Second Job

Some years ago we were told by our Government that Saturday is declared a holiday so that we spend quality time with our family. There were a time when advertisements were running on TV to encourage us to do the same.

Today, on New Straits Times, Page 13 of the Prime News section...an article with the title "Amirsham : Get second job to meet rising cost." caught my attention. The first two paragraphs read

"KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians including civil servants, are encouraged to get after-office of weekend jobs to cope with the rising cost of food and fuel.

The move is to stop people from falling from the middle to poor-income bracket, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Senator Tan Sri Amirsham A. Aziz."

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Now how about that? Not only will we be loosing our Saturdays we may even loose our nights too. We are really heading to the slums if this will to continue. So what shall we do? What can we do? Anyone out there has a good suggestion? Looking forward to hearing from some of you.