hello guys..i just appointed as pavement inspector for fong consult pte ltd,anyone ever heard it?thats the company repair road and road construction..im now waiting work permit to be approve before heading to singapore
i will living in JB,got friends there..any tips or anything that i need to know kindly appreciated

They should be the consultant for the project. Since you representing them, your job should be to ensure the work done is according to their drawings and specifications.

Be careful on site, fall, accidents etc. Drink more water weather very hot.

You sure or not? Totally different face okay!!!

From an economics point of view, definitely. From ur point of view, i think u have been in the finance industry for quite some time?

Well, da way i see it, engineering especially has been stagnant for many years. Wat we do and design is in fact nothing much different from the past 20-30 years. Eventually everyone picks up the knowledge. If u apply supply and demand theory, when supply increases more than demand, u r more or less screwed. Whereas finance has actually evolved quite a nit in the past few years with new alternative investments, new economic theories, its always changing from the way i see it.

this is pretty true. inspector job is never easy. must know all those design specifications. anything less than your due diligence would probably end up with a lawsuit/fine/jail term.

Prepared to be fried like an egg. lol

thanks, noted.. hopefully i can used all my construction experience to avoid anything

yeah,if in construction will be need to know so much detail,knowledge,if for road maintenance, i dont know yet,because even i have no experience,they appointed me and said will send me for a course about 4 months,it cost them SGD2500,and i cant resign in 2 years,if not,need to pay penalty

hahaha,im already baked like a chocolate cake,lol

actually the thing is engineering in sg has been focusing a lot on manufacturing rather than other high value processes... electronic is dying, pharmaceuticals is volatile... only rig building, oil refining n downstream are doing well... because of sg's limited size in both economy and ppl i is hard to go up the value chain... like making weapons / nuclear energy / aero space / designing huge stuff, these are where the big $$$ comes in

Point taken.

My point is that what you do and who you do it for, is just as important... if not more so than how much you do it. The greatest driver of reward is not effort, but results... results for someone who appreciates it.

In Ipoh for instance, the highest paying mainstream jobs are engineering jobs. The semicon factories in Ipoh have the most employees earning >10K salary (by far, by a country mile). The vast majority of them are E&E engineers.

Good Analysis.
For me, I really lack the sight to forsee the future. I only know that if i continue to follow this path, i will end up slaving away for a meager, simple life, having said that, i mean a basic family, a hdb if in sg, an average double storey in the suburbs in kl and a regular car, without any extra cash to spare.
What i can do now is to equip myself with the necessary tools to face the future. Finance might be my future career path if not too late, if not, the extra knowledge will also aid me in my investments. so theres really no harm in taking up a finance masters i guess, anyway, i dun think i have any to lose other than effort and tuition fees.

Understood. So i should go where construction is booming instead.

Hi... anywhere I can get good and cheap mattress? The price here is crazy compared to kl...

The normal one or foldable one? last time i buy from sea horse for the foldable bed, cost me 39.90. for me, i will consider foldable bed as i worry if i moved, it will be very troublesome, but if you want normal bed, can consider ikea,spend abit more use longer.

I also have a few of those Seahorse mattress (~$30 each), bought them for family members who came to visit us.
I got feedback that its too hard to sleep comfortably.

You can try to find mattress sellers in your neighbourhood plazas and markets, shophouses.

Alternatively if you can also google for online furniture seller. I once bought a wardrobe online, about $150 inclusive of delivery. (not Courts or Ikea..)

I bought a couple of those inflatable matteresses used for camping etc from Fairprice. About $30 or 40, iirc. Queen size, comes with a pump. Quite confortable (as long as you don't mind the sensation), and easy to store when not using.

i feel so not welcomed here

even my aunt say things like

"singaporeans hate u all foreigners now, even the government also on the singaporeans side now."

"dun ask for too much, got any job then do already."

"dunno how to walk, want to fly already."

ur aunt Singaporean too?

Hahaha, take their comments lightly. They have their choice to voice their displeasure.
you also have the choice not to care.

it's totally up to you how you manage it.

malaysian but became citizen years ago la.

really feel they very arrogant

i turned down a 1.6k job la. now searching for a new one. but i ask for 2k only.

she thinks i asking for too much

is malaysian degree lower than sg poly grads?

that's what she makes me feel

Normal ba, old ppl always compare their pay last time with your pay now. 1.6k last time alot already, maybe local degree pay. But they always forgot inflation lo, now 1.6k how to survive. Btw, 1.6k for what job if you don't mind to tell