i was a staff in NUS attending a staff and graduate students
orientation event and guess what when the event organizer asked the
singaporans to raise their hand to do a headcount. Out of the fully
packed engineering theatre 7A, only less than 10 ppl put up their
hands and that includes me. dissapointing...
And I worked part-time at a banking office on the weekends. And
once some pinoy accidentally left his payslip on the floor, i
thought it was trash and took a look at it and I realized that guy
was earning close to $8k per month and his degree was from some
unknown university in the phillipines. damn...and to think our
graduates pay hefty tuition loans just to get some $3k jobs. As far
as I have known, the entire team of singaporean IT support in the
bank has since been entirely replaced by FT from india already.
And working in a research lab, there is no suprise my entire
workplace consists of only 3 singaporeans out of the 50+
people. I feel like a minority in my country. and worst of all, I
duno whether to smile or frown when i talk to my foreign
colleagues. Most of them do not intend to settle here. They are
banking on the fact that they earn truckloads of money than
compared in their native country. And in a few years time, they
will return there to retire comfortably. and they do not intend to
settle down in singapore at all.
Are all the above low-value jobs (e.g. banking and research)that
no singaporeans wants to do? my fellow graduates from NUS has been
unable even find these so-called "low-value jobs" because it has
been taken up by foreigners.
im not against foreigners. I am a foreigner myself except that
when our family moved over here in the 1970s, Singapore was still a
developing country and the MRT line was not even built but my
family eventually decided to sink our roots here and like many of
the true-blue singaporeans, our hardwork made singapore to what it
is today. Now the govt are letting all these foreigners (who do not
intend to settle in singapore) in to enjoy the fruits of
labour. I cant even think what would happen in 5 years time.
Okay enough bitching for tonight lol. bye
