Serious 65 Year Old Andrew With Kidney Failure Works 15 Hours A Day! Cleaner Wife Has Good Salary! What's Your Excuse For Working Less Hours, Sinkies?

[JohnTan]

Private hire drivers often work long hours to make ends meet.

One woman in Singapore, however, was particularly awed and inspired by one driver's positivity and dedication to his job.

Much time on the road

Deera Daneesya shared in a Facebook post her encounter with a Ryde driver named Andrew.

At 65 years old, Andrew still spends 15 hours on the road every day, according to Deera.

In addition to working as a Ryde driver, he also works for Grab and Gojek.

He told Deera that he has been driving for a total of 23 years — 18 as a taxi driver, and five as a private hire car driver.

With the amount of time he's spent on the road, Andrew has completed a whopping 2,045 Ryde trips since he started.

Any essentials he may require for a long day of driving are also stocked in his car. These include plastic containers to takeaway food, four water bottles, snacks like biscuits, a flask of coffee and a pillow.

At Deera's joking that he might as well have a portable toilet in his car as well, she learns that Andrew has kidney failure and he had gone for a dialysis session right before picking her up.


Happy he's still able to move about
In her post, Deera expressed sympathy and concern for Andrew's wellbeing, wondering why he was still working after his dialysis treatment.

"Yes he may not my grandfather or related to me but he is someone's brother, dad, grandfather. I mean I would be very sad to know if my atok have to go through this to earn a living or worst trying to sustain and put food on the table everyday."

However, Deera noted that Andrew exuded positivity throughout their conversation. Not once did he "complain, whine, or sigh" about his situation.

Andrew added that he was content to be able to move around and get out of the house, as opposed to remaining cooped up at home and "get[ing] dementia".

"My wife is working as a cleaner at a coffeeshop and her pay is not bad too. Anyway life is short so we can't waste it away," he said.

Deera ended off her post by saluting Andrew for his hard work, and urged people to show their appreciation for unsung heroes like him.



https://mothership.sg/2020/12/private-hire-driver-kidney-failure/

 

[Hypocrite-The]

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Private hire drivers often work long hours to make ends meet.

One woman in Singapore, however, was particularly awed and inspired by one driver's positivity and dedication to his job.

Much time on the road

Deera Daneesya shared in a Facebook post her encounter with a Ryde driver named Andrew.

At 65 years old, Andrew still spends 15 hours on the road every day, according to Deera.

In addition to working as a Ryde driver, he also works for Grab and Gojek.

He told Deera that he has been driving for a total of 23 years — 18 as a taxi driver, and five as a private hire car driver.

With the amount of time he's spent on the road, Andrew has completed a whopping 2,045 Ryde trips since he started.

Any essentials he may require for a long day of driving are also stocked in his car. These include plastic containers to takeaway food, four water bottles, snacks like biscuits, a flask of coffee and a pillow.

At Deera's joking that he might as well have a portable toilet in his car as well, she learns that Andrew has kidney failure and he had gone for a dialysis session right before picking her up.


Happy he's still able to move about
In her post, Deera expressed sympathy and concern for Andrew's wellbeing, wondering why he was still working after his dialysis treatment.

"Yes he may not my grandfather or related to me but he is someone's brother, dad, grandfather. I mean I would be very sad to know if my atok have to go through this to earn a living or worst trying to sustain and put food on the table everyday."

However, Deera noted that Andrew exuded positivity throughout their conversation. Not once did he "complain, whine, or sigh" about his situation.

Andrew added that he was content to be able to move around and get out of the house, as opposed to remaining cooped up at home and "get[ing] dementia".

"My wife is working as a cleaner at a coffeeshop and her pay is not bad too. Anyway life is short so we can't waste it away," he said.

Deera ended off her post by saluting Andrew for his hard work, and urged people to show their appreciation for unsung heroes like him.



https://mothership.sg/2020/12/private-hire-driver-kidney-failure/

Working at 65 with a terminal illness is wasting ones life away.

 

[searcher1]

What a bleak retirement
I rather he urge Govt to legalize Euthanasia
So he could end his suffering life

 

[OrhKiam]

Why taxi drivers never go through skill upgrading as promoted by the PAP?
Why he is still a taxi driver after so many years? if skill upgrading is real and not a propaganda, Andrew could be a programmer now or a coding master and he can work for Infineon !!!!

 

[zeddy]

Good for him but he better be careful and not exert himself too much. Dialysis patients who did their dialysis often feel nauseous and tired. I worry it could affect his driving and the safety of his passengers.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Good for him but he better be careful and not exert himself too much. Dialysis patients who did their dialysis often feel nauseous and tired. I worry it could affect his driving and the safety of his passengers.

That means he is medically unfit to drive,,,he should not even have his licence

 

[zeddy]

That means he is medically unfit to drive,,,he should not even have his licence

My neighbor used to go for weekly dialysis before he managed to get a kidney transplant 5 years back. Each time he came back from his dialysis session, he would always return home groggily. And the dialysis bump marks on his arms was so unsightly. This driver chap probably has a better endurance than my neighbor but I don't think it's advisable for him to chiong all day long as a driver.

 

[syed putra]

My kidneys are in good shape so no need to work hard.just 10 deliveries a day will do.

 

[no_faith]

Why recently sinkies see food delivery and cleaner having good wages?
What i see he did not plan for future
Cham la i am potential to follow same footstep

 

[knnccb]

hey john tan, isnt that you? his face is exactly the same

 

[Annunaki]

 

[bobby]

I am just guessing...Andrew and his wife vote PAP ?

 

[tobelightlight]

Why is he praise for working at the age of 65? another mind manipulation by the PAP media?
If you run a country that made senior people work to make a living because the cost is too high, then pls, as PAP, what are they doing all these years?

 

[laksaboy]

George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Boxer the horse: "I will work harder!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)

 

[redbull313]

George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Boxer the horse: "I will work harder!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)

shooo tiong shoo no virus here shoooo! go back to china shooo!