Depends... some of the India engineers I work with I noticed have only S-passes, and they have experience. That means they earn <S$2500. You'll have to compete with them. I was lucky to start off years ago at slightly higher than dictated by the Employment Pass, but still <S$3000 at that time. Today, I don't think it's a sure thing you will start off >S$3000. Will vary from company to company. MNC's pay more than local firms for sure.

Yes possible. Ask around and you may yet find rooms at S$2xx, more so if you have some sort of sharing arrangement with a room mate. My room which is like very near Harbourfront MRT and is 4x5 m^2 = only S$400...

Another recourse is to live in JB and commute everyday to work. I have colleagues who do this not because they want to save money but their immediate family is in JB and they drive daily.

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Added on June 23, 2008, 3:12 pmThere is something sort of fallacy about inferring general relationships from success stories. You only see what you wanted to see, and show others what you want them to see.

You can't say that NOT going to school is the key to success because so 'many' rich buggers were academic failures.

So basically the Olivia example was cited because someone had a beef with the M'sian scholarship award system, to prove her point it's unfair and that M'sia has lost out on an exemplary character because of this. But, it's only one example, and the connection of Olivia's success to the Sg scholarship is not strong: she might have succeeded anyway without the scholarship - unless there is existing data to show a strong correlation between receiving scholarships and (financial?) success in life.



This post has been edited by cjtune: Jun 23 2008, 03:12 PM

How many years did you spend in Singapore?

Hmm, maybe 10 years ago rules were different I guess.
Now, even my PR colleagues who live in JB but work in S'pore have to drive S'pore-registered cars.
There is a way to convert an initially MY-registered car to a S'pore-registered car but I don't know the details but you definitely have to pay for the COE and whatever LTA assessments and eventually it's not any cheaper than having bought your car in S'pore.