Many people, whom I speak to on the street, introducing the usual “package” of their dissatisfaction with life, in the end they add, “Let them (the authorities – A. A.) put a factory into operation, where we would go to work. During these 25 years we demolished and destroyed everything.” Interestingly, the same thing is said by our fellow-citizens who live in the village, although, according to the logic, the village residents should strive to cultivate the land and raise animals. Why do people want to work especially in a factory, I cannot understand to the end. Apparently, they have preserved the memories of how they or their parents were going to factory every day, and more or less, were able to make their decent living thanks to this job.
Of course, people remember differently of what the life was some 30-40 years ago. The following picture is preserved in my memory that the Armenian majority, although, unlike the present situation, had a job and got a normal salary, was introducing about the same “package” of dissatisfaction in the conversations. The latter was peppered with rhetorical – dreamy question, “Do you know “what a fortune” the secretary of the regional committee, the shop floor worker, and the storekeeper make?” And, of course, they wanted such a wonderful “profession” for their children.
What quality of products these factories were providing, where they were consumed, nobody, of course, was particularly interested in it. People were working, regardless of the quality and consumption of the product, they were receiving wages, occasionally they were taking spare parts or finished products home, sometimes they were selling precious parts on the “left”. That’s why storekeeper’s profession was so “prestigious”.
But, I repeat, maybe many of us have really kept bright memories about those times, maybe those times were really bright. More importantly that it will never, under no circumstances, happen again, even if Putin, Stalin and Mikoyan, holding hand in hand, would come here and want to “beautify Armenia.” The government would never build a “factory” just for a charitable purpose so that people would get good or bad job and make money. Only the investors will build a factory or operate the existing ones, and only for one purpose – to earn an income. And the task of the state is not allowing the government officials to have a share in it and “ask for a kickback” (which they do it now), moreover, to create the best suitable conditions for the investors.
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But to sit and wait that you will be invited to a “factory” or any other company, you will be provided with job, is senseless. It makes sense to create your own, even if small, even a decent one, but your own business.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
