How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The kicker is now mohh employs ceca/ft "new citizens" doctors straight into AC/con roles, occupying such positions for decades and depriving many singapore-born doctors of the natural progression in specialist training we used to have in the past. So yes, life in medicine for a local dr is worse off than it was 10-20 years ago.

Rubbish.
Absolutely rubbish.

We had to recruit overseas coz the public folks kept on leaving for pte
Then when we raise the pay in 2012, sinkie stop leaving.
Then our residency had oversupply coz sinkie didn't leave
We projected residencies based on expected attrition.

We also had a lot of foreigners RP and middle level staff as sinkie prefer to be a GP.

So to claim that foreigners deprieve u a job is wrong. You just need to work harder. Put in the hours.

Ah gong needs to deliver a service. And I'm going to deliver the service and serve the healthcare needs of sinkie, regardless how ungrateful some sinkie is.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Uncle, how many bungalows are in Singapore . 3000?
How many doctors are in Singapore? Easily 16,000

Plus u forget the lawyers, bankers, CEOs , entrepreneurs

So typical doctor is hdb one. Million dollar hdb or 1.2million condo can afford when you are mid 30 to late 40

But bungalows is impossible, unless your start up flies.

There are 3000 good class bungalows, but way more regular bungalows/detached.

I don't think I will be able to afford regular bungalows even in my 50s, let alone GCB.

It sucks that I sacrificed all of my twenties, and even early thirties, saving and making an impact on countless lives in the process and yet I cant own a detached house even in my 50s.

This system is really broken. I am also very jaded from this entire process.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

There are 3000 good class bungalows, but way more regular bungalows/detached.

I don't think I will be able to afford regular bungalows even in my 50s, let alone GCB.

It sucks that I sacrificed all of my twenties, and even early thirties, saving and making an impact on countless lives in the process and yet I cant own a detached house even in my 50s.

This system is really broken. I am also very jaded from this entire process.

Quit and job and be lawyer .. Then u can get ur gcb

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Quit and job and be lawyer .. Then u can get ur gcb

Yeah be a lawyer.
Most lawyers after 35 all drive Mercedes

Originally Posted by Unregistered

There are 3000 good class bungalows, but way more regular bungalows/detached.

I don't think I will be able to afford regular bungalows even in my 50s, let alone GCB.

It sucks that I sacrificed all of my twenties, and even early thirties, saving and making an impact on countless lives in the process and yet I cant own a detached house even in my 50s.

This system is really broken. I am also very jaded from this entire process.

What you are experiencing is what the engineers (non financial/banking) went through in the early 2000s.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What you are experiencing is what the engineers (non financial/banking) went through in the early 2000s.

Every season got a hot career
Doctor is passe low wage labour

Don't blame the environment
Blame yourself

Be a technopreuer
Start up, unicorns

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah be a lawyer.
Most lawyers after 35 all drive Mercedes

If u were a doc in the 2010 to 2015 graduating batch and got into residency straight after med school, u can hit ac as young as 29 for girls.
Can afford mercedes also

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If u were a doc in the 2010 to 2015 graduating batch and got into residency straight after med school, u can hit ac as young as 29 for girls.
Can afford mercedes also

Wanna marry such doctors. But they are quite cold

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone else feeling hopeless that we will never be able to afford living in a bungalow for the rest of our lives?

Thinking about how insane property prices have increased over the last 20 years makes me very upset.

Thanks for the laugh. Whatever happened to living below your means?
The responses were also funny in their seriousness. Live a little. Bungalows are not important in life.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Thanks for the laugh. Whatever happened to living below your means?
The responses were also funny in their seriousness. Live a little. Bungalows are not important in life.

Even if I live way below my means, like staying in 3 bedroom HDB in Jurong x 20 years, I still cannot afford a bungalow in 20 years time as property prices will have gone up even more by then.