This story happens to my friend.
He is currently in his mid 20s.
He has been working for around 3 years since he ord.
He has a diploma from a local polytechnic.
Unfortunately, he chosed a wronh course which he did not like in
polytechnic. Thus, throughout his 3 years of work, he has been job
hopping each job lasting for a few months only.
He now knows what he wants in life but in order to have a career
switch, he first needs to study.
His parents had always quarel with each other since he was a
baby. They finally divorced when he was 12 years old.
He than went to stay with his father and stepmother. He got
tortured bu his stepmother and so at 18 years old, he could not
bear with it and went back to stay with his mother.
His father continued to give him $400 a month allowance
throughout his 3 years polytechnic course. His mother never gave
him any financial support except to give him a place to stay. When
he started his ns, his father stopped giving him allowance.
His mother is controlled like a puppet by his grandmother.
Mother earns only 1.5k a month(before cpf contribution) and gives
his grandmother $800 a year. Mother is afraid that if she cut the
allowance she give, her mother(his grandmother) will complain to
her other sons and daughters(his uncles and aunties).
He knows that he is doing a job that he does not like that is
why he can't stay long in all his jobs. He wants to have a career
change but to do that he needs to study a degree in a new course
but he does not have the money to do so.
His father has money to pay for his university education but
says that he needs to pay for his own education 1st and after he
gets his degree than his father will pay him back the money.
But he does not have much savings to study a degree so he does
not have the money to pay for a degree 1st. Plus, his father is now
being psycho by his stepmother not to give him any money to take a
degree so now his father have changed his mind and no longer wants
to let him study a degree.
Mother say she has given all her money to her mother(his
grandmother) so she has no money to sponsor him for a degree.
So now he has no choice but to stick on to jobs that he has no
interest in. Alternatively, he is thinking of doing jobs such as
retail, waiter etc which do not need much education and not much
stress job..
Low salary but at least he is single and have no family
committment..
He is destined to forever be stuck in jobs that he does not
like..
one word say it all, he is a "Lazy bum"
