Work life balance, does it still exist here? Singapore is a "global central hub", which means we are very busy at what we do. Competition is high while human resources are scarce given how vast an environment we lived in. Staffs who work at banks often stay back late, same for many else. Even at government jobs, you cannot deny how slow the services are due to the heavy work load. However, government jobs may have the luxury of taking it slow unlike private sectors. At your current job, you may face the similar heavy tonnage of workload and do you feel the time to time urge to throw in the towel? Nevertheless, any jobs that are relaxing in Singapore are also often low waged. This creates another type of dissatisfaction. Of course there are exceptions with highly paid jobs and “reasonable” workload. These posts are usually niche or highly ......