Best job options for ex TDs?

fifufu SG

First must look at the age also

younger more chance older highly no chance

Confirm can get jobs (my opinion)

driver (delivery,ah mat,bus,casket etc etc many many)

security guard (be prepared to travel n station at ulu places)

LTA warden (go carpark summon/ride bike take cam n afew more positions available)

cleaner (tis one no need say much lol)

Remember not many jobs can offer more than 2.5k(max) per mth now unless u can tahan do ot for very long hrs

goin for interviews also no joke

recently my frn(45yrs) give up n go try find job outside

after goin few interviews get nothing

now he bk to driving taxi lol

Now, even low mid level need to go for 5 6 interviews...got skype got video call interview somemore..at 45 and driven teksi for number of years..how to go back to normal working...

fifufu SG

I think first start with the taxi company you are working for.

For eg, I am sure CDG got some positions if you have A levels, dip or degree. IO is a good suggestion. How about hiring department or marketing dept? Compliance? But age also a consideration.

LTA should have some suitable jobs.

Just thinking a loud as the day will come for some of us.... either cannot drive due to personal reasons or kena suspended, etc

When I got terminated..send in my CV for IO position....no sound no nothing.

f1taxidriver SG

After 40 years of age, do not waste time looking for a job, especially government jobs. Guarantee no chance even if you only ask for $1.5K. Better stay as a cabby if you got no better kang tao. Your only other hope is to be a hawker or thru own contacts. Those who went jail before can try pimping, private 4d, tua peh kong or debt collection. Those who lost driving license can do fly-by-night renovation. Some boss dun care whether u got driving license or drink n drive. They need extra pair of hands and many construction places are not under TP or URA jurisdiction. Ex-convicts can chiong jb cigarettes or volunteer to sit in jail in return for other party to feed yr family.

bowah SG

Frankly, the best way of driving taxis is be relief, partime relief or weekend relief and hold a permanent job on weekdays, however, these will take up lots of yr time.

If you are a full timer, in yr 30s, you still got a chance to move out of it and be a partimer, get a job, built a career, by mid 40s, you might get promoted to supervisor or leader, then give up driving if you do not need money urgently and wanted to spent more time with family.

But if you have drive taxis from 30s into your 40s, it is better to stick to it, not only there are less employment opportunity, you also might not get use to working life anymore. So, it will be wiser to carry on driving and hv passion in it. But of course, if you get a very good opportunities, you can go back to working, as for Taxi driving, you can come back anytime.

For those who have drive into your 50s, the food is already cook, like it or not, you are place under… confirm taxi driver.com.sg

And for those who have drive into their 60s…..cabinet crews, prepare for take off

luckycabby SG

Thanks bro, for all the inputs. Think better stick to it or if cannot drive anymore, better think of other self employed opp. Agreed that going back to getting a job is tough, expecially for ah laus.

One ex ah lau TD (he got a blog somewhere, can't remember) got involved in MLM and quit driving. Few can do it but he showed that it can be done leh.

bowah SG

It is alway a comparision of one success against thousand failure that makes one life miserable. We tends to look at one person success stories, and forget about many other suffering and failed miserably. Hope you can take it from here, and even tho one is successful, one might be suffering to hold on to that success and secretly regretted that he left taxi driving.

In working life, the official retirement age is 62yo, thereafter it is up to the company to re-employ you for yearly contract up to 65yo. If you are still able and company decided to retire you at 62yo, they will hv to pay you the EAP, that is 3 month of yr basic pay and off you go.

Taxi driver can drive until 75yo, which I think is too cruel to life, so if you are now 50yo, take it from a working life that end at most 65yo, you only got 15years to struggle and drive, hopefully after 65yo, you can relax and retire gracefully.

And with 15years left of active working life, what do you want to do further, get a diploma??? start a business? go take another courses??? go into a new venture and after finished all these changes, how many years left…..??? you go figure it out.

So, gentlemen, time await no ones, the four main suffering that one go thru in life is
craving, never learnt to let go, never learn to see open and never learn to appreciate the present.

Limo_turn_TD SG

Actually Personal Drivers are high in demand in the job market.

I will recommend you apply for a post of a Corporate Chauffeur & do not get involved in the domestic activities of the bosses. If not your working hours will be crazy.

If not can join companies like Downtown Travel Services as a Limousine Driver. But that will be no different from TD.

f1taxidriver SG

Corporate chauffeur jobs are for ex-cabbies. These guys lost their TDVL due to greed or being stupid. The pay is around $2k-$2.5k with OT. Lost of freedom, fixed pay and reduced income compared to being a cabby. Dun waste my time lah...

If the corporate chauffeur job pays $4k, many cabbies will join. But then the company staff will all queue up and request for a switch of position from manager to corporate chauffeur. The company die lah.

Try harder and do not mislead people. Being a corporate chauffeur is worse off than being a cabby.

bowah SG

Corporate driver can also end up as despatch cum delivery drivers, as long as u are under the company payroll as a driver, smlj also hv to drive…and those farker who take yr ride are yr colleagues and bosses, they will address u as driver instead of Uncle, and the atmosphere of respect will not be there, and you do not hv the option to reject

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