Originally posted by Forbiddensinner:Nothing is guaranteed nowadays.
Even pHD-holder who is a former professor has to drive taxi...
ya how to upgrade? got got I know how?
get another PHD in another field, like biochemistry or business management lol
Originally posted by Forbiddensinner:Nothing is guaranteed nowadays.
Even pHD-holder who is a former professor has to drive taxi...
ya some more he has taught at NUS part time before. why cant NUS offer him a full time job? dunno what the politics behind the scene?
what can a bachelor in philosophy do for a living? some even studied bachelor in divinity or theology lol. be a pastor or preacher or work in church after graduate?
Originally posted by Rooney9:what can a bachelor in philosophy do for a living? some even studied bachelor in divinity or theology lol. be a pastor or preacher or work in church after graduate?
In SG, the common way out is to jump over to NIE to get their PGDE.
degree would be a least requirement to fullfill is you want to get a job...
from what i have seen in the classified, the minimum requirement is normally degree..
i had a senior who had only diploma..have to work his sock off n proof his ability for his employer to overlook paper qualifications...
as they say ..a degree does not guarantee success.. but it pave the way
cheers..
Far be it from me to tell anyone of the necessity of a degree, but how, pray tell, is one otherwise realistically going to be able to keep Billecart-Salmon and wagyu on the table?
A degree is definitely not a must.
One of my former uni lecturers said this to us before he left to join an MNC.
"In order to be successful in life, it is more important to know the right people than to know the right things"
Look at the world today, there are so many successful people who are non degree holders, and on the flip side, there are so many degree holders that are not successful.
We study to get the basic knowledge. Of course, the higher u study the more u learned. But that does not mean u get the best paid job.
if u 1 2 get a good pay job, a degree is a gd option, where u work from 9-5 to get ur monthly salary. But dun ever think u can get rich by working through out ur life... In the singapore point of view, it is sad....
Too many graduate now-a-day, there no much value for degree holder. Unless u can tink out of the box, u r jus an ordinary graduate.
Originally posted by Alpha Omega:A degree is definitely not a must.
One of my former uni lecturers said this to us before he left to join an MNC.
"In order to be successful in life, it is more important to know the right people than to know the right things"
Look at the world today, there are so many successful people who are non degree holders, and on the flip side, there are so many degree holders that are not successful.
Obviously when the world has over 6 billion people, its easy to pick out any sum of people who fit into any criteria and slap on the word 'many'. eg there are many people with AIDS.
Even 1 million can be called 'many' and how many by % is it out of the world population?
The pertinent word is not 'many', but 'most', because probabilities and odds are what walks the walk in logic.
I can assure you that most successful people have degrees. Please don't confuse this with most people with degrees are successful.
Second, you assume that conditions are static. This is of course, untrue. Times have changed.
You can find more (more just means higher in number/frequency than another set of proposition, doesn't mean many or most) successful people in their 50s to 80s who do not have formal education.
People like Wee Cho Yaw and those who have since died, the early immigrants of Singapore from China like Tan Tock Seng, Tan Kah Kee. But please lah come on use your brains. When they were of school going age, the population then who had access to university education was like 0.5%. Nowadays things have changed. Any tom, dick or harry have access to undergrad and postgrad education.
This makes the distinction between education in elite institutions, education in mediocre institutions eg NUS and no education all the more stark.
If you don't understand all I have said above, it is the reason why you didn't manage to get educated.
Originally posted by Rooney9:
ya some more he has taught at NUS part time before. why cant NUS offer him a full time job? dunno what the politics behind the scene?
full time job will have to pay him full time salary..it my cost NUS $$$. Now want to save $$$ everywhere. What can he do?
Yes it is important just to get that job. Once you do that you can hang it back to the wall.
Originally posted by ☃®:full time job will have to pay him full time salary..it my cost NUS $$$. Now want to save $$$ everywhere. What can he do?
drive taxi... wait, that is what he is doing now...