oil price and my work

oil price is coming down and unstable these days...means jobs related to this industry will shrink...

closest example is my next job was delayed nearly 3 months...it should start on next june but shifted to end of next year...

what should i do within next year?....hmm..have to think all abt it again n again.

now the oil price had gone down, everybody feels the heat..not only in oil industry, but civils, constructions and others too..

hmm..our country economic downturn was around 96..97...10 years ago..oil booms was around 90 or late 80s..and second boom was on early 2000..

does this mean that economic cycle is abt 10 years?...up and down in 10 years?..

lets see oil..

early 70s and mid 70s had oil crisis in the us and japan..then in 80s again..but not quite heavy crisis...then in mid 90s....now in the mid 2000s?..70, 80, 90, 00...cycle of 10 years..next maybe arnd 2015..

lets see our countrys growth..

after merdeka..all was abt agriculture...getah..sawit..nenas..n so on..then went to seramics, electronics...then oil....then automotive...then our famous MSC...

whats next?...

i bet it would be medical industry..

population in the world is gettin bigger..our country also now have more than 25 mill ppl...and soon will reach 30 mill...

so wee need more doctors, nurses, medical asistant, hospitals, clinics...and of course.."kilang obat"..haha..

sure u dont want to import medicines bcoz its cheaper and safer to make it our own..so medical based "refinary" should and will be popular later on.

to penetrate this industry is not simple...even i know certain pumps, but pumps that will be used in this industry should be special..not to pump germs...

and other things should be free of contaminants...and clean..hehe..clean room?..no 10?..or 1000?..

now our country starting to focus on biofuel, biodiesel..but how long will it last?..

even we have "sampah kelapa sawit"..but who will plant these sawit?..is it will last long enuf?.

"hampas nenas", "hampas tebu"...haha..u will go around pasar malam every day to collect hampas tebu"?

i dont think so....even you do..maybe u have to buy it from the "tokeh air tebu"....even our batang tebu also being imported from nearby country...so supply for this tebu is not enuf..for our bioxxxx industry.

now the world is down..n our pm is only concentrating on the "country" not ppl..so we as the ppl has to think on what to do and expect in near future..

if ure now mid 30s...next 10 years u will be mid 40s, and the economic downturn will come again.do u think that ur employer will hire u still?..paying more comparing to the fresh grads?..that they can pay less and "buli" more?..

then ull be mid 50s...then again the economy will go down...n that time..if u quit or being retrenched...its very difficult to search new job..


im worried, same with all of you out there...so have to think and act fast..

got many tempting offers for the past years...working in midlle east..with wages up to 10k usd per month...but how long it will last?..

maybe if i join that company..in few months they will send me home..haha..all that is in my mind.

to take the money...or stability..or what?..i dont know..

oil n gas industry will be cloudy for now and expected to get its "sun" again the earliest by end of next year....

sooooo many projects are being cancelled and reconsidered lately...more and more companies will stop giving tenders...many ppl will be out of job soon and..riot in some countries will come.

so work hard (for now) and try to keep ur position at its best...not to "jilat bontot bos" but just to "survive" now.

good luck!!