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taxi driver with PhD from Stanford
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I pity him but it's a fact that alot of people do not know. Nowadays, PhD are a dime a dozen. In fact in China, they produce 100,000 PhDs graduates in medical science alone a year. Counting engineers, physicists, etc the real figure is 500,000 PhDs graduate a year from China in from ALL its universities and polytechnics. In fact China produce approx 1 miilion engineers and technicians a year!!!!!! So Masters and PhDs are nothing actually.
It's like MBA. Nowadays a dime a dozen, so even if you have a PhD and your research is in some useless field or area that is not practical, when your grants /funds run out and the next guy with the same or better qualifications would supersede you. How I know? It's because I vet some of these PhDs work and it's no big deal even if you have work in Stanford or Harvard. There they have 500 Phds or students fighting tooth and nail for survival. A degree does not mean anything nowadays. but all said, if you do not have a degree/PhD, you can't even "open" the door a little bit.
Haha don't be a hypocrite Chink scum. You are just like that pensioner who is complaining against your superiors on high just because you are both tossed out.
If you continued as PI in IMCB would you have such things to say? You'd probably just do your work and shut your mouth up. Oh, and you'd remain as arrogant as you probably were too towards your students and other professors and the rest of society. Just. Cut. Your. BS. Thanks.
Lastly, don't pretend to be objective and even nauseatingly justice-minded, raping rather promoting the word 'justice'. You are a lesser mortal and you are not worthy. We reiterate that you are only looking after yourself and your own rice bowl, to even care about others.
Time to dump your daily preachy disgusting anecdotes like yesterday's tea into the drain. Useless things that are of no value, are not worthy of remembering.
Education is important, but it is overrated. Right up to the 70s if you had a degree you are considered an accomplished individual, be it by villagers or simple city folk. But when too many people are gaining access to and getting the same thing, the magic is gone. The period of disenchantment.
PhDs and MBAs are even an employment hazard nowadays as they make you overqualified. Which simply means companies are keen in getting the most out of you on the lowest dollar but you are not letting them.
Which is also true that if your major is useless, that piece of paper can just be used to clean your ass and flushed down the toilet. Which in the end, is about that something you people and most losers out there are trying to cover your heads about and pretend it did not exist - the issue of elitism.
That those who are better in the right things and in the right direction, are usually rewarded better by the system. This applies to every society regardless of its adopted ideology, be it democracy, socialism or fascism or democracy.
You can't hope to get a propitious employment with just a pass for your degree and what-have-you. Maybe in America you could, where multitasking isn't such an encompassing trend for you workers and people there are generally happy with just being average. But America is also getting more competitive too these days.
The system needs able and strong followers at all rungs to flourish so that everyone would benefit and continue to do so from it.
What is creativity as it is mostly self-centered and benefits only the individual and not society as a whole?
Emigrating and space settlement are also ways of thinking out of the box. Basically and generally the box rules all of you. The Illuminati has boxed the world from a long time ago. Big Brother in the West is another big box over there (a sub box within the big box) so stop kidding yourselves.
No he's not poor, unless he has no savings during the lucrative point of his career.
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UpYoz_olo
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Wah, CB CHKs don't anyhow bluff ah. :oIo: Vet the PhD submitted by my 5yr old nephew izzit? He graduated last year with the gown and full regalia.
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what 's there to bluff or prove to !diots like you and your nephew? These PRC Phd are any how better than you. soon you would be deemed too low for even taxidriver. Maybe just garbage collector or maybe toilet cleaner. even then the old amahs probably do a better job than you. :oIo::oIo::oIo: your nephew is a retard to just graduate from Kindergarten. never read newapaper meh? other people at 2 years old even has IQ higher than Einstein. :oIo::oIo::oIo::oIo:
anyway, go and ask your friends in research what DSRB , Quintiles, NMRC etc mean. then you know taht I am real and sit on board that vet these million dollars researchs proposal.
