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.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

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....."

Yes a tall story indeed

 

[A Singaporean]

Do not worry. Trust our ministers. They will bring in more CECAs to create good jobs for you.

 

[True Believer]

Do not worry. Trust our ministers. They will bring in more CECAs to create good jobs for you.

Do you mean security guard, cabby, PHV driver, insurance agent, real estate agent, MLM salesperson, waiter etc. for former PMETs?

 

[Balls2U]

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....."

Another giveaway - If he had been with the UN, he wouldn't want to return to Sinkieland and look for a job here.