A Career Opportunity

--- S.M.Singru

This could be news planted by the New York Police Department (NYPD). But the respectable New York Times has reported that NYPD’s relentless drive against organised crime has resulted in a serious dwindling of the work force of the New York Mafia. The wastage is due to imprisonment, deaths, and well, due to voluntary retirements from a career of crime. The loss is estimated at ten per cent a year by the NYPD. So what does an organisation do when its cadres get depleted and the market continues to be buoyant? It can’t possibly let the drug, extortion, gambling, and vice den rackets starved of manpower. So the Mafia has started a recruitment drive and senior gang bosses are even considering looking outside the Mafia’s traditional recruiting ground, the close-knit Italian –American families----a case of waiving the statutory reservations, clearly. One of the Mafia sources told the New York Times, “You have to inject new blood into the family”.

If you are disgruntled about your career prospects, and have the right qualifications, this may be your chance of a lifetime, that is, provided you don’t mind the risk of ending up with a “lifer” for your deeds.