The concept of highly skilled work
What does highly skilled workplace, highly skilled profession mean? Or even deeper - what does a reputable profession mean?
This is a question I have been asking myself ever since I had to visit the office of the bank where I had an account in the next town. Several times. (I had to visit it.)
First of all, what impressed me was the endless incompetence of the employees. But this, on the one hand, is justified as logic and causality, because of the low wages in the cities outside the capital. And even lower wages in smaller towns and even smaller settlements.
Companies in the settlements outside the capital try to hire people at low wages. But at the same time they want to hire quality and qualified people. Which, as seen as the end result, is almost impossible. Because quality work and low pay are two opposite things. Even for younger people. Older people who lived in the time of communism and are used to putting up with everything, already know and apply that slogan that is typical of that time and which reads: They lie to me that they pay me, I lie to them that I work.
Simple and clear. And very understandable. Then there should be no questions and surprises as to why the economy in the country is not working.
So we go to the bank branch in the next town, where the employees don't do any work for you, they don't have answers to your specific questions, but they answer with learned confidence, giving wrong answers. Who cares? Well, they work as much as they are paid.
Then I look around and pay attention to the customers who visit the bank office at the same time that I am there. They seem to be quite ordinary, even uneducated people - Roma or pensioners who do not understand anything about accounts, banks and ATMs anyway. Or some other ordinary workers, not particularly intelligent either.
I realize, and I realized this a long time ago, that since there aren't many job opportunities in this city, young and smarter people, and others who are just more enterprising, just go somewhere else. (Don't ask me why I stayed.)
From time to time in the store where we buy food, I see new faces - young and pretty girls, expensively dressed (which is not typical for the city), who seem to crawl out of nowhere and do not participate in the life of the city anyway. I believe that they "work" in onlyfans and this is the only and best offer for young girls with ambitions in this city.
So, from my observations, 80% of the population is unambitious, living day to day because their low wage lifestyle demands it, etc., and also I would say, pretty average, not very educated etc. So, even if you work in a "prestigious" workplace, like a bank (although I wonder how a person can find or get to such a workplace in such a settlement - at least 99% with connections) it does not mean that on a daily basis you will communicate with intelligent people.
Then, let's think about pharmacists working in a pharmacy. Studying pharmacy is a big deal, isn't it? But then you end up as a salesperson like in any other store that sells something. Why am I saying this? Well, because in Bulgaria it is difficult to find a pharmacist who can give you a consultation or advice about something. Not that they can't, they just don't want to. Perhaps as some kind of tacit agreement between them and the doctors who write prescriptions or because of some conflict between them.
And these people working as shop assistants, often at very low wages in cities outside the capital, communicate with whom? Well, in the capital, perhaps the percentage of more educated and more intelligent people is certainly higher. But in the smaller settlements, and especially the villages, the dominant population is uneducated Roma and surrendered people.
Very often I find myself standing in line at a pharmacy, even in a regional town, surrounded by illiterate Roma. The same applies when I'm waiting outside a doctor's office in a hospital or private clinic.
So what does a highly skilled, reputable or even intellectual profession mean in these conditions?
I think I remember some words of my mother from the past, who regretted that I did not work in a bank. But if you ask me, after the last things I've seen and experienced in a bank office, I'm glad I don't work in a bank. 😃
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Someone seems to be a bit frustrated today?
Yes, working in a bank is not good for your health!
Just today? 🤭 I have been frustrated every day for quite a few years now 🤣
Working in a bank is not good for anyone's mental health. But the problem is that life in this country works in the same, even worse and hopeless way.
Good for you!
That builds character!
Life is not about money so all those who devote life to the purpose of making money are doomed. Just my opinion.
Hahaha, that was character building! You were a very funny person, really. If that was the case, I would have already turned into steel and nothing would be able to bend me.
And that money is not important in life is said only by people who have money. The rest are just trying to survive. Just my opinion.
Perhaps true.
I hope I am still a funny person, lolz.
Have a great weekend!
Hah, I don't know what to say here. Hope so too 😃
Have a great weekend as well, or at least, what is left of it!
Thank you! Have a great new week!
I live in a small provincial town with a population of 65,000. Everything you described is very typical for us as well. Total incompetence because of low salaries. Low salaries due to owners' reluctance to spend extra money when less can be spent.
At the same time, we have factories where highly specialized specialists are needed. Theoretically, such specialists can be found, because the education system provides the need for these specialists. But in practice, no normal young person will go to work with such a salary. It is better to go to a big city.
The most interesting thing is that the salary fund is only 1% of the cost structure of, for example, the company where I work. That is, there is an opportunity to pay a higher salary, but the factory owners do not have such a desire. Low-skilled workers, who will not demand anything extra, will suit them.
