This is the time to look for or identify true friends. In this trying time true friends are hard to come by. But sometimes this comes from someone unexpected.
The economic uncertainties brought along uncertainties into our life. Many continuously wondering about their future and wonders when would these uncertainties will stop?
What can we do about it? This is something beyond our control. Borrowing from Billy Joel, “we didn’t start the fire.”
What can we do to ease our sufferings? What about those retrenched? The government thru its Human resources Ministry is planning numerous schemes to retrain and repackage our work force. Is this enough?
What about those areas of expertise that are seldom talked about. Let’s take creative industry for example. Have anyone thought about the livelihood of those in the creative industry?
Creative industry usually will be the first affected by any economic uncertainties. In this internet age, creative industry contributes significantly to the economy but unfortunately it’s also the least represented industry nationwide.
There’s no national trade union representing those in the creative industry. There are numerous organizations or associations within the entertainment industry but only serve their interest and most of them are redundant. You can see more than 3 associations representing the same group of people.
In- cohesiveness caused many in the creative industry to suffer and also caused many not to take this industry seriously. Subjective is the core of creativity. There’s no mathematical formula in finding creative solutions. This also caused many not to make creative as their lifetime career.
What the industry needs to do to be taken seriously is to have a proper working frame and regulation to regulate the industry. Singapore is doing that and is now ahead of us by light years.
They saw the future in creative industry and they worked for it. Today they’ve managed to entice among the best creative minds in this region and also bringing creative industry players from the western hemisphere to Singapore.
What are we doing? We have gargantuan plans to make this country into a creative hub but a plan will always be a plan if we don’t take any action.
One of the first things we need to do if we’re really serious in developing the creative industry is to have one ministry to monitor and develop the creative and media industry. Right now there are so many ministries overlooking this industry. It’s slowing us down when our neighbors are moving at warp speed and leaving us behind.
I hope the government will look into this matter seriously and recognize the importance of this industry to the economy. The current economy downturn is affecting those in this industry.
Many are without jobs and nowhere else to go. They’re not engineers where they can be employed in other industries because they only work with their right brain.
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