Exit, a common word for young Dominican Professionals

Going to school in the Dominican Republic is not easy, but a lot of families struggle to send their kids to good schools with hope that they will find a good job after they graduate. The ugly truth for those that do not have social connections is the opposite. For those that always ignored the word networking, trying to establish good relationships with friends and classmates from school is very important, and you never know when this may come in handy.

A lot of people spend a whole year trying to find a job, and in the end they have to lower their standards and work in any company to help pay their expenses and help their families.

A positive thing is that at least they are able to find a job, even though they salaries are not so competitive, they can pay for their data package and Internet for some entertainment at home.

Being more specific, over 85% of Dominicans earn under US$600 a month . With this said, maybe now people understand why Dominicans are entrepreneurs by nature. Living in the “DR” as a lot of tourists call the Dominican Republic is a whole experience, you can see the entrepreneurship wherever you walk, stores, people selling in the streets and at the traffic lights, I would call it survival mode.

Getting back to the main topic, sometimes when you hear stories of young professionals and all the things they went through to get a degree, you could understand why the word EXIT is common in their dictionary.

When young professionals leave their country to look for better opportunities this has a huge impact on the local economy , as their ideas and contributions will never reach local businesses and in the same path, these local companies reduce their possibilities of taking their commercial exchange from regional to global.

To finish with the word “Exit”, and this goes dedicated to all local businessmen, sometimes not offering competitive salaries makes young professionals look for opportunities in different countries to finance their personal projects and staying in a place where landing a job depends on who you know makes it kind of obvious on what decision has to be made.

This is just my opinion on how I see this topic, and if you would like to know more just ask any Dominican that lives abroad, why they took the decision to leave paradise.

For those looking for a job, remember there are lots of opportunities if you look for them, don´t stay home, start searching and you will find one!

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Being productive and surviving, part I

We all have one of those days that are simply horrible, but it all depends on what you can do to change it to your favor.

A very important word to start organizing your life at home or work is prioritizing!

Learn how to identify the activities that do not have an impact on your results from those that can actually do something. In the beginning, it’s hard, but if you want to achieve your goals you must put in that extra effort.

These are a few tips you can start using and let me know how it works for you:

1. Identify the tasks that have a high priority and are important to achieve your objectives or goals.
2. Transfer these tasks on a to-do list, to have a guide on what to do, per day.
3. The rest of the tasks that have to be completed but are not important can be scheduled for the day that is not overloaded and this way you avoid multi-tasking.

You are probably thinking that implementing these three steps is easy, so I challenge you to start using them and let me know the impact this has on your productivity.

Please remember to share this article with your friends and family.

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