Frederick Noronha wrote :
Does the low payment come about due to the names called? Are the
low-status jobs the only ones which draw low payment? Or, is this a
wholly separate issue, quite different from (but running parallel to)
the issue of low payment for labour? FN
Frederick,
All I want to convey is there should be dignity in whatever work we do be it
small or big. In Goa and India, many look down on menial/unskilled jobs
ridiculing people doing such jobs. We should bear in mind that we are working
hard for a living whether on ships, ashore or abroad and are not begging.
Abroad every job is respected no matter how small. There is no discrimination
in the types of jobs one does. A Goan would find it difficult to do menial
jobs in his own house due to this mentality of others, while abroad he is
prepared to do any job knowing well that there is respect for these jobs. This
attitude should change and all jobs respected. After all these menial jobs are
also equally essential for our day to day living. As regards payment menial
jobs are low paid jobs in India while abroad it is not so. In fact there
would not be much difference in the salaries say of a garbage worker and a guy
doing clerical work in an office.
Thanks and best wishes,
Camilo Fernandes
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