A 35-year-old businessman in Singapore has appealed online for a well-educated foreign domestic worker who would be able to take care of child care and family tutoring duties as well as domestic work.
The man surnamed Lee wrote last month on the Facebook private page “Singapore transfer helpers (maids) direct hire”, offering a salary of S$650-$850 (US$479-$626) for a foreign domestic worker who can perform multiple duties.
According to the advertisement, Lee was in need of someone who could start work before mid-February. The prospective worker should have a bachelor degree or good high school grades so as she is able to give simple tutoring in mathematics and English his primary one-aged daughter.
The prospective employee would also be expected to love cooking, to learn new dishes by following recipes and to carry out domestic duties in the family’s 1,250-square-foot (116-square-meter) apartment.
Contacted by the Shin Min Daily reporter, Lee explained that his family speak mainly Chinese at home and his wife does not have a good command of English. A well-educated worker would be deemed suitable as he believed she would be able to help improve the English capabilities of both his wife and daughter.
Lee added that the requirements were based on experience he had of watching a relative’s domestic worker, a bachelor’s degree holder who, as well as performing domestic work, gave tutoring and supervision to his nephew.
Two employment agencies in Singapore told the newspaper that while it would not be impossible, it could be difficult to secure a worker who might fulfill Lee’s requirements, due to keen international competition for well-educated workers.
The employer would also be expected to pay a higher salary and to devote more time to searching for suitable candidates, the agents added.
Lee said eight women had replied to his advertisement. Although two Filipina candidates reportedly had bachelor’s degrees, they were not suitable as the man was looking for workers who already had a Singaporean work permit and were seeking to change employers.
Ask him to send his wife for English lessons and tutor her own child…good grief……
Ask him to send his wife for English lessons and tutor her own child…good grief……
They can pay you very high but they will give you a very stressful life multi tasking is very difficult….
They can pay you very high but they will give you a very stressful life multi tasking is very difficult….
Salary is too small to do everything…tutorial is per hour..
Salary is too small to do everything…tutorial is per hour..
Hes a businessman then he can afford to send his wife and daughter to an English school , working in the house not easy at the same time doing the tuturial ,wow how can a one person do it all …
Hes a businessman then he can afford to send his wife and daughter to an English school , working in the house not easy at the same time doing the tuturial ,wow how can a one person do it all …
Low salary for a stressful job.. nah keep your money.
Low salary for a stressful job.. nah keep your money.
Hahaha all in one?for only $650? So koripot huh!?
Hahaha all in one?for only $650? So koripot huh!?
I think these men needs to get a maid from India cause he’s killing 3 birds with one stone ask yourself do you want to take up the job with such wages.
I think these men needs to get a maid from India cause he’s killing 3 birds with one stone ask yourself do you want to take up the job with such wages.
High salary na ba sa kanya ang 650-850$ sa hinahanap nya?tsk tsk.
High salary na ba sa kanya ang 650-850$ sa hinahanap nya?tsk tsk.
You think too low for us man paying that kind of money for a multi tasking work ,let alone for a degree holder domestic helper?Keep your money as the others said!!!
You think too low for us man paying that kind of money for a multi tasking work ,let alone for a degree holder domestic helper?Keep your money as the others said!!!
Omg this is what im looking for….im a bsmathematics graduate,just finish my contract and leaving singapore this coming january 12, im trying to find employer but i havent find yet i want to take a vacation first but im willing to come back in singapore coz i love here..i take care kids here for 4yrs….i love to teach the kids as long as my employer treat me good and treat me like their extended family,coz i surely will treat their kids like my own, f someone interested in me can contact me through messenger and we can talk privately
Omg this is what im looking for….im a bsmathematics graduate,just finish my contract and leaving singapore this coming january 12, im trying to find employer but i havent find yet i want to take a vacation first but im willing to come back in singapore coz i love here..i take care kids here for 4yrs….i love to teach the kids as long as my employer treat me good and treat me like their extended family,coz i surely will treat their kids like my own, f someone interested in me can contact me through messenger and we can talk privately
Omg this is what im looking for….im a bsmathematics graduate,just finish my contract and leaving singapore this coming january 12, im trying to find employer but i havent find yet i want to take a vacation first but im willing to come back in singapore coz i love here..i take care kids here for 4yrs….i love to teach the kids as long as my employer treat me good and treat me like their extended family,coz i surely will treat their kids like my own, f someone interested in me can contact me through messenger and we can talk privately
Omg this is what im looking for….im a bsmathematics graduate,just finish my contract and leaving singapore this coming january 12, im trying to find employer but i havent find yet i want to take a vacation first but im willing to come back in singapore coz i love here..i take care kids here for 4yrs….i love to teach the kids as long as my employer treat me good and treat me like their extended family,coz i surely will treat their kids like my own, f someone interested in me can contact me through messenger and we can talk privately
That’s so cheappppppppp! LOL I can earn that for tutoring in few hours in a month. Sorry!
That’s so cheappppppppp! LOL I can earn that for tutoring in few hours in a month. Sorry!
Much more better if he send his wife and daughter in a English school than to hired a domestic workers that can do everything its so stressfull you know.
Still low salary for a multitask work its so difficult, keep your money.
Still low salary for a multitask work its so difficult, keep your money.
Agree
Agree
I don’t think the salary that he was offering to domestic worker isn’t sound enough just to do the household chores plus the tutorial.He needs to look for a separate English tutor for his family & a helper.
I don’t think the salary that he was offering to domestic worker isn’t sound enough just to do the household chores plus the tutorial.He needs to look for a separate English tutor for his family & a helper.
Just keep your money and do it yourself lol.
Just keep your money and do it yourself lol.
If you are a degree holder and you are a teacher China is open with very high salary than Singapore
If you are a degree holder and you are a teacher China is open with very high salary than Singapore
That’s true.
That’s true.