The shortage is due to society changes, from a industrial
economy to a knowledge economy whereby the youngs today are trained
and educated with knowledge to deal with money, workers and TD
rather than engineering skill such as machinists, technician,
mechanics, tool and die marker etc.
Therefore it is important that the govt start to rethink about
its aging population and need to act fast in upper the salary of
those engineering job inorder to make a quick paradigm shift for
the youngers one to take on enginneering works. You paid 2k for NA
diploma grade mechanic, consider semi skill, but in hotel
lines, you get 3k to 4k as an assistant manager with hotel
management diploma from Shatec, take your pick.
One ecompassed the 3 D, dirty, dangerous and Demanding, the
other ecompassed the 3 L, luxury, leisurely and Lunch provided
dun say hor.......... even nowadays the new navy guys also CMI
liao...........
knn almost everytin contract to ST do the servicing or call
blanga come
paint the ship............. last time we all DIY ourselves
unless its those tua zhong
jobs then call for help 1.................. u tell the new navy
guys to do a "monkey fist"??
i can say 10 out of 10 confirm dun knoe
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