Somalis in the West are also picky when it comes to jobs and the second generation men are most laziest people I’ve seen, the women are much more reliable and hard working than the men from my own experience and I would choose these women iver them.
Back when I was young, I used to do all the cleaning and lifting while few other Somalis refused to do them and they got fired after that when they got caught. I never complained or reported because I would feel sorry if they get in trouble.
What’s sad is that their hard working fathers work 14 hours a day driving to feed their family because they have no education yet when all their sons grew up, they either stay home after finishing their course because they can’t find an “office” job and still leech their daddy’s (who are now old) money or work as a security guard.
There are 20K Somalis in Australia whom most live in Melbourne. Tradies earn more than $60K a year and manual laborers earn over $30 an hour which is more than the so called “superior” desk jobs. Yet, there are no Somalis in the trade industry who are in demands. I know this because I used to take an electrical apprenticeship for 4 years before moving to telecommunications engineering and is aware of the environment in the industry.
There’s been an influx of South Asians overseas who took advantage of the technical jobs here because Aussies don’t want to work despite $$$ when second generation Somalis could’ve taken advantage of it.
I’ve also noticed it’s a trend that the second generation Somalis are now working as a security guard, very similiar to what the first generation did as a taxi driver which led me to think that Somalis don’t like working for others nor like being dictated what to do but for themselves.
My cousin was an accountant in the UAE then when he came here to get married, he took a forklift license course then got a casual role immediately afterward in a big company that paid him $40 an hour while looking for an accounting job, same thing for some others, my uncle who worked the shittiest job in Saudi Arabia and now works in a office job in a Kuwaiti embassy at Canberra. My dad worked non-stop for 18 years before finally opening his own business.
This debunk the bullshit that jobs are hard to find, you just have to do the shittiest job while at the same time looking for a good one. Beggars can’t beg.