美顶尖大学毕业 博士失业改驾德士

Stanford PhD as Taxi-Driver in Singapore

(taken from http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory200908191515-84293.html)

本地著名作词人小寒说，改行当德士司机博士,是她念大学二年级的科研导师。

博士失业，改行驾德士。

一名男子在博客中透露，他拥有美国斯坦福大学博士学位，曾在新加坡科技研究局（A*STAR）担任首席研究员，自去年5月份合约被终止后，就一直找不到工作，于是决定转行当德士司机。

自称蔡明杰(译音，Cai Ming Jie）的博士，在今年4月6日，以“一个新加坡德士司机的日记”为题目，开始在网上写博客。

他说，他可能是世界上唯一拥有斯坦福大学博士学位的德士司机。

他声称，他在新加坡科技研究局的分子与生物细胞研究院(Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology，IMCB）担任16年的首席研究员，可是却在事业颠峰期离开研究工作，过后因为种种原因找不到合适的工作。

他声称，他是在07年接到通知，指他的应聘合约将在08年5月份被终止。他说，他被逼入窘境，因为这个年龄突然失业，是一场最糟的恶梦。

“我一直很努力找工作，寄出无数份履历，包括本地大学、政府机构和私营公司，大多数都石沉大海，只有少数回应，可是却没有结果。”

经济萧条，令他更难找到工作。去年11月，也就是离职半年后，他决定当德士司机。他去年12月份报读德士司机课程，今年2月份，终于取得执照。

他在博客中也感谢家人的支持和信任，不断在他身边鼓励他，让他有推动力继续下去。

看小寒部落格文章，点击这里。

http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/

Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something "uniquely Singapore". As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are interesting to you too.

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What happens to Singapore. It is sad to of knowing this news that Singapore is so materialistic of terminating his job at that age, who had contributed his valuable knowledge to the company as a principle investigator. I previously thought Singapore was more cherish to science & high tech related industries besides business since Singapore is in a shortage of knowledgeable researchers and scientists. I might change the view on Singapore. Is it a cold blood materialistic country? No wonder people say Singapore is a good place to earn money (when you are young) but not on living, especially for the elders, since the medical charges are astronomically expensive. Is it true?
This news is a bit demotivating me as I am pursuing my Phd in NTU. Is it a good decision of studying Phd? Just looking forward and strive hard...since I have no plan of settling down here :p