I have heard that in Bulgaria there are cartel agreements regarding wages, i.e. for all settlements outside the capital it is agreed to give lower, and where possible even lower wages. It sounds rather illogical, but if this is true, it explains everything. It turns out that everything was planned and done on purpose. And even if someone wants to give higher wages, but there are no such employers anymore, he will be threatened or simply crushed by the competition or by some evil forces that lead and organize everything.
Sometimes I'm really surprised when I see some younger people in the next town, but then I remember how everyone works there - if you're young and you're stuck there, you're up to no good, really. I'm talking about a town with just over 30,000 people.
The next town nearby, which has about 65 thousand people, is a completely different case, only 15 km away. I have almost always been served competently there, maybe because I compare it with the situation in the other town. 😁
It turns out that everything depends on the size of the settlement in which one lives. And you certainly live in a better place with a population of 65 thousand, even though you call it a "small town". 😃
Once such a case became public in our country. Sometime in 2003, one of the large chemical plants of our city was bought by a large investor. This investor had many factories in different countries, therefore, as usual, he decided to set the same salary here as in his other factories. This would mean that a skilled laborer, but not an engineer, would receive a salary of $1,000. This is a lot for Ukraine. Then the management of the region approached the investor and convinced him to reduce the salary by five times, citing the "risk of a social explosion".
Therefore, I believe your words about the agreement on the salary level to be true.
Hahaha...Yeah, well, um, the banks are under attack continuously by an illegal, self taxing authority called black hat hackers. The evil diabolical anonymous self righteous group that steals so much, especially from banks and credit card companies, that wages are and capital are artificially forced to nothing.
Then again, you may be completely correct. Good points made 🤪
To be honest, I didn't know there was anyone who stole more than banking institutions. And also someone who steals more than the state. The problem for me is that all the money just ends up in someone's private pocket, not an institutional or government pocket. That's the way the country I live in works. And they have never announced that any bank has fallen into the hands of black hat hackers, so that there is a reason for me to sympathize or feel sorry for them.
Well, Alexander the Great, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, the First Emperor of China, Greece's Constantine emperor of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire, Somebody in Turkey, Charlemagne, Atila the Hun, Somebody who led the Bulgars😜, Ivan the Terrible, the Saracens, Spain, France, Napoleon, Britain, Hitler, Patton and Eisenhower, MacArthur, the Soviet Union, Persia II, and I would add the United States but in case you haven't noticed, we always give it back unless the population votes to join the country, the British too gave it all back in the form of commonwealth rule.
So we see banks aren't the biggest thieves and if you need a loan for a car, house, or business guess what?
Admittedly they no longer pay decent interest on savings but that because Anonymous has robbed them blind. Really Anonymous has robbed them blind - I know.
In other news, I have figured how to decipher an sdkmesh DirectX 11 file and load it in to a DirectX 12 file. I had it correct for longest time and didn't know it as soon, I will have game engine two.
Good for you for living in a country where banks aren't the biggest thieves. 😃 In my country the banks and service companies are so tied to the government that I don't know who is the bigger robber. And they have proven it over the years. Increasing taxes, fees, bills, and in the end nothing, nothing improves, nothing is gained in return - the money just flows into someone's pocket. When I last went to the biggest bank I close my account with, I photographed some of the terms they advertised for their savings accounts: 0.00% interest. At the same time, their fees are the highest, they're cutting staff, and probably wages, and there's no news of hackers robbing the bank itself...
Probably are being hacked, which is most likely embezzlement an inside job.Loans defaulting.
And with 6 or 7 million people in the country there might not be enough experts to figure it out.
It is very tough to figure out and what is worse nowadays the hackers seem to be able to turn innocent people into the culprit and the innocent have no idea what is happening.
The have little devices that can scan the credit cards right of a wallet or purse in an instant and you never know it.
The caught an illegal immigrant gang just the other day before yesterday.
Here they announce it all the time. There's commercials that tell how many people have suffered identity theft and corporations and businesses as well. Businesses and government suffers more losses than the average person or family. It has gone on for a long time. But remain cheerful and hopeful because this to shall end.😊
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A whole lot of people actually complain of job opportunities but the truth is if we look into it carefully, the fault is actually from them. They are incompetent
I would disagree here. I don't know if your country really offers endless opportunities, well paid and suitable for every single person's education, but there are regions where job opportunities are very few, poorly paid, even humiliatingly poorly paid, and for people with education and qualifications, no options are found. If a person with education and qualifications cannot find or does not want to start the poorly paid and degrading job, does that make him incompetent?
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