Re: Re: Re: Bust and Then What???
1. Thank you for being lenient and so forigiving of me.
Kenkoh....you are forgiven my son...go forth and be fruitful!
...you're are pulling my little guy right?
2. I apologise if you or other members feel silly and take offence of my statement about "doctors being professionals". I guess we come from different backgrounds and have different social experiences... I do not actually mean the way which you are presently extraploating from my statement nor do I have such intentions.
...silly is silly, offence is offence, very different concepts, I highly doubt anyone took
offence. ( Real offensive posts should be removed anyone from the forum)
Living in Japan and visiting other Asia countries influenced by Chinese culture of education as the way to escape from a tedious life. I do understand the undercurrent that Education = Professional = Status. I was only allowed to work in Japan after some government agency assessed that I had education to the level of "A Masters of Engineering" and thus could obtain a "Engineering Work Visa" ...I wouldn't know a slide rule from a steam engine!
3. In Singapore and in my part of the world, doctors are generally held in high esteem and are highly respected, both the medical doctors as well as those who hold a doctorate in their own respective specialised field of studies. They are deemed to be highly talented with quality minds and belonging to a very selected group of special top elites in our society. It does not mattter whether you or I agree/disagree to it. That has been my own social experiences in Singapore.
Gosh my organization (German) has more PhD's than you can point a stick at (Masters grads with straight "A" seem to be minimum requirement to enter these days). My view is these guys seem to be people who have hung around university for 10 years and finally when they cannot continue any further (government stops the handouts)...at the age of 28,29,30 they get a job. Talent, elite, select group, not the words I would use to describe them. When I see a co-worker with a PhD and in particularly when he/she makes it known that they have a PhD "My Name is Dr Schmitt" (rather than keeping it quiet), I know I will be in for a waste of my time, impractical meeting. The best guy I know in the field working in Germany only finished High school.
Donft get me wrong, if I had a brain tumor I would want the best, brightest most dedicated professional doctor around.
4. In Singapore, teachers are deemed as professionals too. Some of the top teachers in Singapore can earn more than S$10,000 a month and many of them have post-graduate qualifications and specialised training.
I was being sarcastic in my response; a professional schoolteacher is in my opinion worth his/her weight in gold. Its pity that society doesnft pay, the pay scale seems only mildly above baby-sitting. One teacher told me she was offered a job paying more to be an assistant manager at pizza delivery shop! How could society pay more to someone to organize the delivery of Pizza's than the deliever skills,knowledge and a pasion for learning to my children? Just look at the number of male primary school teachers these days! There is no way I could raise my family if I wanted to be a primary school teacher! The job for society has been downgraded to "Womenfs" work good enough only to help support a family as a secondary income.
5. In Singapore, being a professional does not mean that one is highly successful in life or rich. It does not mean that one is good in investing in property as you seem to want to suggest to me, with respect to your statement about Jan Somers. In fact, some of our own top businessmen in Singapore actually do not have high education. Neither do highly successful people needs to have high education in order to succeed in life. That is also what I personally believe too.
Yes that's the point! Success and Professional has nothing to do with your job or your qualifications, but it has 100% do with you, you are your career because
your career is you.
6. I fully agree with you that being "professional" can always be an attitude of mind/personhood in wanting to excel and to be the very best in whatever one is doing, irrespective of one's academic achievements or vocations.
Exactly.
7. Nonetheless, I still sincerely believe in LB and his good intentions though I may not fullly agree with his views myself. I also admire his courage and convictions to speak out his heart and openly state his belief despite major oppositions and many criticisms he has received from some of our more highly experienced investing members in this forum.
I admire the fact that he has backed his arguments with some real research and logic! I come to this forum not for opinions, but for alternative ideas and new viewpoint, new ways of thinking etc.
You donft need to say "thank you" every time you post.
...now I better get back to work before my Singaporian boss fires my arse!
