Chanced upon this
blog written by a guy who professed to be
“probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD
from Stanford and
a proven track record of scientific accomplishments”.
The man, Cai
Mingjie (as identified via Tomorrow.SG),
wrote in his blog introduction: “I have been forced out of my
research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to
find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something
‘uniquely Singapore’. As a result, I am driving taxi to make a
living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull
job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are
interesting to you too.”
The blog was started on 6 April 2009, early this year. In
his first blog
entry, the man described how he used to a
principal investigator at the Institute of Molecular
and Cell Biology (IMCB) at ASTAR
Singapore, a place where he had worked for 16 years.
That was till an influx of foreign talents came in and he got
retrenched from his job. Although he was informed of the
retrenchment in 2007, he was unable to secure another job even till
his termination in May 2008. By November 2008, he decided to become
a taxi driver.
The blog reads like a novel of sort, about a
scientist-turned-taxi-driver, diligently documenting quirky
observations he made while driving on the road – the passengers he
met, the various changes coming to our society.
I do not know this guy in person, but I like
his 能屈能伸 attitude. I feel for his plight
though. It is a waste of human capital when skill sets and academic
qualification do not match with the job a person is holding.
Definitely not a healthy trend if we see more and more Singaporeans
in such a predicament.
http://blog.omy.sg/alvinology/2009/08/16/singapore-taxi-driver-with-phd-from-stanford-university/
你说蔡明杰，他早就不开德士了！！！
他就跟一部分的中国人一样，开开德士，搞搞宣传，然后。。。。。。
只有我们这些“笨蛋”还在提他，他老人家早就不知飞到哪里了！！！
