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PDVL vs TPDVL

Crossroad decision: To Grab or not to Grab ...

3 years ago (in Feb 2018 to be exact), I wrote my first blog of my journey to getting a vocational license. ( TPDVL aka taxi license to be exact!) My original intention is simply to use my SkillFuture credit and also I could see that there is always a possibility that I may be out of job someday.  I have seen friends and ex-colleague's life thrown into disarray when they were layoff during retrenchment and could not find a job for more than a year. It is not a pretty scene and it brought many problems not only to the affected person, but also to his/her family.  Long gone are the days whereby you could start your career in a company and retire after 40 or 45 years of service. The modern era company operation is all about P/L (Profit/Loss).  It sounds cruel, but that is the reality.  Now in 2021... I am at the crossroad.  The company that I am working for is not (exactly) doing well; it isn't at the point of collapsing too. Unfortunately there were many rounds of...

TPDVL / TDVL - Taxi and Private Hire Car Driver Vocational Licence

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I have noticed that there is a large presence of PHV in the Singapore roads in the recent years. My wife's commuting pattern has also changed due to the many promotional discount coupons that GRAB and UBER offers.  My neighbor works for GRAB. He is an administrative staff and shared with me that I could use the Skillfuture credit to subsidize the vocational driving license course that Singapore Taxi Academy offers. It was during that conversation with my neighbor that I learned about this two acronyms:   PDVL ( Private Hire Car Driver Vocational Licence )   TPDVL or TDVL ( Taxi and Private Hire Car Driver Vocational Licence ) I have worked in the Electronics engineering industry for the past 2 decades; have already seen a fair share of the ups & downs of this industry. " Retrenchment " is always lurking around waiting to claim the next victim... somehow this transportation service industry has never cross my mind till now. Considering that my b...