The last few months have been quite difficult not only for me, but for hundreds of Venezuelans who day after day have accumulated the price of the crisis in the country, a serious payment for mistakes of some in the past, one of the worst government elections that many Venezuelans have been able to take and that nowadays is showing its consequences.

Every fifteen days the basic salary is paid to workers which is approximately 400000 bsf (or less) equivalent to less than 1 $ a total incoherence, the mere fact of moving to work is an expense in transportation and energy, so many Venezuelans they are practically spending their money every two weeks to attend their jobs.

Photo: "No longer enough to dream"

I quit

I left it, they left it and many people think, to see thousands of people walking to their homes and jobs in the streets with the certainty that what they earn is not enough to go to work, adding to the lack of transportation, which is something that happens in my city, since there is a serious gas crisis, the spare parts are extremely expensive, that is, we are living in chaos. For my part recently graduated in December I worked for almost two years in a cafe while I was studying, at the end of my career I wanted to see if I could get a job to gain engineering experience in my city, because going to another state would be an absurd expense of money , then I will not be helping my family, what I found:

Broken Companies

Each and every one broken, alone, with a lack of personnel, people are giving up because the money they are paid is not in line with what is spent in a country with such impotent inflation, many have decided to abandon years of work, because with years of work and service do not bring bread to your table; I wanted to stay a couple of months more in the cafe as an engineer, but it was impossible to realize that nothing made sense, work long hours, attend to the public (often rude) in exchange for what? To pay for transportation to get to My work's place. It fills me with sadness to think that where I see, I have to find a way to leave the country, because my ideal is to help my parents and here I am not achieving it completely, I could go to another state; but a rent is too expensive and as an engineer I am afraid that I would not earn enough to maintain myself in another place in Venezuela and help my family, which is absurd because in the past; family members tell me that you barely graduated, you already had a job practically, after a few months of work you could buy a car, etc; Being a young man in this country with dreams is a frustration; because they take them away, trample them and make you vulnerable.

How have I helped a little in my house?

The truth is that for me a computer and the Internet have been the tools to bring sustenance to my home, this is my new job, spend hours and hours browsing the web, seeing how to get extra dollars in my country It's pretty good, to help, to eat, to survive; I managed to do some tasks over the internet like listening to calls in Humanatic: https://www.humanatic.com/ or doing tasks for simulation in Spare5: https://app.spare5.com/fives/sign_in this is not always possible for me, Well, in Venezuela, the power goes out, the internet goes, or the connection is extremely slow, and it does not go away for hours, it can go up for days, those who read me and are in other countries believe me they are blessed, value what they have, even if it is not enough, because they do not know when a communist government will come to snatch dreams and smiles, that is what happened to Venezuela, a rich, oil-rich country with natural and mining wealth, a country that received thousands of emigrants because there was glimpsed an infinite wealth, a wealth that became poverty, crime and hunger.

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la receta de muchos gobiernos extremistas era matar a los que estuvieran en su contra: campos de concentración, matanzas a fusilamiento , etc; pero la nueva receta del comunismo, por lo menos lo que estamos viviendo en Venezuela es que día a día nos están matando, bloqueando la entrada de medicinas, comida; y nos están matando nuestro espíritu, la decisión de muchos países al cambiar de gobierno solo depende de los ciudadanos, presten atención a lo que pasa a su alrededor para que no comentan el mismo error que cometieron muchos venezolanos. # Raquel Ramirez
I quit my job and my desire to work in Venezuela, my dream of so many years, to produce and create a better country, I abandoned it not because I wanted to, but because I play, through this incredible platform #steemit I have managed to express myself, I have I have managed to tell stories, I have managed to write about things that matter to me and things that I do and I manage as an environmental engineer, I have managed to show the things I like to do, and I have obtained rewards that have been of absolute help to me, a small respite for help my family and help me, a platform with extraordinary people and communities that really care about helping people, I've seen people doing great things and I know that if I ever get to leave Venezuela, it will not be a reason to leave #steemit, although I still need a little time if I manage to leave, because it is not so simple; In short, the only thing that is that through this exchange of ideas, I have managed to do what I could not do with a salary in Venezuela: Make a decent market.

Many live on money from abroad in Venezuela

Sometimes when I go to a supermarket I see big carts full of food, and I wonder where does the people get so much money? because that is really IMPOSSIBLE to do with a Venezuelan salary, then I come to the conclusion that the economy of my country, even "works" due to the long list of Venezuelans who have left Venezuela and send money to their relatives, because I see in what other sense a cart could be filled with a fortnight of 400,000bsf. When you do not have a (functional) vehicle you can spend on going to your daily work:

In my city "San Cristóbal" a short bus ticket costs 2500bsf, usually reaching a place is not always achieved with just one, so going to work and returning would be 10000bsf, if every 15 days you earn 400000bsf you are earning almost 27000bsf daily, and if they are more buses? Or do you live on the outskirts of the city? Do you think it is worth working for this money? I have 17,000bsf left of my fifteen days of work, so I can buy ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, because a cookie costs about 40000bsf.

For this, for me, Venezuelans who still live in Venezuela, mostly have help from abroad, other relatives send money to survive, in my family, I am the older sister, so of course I am the one who should be helping from afar, but not everyone has the facility to leave, because the tickets are expensive and arriving with nothing to a country is quite difficult, I know they have done it but it is not my idea, if I go at least I would like to survive some days with some extra money while I get a job, throwing myself into luck is not something I would do, some have worked for me, but what if it does not work for me? Returning is a very complicated option later.

Foto: "Venezuela en quiebra"

Touching bottom

I have seen that in many places, people from Venezuela have gone to make us look bad in other countries, so it is natural that we are closing the doors in many places, no wonder; Many people have grown up under this communism disguised as democracy, they have grown up in the easy way, without laws, without rules, doing what they want, and they believe they can do the same in other countries with rules, with laws like everything should be. Day by day the crisis is accentuated more, and I really do not know how deep it can get, until we feel more drowned, until we can not breathe, because a few have greed to power, clinging to a country that collapses in their hands, ruling among ashes, I ask the world and the universe to change, and do not pass anywhere else, as citizens we must become aware of the decisions we make, that everything has consequences, we must think what we really want and really be grateful when we are in a moment of our life where our problems are very complex and not simple problems such as: "I do not know what to eat at lunch because I do not have anything in the fridge", "I can not get sick because there are no medications", etc; please let us be aware, help those we can and not make impulse decisions, sometimes an idea may sound very nice, but is it tangible? Could it be real ?, let's place ourselves, so that it does not happen to them, as happened to a rich nation that is beaten, robbed and marginalized: Venezuela.

Do not be fooled by ideas, communism kills, kills with hunger; kills the desire to move forward, the recipe of many extremist governments was to kill those who were against him: concentration camps, killings by firing squad, etc; but the new recipe of communism, at least what we are living in Venezuela is that day after day they are killing us, blocking the entry of medicines, food; and our spirit is killing us, the decision of many countries to change government only depends on the citizens, pay attention to what happens around them so they do not comment on the same mistake that many Venezuelans made.

Raquel Ramirez