Nothing wrong with driving taxi

THE EDITOR: Like street vendors and taxi drivers, unemployed lawyers are following in the footsteps of these truly smart people.

If you are really intelligent but unemployed in what, in local parlance is described as a "big work," you take the option of doing something lucrative. Material success depends on time and effort expended. Each participant is as clever as Einstein.

So, when are we going to admit that because of the unrealistic idea of a small country yearly giving out 400 highly expensive fully paid up scholarships, when we cannot employ all beneficiaries? The dream of many TT parents is and will forever be, "My child going to be either a doctor or a lawyer."

The profit margins are high but only if you can be absorbed into the world of work. The doctors have it a mite easier as doctors like nurses, are always needed world wide. You can opt to stay out there in foreign and repay the government.

Too many Trini lawyers are put in a bind because of insufficient paying clients. With only 1.4 million people, lawyers who cannot get into a thriving law practice or a "government wuk," are forced to get creative.

In small TT, it is not only who you know. Say no more than that. The Third World cannot supply the range of employment the First World can. And anyway, even in the First World, genuine success at practising law is for the truly gifted and socially well-connected.

Driving a taxi is good business. Vending can be extremely lucrative with doubles vendors being among the smartest. Patience is the underlying virtue leading to profit while you await your turn at putting on the flowing robes worn by those in the judiciary.

LYNETTE JOSEPH

Diego Martin.