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Trinispougla wrote:I think doing a degree is still the wisest course of action. You need to have the slip of paper under your belt. A Trinidad and Tobago national does not need to work in TT. All the other islands are lacking trained persons in critical sectors and through the CSME, you can legally work in the other islands. Guyana is another signatory to that agreement and they are underdeveloped in all sectors. But i honestly think agriculture is the best bet. Hydroponics is expensive to start up, with the motors and canals, but it seems to have relatively secure returns on the investment
ProtonPowder wrote:Rell men in here claiming that "young people just want it easy"
ProtonPowder wrote:People dont seem to realise that that is what was drilled into peoples heads from young, since primary school. Especially those in the indo working and middle class
Getting a degree, especially in med/law/eng is not an "easy route." The job stagnation is just a result of that oversaturation of young professionals entering the workplace since $4$ and GATE
Men in here rell like to praise the wisdom of the older generation but fail to realise that job saturation and abundance of unemployed professionals is partly a direct consequence of that mentality, lest you 'shame' your parents by going against their wishes
88sins wrote:yuh might not believe it or enjoy hearing it, but that doesn't make it any less true. I wouldn't say all, but most youth today too lazy & self entitled to have a clue about what hard work really is & have zero interest in going tru all dat effort for what dey want..
because everybody want to push dey pikney to be either a lawyer or a doctor or a engineer, not thinking that it has other jobs and careers, that tho it might be hard work is still a very satisfying & well paying career choice.
The_Honourable wrote:Education up to secondary level is important but it needs to be reformed. Tertiary level you have to be sure on your choices to get a job which many find out the hard way when it's time to go in the job market. That being said, don't be naive to think that one stream of income is enough. It will be enough if you are single and have no mortgage.
Network Marketing is good but pyramid schemes and dishonesty runs amok especially for the past 12 years in T&T.
Forex and Crypto are also good but just like network marketing, dishonesty and schemes are at play right now.
Farming is a good option but there are poor support systems to keep it alive and people nowadays don't want to plant. Easier to use the land to build real estate.
Tutoring/Mentoring is a very good option. Should be looked into.
Can't go wrong opening a business... but you have to satisfy a need and have some form of competitive advantage which many people miss. I'm seeing some being brash especially in the network marketing side opening a "group of companies" calling themselves entrepreneurs hoping to be the next Sabga yet they are financially in the red. If you are selling Nutralite and calling yourself an entrepreneur because you read a Robert Kiyosaki book (his books are good), you are deluding yourself. The real entrepreneurs are the ones who own nutralite/amway and the 1st set of people who started the business in a country.
Once you have a skill, hustling is good. Developing your skills and being honest with your customers will be jackpot down the road.
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:Not sure why people still saying to go get a "degree" when in reality people can't get jobs with "degrees" these days, I mean there is medical degrees, engineering degrees that you can get a job and then carnival degrees and history degrees and business degrees even IT degrees that people can't get jobs with.
Friend of mine has his BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering for the last 5 years and out of those 5 years he was employed for only 2 years even though he sent in hundreds of resumes. Where I work we get hundreds of resumes for the month for jobs we do not have and never will have for those people.
The honest thing to do right now is encourage young people to do a trade, this is what is lacking and has the best chance for someone to get employment. Good tradesmen are hard to find and people WILL pay the money for quality work I can tell you this as a fact. There is a stigma attached to tradesmen which is all of them are alcoholics etc which isn't true
Right now if you are a mechanic you get through, money real nice in that field. You can build a big house in that field while University grads begging for a wuk that pays $5000 a month and can't even find that.
urbandilema wrote:Or btw anyone does do real estate what's the basics to learn that in trinidad
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:sure second income ventures:
build apartments and rent it...
a good rum shop
a good food place
these 3 things will always survive in Trinidad
88sins wrote:op, lemme put it like this
a lot of ppl get a degree, with teh idea in mind that it will net them a job that pays a lot of money. but what they don't consider is what happens if the field in which they have the degree is saturated & they can't a job that easily. A degree kinda useless if you can't find a job to utilize the skills you learned in theory in school.
If a person is good with their hands AND brains, a trade isn't a bad option as an alternative to a degree. And depending on what their skill set is, a trade that you start as a part time side income thing or hobby can be turned into a business very easily, depending on how hard you want to work at making it a business of course. Plenty ppl do this on a regular basis.
Of those you mentioned farming have good money in it & a person could make a god living doing it once they established themselves & their routines, but be forewarned it have real plenty work, expense, headache & risk to get started in it before you see enough returns to break even or even make you feel like it worth the effort. Only hard working, tenacious & patient ppl make it as farmers, crops or livestock alike.
You mentioned tutoring/mentoring. It really don't have much of a profitable market for that here outside the bigger more established institutions.
Anybody asks me this kinda question I tell them all the same thing, just get a job to start. Any job, it doesn't matter what it might be, as long as it earns you at least enough to keep you fed, clothed & housed. If you could save something from it better still. Then study what you good at (if anything at all), and see how you could turn that into a side business, then gradually turn that side business into a full time business.
& yes I said it, (if yuh good at anything at all) cuz some ppl eh good at nuttn more than wasting God good air & space. Productivity is against dey religion, & if yuh tell dem to work hard & sacrifice to get what they want is like u tell dem to kill deyself or yuh cuss dey mudda.
Short story shorter, only you could know what you good at & how hard you willing to push yuhself to make it out here.
R3TROB3N wrote:urbandilema wrote:Or btw anyone does do real estate what's the basics to learn that in trinidad
Real Estate In What Regrad? If you mean buying and selling then you either had to be blessed with land from the start or have serious capital. Most successful people only go into real estate when they have a couple million they are willing to risk.
Thanks man will check it outThe_Honourable wrote:R3TROB3N wrote:urbandilema wrote:Or btw anyone does do real estate what's the basics to learn that in trinidad
Real Estate In What Regrad? If you mean buying and selling then you either had to be blessed with land from the start or have serious capital. Most successful people only go into real estate when they have a couple million they are willing to risk.
ROYTEC has a course on it: http://www.roytec.edu/index.php?option= ... Itemid=549
It's well rounded especially if you want to be an agent.
Daran wrote:Maxi, play whe, doubles, ph, rent a car, rent apartments...all work
Food have the highest rare of failure tho.aidan wrote:Food, can't go wrong.
*KRONIK* wrote:Food have the highest rare of failure tho.aidan wrote:Food, can't go wrong.
Watch how much small food place does open and barely make a 6months....
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