My foreign talent classmates
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So Caramon,Originally posted by caramon.:Whenever I take taxis in Los Angeles, there is a 95% chance that the cabby is a new immigrant who hardly speaks English - I've taken taxis driven by Russians, Nigerians, Estonians and Romanians. For these new immigrants to USA, driving a taxi is an entry point to something better in life. It is a chance for them to get to know the city better and earn a decent living. I found out by chatting to Los Angeles taxi drivers that they can get by making about 10 trips a day and most of the time work is 6-8 hours a day.
In Singapore, things are different - all taxi drivers are Singaporeans. Just last week I met 2 taxi drivers with university degrees and one with an MBA - all of them claimed that they were retrenched when their companies hired younger foreign talents to replace them. In Singapore driving a taxi is an alternative when you get retrenched from your job and can't get another job. More than half the earnings of a taxi driver goes to the taxi companies as rental and for fuel. There is no such thing as leave or holidays. A typical taxi driver drives for 10-12 hours a day - there is no medical benefits, no CPF and no pension. Yet you can easily find taxi drivers with a university education and every year the GLC - Comfort Cabs report double digit earnings growth.
My point is Singaporeans are so lucky to have such well educated cabbies. In other countries, such well educated people would be employed as professionals in various organisations. In Singapore we have numerous foreign talents to help fill those professional positions so that educated Singaporeans can be freed up to work as cabbies. We must try to understand that our country is progressing so much that most cabbies are well educated that is the envy of other countries.
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spread the word! vote them out!Originally posted by NUS_Superst@r:Maybe they realized that they may work for a lifetime and still own nothing. No property, no car, no girlfriend or wife but despite all these, he still have to work longer hours and little recreation. An
struck them. All their talents are better used elsewhere and they can have a better living too. Sadly, ppl are still voting for the same group of ppl who have made their lives even miserable. Are they dumb or what? 
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Becos the opposition are too weak in Singapore. I can't bare to throw my vote on some O level students which don't even make a decent living outside. If you tell me you are doing well outside and have very successful, Then means that are you capable and ready to join the politics.Originally posted by NUS_Superst@r:Maybe they realized that they may work for a lifetime and still own nothing. No property, no car, no girlfriend or wife but despite all these, he still have to work longer hours and little recreation. An struck them. All their talents are better used elsewhere and they can have a better living too. Sadly, ppl are still voting for the same group of ppl who have made their lives even miserable. Are they dumb or what? -
They were retrenched when their jobs were taken up by the aliens.Originally posted by carlsonxjd:i dun think i will spend $XXk amount of money to study to get a MBA while my ambition is to be a taxi driver.
They had no choice but to be taxi drivers.
No wonder, spore claims its transport system to be world class. Local grads and mbas are the drivers! Maybe nxt time, local grads will become mrt or bus drivers too! World class public transport! -
Opposition is oppressed by the PAP. That's why they appear weak. I rather vote those O level students who have the hearts to serve the ppl than vote for some scholars who is more interested in climbing up the political ladder.Originally posted by raymond_sianz:Becos the opposition are too weak in Singapore. I can't bare to throw my vote on some O level students which don't even make a decent living outside. If you tell me you are doing well outside and have very successful, Then means that are you capable and ready to join the politics.