualified engineers working on lines in factories.
Is this the kind of future Freddie wants for the young graduates?
It doesn’t matter how poor Guyana is, all young graduates are employed and they do not have a huge loan over their heads.
If those graduates want to listen to Freddie and leave for greener pastures then they are in for a rude awakening.