I just saw this article in Yahoo Home. The top job with flexible hours is a medical transcriptionist. According to the article, to become one you just need to complete the course in a few months and you can work from home! How much you do you get? $28000 per year, not bad for home work. In the third position, is nursing. The pay is about $52000 or more and what's more you don't have to worry about not having a job for the next decade or so as worldwide there's shortage of nurses.
My holidays in Singapore is coming to an end...
It's been great coming back home for a few months. Having done about 3 months of attachments in various healthcare settings in Singapore, what have I concluded? I don't think I have the ability to work in Singapore as a doctor. Why? I hear the horror stories from the local doctors (no, not those who graduated 5 years ago but from those who graduated a couple of years ago) as well as seeing the frazzled-looking interns and Mos running around the wards. Don't get me wrong, I am full of admiration of them. It's just that I don't think personally I can withstand the amount of stress and on-calls.
In addition, I certainly feel that communication is a problem both in terms of the number of dialects that are spoken but also the different languages spoken here. In addition, many Singaporeans do not know the medications they are on and inadvertently, they will give a reply like so: "I don't know the name, but it a little blue pill. It's round/square/diamond. I do not know why I'm taking the medication. The doctor ask me to take so I take log." To a certain extent, I do not blame them. I mean many drug names difficult to pronounce even for English-speaking persons. The situation is compounded if the person is a non-English speaker. But I also feel a certain level of apathy from them as well.
I have to admit that coming back to Singapore to work has intangible benefits. Friends whom I have grown up with, gone through life's ups and downs. My parents are the single most important factor. However, they have no problems with going over to Sydney either. Other tangible factors are I basically don't have to pay exorbitant rent, food and cheap and reliable transport. But after all that is said, I think it is most probable that I will work in Sydney during my intern year.
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