We Singaporeans worry very much for our wealth. With property prices so high and also the age of your parents catching up on them, you worry that money is not enough. When COVID-19 slammed the brakes on our economy, some of you might have been left stranded. I have friends who are in their early 30s being retrenched and others on the chopping board.
As we look for another job, we get judged that those jobs are “not good enough for us”, “we are unwilling to suffer” or “we are unwilling to be humble”. It feels like we are being spat at by potential employers and older generation that we are unwilling to work hard as compared to the previous generation. According to Today, there are 33,000 vacancies across 10 industries. Why are there still so many vacancies in this pandemic? It is not that you don’t want the job. You...