Hi Gilbert,
Can I have a copy of your ebook “How to survive unemployment”?
I have also thought of going for some courses but they require good 5 “O” levels or “A” levels as an entry.
Take English as an example, I don’t have a pass in English for “O” level but I have improved through the years and I can speak and write better now.
I came from a poor family. We stayed in a rental HDB flat from government.
In my childhood days, I had witnessed the cutting of electricity, water and gas supply as my dad had no money to pay.
I need to clarify something here.
It is not that I want to get rich but rather to have a more comfortable life compared to the poverty I used to experience in the past.
I want to have some savings to prepare for raining days as my siblings do not have high earning power and if something adverse is to happen in my family – at least we have something extra to tide over.
I also have to cope with something tragic that happpend to me recently.
My dad passed away this May. He was suffering from cancer.
He had a 50% chance of recovery but he didn’t want to do chemo even though the social worker was there to help with some state financing assistance.
The reason why my dad didn’t want to go for the chemo was that he was worried about the financial cost we have to bear even after the government medical subsidy.
He didn’t want to burden his children knowing that they are not financially capable.
My dad looked so healthy - he didn’t seen to be a sick person. He could even run.
I felt sad because he had been deprived of proper medical help due to perceived high unaffordable medical cost afflicting the poor.
I have survived thus far due to my own hard effort and whatever my achievement is right now – it comes down to square one due to the influx of Foreign Talent.
Striving so hard to come to a place where I can have the earning power of $500 (example) and now due to their bad policy, I have to downgrade myself to a lower earning power of $100.
Is this fair to us?
Actually I would like to think of migration, but I am not sure how and where I can look for advice.
I really felt hopeless in Singapore.
It is not fair for anyone (true Blue Singaporean) who has to downgrade his/her career or earning due to the influx of foreigners coming to eat from the same pie.
It is very frustrating. I felt devastated.
Who can understand ?
Dear Lilian,
I feel sorry for your loss of losing someone so dear to you, hope you can build up your resilience rather than letting the unfortunate event spiral your emotions even further.
Although I cannot provide any help to you, but I hope I can offer encouragement for you not to give up no matter what the situation is. Grab whatever opportunity that comes by.
Good luck,
Dexter Wong.
Think every unemployed person should get involved or join a political party and then hope to get elected.
That is the way, we should go now.
Did you quit or replaced by a foreigner? If your family needs money, it’s very risky to quit without a new job.
There is an advert for admin assistant in Tuas recently on this website. Gilbert and his team can link them up.
I can tell you that PAPies policies have really fucked up everyone on this lump of sand.
Even the foreigners I work with are complaining about high cost of living, high inflation, over-crowdedness, unaffordable medical & hospitalisation, extreme competition for jobs, depressed wages etc etc.
The latest is the American MNCs complaining to PAPies and MTI and EDB etc that they find S’pore too damn expensive and housing is unaffordable for their angmoh expats. Ha ha, too expensive for those assholes with starting pay of $10K/mth and average pay of $16K/mth. How about average Sinkies??
I had to laugh when they talk about over-crowdedness and depressed wages. I mean come on, they come from china, india and filipines. They excuse themselves by saying their home countries are much bigger, and although they earn 10X the salary here in S’pore, but the cost of living is making them unable to save enough to remit back home.
I tell them point-blank the reason why high cost of living is becoz of depressed wages — artificially kept low and unable to keep pace with inflation. How come wages keep being depressed? I told them to their faces is becoz of foreign workers like them coming in by the village-load without any control or QA. And of course the PAPies purposely allowing this in order to keep companies and bosses happy.
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I am sad to say from your letter, you come across as someone who does not emit confidence and a failure to write effectively. you are unable to convey your dire situations to catch the attention of your readers.
For a start, you must look to imporve your communication techniques and learn to build your charisma. In a highly competitive society, unless you are a natural headturner, you are bound to get it from the lower end of the stick.
To Chillax
Don’t talk about confidence when every moment of your life faced with uncertainities and hopeless situations.
If you are in her shoes, from young till now, life doesn’t change for a better, what kind of confidence can you get?
It easier to talk, pinpoint problems when you are not the one that facing such issues.
I agree with what Joe said. Given Lilian’s situation, it is quite a big task to regain confidence.
To Lilian, I hope things will turn for the better for you, God bless you…
To Chillax,
Sometimes, it’s better not to comment anything at all when you have nothing better else to say. If you are in her position, I would like to see how much confidence you can have.
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Hi Lilian, I will feel terrible if I am in your situation. However, your situation happen to everyone and you are not alone. At one time in everyone’s life, we will face the passing of our loved ones. Its only a matter of time. In the past, usually poor people has the desire to succeed more than the rich people.I think you are not poor enough to want to be rich. My parent is poor as hell and yet they work hard to bring us up and get us a colleage degree each. Are you really poor enough to get the desire to be rich?