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Employment Oscars
Yesterday, NUS released their employment statistics for the last batch of graduates. For those not in the know, this is an annual exercise in muscle flexing by each University. The lowdown is that the top earners from NUS last year were Medicine and Law students, while engineering students got a huge percentage of jobs. The banking and finance sectors employed more NUS students, while it was also reported that NUS students earn a starting average of 2.37K a month.
Did anyone else notice that there was no mention of IT/ IS students? It doesn't matter that IDA is pumping millions of dollars into a 24 hrs threat monitoring centre. IT/ IS students will still have to slug it out in the employment market.
Like what one project mate would say, "This time bird liao".
It all started this morning, when I chanced upon Mr Brown's blog entry which linked to Singapore Serf's blog entry. This was the precursor to at least 15 minutes of depression. After these two cheery entries, I read the papers and came across the statistics. Some of their combined cheeriness must have rubbed off me. Then one Medicine friend (He was gloating by the way. IT/ IS students who want his email and/or location so that you can execute revenge can drop me a line.) asked how many First Class honors from my course were there last year. A quick check revealed only 7. Talk about endangered species...
Also saw the honours year projects for next year. I emailed a request that the adminstrators post a version in English, thank you very much. Don't quite think their peals of laughter have subsided yet. Fitting Theory to Organizational Security Information?! A Reconfigurable Transport Service for Converged Networks?! A Visual Tool of Statecharts for Reactive System Modelling?! Visualisation Tools for Reflective Learning?! For pity sakes...
All these lead me to wonder where I will be in two years' time. I could be in Mumbai, trying to edge myself into their lucrative outsourcing scene. I could be in China, because everyone says it's a market that is oh-so-hot. Or I could be standing next to Tampines MRT station, basking and generally making an ass of myself.
Really bird liao.
Did anyone else notice that there was no mention of IT/ IS students? It doesn't matter that IDA is pumping millions of dollars into a 24 hrs threat monitoring centre. IT/ IS students will still have to slug it out in the employment market.
Like what one project mate would say, "This time bird liao".
It all started this morning, when I chanced upon Mr Brown's blog entry which linked to Singapore Serf's blog entry. This was the precursor to at least 15 minutes of depression. After these two cheery entries, I read the papers and came across the statistics. Some of their combined cheeriness must have rubbed off me. Then one Medicine friend (He was gloating by the way. IT/ IS students who want his email and/or location so that you can execute revenge can drop me a line.) asked how many First Class honors from my course were there last year. A quick check revealed only 7. Talk about endangered species...
Also saw the honours year projects for next year. I emailed a request that the adminstrators post a version in English, thank you very much. Don't quite think their peals of laughter have subsided yet. Fitting Theory to Organizational Security Information?! A Reconfigurable Transport Service for Converged Networks?! A Visual Tool of Statecharts for Reactive System Modelling?! Visualisation Tools for Reflective Learning?! For pity sakes...
All these lead me to wonder where I will be in two years' time. I could be in Mumbai, trying to edge myself into their lucrative outsourcing scene. I could be in China, because everyone says it's a market that is oh-so-hot. Or I could be standing next to Tampines MRT station, basking and generally making an ass of myself.
Really bird liao.
9 Comments
This time REALLY bird liao.
Guess IT ppl are having it tougher now. Kinda make me count my blessings sometimes that I chose the route of drills and bleeding gums instead of arcane codes and intricate networks. But then, I earn peanuts so I figure IT's still better off. Incidentally, I know of two fellas who are earning quite substantial wages doing IT(or related) jobs. Both are malaysians tho:)
Lawyers and doctors are top of the list every single year right? A rhetorical question? Heh
Just joking.
7 first class honours okie mah. quite alot rite.. u sure can make it one lar. U so dam zai..
Can't say abt basking though, agree wif ah fu totally. heh.
Chao-ah-beng
And I'm not that zai can? grrr. How wuz ur exams? I notice u don't log on after exams. Ha.
chao ah beng
*tick tock tick tock*
chao ah beng
Too bad I won't be slave to a pager leh. No chance of getting sued for malpractice/ surgery failure also. Too bad lah. So fun to be lifeless....
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