In Singapore, driving taxis is usually the last resort
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Last Friday, around 10pm, I picked an interesting New Zealander at Changi Airport. After loading his single haversack into the trunk of my taxi, we set off to his hostel at Thomson Road, with him seated at my side. He seems like a friendly chap with a constant smile on his face and being a chatty cabby myself, we began an interesting conversation on the journey.
He told me that he purposely came over to Singapore for a week of holiday after his business seminar in Australia. He felt extremely safe here, not like other South East Asian countries or the United States. He further revealed that whenever he takes taxis in New York, there is a 95% chance that the cabby is a new immigrant, who hardly speaks English but it’s a reverse here. Life is easy for N.Y. cabbies, he said, as they do not have to ply the streets for 6-8 hours a day and most of the time they sits around waiting for a call booking. Then, without his asking, I began to ran a brief commentary of the reality of taxi business and life of a cabby here for his understanding.
I told him that all taxi drivers here are Singaporeans, as taxi vocational license is be given to Singapore citizen only. I don’t know of any other jobs here that has this requirement, where foreigners are not allowed to take up this vocation. Even in strategically important agencies like Temasek Holding, which is responsible for investing billion of dollars of public money, it does not require Singapore citizenship for their Number 1 position. Therefore, either taxi driving is the most privileged job in Singapore or it’s the last resort for redundant Singaporean workers. Of course, the former is not true.
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mayb in the past yes, most would be driving taxi as last restore but nowadays you see many early 30s young drivers, some seems to be happy compare to us
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Originally posted by Angwk7118:
mayb in the past yes, most would be driving taxi as last restore
but nowadays you see many early 30s young drivers, some seems to be happy compare
to us
in the past all lao td act cham but earn alot.
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Originally posted by ericgo:
in the past all lao td act cham but earn alot.
yes yes, by the way this morning around 430 what were you doig at orchard tower area? -
Some need taxi for own use and make $ with it
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Originally posted by j007:
Some need taxi for own use and make $ with it
Sssshhhh
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It is defintely not true as The Last Resort, beside that Singapore still got Resort World Sentosa.
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Originally posted by ericgo:
in the past all lao td act cham but earn alot.
at present, td slap their own face to act fatty
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Having a tdvl is good.
If kanna retrenchment, straight away got a job to 'tahan' while looking for the next job available.
To those who who have tdvl but never drive, pls try to drive part time, once a week to keep your self updated.
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Originally posted by PrOfAtSiR:
Having a tdvl is good.
If kanna retrenchment, straight away got a job to 'tahan' while looking for the next job available.
To those who who have tdvl but never drive, pls try to drive part time, once a week to keep your self updated.
BUT profatsir, once one start driving to tahan while looking for next job availablility, if after a few months .... I think they dun wan to go back to employee environment ? cos td is own time own target ... and if the earnings is about same as previous job ... maybe will continue to drive liao wor .... :D -
If your pervious job pay you lousy salary, of course you be a td once you have tdvl.
Its for those who is earning $2.5k above.
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Originally posted by Angwk7118:
mayb in the past yes, most would be driving taxi as last restore
but nowadays you see many early 30s young drivers, some seems to be happy compare
to us
There is a paradigm change in our industrial till now, let me give you a brief on our industrial evolution,1st we started as a low cost industrial with a high production rate, we make shoes, pens, papers, brushes, household item like plastic containers, shirt and trousers.
Then by the 80s, we start to shift into manufacturing, electronic, marine, and many others than need more skills and on job training
then by 90s, we are named as the 4 tigers of Asia in term of manufacturing and we move into a knowledge base economy, and that alone, causes alot of structural unemployment, meaning there are more high tech, skill and knowledge required job but many are not qualify to do it, and that is where most TDs like chief, me, and all those Rbs and JDI are born driving from crown to cedric
then by 2000, we moved into a global economy, and that is where the flood was opened and people start to flow in mass into our country like water, and govt give us an image at the pretext of Foreigner are here to create job for Singaporean, the biggest joke and crook statement of the 21st century. However, the every obedient Singaporean took for it, and till now? we are feeling the heat of it and start to slowly tell them to go fark spider.
With that in mind, taxi is still a last resort for even the youngs, because, the youngs today can really find no job or job that recognize a decent salary that had being depressed by foreigners.
And if our young is to work for a foreigner boss, game over for him. Last time is yes, because we are not structurally prepared to take up a job, never want to train, never want to further study,
But today, our youngs are educated, really to take up any job, but it is thru depression and the sick of these society create by our govt that drive many youngs to take up taxi driving out of agony.
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singaporean is very obedient.. yes, very true.. law for almost every god damn thing except for themselves..
i throw tissue or a ciggy butts, dun know who gives me a ticket which i lan lan got to pay or worst than ah long will come.
top govt " servants" dun throw issue or ciggy butts? dun be naive la.. dun know who will rush to catch that piece of wet tissue or ciggy butt..
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The best to describe TD is
An individual that renting a means (Taxi) from somebody else (Taxi Companies) to run your own Business.
You want to be OMO or having a relief driver.
You want drive from 0100pm to 0600am or from 0600pm to 0100am is up to you.As long as you follow the rule and regulation.
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TD for some is the last resort, for some is like holiday resort.
The best job is not about a good paying job, it is about a job that you enjoy doing it, it might not be the last resort.
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those PMET who got retrenched and replace by FTs,that's the only way out for Spore,or else more unemployment!also the 2 casinos that help Spore to survive.but in the long run,there will be a lot of social problems with so many foreigners in.!now foreigners already form 40 % of the population.