Should I Be A Working Mum or Stay-At-Home Mum?

How should mothers decide if they should continue working, or quit their jobs to stay at home and look after their children? Source: salary.com The bottom line is: whatever arrangement gives you the best chance of fulfilling your priorities after taking into account the drawbacks. This is one question many fathers don’t have to struggle…

Yes to Unemployment or Redundancy Insurance

What is unemployment or redundancy insurance? Unemployment insurance (sometimes packaged as redundancy insurance) is a type of unemployment benefit which you can receive if you lose your job involuntarily. If you’re retrenched or made redundant, payouts from redundancy insurance can help tide you over temporarily till you find a new job. Payouts from your unemployment…

How To Survive Being Jobless Without Unemployment Insurance

I survived it; so can you. Source There was a period in my life that I was scarily, firmly unemployed. Not through any choice of my own, except that I had to comply with the wishes of my ex-boss to resign. Unemployment isn’t something you can completely control. Being asked to leave is the slap…

No One in Singapore Is Safe From This

It’s not just the terrorism or flu. We, as Singaporeans, crave certainty and like to be proven right. But this is something many of us get terribly wrong. And this is something we can never be safe from. Link It’s not an airplane, sea or road accident. It would have never occurred to us that…