Sunrise, sunset

It seems like such a coincidence that whichever industry I join, it always seems to be the hot topic during the National Day Rally.

About 8 years ago, the library was the talk of the day. We, no they, have gone really high tech and have managed to jump leaps and bounds in terms of cutting down the queues and creating many new services etc.

Last week, during the National Day Rally Speech, childcare centres were the hot topic and for days before and after the rally speech, there were lots of reports in the newspapers about them. The number of centres need to be increased so as to encourage child bearing among married couples (sounds like our pledge. Hee, hee!).

There will be more subsidies given and lots more carrots are being dangled in front of parents to encourage them to give birth to more. Subsidies for working and non-working mums are up. Scholarships and bursaries would be given to teachers to upgrade and improve themselves. The fact that my school was mentioned for providing the scholarships shows that I must have done something right by signing up with that school.

A salsa-dancing ex-colleague once told me that the publishing industry is a sunset industry, but I think I must agree with the marketing manager that I did not like from Etonhouse (still trying to find link to that posting), that being in early childhood education industry is a sunrise industry.