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Does having more paper qualifications makes your pay higher?

Does it mean that if you are more qualified, you get more pay? And as such, you are able to look down on more people? Those that are less educated than you?

No. It depends on what you do. In Newton Hawker Centre, lots of the food stall owners own Mercedes and BMWs. Are they educated? No. Some even didn't go to school at all. They just had lots of luck. And I really mean lady luck smiling at them.

Sometimes, a person who dresses shabbily does not mean that he is poor. That is the service attitude of Singapore. They look at your outfit and try to judge you by your looks. I have worked in retail and saw men dressed in shorts, slippers and a T-shirt coming in to shop. When they finally make their purchase, it was well over $ 500.00 and they dish out a platinum card (Note : platinum card 10 years ago was far more prestigious than what it has become now). Now, would you ever think this man would have a platinum card judging the way he dresses?

So the next time you see someone dressed shabbily, don't think that he's just one poor bloke. He may just have a ferrari parked outside by the road (Since he can afford any fines!!) as to your Toyota in the carpark.