I am in the people business. I take care of minions and recently my department was tasked to hire a migrant worker from Bangladesh. He was a blue collar worker at a construction site, holding the lowest grade of work pass as he had not much education.
But Monkey Lord liked his work style and felt that we ought to "steal him" and I was tasked to begin the thieving act.
Mr Bangladesh was happy to be poached by us as the offer to him was a higher work permit class and his wages gets bumped up by an additional SGD Two Thousand a month and this in foreign exchange would make him a rich man, considering his current measly salary income.
He was happy and off we went to process the papers to make his transfer to us legal.
Two weeks into the process, we were told he struck lottery ("Toto") winnings of SGD5.8 million! A single winner in the draw and based on numbers he picked himself. A winning of equivalent 456,344,580 Bangladeshi Taka, he need not work - in fact his future generations of several lineages will not need to work.
So, it was unexpected that he told us he was packing up and going home!
But his future supervisor spoke with him. Announcing to the world in Bangladesh that he is now obscenely rich would have him killed sooner or later or kidnapped.
All sorts of relatives will crawl out of the woodwork claiming to be his missing cousin, aunty, uncle or what nots cousins many times removed.
We managed to persuade him to continue to work with us and quietly keep his finances safely locked up in Singapore and giving to his family what they needed to subsist and buy things needed.
I think he made a counter wise decision to stay on and earn more big bucks and not learn to gamble away his wealth.
I asked myself what would I do if I was in his shoes?
Without hesitation, I replied to myself that I would continue to work. I could then relax a little and not worry that if tomorrow I lost my job, I am done for.
I will then invest in 1 to 2 pieces of property and hopefully get passive income as a regular stream of income flow.
But I cannot kid myself, I am never lucky. I have never won anything in my life - not even a lucky draw or find couple of bucks on the road. I have friends who can find $10, $50 dollars just lying in front of their footpath!
Perhaps I am lucky in just being alive and with a job. There are others struggling to find or keep a job as well as battling terminal illnesses.
Rabbit's foot, four leaf clover or throwing salt over your shoulder.....may luck accost us all.
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