@ 3dassets

>> Average people is more than risk takers, young graduates whine not getting jobs or under paid is because they and their parents expect better after many years of investment, tuition fees and efforts to get multi "A"s as publicized every year. Soon, their proud faces are hampered by low value job and no career advancement condition.

◘ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4fAZ914sY...nel_video_title

You get paid what your labour is worth.  If you decide to become a biologist because it pays 100,000 per year... but by the time you graduate you learn 1,000,000 other people have also graduated as biologist, a few things can happen.  You can choose 1, more than one, all, or any combination.

1. You can get used to being paid less because 999,999 other people can do your job.

2. You can differentiate yourself in terms of value to your employer.  There's dozens of ways you can do this.

3. You can increase your skill knowledge even further in your field of choice to surpass the other 999,999 idiots who decided to chase down the same road with you.

4. You can move to an area or location where there ISN'T as many of those idiots

5. You can try to get ahead by establishing business contacts and networking alongside your skills.

6. You can change careers.

7. You can simply work at it for a while, accept less pay to start, but find out what the marketing needs are at your company, accept additional job responsibilities, and "climb the corporate ladder".

8. You can work an additional job or have some work "on the side".

9. You can work freelance and build your value to individual customers / companies / consumers to earn more than what you'd get on a basic salary.

10. You can post on LowYat how it's not fair and taking risk doesn't matter.

Just a few options I came up with on the spot.

>> the qualification is part of the risk too if can't benefit from it.

◘ Correct.  Earning a degree is generally regarded as LESS risky, but there's still risk to everything we do.  With risk comes a chance of reward, and even if nothing else, you LEARN, develop, and grow as a person from having taken the risk, even if you dont win the first time you try.

This is why we encourage people to hang in there, be tough, be strong, stay at it, dont give up.  The road is long, and the race doesn't always go to the fastest.  It often goes to the one who fell down, got back up, and kept running.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM5A1K6TxxM - forward to 1:15 for the defining moment that separates all winners from losers.

Keep taking risk - be smart, be calculative, be wise, dont trust every Tom d*** and Harry who comes by promising you a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Be frugal, watch what you spend, take care of your money, plan around your budget.  Not all that glitters is gold.

You learn all these lessons first hand from TRYING.  If you wanna learn to ride, you gotta learn to fall.  The path to success is paved with failure.  If you need to go somewhere and cry about it, then cry.  That's a normal human reaction when you're hurt, when things dont work out the way you want.  But crying and whining are two different things.  One is a response to being hurt, the other is what you do in place of trying, because whining is easier than trying.  But you dont grow that way. 

No matter how, if you TRY, it's a win-win situation.  You either succeed, or you become stronger, sharper, and smarter from having failed.

>> why middle income is sliding into the poor? Because The rich created low wage value.

◘ Sorry, but that's not how it works.  Watch the first video I posted.  If your wage is too low, workers leave.  If your employees work more and earn more, then you keep the money, they'll leave then too.  And without workers and the talents they bring, your company fails.  The free market regulates itself this way.

And also, what do you mean by "poor"?

I love this word when it comes from Malaysians.  I've been homeless in this country before - still am technically.  I slept under a freeway for a while because I had nowhere to go, I have no family, and no one would help me (after all, I'm white... so I MUST be rich.)  I would take 2 pieces of chicken from Carrefour and try to make it last all day by taking a bite every few hours.  I'd get into town by jogging if I had to.  I'd ask for money so I could go online and apply for jobs, or try to get business through my blog.  I'd let a friend use my motorcycle for a while so in return he'd fill it with petrol.

People just cannot get their heads around this.  When I say something like "I dont have money", they really.  Just.  Can.  Not.  Get it.  "I dont have money" from me, because I'm white, means "Ahhhh gee... I wont be able to afford 20 hookers this month.  Looks like I'll have to settle for 12, and eat less caviar".  It's either that or "Oh dash it, now I shall have to use my MASTER CARD to make payments on my Aston Martin this week!" 

When you talk about "being poor", tell me, you still have Astro, right?  I mean f*** Astro you've got electricity in your house.  Aw hell nevermind - YOU GOT A HOUSE!!!  Damn I bet you had breakfast this morning too, and you'll have lunch and dinner before today's over.  Wtf do you mean poor???  I see a kid playing X-box talking about how he has money problems.  And it's ironic to see them whine about it and give up, while I typically just grit my teeth and keep going.

I think if you can eat, and you can afford shoes on your feet, your definition of "poor" needs adjusting.

>> I lost two rounds, 10 years with conventional art material, another 12 years in full computerized work flow, I was 31, wasn't too late back then and computer is expected to be apart of our lives sooner or later, guess it didn't prosper because Malaysian are slow to catch up with computerize business but smart phone gadgets.

◘ It's never too late!  Get up and KEEP TRYING!!!



>> dreamer101 said I made a crucial mistake to remain in this doom country in one of his 5 rules, if only I can speak proper English and buy a one way ticket to the USA and manage to pass their immigration, then work illegally.

◘ I'm from America.

rar!

>> How many things can one cater in a few hours personal time a day?

◘ http://smilepls.com/success-story-of-colon...anders-aka-kfc/ - how bout getting 1,009 rejections by the time you're 65?

http://entrepreneurialblogshots.7dayshooto...trepreneurship/

From the link:

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During his early years, Harland worked different odd jobs such as farm-hand, streetcar conductor, soldier, fireman, self-taught lawyer, insurance salesman, and steamboat operator.
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Take THAT, career change!!!

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Added on August 31, 2011, 5:50 pmI'm gonna let Courage Wolf answer most of these.

Because there's basically just 2 ways to do this.

@ 3dassets

>> I have already done that but no luck

Then keep trying.

>> If anyone wish to reach my level, you cannot have a life, spent all your time after work practice and learn.

You must be at level 90 by now.  Kick ass!

>> In the past, there are English TV series at night that I learn my English from but not any more, they trashed them all, now you must pay Astro one year to view half year program because the other half is repeats.

Doesn't that just suck?

>> I also heard Najib announce 1.5k 3D related jobs a few years ago, oh, sorry, that one went to Singapore, sigh.

Uncle Sam, can you handle this one?

>> I thought I don't have good luck but this country too suffer the same fate, many production house too have close in the past few years and artists are retrenched, the world too got no luck but come to think of it, Art & Design is just a job and no career in it.

◘ If you're surrounded by shadows, it's because YOU are the light.

>> Insurance is invented to provide a sense of security when bad luck strikes and people can live with false sense of security alone.

◘ Putting money away for a rainy day is not a false sense of anything.  It's real security.  It's what you rely on in case of emergencies.

Come on you're downing insurance now?  I think you're reallyyyyyyy in a low mood right now.