Hi everyone, just rejoined the forum after a long
hiatus…
Facing a big problem infront of me. I’m going to be 24 this year
and I just realized that I have not learnt anything.
I graduated with a diploma in 2007 and was enlisted in NS for 2
years. I joined the coast guard and it was fun/boing. As soon as I
was about to finish ns, my father pressured me to join a “non
private security agency” coz “the economy was bad at the time”. And
so I join this agency.
For a time it was good. I learnt a few new things and how
Singapore is at night. But after a year in the agency, I began to
realize that I have not learnt much at all. Being in a security
line, all I learn was to patrol around, answer complaints, chase
people and write report. That’s it.
Now I have been transferred to a more static duty coz of
shortage of man power and I began to see the dark side of office
politics. Discussions through emails only ( I mean come on, I’m
only one room away you inform of a new order through email and not
bother to tell me? Then come to scold me for not following
orders?), favoritism, hypocrisy, the fact that looking busy is more
important that finishing work early and then slack around coz there
is no more work, etc.
This is when I began thinking what the hell am I doing here. I
don’t like this job. I’m surrounded with people miserable with
their jobs. I have not learnt anything at all. I also began to hate
wearing a uniform. I have worn a uniform since primary school and I
don’t want to be wearing it till I’m 50. I began to hate standing
in line with people every morning for some jerk with a degree to
inspect us and scold us for not shining our shoe. I hate the fact
that I could never let my hair grow long.
I really want to quit. But my father is having a fit over this.
My father is the orang lama kind and is having a fit when I told
him I don’t like this job anymore. He says that if I quit, I’m
throwing away a wonderful career.
Also, all my life, I have been following someone else’s orders,
teachers, professors, parents and supervisors. I have also never
tried looking for a job outside before.
So for the first time in my life, I have to think on my own. And
I’m scared and don’t know what to do. I don’t have any contacts and
my closest friends and poly dropouts. All I know that I better find
something better to do with my life before I’m 30 and realize that
all I know in life is security.
Any advices would help coz at this point, I have no idea what to
aim for or what to do. And I have a limited saving of 17k that I
don’t plan to touch.
Security job is a dead end job. The migrants from PRC and India
are coming to flood our low end jobs. Soon Singaporeans will not be
able to find low paid jobs.
Your father like any other father wants us to do a dead end
routine job. Fathers only want us to earn money, they want us to
have security. But it is your destiny, you must decide, notyour
father.
If I were you, I would do anything, take a loan, sell property,
anything ! in order to go somewhere and take up my studies. To
survive in Singapore, you have to be a degree holder or else you
will be look down upon and even the PRC migrants will be become
your boss.
If you are a poly drop out, suggest you go overseas to look for
studies. Are you a malay? Malaysia supports a lot of malay and
subsidise their studies. There are a lot of cheap universities in
Malaysia that have twinning programmes that charge half the
price of Singaporean colleges.
