i guess you havent met the "other" side of singapore. The one which primarily focuses on monetary gain and follow the mantra, "You can do whatever you want, just dont get caught".

This post has been edited by crapp0: Aug 4 2011, 10:44 PM

speaking of agents, are they like the most lucrative earning job in singapore? i swear every time i open my mailbox there's at least like 5 real estate agent ads.

Yup, i met a couple of agents, some of them Malaysian agents age around 23 to 26 earning average $5K a mth.

ya that what i mean, sorry for my broken English. so it possible? anyways can i apply something like working permit temporarily?

5k a month? those are the fails... some young poly grad was earning 85k / month!!! and he's only 26.. gosh... with some big title with a real estate agency... zzz

actually guys, i dint mean to over staying at sg... i wont do illegal thing. i just want to know about the working permit thing, after apply what should i do. i been trying to ask friends around me and even google, but still dint get any answer or solution ... so that why i posting here.

This post has been edited by cofe23: Aug 5 2011, 12:59 AM

i wanna ask, what kind of job can a materials engineer look for or expect in singapore? Because normally ppl only say mechanical or electrical or chemical.. I screened thru jobstreet and so on, i saw most of the engineering field is semicon related, is there any materials engineer or who might know about the market in sg that we materials engineer would best fit in? I would prefer metal related industry..

confirm bro...like my agent..when i sign contract, he said he have another 5 appointment to attend...i alone paid half month rental...zzz

tried calling MOM or ICA?

ur half month rental a lot meh... give ppl a break la... that day maybe got 6 ppl to meet, only 1 person agrees to the place... ur 1/2 month rental around... sgd 350?

sgd 350*lets say 26 days = sgd 9.1k .... ok what, reasonable

fresh grad ?

Normally what i see if you pay half month rental commission to the agent, the other half month are paid by the landlord, that was i experience last time when i rent a room through agent. Would it be 18.2k now? Very lucrative???

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Added on August 5, 2011, 8:57 amMay be you are one of the successful one, should be at least 85k...

This post has been edited by Tigerr: Aug 5 2011, 08:57 AM

somehow i think it is the property agent who drive up all the HDB price
50-80k COV, if convert can straight buy a landed house aldi back home

yes fresh grad

wat your motivation working in singapore ? malaysia no prospect ?
not in your field, but if i really want to get a job in singapore now, i wack all in jobsdb / jobstreet related or unrelated at one go. At least u in most the the headhunter database and let them match for u.

This post has been edited by ivanswk: Aug 5 2011, 11:34 AM

lolz... Wanna try work at overseas, dont feel like staying in KL, got asked to interview at Southern Steel, but i dont feel like working in Klang Valley, my preferred location and Malaysia would be Sabah or Penang. my uncle is at there also. Perhaps few years i will only come back to Malaysia, wanna get to more expose first, actually i am open to any overseas location

How about going Bangladesh as their bangladeshi dont want to work as restorant helper as all flock to MAlaysia liao and so lots of vacancy there....

In Sabah, particulary KK, the living expenses is pretty high and is almost on par like KL but salary still remain low...People from Sabah cant wait to get out and you want to go there pula. May be you can consider working inside those palm oil plantation.

where is your "back home" that can buy landed for under rm200k?

anyway yes it is in property agent's best interest to drive the prices higher. higher price = higher commission for them mah. but this is also supported by high demand - if got low demand high supply, agents however bullsh*t you also they got not much influence to increase prices.

JB still can...

bought my ipoh house for rm90k and subang jaya one for just slightly rm200k+
to get a small hdb, need to have S$100k cash, but the small one cannot cater for my growing family
still thinking buy small one 2rm and upgrade later or wait abit slightly longer one time pain go straight to those 5rm hdb, half mil leh

how is things with u ?

TGIF

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Added on August 5, 2011, 2:34 pmJB always cross my mind, ask my wife stay at home and take care of kids, while i commute everyday
hmm.. just the security in JB, but i heard got some gated development there... anybody ?
i also read in the expat forum some gwailo commute everday, aiseh .. if he can do it, why not hoh

This post has been edited by ivanswk: Aug 5 2011, 02:34 PM

There are a lot of gated communities in JB. Most of the new development has got 'gated communities' like Ada heights, Bandar Dato Onn, and a bunch more. Unfortunately, I think the prices of these properties are very high (most >500k). The cheaper ones you can get maybe at Ulu Tiram matured housing area.

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Added on August 5, 2011, 2:40 pmAlso Gwailou drive in daily I guess.....

This post has been edited by L7Awesome: Aug 5 2011, 02:40 PM