Seeing the 12.7k cases this week is lowkey giving me flashbacks to the peak Covid days when everyone was getting retrenched. 🫠With the economy already so shaky, I’m genuinely worried history might repeat itself. I'm honestly starting to look for side gigs just to get some extra cash flowing in. Anyone else looking for ways to supplement your income? 🤔
While we are struggling with jobs, expenses and life, and some locals are quietly moving to Johor aka bolehland 😅🧐
One of them walk to me and ask me for donation, I listened to it and let him finished his words, then I asked him, do we get pay from this, he said yes.
Are these associations really lack of funds? Anyone know do they earn commission from it? Is tis "part time job" better than others?
Well, I made a small donation, hopefully these donations can helps the ppl who r struggling with sickness
I wonder with all the AI, short courses, youtube videos... is it still worth studying a design course..
I’m totally not interested in being a manager or climbing the corporate ladder. Just want a stable job and accomplish things like getting a degree and license. I’m behind in life because I’m already in my mid 20s but haven’t achieve things that other people my age achieve but my parents weren’t those financially supportive kind so i had to pay it all by myself. Anyone in the same boat as me? I think maybe because i was being forced to work when i was young that’s why i’m not interested in climbing the ladder?
For the past 3 months, I’ve been having regular meetings with an Australian client (a cute guy).
One thing I noticed almost immediately:
Every meeting starts with small talk.
weekend plans. coffee. travel. family. sometimes completely random topics.
Meanwhile, I’m internally thinking:
“Are we starting the meeting or what?”
In Singapore, most meetings are quite direct and with a mindset of "dont waste time"
But working with this cute guy made me realise something interesting:
To them, small talk isn’t wasting time.
It’s part of building trust and rapport.
The relationship comes before the business discussion.
In Singapore, professionalism often means being work ethics. While in many Western cultures, professionalism also means being personable.
Neither approach is wrong.
Is small talk before meetings actually necessary, or do most people just want to get straight to the point?
Kumar said locals are busy chasing C's.
Sometimes I wonder..did we open up too much, too fast?
BUT...now get a job also DIFFICULT weiiiiiiiiii
Saw the recruiter saying companies prefer “hungrier” foreigners over Singaporeans.
But honestly… I think we’re just more aware now.
A lot of Singaporeans watched: parents OT until midnight, loyalty rewarded with retrenchment and etc.
Then somehow when younger workers ask for: work-life balance, fair pay
suddenly we are “not hungry”.
Is Singapore really becoming “less hungry”?
Or are people finally rejecting burnout culture?