Tackling problems of unemployment in BiH

Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country, where possible becomes impossible, and the country

where the logic stops. This is the sentence I often use to describe todays situation and relations

in everyday life of Bosnian people . It is just unbelievable that one such beautiful and

perspective country as it is, can be place of constant arguments and stagnation, where every of

three nations feel the exact same consequences of those problems. So many problems are

included in a poor blood count of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but there is one problem that has

presence in it, and it has nothing to do with the vital national interests or with any other

sensitive problem. It is much deeper problem that can separate many families and homes and

that was cause of starting revolutions or even wars in which people have lost their countries,

homes and everything they have dreamed of. It is problem called unemployment. This problem

stretches out through the entire 20 years of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is one of the

main causes we fail to move on. But for me, this problem is relatively easy to solve, and this is

my opinion of how easily economic recovery of our country can be done .

It is important that we recognize the real problems of unemployment and its factors that have

caused this situation, just to be able to fight against them. I have figured out that there are only

two most important factors which have caused this situation. I will start from the lowest cause

of this problem. You may be surprised by my opinion, but I think that one of the causes of

unemployment are people themselves. People are the cause of unemployment ? Yes, it may

sound strange but it is really simple to understand this problem. People in Bosnia and

Herzegovina are very hard to get used to work. It sounds funny, but here is an example, in my

class 99 % of the students, including myself, would like to work in some offices, and to be the

boss to everyone, and to deal with the paper work and just to sit and to basically do nothing in

comparison to the other workers. I think it is the wrong way of thinking and it is just an excuse to

escape from the work and the real perspective of this country. But what is the real perspective of

this country, where there is no work anywhere? Yes, there is work, and work is there where

everyone is escaping from. The real perspective of this country is in agriculture, forestry and

tourism, and strangely enough, none of my schoolmates wont study any of these. There is just

little interest in these because of the wrong system of values and the rank of these jobs in our

country. For me it is shallow way of thinking and it is normal for one eighteen year old teenager,

but it isnt normal and mature way of thinking for the elderly. If we just try to imagine the

future, where all problems of this country would be solved and where everything would be

perfect, what do you think where would all investments go to? I think they will go to the area

where the Bosnia has more power than the others, and those are these three areas. These three

areas will be foundation for the other industries and activities like a heavy metal industry, wood

industry, economy and many others. To fix this problem we need to change the way of thinking

about these areas and we have to approach them differently. First we have to free ourselves from

the horrible prejudice about them. Those prejudice are very common in our country and they are

very bad for us because they are moving us away from the benefits of, specifically these jobs. If

we could change that,we would be one step closer to solve this huge problem of unemployment

and we would only have one more problem left. Now, lets move to the other problem that I

think is second important factor. This problem is the problem that we can often hear and read

about. We talk about it a lot, and we blame it for everything bad and terrible which happens in

our society. It is called politics. Politics are huge breaks which are slowing down our country

towards its progress. Politics in this country are very complex and intricate and it is not

surprising that it is like that. As we all know this country is multinational country of three

constituent nations:Bosnians, Serbs and Croats. When something important needs to be decided

in our country all three Political sides need to find compromise, and in many cases it is long and

hard- laboring process. Sometimes many crucial laws that directly affect problems of

unemployment need to be passed and they arent, because of politics. I dont really understand

politics and relations inside of it, but I just cant see any reasons why some people directly or

indirectly block investments in our country. Only thing they have to do is to pass set of laws

which would insure safety for investments inside of our country. And that is it, simple as that.

Inside of those laws wont be any words about nations, or vital and national interest and those

laws will bring benefits to all people. But clearly, I dont really get politics. In my head it is such

a simple thing, but in reality it is so dirty and awful, especially in my country. But surely, there is

one thing I am sure about politics and one of its features which are called elections. And again

we come back to people. People are the ones who have rights to choose or to be chosen. For the

last 20 years we had several chances to choose different government and different political party.

Im sorry, those were not we. Our parents had several chances to choose better future for us and

everyone else. They had a chance to choose best economic program that will, allegedly ,change

our future. But I think their nation was somehow, more important. In the one hand I understand

them. They are afraid of war and changes and they are afraid to lose this precious country,

whatever it is like. But they dont understand that it is the only way to progress and to insure

better life and jobs for us. I think that future will show that they were wrong, and that they could

have better and happier life themselves. But who knows.

This topic about unemployment is really common in papers and Medias but no one gives an

exact solution to this problem. I have tried my best to present causes and solutions to this

enormous problem and I have figured some conclusions about it. The biggest conclusion is that it

all depends on us, people. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a democratic country which allows us to

change things. It may pass one year or five years or twenty years, but I believe that things will

change and people will get jobs. I think people will become aware of the real values of this

country and I think they will appreciate more what we have. I also think that three nations will

find way to solve disagreements which are the biggest cause of all problems in the country.

Personally, I am an optimist, and I believe that one day we will all live in peace and harmony

with great jobs in disadvantaged areas I was talking about. I really love this country and I believe

that one day it will become the country that will announce invitation for other workers from

other countries to work here, just because every single citizen of this state is employed. That is

the country I would like to live and work in, and I say again, it all depends on us.