This guy deserves a book deal:
Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something “uniquely Singapore”.
Start here and work backward. He’s not quite as engaging as Cablog (written by a taxi driver in Sydney), but it’s still a great read.
Sadly, the phenomenon of PhD-graduated taxi drivers has a 30 year history. Knowledge is power, but sometimes that power must be delivered via a gas pedal.