Kopi-o, milo, or me
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Kopi-o, milo, or me. This is the question I pose for myself this morning.
Life as an academic for the first 20 years of my life was straightforward. Grab the A’s, deprive your classmates of them, and you are smooth. Still, for some miserable reason, I always chose to mingle with my Polytechnic colleagues and acquaintances whenever I get to choose between my JC classmates and uni friends. There was like, a line drawn that separates people all the time into two classes, and always I choose the borderline when I see it.
Facing a choice of sec school, everybody wanted the top 20, I purposely chose the 21st, Anderson Sec (shortform A.S.S.). For JC, everybody wanted the top 5, I purposely chose the 6th, Anderson JC. For NS, my entire bunk of JC students went into a Logistics unit where their science knowledge could be applied. I did not choose, was chosen into a policy making unit where ironically, I work with a funny group of ITE and Polytechnic NSFs. Even the non-uniformed staff were from Poly. This borderline behaviour stretched until my university, when for some god-damned reason, my family urged me on to take on a scholarship which I didn’t want. Scholars were evil, or so I thought.
When I went into my company, all my supervisors came ironically.. from Poly! Not a single one needed a scholarship to enter Management.
Something was seriously wrong, I imagine.
These days, I am seeing more and more undergrads and graduates. The ITE goers want to enter Poly, the Poly goers want to enter Uni, and the Uni grads, f***! I have to go up right, so I took a Postgrad, as if I did not have enough of education. Yet, despite all the upgrading, the companies I am working for, are becoming smaller and smaller and my pay packet did not increase, it decreased instead.
My first company was a Jap MNC, then a American rich startup where the CEO drives a Ferrari, then a 20-year old Singapore established business, and now, today, I have an interview with a company operated by two high flyers in the industry. But still, from the company webpage, the company with only 5 years of history, is ringing an alarm in me that seems to suggest that pedigree and heritage no longer matters any more. I will not say I am right or wrong, but.. so long as the management can pay the salary.
The China attachment student, 23 years of age, who worked not under, but with me at my previous company, is exploring options to return to Singapore for a Postgrad too. In her words, her fine interest lies in Finance and not IT, which she tried an unsuccessful track conversion. She took International Politics for her degree, if I recall correctly.
I imagine that the purpose why all these under 25 year olds exist, is so that they make my heart pinch itself, and with that spark of pain, and grief, sometimes I will reveal to them that I too have no solutions for myself, let alone you. Still, let us see what we can do to minimise all the running between China and Singapore. It is not for you, but it is all in the name of conserving aero-fuel.
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So what point are you trying to put forth?
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the point is to sign up premier membership.
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WOT +9999 damage
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where is milo?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
the point is to sign up premier membership.
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