Extracted From Email
The cause of this inferiority is due to the army (which is
important).
However, this will give us a 2-year disadvantage in career over the
gals of our age. In work place, we may have seniors who are younger
than us, yet we have to listen to their instruction.
Secondly, after 2 years of training in army, our critical thinking
for study has somehow been lost in the woods. As such, many of us
will feel the inability to excel in study in which we used to be
able to before enlistment. Gals, on the other hand will not have
this problem. Thus, even compared to gals 2 years younger our age,
our study will lose to them. In addition, prior to admission into
university, the gals will have some temp jobs where maybe, they can
pick up some working experience. As such, upon graduation, with our
lousier grades and lack of working experience, we can only find
lousier job with lower pay. The employer (except TLC) in Singapore
generally will not pay guys with a higher salary for his NS. Thus,
we feel even more inferior. Of course I am refering to the starting
point of career. What happen after that probably I am not too sure
as I have not reached there. But having a good starting leads to
half the battle won. So we guys have lost half the battle? Are we
discriminated?
