{"id":76144,"date":"2026-08-13T07:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76144"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:09:05","slug":"from-s10000-salary-to-hawker-stall-this-30-year-old-chooses-hokkien-mee-over-tech-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76144","title":{"rendered":"From S$10,000 salary to hawker stall: This 30-year-old chooses Hokkien mee over tech job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>Alvin Tan left the technology sector before retrenchment could reach him. He now works longer hours, earns much less but has greater control over his future. Was it worth it, Money Mind asks.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/cna-insider\/meta-engineer-hokkien-mee-umami-hawker-stall-tech-job-6314651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin Tan left the technology sector before retrenchment could reach him. He now works longer hours, earns much less but has greater control over his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--7EZxnxre--\/c_crop,h_720,w_1280,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/12\/cna_hd_the_nuclear_option_ep3_textless_220726_1500_dnmc5553654.00_07_06_13.still093_0.jpg?itok=Mds66emK","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16339,936,1177,2665,6182,1547,6452,17307,3397,1243],"class_list":["post-76144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-30yearold","tag-chooses","tag-hawker","tag-hokkien","tag-job","tag-mee","tag-s10000","tag-salary","tag-stall","tag-tech","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}