‘Highlights’ Archives
42-year-old married poly graduate finding it tough to be a real estate agent
Hi Gilbert, I missed out the yesterday's event at NVPC otherwise would have attended since I am free in the afternoon. I only get to know it browsing through some update of the website and reading the hardship of many LTUs (long termed [...]
Local PSA worker still angry after retrenched for more than a decade
Hi Gilbert, Be honest with you - I am really very unhappy with our government for not taking better care of the people. I still felt very angry that the government allowed companies to retrench true-blue Singaporeans when foreigners are [...]
Spending Father’s Day with my daughter in Sydney last year
My daughter Joycelyn on the left with a friend at her prom night last year. I spent Father’s Day with my 19-year-old daughter in downtown Sydney when I visited her last year in September. Unfortunately, today I will be spending Father's Day [...]
Young Jobless NUS Graduate In Banking Sector Unsure About Career Option
Hi Gilbert,I guess my story would not be new to you. I graduated from NUS last year and went into what I thought was a dream job for me--a commodities trainee position with a foreign bank. The pay was low by industry standard but still good for [...]
Jobless married 42-year-old engineer looking for work abroad and against foreign influx
Dear Gilbert I write to thank Transitioning.org for being an avenue and channel for the local unemployed to voice out their grievances. I am a 42-year-old engineer by profession graduating from oversea university and work in the oil and gas [...]
Job opening: General Manager based in Cambodia
Oumazing International Furniture Pte Ltd. is a Singapore branch of "OUNOYA GROUP", which is one of the largest Chinese domestic companies in the production and sales of all kinds of leather products. Products include sofas, bags, wallets, etc [...]
Ex-civil servant terminated due to moonlighting as cabbie and facing marital strife
Dear Gilbert, I was once an ex civil servant who worked two jobs (as a part time taxi driver ) so that we can afford a car for the family. My wife don’t pay for the instalments, petrol and maintainance of the car but we share the [...]
35-year-old Malay ex-teacher graduate single mum jobless and going homeless soon
Hi Gilbert, I wanted to share my pathetic situation with you. I am an ex teacher with MOE, since 19 I have been employee of MOE under the bursary scheme. I have to undergo 4 years training and 5 years bond. I worked as teacher till I resigned [...]
IT naturalised citizen jobless for a year and losing his HDB home
Dear Gilbert Goh, Good Day, I am writing to get help from you on employment. I am unemployed PMET Singaporean (Naturalization) and lost my job about a year ago. I have been trying to get full time job for last one year. I am not [...]
35-year-old jobless graduate PMET wanted to end it all out of desperation
Hi Gilbert, I'm surprised to see that you guys are offering counselling and coaching to the unemployed. I have been jobless for the last 2 months and it came hard, to the verge of ending it all. I"m 35 this year and have faced a few [...]
PMET unfairly dismissed during pregnancy at a local tertiary institution and suffered miscarriage
Dear Mr Goh, I chanced upon the Transitioning website this morning while searching for more information on unfair termination towards pregnant women. I'm seeking for more information and outlets to address a very upsetting event earlier this [...]
Town council AIM saga – political implications for opposition and government
Some have already labelled the latest town council's fiasco as AIMgate - in the same massive destructive scale as the previous US Watergate scandal which implicated the US ex-President Nixon and subsequently brought about his Presidential [...]
Malaysian PR wife concerned about Singaporean house husband’s extra marital affair
Hi, I am a Malaysian and Singapore PR, married to a Singaporean man and we have 2 Singaporean children. I am a working mother and my husband (C) is unemployed since early 2012 after being retrenched. In late 2012, I found out that he had [...]
64-year-old Singaporean returned home after away in Germany for 30 years but felt discriminated
I have met 64-year-old Jean a few times in my office and always felt that she looked younger than her age. Her hair is always cropped short and in the right place. She seems serene and composed despite the immense struggles she faces. She is [...]
Local PMET earning $4500 and above told to leave earlier than expected without compensation
Gilbert I recently tendered my resignation on 20 March 2013 from my position in my company. Under my employment contract which I have attached, my notice period was 2 months which would have made my last day of service to be on 17 May [...]
