Degree no good ..... just get a good job

[KR81]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

Each child is unique. And being kids, they will not go up to mummy and suddenly demonstrate that he / she is a chess player. Discovery of a child ..... what he / she enjoys .... is by trial and error. Thus many short lived ("whatever") type of activities.

Not spoon feeding.

Yup, children should be given the opportunity to test a range of activities (academic and non-academic) before they themselves and parents realise where their interests lay. I like to play/watch football but it does not automatically mean my son will like it too. Exposing him to this sport and others will give us both a chance to evaluate his interests. So who's gonna win FA Cup this weekend???

 

[kenntona]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

my dream career was to be an ah sia kia

My dream career was to be a gigolo.

I made it !!!

 

[davidtch]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

FYI I became a lawyer because I failed maths and science.

my dream career was to be an ah sia kia

My dream career is to find a rich wife & eat soft rice.

 

[detach8]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

My dream career is to find a rich wife & eat soft rice.

I kid you not, I had a classmate whose parents taught her that all she needed to do in life was to be pretty and find a rich guy and she will be successful.

She did exactly that.

 

[Red_Bean_Bun]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

"tuition / ECA / swimming / ballet / chess / mind map whatever" - Kids generally will not like the tuition. They like the rest of that line though.

You were a naughty boy ......

If you put them thru... let me quote you "tuition / ECA / swimming / ballet / chess / mind map whatever" I'm sure they're going to hate studying.

Why?

Because I've been through all that shit. It's not fun. It's all kiasuism. Then every CNY you have your relatives comparing kids, then parents will say, "see see, ah ling do better than you, you will grow up and be useless." Seriously, WTF?

I went through the motion. Tuition, music class, this and that. My parents put me through JC even when I barely made it to any decent JC with my 'O' level results, because I must go there then can go to Uni, even though I said "NO I want to go Poly".

In the end it was my last straw, I failed *everything* from GP to Chinese to Maths C to Physics during JC promo exams. My parents were disappointed, gave up on forcing me to do shit I didn't want and I went to Poly.

But when all these stopped as I entered Poly, did I hate studying? Did I flunk my studies? No. I graduated, got a job, got married, got a house, got a car. Did I grow up to be useless? I had to even pay my Poly school fees back after I graduated, despite my parents coming from an average income family. So is bringing up a kid really that expensive? Surely all those Yamaha Music lessons are expensive, but everything else... is not really that bad isn't it?

Then what happened to those relatives who were studying hard, doing better than me when young? MOST are in boring ass jobs paying them average salaries.

This is my true story.

 

[MW]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

My dream career is to find a rich wife & eat soft rice.

Piss off lah copycat

 

[Meek]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

I kid you not, I had a classmate whose parents taught her that all she needed to do in life was to be pretty and find a rich guy and she will be successful.

She did exactly that.

Wow. I think i skipped dat module. Uh oh.

 

[Red_Bean_Bun]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

Dunno leh ..... thesaurus say its like that ......

Cannot be. This paper never shoot themselves on their feet.

 

[detach8]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

I think government schools nowadays are already well equipped enough to let every child explore all these CCAs, no need to go and take their weekends away from them for all sorts of other activities. Is government schools really lacking?

Some kids really just prefer to sit there and read books, some will like to play sports. Whatever it is, let them be. I always believe there will come a time kids will see for themselves that papa and mama work hard to bring them up, they need to do the same. They got eyes, got ears, got emotion, got brain.

But hokkien saying still applies:

Lang ah sibey super duper sway... chee jiao will still bian gong kuay.

 

[detach8]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

You were a naughty boy ......

Yes, I kena spanked. Many times. *blush*

 

[detach8]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

Wow. I think i skipped dat module. Uh oh.

LOL you know how we know this?

She did badly in her exam, so our teacher was angry and asked her... what you want to do when you grow up....

She told the teacher... "I want to marry a rich guy"

The teacher was :whatthe: then she ask her, who teach her that!

She said... "my mum"

You can imagine, the teacher almost want to bang wall and die.

But HEY, her mum was right I think!

 

[Meek]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

Yes, I kena spanked. Many times. *blush*

Think you likey.... haha.

 

[detach8]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

20 pages liao. Power.

 

[Meek]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

LOL you know how we know this?

She did badly in her exam, so our teacher was angry and asked her... what you want to do when you grow up....

She told the teacher... "I want to marry a rich guy"

The teacher was :whatthe: then she ask her, who teach her that!

She said... "my mum"

You can imagine, the teacher almost want to bang wall and die.

But HEY, her mum was right I think!

My cousin came home from work and cried saying she wanted to marry a rich man becos her colligs howlian and showed off their husbands driving new exotic cars to fetch them. I told her off becos she had just finished her MBA and studying for exams was the only thing she did. Wahahahaha.

I have met a xmm lidat who was refused further studies and parents asked her to join airlines to fish for big fish. She did.... till now left airlines and still not caught any.

 

[detach8]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

That's the gong kuay theory lor.

 

[Meek]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

Guess some say its the law of attraction.... if you believe it, it will magically draw the elements to make it come true.



Blueeekkk.

 

[MW]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

My only regret is during my time, female teachers didn't have sex with their students. Nowadays students have it good..

 

[KR81]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

I have met a xmm lidat who was refused further studies and parents asked her to join airlines to fish for big fish. She did.... till now left airlines and still not caught any.

Parents must have been inspired by Jamie Cuaca!

 

[milk15]

Re: Degree no good ..... just get a good job

My cousin came home from work and cried saying she wanted to marry a rich man becos her colligs howlian and showed off their husbands driving new exotic cars to fetch them. I told her off becos she had just finished her MBA and studying for exams was the only thing she did. Wahahahaha.

I have met a xmm lidat who was refused further studies and parents asked her to join airlines to fish for big fish. She did.... till now left airlines and still not caught any.

Your cousin chio???? NPNT............. hahaha

 

[Meek]

Degree no good ..... just get a good job

Your cousin chio???? NPNT............. hahaha

she married liao... haha.