Engineering and Technology Careers are Not Valued - Singapore is "High Cost Low Tech"

Yeap, Dude is right--that was my assumption.

Remember year 2003~2004? when only 77 jobs offered per-month island wide..(base on Jobsdb for Mechanical Engineer)
my batch of friends graduated from NTU Mechanical Engineering will be happy for a 2.2k starting pay.

about 4 yrs latter,Today, imagine your annual increment is about 7%,and some promotion at 10% increment.
You will only get about 3.3k NOW.

I switched to Software field 2 yrs ago, just slightly peanutly better..

engineers are going to be retrenched, what good is there remembering ??

Pay at the end of the day is subjective.

Be happy and live a fulfilling life.

I'm not gonna be bothered about my low pay anymore.

U bloody fool, people are earning $2000 and they don't complain... Some are erning less.

my comment just bring out a point where some of the fresh grad said forget about working when pay lesser than 2.4k...

When u cannot find job even first class or dean list also no use..

You try throwing a stone on roadside and an engineer will get hit..

To high-paid : No need to get offensive here. You wanna scold, try looking at the mirror and you can start.

To low paid : Why do I have to look into the mirror and start? My pay is much lower than yours and I don't complain. It pains me to see pathetic people like you getting a reasonable salary and still pity yourself..

Rather than being so angry at somebody who's "getting a reasonable salary and still pity himself", why not explore avenues that will get you a higher pay?

And if you're genuinely happy about your "low pay" (according to yourself), then why need to be so angry?

high-paid : My point to you this, this is a professional forum. No need for strong words. Period.