Saturday, August 02, 2008
for the sake of...
For the sake of getting through the university admission red tapes this week, I've missed out very much of the outside world. Recently, there was a global survey done about career paths chosen by Singaporeans.
It turned out that "more than half of workers in Singapore regret what they chose to study back in school, polytechnic or university." "One in three is also uncertain about their ultimate career choice, according to an online survey by Kelly Services. It was released on Wednesday."
Let's see why were there so many Singaporeans crossing wrong paths in their peaks...
Basically, you can split into 4 quadrants - talented (all-rounder prodigy), not talented (little or no talent in all areas), interested (very keen in a profession), not interested (not keen at all in a profession).
For those who are talented and also interested in their profession, they really have no worries at all as their path is clear - get that degree and just like an object given a slight push in vacuum, they'll continue further until they're lost in sight. These are the big gamers and huge earners - millionaires.
Those who are talented but have no interest at all are possibly those whom parents want them to follow their footsteps. It is likely that most of the high-flying parents would want to mould their children into the exact or similar profession as them. In this case, they could have 2 options: 1. follow what their parents told them to do and continue to be stable and successful albeit boring; or 2. heck with their parents and go on to the track they wanted long ago. Either way, they are smart enough to be in the managerial positions and earn rather high salaries, but not as high as board of directors.
The not talented but who are interested in a certain profession, most of the time, will not be able to get what they want... ...unless opportunity comes knocking on their door, and the rest of the success is up to the individual's determination and hard work. If not, it's time for them to move on with life and carry on with the humdrum routine work. These people are the bulk of higher-middle income or middle income group.
Lastly, the not talented and without any interest category will have no choice but to do something which will require little or intrinsic skills to ensure survivability. They have the lowest paying jobs but still able to have food on their tables for every meal, just that quantity and quality might contrastive with those above. Their children have a high chance of getting caught in the vicious cycle. They are the low income group.
Where do a typical Singaporean fall into? What about you? =)
DSZeng scribbled this at 12:17 PM
