Flying out in droves
Posted on June 2, 2006 - Filed Under General |
IF you think we're losing only our nurses, doctors and teachers to overseas jobs, think again.
"Brain drain,"now getting better front page treatment in the papers, is as near-critical in other job sectors as well, among these, commercial pilots, aircraft mechanics , planners, ground and cabin crews for the domestic aviation and airline industry, information technology engineers and technicians for the electronics industry, ship engineers and technicians for the shipping industry, mettalurgical and plant engineers for the steel industry, chemical engineers for the petrochemical industry, radio frequency engineers for the telecommunciation industry and other technical and professional staff in other workfields.
Our best minds and brawns are flying off in droves to other parts of the world for the bigger pay and much better working conditions, often with even government endorsement thru various international agreements and treaties that we may just wake up one day very soon with only a handful of old hands to steer our ships, fly our planes or man our petrochemical industries.
Why, even the west African state of Equatorial Guinea (can't blame you if you can't easily locate it in the map) is offering to lure more of our technical and professional experts there after that four-day state visit by its president to the Philippines last week. BTW, to date, Pinoys are already out there as reported by President Obiang himself, one reason he came to the Philippines to see for himself what kind of a race these "fine workers" from the Asian continent are. And he liked what he saw, indeed. That should mean more Pinoys pretty soon making a beeline for that country.
Thankfully, there are now stirrings in Congress, thru Rep. Roseller Bannaga for a re-examination of the country's overseas deployment policy and the imposition of a moratorium, or suspension of overseas deployment of some mission-critical skills to prevent a mass exodus.
Here's hoping a coming to-better-senses happens in time for a dollar remittance-obssessed republic to save it from self-immolation.
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