A good number of my Jamaican friends have a good amount of relatives living in Toronto, which I became aware of after being invited to many weddings in my area.
All of these relatives seem to for sure be employed and hard working people, if any of you have ever been to a Jamaican wedding in the U.S. you see how the mic is passed around from person to person...
Really and truly, all of the Jamaicans that I see in my area (NY) work HARD, each and every week on a daily basis. From the most elementary position to the most elevated position (i.e., not even a high school education to up there in the Master's degree level & even PhD level)... I'm talking from janitors to drivers to prep cooks to teachers to nurses to professors.
Jamaicans in my area are really thought well of for their WORK ETHIC, they work really really hard and have an amazing amount of "no" absences.. they don't call in sick, they have no personal problems preventing them from coming into work. Their jobs are considered 'SERIOUS business' and they all become really WELL respected as hard workers, as conscienscious (sp?) workers.