. no point arguing with idiots as they sure beats you with experience.:oIo::oIo::oIo:
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Since the takeover of leadership by some western “big shots” a few years ago, the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) of ASTAR, Singapore, a place I have worked for 16 years as a PI (principal investigator), a place that was once flourishing, promising, and pleasant to work in, has been in a mess. Bestowed with the kind of power they had never seen before, these once reputable scientists turned everything in the institute upside down. The previous democratic and consensus-oriented management system that had worked well for more than a decade in the past was thrown out of window and replaced by one that was marked by domineering, manipulation, and incompetence. What they lacked in experience of management, adequate understanding of the institute, and proper respect for fellow scientists as their colleagues, they made up for in arrogance, prejudice, and naked muscle of political power. Some PIs were sent packing, and some were promoted, all up to the new leadership’s manipulative and twisted standards. Despite my considerable contribution to building up this place into what it is today, I was among the first few PIs to be told to go. My employment contract with IMCB was terminated by May, 2008, without any forms of compensation given.
I was hence forced into a deeply difficult position. Becoming jobless at my age is perhaps the worst nightmare that can happen to any ordinary man, not to mention the loss of life-long career. Ever since I was informed of their decision sometime in 2007, when the economy was still booming, I had been trying hard to find a job. I had submitted countless CV and application letters to various places in Singapore including universities, government agencies, and private companies. Most of them, however, never responded. A couple of replies I did receive never materialized into anything positive. Later, the outburst of financial crisis world wide helped extinguish my last hope of finding a job anytime soon. By November 2008, I finally made a decision to become a taxi driver.
At the time like this, the taxi business is probably the only business in Singapore that still actively recruits people. I signed up for a training course run by a government-linked transport company in November, with a course fee of nearly $280. On paper, the Express Taxi Driver’s Vocational License Course, or TDVL, is supposed to run six days a week, five hours a day. But in reality, the daily course never lasted longer than 3 hours. The whole purpose of the course was to help you pass the test and get the license. It was divided into five sections, Rules and regulations, Routes and landmarks, Names and locations of buildings, Defensive driving, and General paper, which included subjects such as highway codes, vehicle maintenance, healthy living, etc. The instructors were either veteran taxi drivers or representatives from government agencies such as Land Transport Authority (LTA).
My class started on 1st of December, 2008, which consisted of more than 30 people. There were three classes running at the same time and all were about this size. The course was very easy. Every day, the instructors told us what to highlight on the manual and asked us to memorize them because these were the materials that were going to be tested. As long as you did that, it was impossible to fail the test. Even if you fail, you still have one year to take an unrestricted number of retest. With such ease, no wonder there are nearly 100,000 people possessing taxi driver’s license today in Singapore, almost 3 for every 100 Singapore citizens, children and infants included.
By the end of February this year, I finally received my taxi driver’s license, and thus began my new taxi driver’s career. This blog records some of the events that I have experienced as a taxi driver. They are all actual events and are presented as truthfully as possible. Special precautions have been taken to avoid revealing any specific information which may help in any way the identification of the persons described in these events. The purpose of this blog is to provide readers with the first hand accounts of my experience of converting from a veteran scientist to a rookie taxi driver in today’s Singapore. The views and encounters described in this blog may be insignificant, isolated, or biased. Nevertheless, I am sure some readers will find this blog interesting and helpful in widening their general perspectives on Singapore.
Finally, I want to thank my family for their trust and support, and for always being at my side to endure with me the trauma, the distress and the anxiety caused by my job loss. I also want to thank all of my customers, especially the ones who have shown their grace, kindness, and understanding to me when I made mistakes during my work. They are the important factor to encourage me to carry on.
Posted by Mingjie Cai at 1:58 PM 39 comments
Hi Brother M J Cai ,
Just wondering are r still driving taxi ....?
I do not have a PHD but a Masters and i am thinking
of driving a taxi like you ...
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