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yas

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Date Posted: 18:58:24 07/04/04 Sun

I can probably understand how Hua feels. The problems with a 'professional' degree are:

1) The graduate himself cannot 'swallow his pride' to take on another job other than what he specialises in. Afterall, he has invested so many years in this field already. So he'll need sometime to consider whether he should give up what he specialises in, or to do something else.(Yours truly here is stuck in this pathetic state.)
2) Companies nowadays will not employ such graduates due to the recession. So even if the graduate does come to terms with his pride, he can't get a job.
3) Even within the graduates' own professional field, there are at least a hundred other candidates fighting for the same job. So the graduate also won't get a job.
4) The natural thing for the graduate to do now, is to go back to school. But here comes the major problem, if he continues to pursue a Higher degree, two years down the road, the economy is not going to get any better. By then, it will be even harder for him to find a job because his career capital depreciates.(And I am stuck with this dilemma now.)

Hua, if you want, I can really ask my lighting design tutor if he needs engineers for his research project. I will find out the job scope for you? (And I tell you the monetary returns is high)I can't work for my own tutor now because she doesn't have any on going projects. *Long story as I've said on my blog* My advice for Hua, be active in your search for engineering research assistant jobs in NUS. You get paid, and you can do your degree. It's killing two birds in one stone. And keep this to yourself if you do not want a thousand other engineers to be fighting for the job.

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