Degree, not worth it if you use your own money.

I was having a friendly chat with my friends after a game of basketball when one of them was thinking about further study to get a degree, which was what I had in mind all along. Only that he can’t really afford the payment and he got a son to take care of. Sometimes its ironic, some people have the financial means to further study yet they dun appreciate it, yet some people badly wanted to get a education but they have to slog day in day slog and save whatever they have for the course fees or textbooks.

Since my application for uniSim will probably not be accepted, I’ve searched for other course which suit my interest and sad to say, they are so expensive that I’ll have to work at least 6 years to recover my course fee without saving any money. Which left me with 2 choice, Either get my next company to subsides my school fees or keep waiting for my uniSim application for next year July.

Education = Scam?

On one of the recent comments left by my friend who thinks that education doesn’t guarantee you job security and education itself is a legalised scam. I respect his views and however, isn’t your diploma of degree that gives you that office 9 to 5 job? Isn’t your Master’s degree or Phd that gives you that high salary? Do you know that some of the employees in Google were already millionaires and do you think that they are not educated?

All I can say is that it all depends on what do you want to become 5 or 10 years down the road and what it takes to become one. Becoming a millionaire does not necessary need to have a degree or Phd but becoming a lawyer or doctor needs to spend years in schools to get their degree and more years of education to get their license in order to fight your court case or perform surgery on someone else.

So lets face it. Singapore is a society based on qualifications and paper and unless you wanted to be your own boss (which is not what I want). You gotta have the necessary experience, skill-sets and qualifications in order to land onto that job which you always wanted. So even if some of you thinks that education is a legalised scam, you still need to depend on that piece of paper to get your paycheck every end of the month. Period…