史蒂夫给吉尔伯特的诉苦信

Cinabaku

Hi Gilbert,

I truly need help I am feeling suicidal at times. My life has been a challenge since the beginning of my life. I try to get pass through by trying to compare myself to the less fortunate. I do not know how much longer I can hold on. I hope we can meet up and talk.

I also hope you can publish the following at your site. Hopefully, there would be some like-minded readers who can provide some insight about my situation. If you can, please edit it for me.

I am just stating facts and grieves of my life, if you want to be critical, please step out of your comfort zone and reply at a logical level. I am a true-blue Singaporean with roots as deep as 3 generations, aged 38.

While in Secondary school, I started my working life sweeping the streets, literally. My single mom couldn’t afford to send me to a computer school after secondary school which was my interest. Thus, I have to work on school nights and weekends as a hotel cleaner from 11pm to 7am but that took a toll on my health and my education. Not to mention I had family issues. Unable to handle it, I dropped out of school, worked my way up slowly. After a few years of local jobs and my own business, I started my career in a multi-national company with rapid rise to management level. However, armed with only a O level cert, I could not get above $4.5k salary even though the role usually gets more, alot more.

When I tried to get a new job, I couldn’t as I was not “educated” enough. I even remember when I went for an interview with a local hiring agency, the director of the company asked me why am I getting paid $4.5k with only a O level education. Moving forward, everyone wants to negotiate my salary dependent on my previously-earned salary.

This would not happen in any other 1st world nation as they would not only look at your education only but your ability and the job role they offering as well. A culture only present in Singapore among developed nations!

To SINGAPORE HR Folks : Does it really matter, what I drew in my previous role? Would you pay me a roadsweeper’s salary if I did 6 months of sweeping the roads as I cannot get employed? Staff remuneration should be based on the fact that what role you are offering, and a competitive remuneration to ensure retention.

I stopped work so I can go after a Masters as a maturde candidate. I have passed my Masters without even taking a degree course. For those who are wondering, how?  I not ashamed to say I am pretty smart (Singapore Mensa tested at 142 IQ) and anyone I know would easily tell you I have pretty high E.Q. as well. I never needed to go to school to learn these stuff, I read or learn through life experiences and pretty much grasp almost anything.

8 months have almost passed since completion of my Masters, and I still don’t have a job. I was even willing to take up non-IT roles as Condo Manager for $3k. Though I was able to impress in the interview, I was not offered a role. Only to find out later, that it was likely they were only willing to offer $2.8k for the position, which is the same they are willing to offer an inexperienced staff with diploma.

I cannot get government jobs or government-related jobs which are advertised everyday, simply because I do not fit the profiled definition of a normal candidate.

I have about $100k in the CPF unusable. I can’t afford a HDB, as I need to be employed and I cannot apply for BTO. Furthermore, I went through a divorce, I cannot get a HDB BTO home without waiting for 3 years after my divorce. I would be 39 by then, and by the time I get a home, I would be 45.

I now sit in J.B. (Malaysia) still applying for jobs in Singapore while trying to figure out if I can start out on my own. Even trying to be an entrepreneur in Singapore is difficult, I cannot afford an office location. I cannot apply for grant for entrepreneurship as I have a previous company when I started my IT business. This is  restricting me from applying for a government grant under the entrepreneurship programme.

All those people who support the current political administration, please tell me what is wrong with the picture? Am I not hardworking? Am I dependent on the government to spoon feed me? Am I too demanding?

I am stressed to the extreme, though I don’t show it to people much. I still put up a fighting front, as no one likes a person who complaints too much. But it is getting to me, I needed an outlet.

I need to know that there are also people like me who seep through the gap so I don’t feel so alone.

Steve

Cinabaku

嗨吉尔伯特，

我真的需要帮助，我有时会感到自杀。我的生活从一开始就是一个挑战。我试图通过尝试将自己与不太幸运的人进行比较来通过。我不知道我能坚持多久。我希望我们能够见面和谈话。

我也希望您可以在您的网站上发布以下内容。希望有一些志同道合的读者可以提供一些有关我的情况的见解。如果可以，请为我编辑。

我只是说出我的生活的事实和悲伤，如果你想要批评，请走出你的舒适区，并在逻辑上回答。我是一个真正的蓝色新加坡人，根深蒂尔3代，38岁。

在中学期间，我从字面上开始了扫街的工作。我的单身妈妈买不起我中学后的电脑学校，这是我的兴趣。因此，从晚上11点到上午7点，我必须在学校的夜晚和周末做一个酒店清洁工，但是对我的健康和我的教育造成了损害。更不用说我有家庭问题。无法处理，我辍学了，慢慢地走了。经过几年的本地工作和我自己的业务，我开始了一个跨国公司的职业生涯，迅速上升到管理层面。然而，只有O级证书，我不能超过$ 4.5k的薪水，即使角色通常会变得更多，更多。

当我试图找到新的工作时，我不能因为没有“受过教育”。我甚至记得当我去当地一家招聘机构的采访时，该公司的主管问我为什么要获得$ 4.5k的报酬才能进行O级教育。今后，每个人都要按照我以前获得的工资来谈判我的工资。

这不会发生在任何其他第一世界的国家，因为他们不仅会看你的教育，而且你的能力和工作的角色，他们提供。文化只在新加坡发达国家出现！

新加坡人力资源：真的很重要，我以前的角色是什么？如果我做了6个月的扫路，我不能得到工作，你会支付道路清扫费吗？员工薪酬应以您所提供的角色和竞争性报酬为基础，以确保保留。

我停止了工作，所以我可以跟随一个硕士作为Maturde候选人。我已经通过了我的硕士，甚至没有学位课程。对于那些想知道的人，怎么样？我不高兴地说我很聪明（新加坡曼萨测试在142智商），任何我知道的人会很容易地告诉你我有相当高的E.Q.以及。我从来没有需要上学去学习这些东西，我读过或学习生活经验，几乎掌握几乎任何东西。

自从我的大师毕业以来，已经有8个月的时间已经过去了，我还没有工作。我甚至愿意以$ 3k的身份担任公寓经理的非IT角色。虽然我在采访中留下了深刻的印象，但我没有发挥作用。只有稍后才能发现，那么他们很可能只愿意为这个职位提供2.8万美元，这也是他们愿意为没有经验的工作人员提供文凭的人。

我不能得到每天广告的政府工作或政府相关的工作，只是因为我不符合普通候选人的概况定义。

我有大约10万美元的CPF不可用。我买不起房屋贷款，因为我需要受雇，我不能申请BTO。此外，我经历了离婚，我不能在离婚后3年等待一个HDB BTO回家。那我当时是39岁，当我回家的时候，我会是45岁。

我现在坐在J.B.（马来西亚），仍然在新加坡申请工作，同时想知道我是否可以自己开始工作。甚至试图成为新加坡的企业家是困难的，我买不起办公室的位置。当我开始我的IT业务时，我不能像以前的公司那样申请创业资助。这限制了我根据创业计划申请政府补助金。

所有支持现在政治的人，请告诉我图片有什么问题？我不是勤劳吗？我是否依靠政府spoon食我？我也太苛刻了吗

我非常强调，虽然我不会向人们展示。我还是举起战斗阵线，因为没有人喜欢投诉太多的人。但是，我正在找我，我需要一个插座。

我需要知道，还有像我这样的人，渗透了差距，所以我不觉得这么孤独。

史蒂夫

jerrylhl

谁是“吉尔伯特”？