The thought of social workers or psychologists needing to get a master's degree, and this is the norm for Singapore... It's a boiling feeling of resentment.
If we look at Ireland, this academic requirements kind of pisses me off. We invest in so much education to yield so much stress, even this job is as useful as, well, fixing stuff. At least, from a British - ahem, English buddy's tip off, this seems to be what it is. Jynx, correct me if I am wrong.
From what we understand, in Ireland at least, they paid them even lower than the High School dropouts who decided to fix wires or pipes, at least, from 2000 to 2007. Then they moved to Perth, Australia and do the same thing. Maybe, next, they move to some Indian or Chinese city, while sipping on their cup of coffee?
What about those overworked Irish social workers, who work even harder than before, only to see their pays frozen or decreased due to 'austerity'?
The trend of overeducated and underpaid social workers pisses me off. Societal fairness is dead. There may be no such thing like fairness in today's society.
It's little wonder why Singaporean employers do restrict university graduates. Like Ireland, Singapore manages to keep both incomes for university graduates low, as wages are depressed at US$1,500 or lower for university graduates, as well as keeping taxes low. They want the world's best companies to be in Singapore. This is done at a great cost - for those who can make it through university and those who are more adventurous (indeed, the most motivated of Singaporeans), if they don't have civil service jobs, they're more likely to settle overseas - especially the United States and Australia, with thousands of Singaporeans given our population of 5 million people. We do have a brain drain of motivated local Singaporeans, which are replaced by even comparative more motivated Asians - so we have a net brain gain, Singapore's population grew by more than 1 million, or 20% of the total population, in the past decade or so.
Due to demographic pressures of an aging population, as well as increasing resentment by local Singaporeans who think they deserve some entitlements (esp. public university education), the Singapore government decided to increase university places from 27% of the cohort to 40%. 2 current niche universities with an applied focus, one in Business (the one I am studying in currently) and another in applied science and engineering, have plans for expansion. Which means, around less than half of our Singaporeans will eventually do university.
The new places are expected to be courses in applied engineering, hotel, retail, preschool care, nursing, childcare and so on. In developed countries, such areas need a degree, so in Singapore, there will be an expansion in the public universities to accommodate such industries.
So people do go to such social service and psychology industries, not because they love the job, not because they love the guaranteed money that amounts to a pittance, but actually, it gives them a basic standard of living with a basic societal standard to be respected as a 'professional'.
The market may be the King. But it cannot be everything, even accounting for societal statuses, social prestige, etc.
What pisses me off, actually, is that I know Singaporeans who do, and will, enter such 'helping' industries not because of passion, but because they want to be 'recognized'.
If we look at Ireland, this academic requirements kind of pisses me off. We invest in so much education to yield so much stress, even this job is as useful as, well, fixing stuff. At least, from a British - ahem, English buddy's tip off, this seems to be what it is. Jynx, correct me if I am wrong.
From what we understand, in Ireland at least, they paid them even lower than the High School dropouts who decided to fix wires or pipes, at least, from 2000 to 2007. Then they moved to Perth, Australia and do the same thing. Maybe, next, they move to some Indian or Chinese city, while sipping on their cup of coffee?
What about those overworked Irish social workers, who work even harder than before, only to see their pays frozen or decreased due to 'austerity'?
The trend of overeducated and underpaid social workers pisses me off. Societal fairness is dead. There may be no such thing like fairness in today's society.
It's little wonder why Singaporean employers do restrict university graduates. Like Ireland, Singapore manages to keep both incomes for university graduates low, as wages are depressed at US$1,500 or lower for university graduates, as well as keeping taxes low. They want the world's best companies to be in Singapore. This is done at a great cost - for those who can make it through university and those who are more adventurous (indeed, the most motivated of Singaporeans), if they don't have civil service jobs, they're more likely to settle overseas - especially the United States and Australia, with thousands of Singaporeans given our population of 5 million people. We do have a brain drain of motivated local Singaporeans, which are replaced by even comparative more motivated Asians - so we have a net brain gain, Singapore's population grew by more than 1 million, or 20% of the total population, in the past decade or so.
Due to demographic pressures of an aging population, as well as increasing resentment by local Singaporeans who think they deserve some entitlements (esp. public university education), the Singapore government decided to increase university places from 27% of the cohort to 40%. 2 current niche universities with an applied focus, one in Business (the one I am studying in currently) and another in applied science and engineering, have plans for expansion. Which means, around less than half of our Singaporeans will eventually do university.
The new places are expected to be courses in applied engineering, hotel, retail, preschool care, nursing, childcare and so on. In developed countries, such areas need a degree, so in Singapore, there will be an expansion in the public universities to accommodate such industries.
So people do go to such social service and psychology industries, not because they love the job, not because they love the guaranteed money that amounts to a pittance, but actually, it gives them a basic standard of living with a basic societal standard to be respected as a 'professional'.
The market may be the King. But it cannot be everything, even accounting for societal statuses, social prestige, etc.
What pisses me off, actually, is that I know Singaporeans who do, and will, enter such 'helping' industries not because of passion, but because they want to be 'recognized'.
