Redditer: Lost my job and don't know what to do.My skills are not in demand

[Flibbertigibbet]

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Lost my job and don't know what to do.My skills are not in demand​

Career, Job, Edu Qn in SG

Since growing up I was a bit of a loner, had almost no friends and spent most of my time reading books. I was very bad at math and sciences but really liked history. I got into NUS and graduated with a degree in Political Science. After graduation I was offered an internship at the UN in New York which I gladly took because it was my dream to be in the UN at the time. After an internship I was offered a contract job which lasted for 3 years which I spent in New York. Upon coming back to SG, I was awarded a scholarship to Cambridge, an unbelivable achievment from someone coming from a lower-economic background (my father was a manual laborer and my mother was a NUS professor, I don't know how they married, but as I got it from my mother it happened becase she was very rebelious and wanted to escape my grandparents house and did not allow them to tell her wha to do). I got masters in Development Studies from there.

After graduating I returned back to SG and was strugling to find permanent employment and was doing some contract work. After some time I was offered a stable position in the UN again in Korea with a great payment, much more than I could ever earn in SG doing what I love and working in a great supportive team. After 2,5 years, situation in the world changed and everything went to s*it with the Orange Man destroying everything. I was retrenched. There's no hope of the situation improving and me getting my job soon.

It's been 6 months since that happened. I returned to SG and moved back with my mom. I have been doing some contract work which I was able to get through my old UN supervisor, but it pays very very low - 3k a month for work from home. I have been applying to different jobs and trying to transfer to the private sector and find some job but it seems like my skills are absolutely irrelevant.

I am completely lost, depressed and feel like my entire life has been a mistake. Does anyone have any advice for me how to rebuild my life and what I can do?

Edit: to those who are saying that I’m a terrible cb or it’s a rage bait or that I come from privilege. I come from a very unorthodox background: my mom worked as an invited professor in NUS - she is not Singaporean, she is from Europe. My dad was Chinese, and he was intermittently present in my life, I was raised mainly by mom. I submitted around 200 applications and had only one interview,which I thought went well but they eventually got someone with more relevant experience

 

[Flibbertigibbet]

He should join National Library Board. His skills are probably most relevant there.

 

[millim6868]

Lol, jobs are for foreigners,lol, hv 1 tenant,femalw PR 10k per mth also kpkb, shocked to me the GLC hired mostly all PR,lol

 

[True Believer]

This is a fake story. This is the big giveaway: "my father was a manual laborer and my mother was a NUS professor, I don't know how they married....."

 

[batman1]

Go see your MP for help.

 

[Sustanon]

"(My father was a manual laborer and my mother was a NUS professor, I don't know how they married, but as I got it from my mother it happened because she was very rebelious and wanted to escape my grandparents house and did not allow them to tell her what to do). "

Your mom called a plumber to help fix the tap..... I saw alot of this kind on JAV plot....

 

[nabeifuckpap]

Reddit siao lang again

 

[batman1]

Go see your MP for help

 

[syed putra]

Paper shuffling skills not required anymore.
Demand is in wood working, metal working, agriculture, animal breeding....... Real physical work.

 

[Dongyi]

He should join National Library Board. His skills are probably most relevant there.

He should join SDP. Only SDP understands the jobless because the SG is jobless also.