For people who are not interested in studying, they naturally
would not do well in ITE, Poly, JC. After staying in school get the
lousy result, he may not even graduate. Even when they graduate
with a just can-make it result, which employer would hire you?
Which further education insitiute wants you?
You can assume that the guy can study, but in fact he cannot,
not interested, not motivated and ... he cannot go far. Even
getting the "O" level cert might be difficult already. Hence
signing on is GOOD. Prehaps even SAF might not wants you, because
now they are looking for techinical professional, best with
engineering cert or something.
Getting qualitfication is one thing, able to get the
qualification is another. I think out of all the jobs for O level,
SAF specialists are paid the best. Holding that vocation for 5 -10
years, allow you to start a business or go for course when
complete.
I remember my friend stop at A level, sign on as a NDU diver,
why? He replied, even if he grad as a Uni he cannot earn as much as
what he is now. And he cannot get into Uni in the first place. I
think he is a private diving instructor now, earning good $$.
Signing on use to be good when the bowl is made of gold. But
since they decided to change the golden bowl to a wooden one, it is
no longer as good as it was before.
Your friend is an abnomaly, most people who comes out of SAF (
and are below Maj/WO ) find themselves out of job and with "no job
experience". If you add on "no "O"-lvl cert" to that, I seriously
can't see how a 30+ can survive.
He has leave the books for too long to continue his studies, and
yes, he can try starting a business, but odds are it is going to go
down due to his lack of experience.