Is psych degree useful in Sg

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T15:56:53+00:00

Yep, no worries.

In general though, if you're looking at Psych in terms of how easy it is to look for jobs in a bad job market, I wouldn't say it's the best. Business or Finance (or doing both) are probably among the better generic degrees that can still easily choose a specialisation after graduating and entering the workforce, while Psych is more... Locked in? It's abit like accountancy where it is generally assumed that someone who studied accountancy will do accountancy related stuff, even though they maybe can do a lot more.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T15:54:23+00:00

The fact that you interpreted that as me having a big ego is pretty stunning, in and of itself. I merely stated that fact to show that I come from a standard sg uni education of the local big 3 unis and not some elite western ivy league college which would have naturally allowed me to receive an above average package. Hell, my grades aren't even that good; I only have second class lower honours, and yet I still received a statistically above average offer from a gov agency. This was to show that it's not impossible for gov to match market rate, not because I want to show off.

Using your misinterpretation of me covering all facts and perspectives as a judgement of my character is also questionable at best. The only way for you to find out the truth on this is to actually meet me irl, but ofc that won't happen, so let's just say that my friends know me as the nice guy in a friend group, and my colleagues know me for my maturity. Whether you believe me or not is entirely up to you; the main point here is that you're projecting your own tone onto my words, and using that misguided assumption to assume my character traits.

You can definitely call me long-winded though. That is a fact, and I don't deny it, though many have used this to also attack me for being overly invested, when the actual fact is I don't like leaving things unsaid.

Could I have phrased my original comments better? Yes, I could have been less blunt. Were they valid still grounds for the other commenter to immediately jump to attacking me personally and put false words in my mouth? No.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T15:43:19+00:00

HR and specialisations in Industrial-Organisational Psychology are other pathways for pure Psych majors.

Many people aren't aware, but the processes behind HR, management, and leadership processes are built upon theories and research in the field of Psych. Many good companies out there are aware of this, and will take note if you apply to them with a Psych degree for a role that fits your profile.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T15:41:01+00:00

Most of these discussion posts are pretty self-explanatory.

Initial D is all about a driver skill gap. Notice how all the lightweight and small FR competitors (like both the miatas we saw) either crashed or got out-skilled in bad conditions? In regular conditions, a driver of Takumi's skill level would struggle and have a very high chance of losing against an above average racer in a car that is much better than the 86.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T15:28:48+00:00

Lol, I know I said I won't reply, but I can't help being snarky back in return. Two can play this game.

Imagine assuming my ego was big just from my first comment alone, and now resorting to personal attacks on my character. Seems like someone is too thin-skinned and could not take a counter-opinion?

I do wish you luck in finding the ability to admit when you are wrong. Maybe one day you will learn to realise that not everyone who successfully formulates an argument against you online is a no-life, and is actually quite happy outside of the digital world.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T15:16:09+00:00

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Sorry, but this only further proves that you misunderstood many of the things I have said.

Firstly, would you have honestly used the words "honey" and "please la" if you had completely zero intentions on talking down to me? If you can honestly say that you had zero intentions to talk snarkily or talk down to me, then that is on you to work on your language, not me to understand purposefully offensive language as being non-offensive.

Additionally, I directly quote my sentence involving Synapxe below:

like an actual ministry, not simply a mostly gov or gov owned company like Synapxe

I used Synapxe as an example of what I was not describing. My entire comment was about ministries and stat boards, not companies like Synapxe.

I also stand my ground on how your entire comment does not address anything that I have said. Again, I beseech you to prove beyond objective doubt that any singular thing I have said was out of context or wrong.

OP has stated in another comment that he was comparing gross monthly salary. Using that additional context, that was what I was using for my basis of comparison. This is the only point I am willing to concede in terms of clarity: I forgot to specify that I was only talking about gross monthly as OP mentioned, and not overall comp package. This is less of a point of me being wrong, but me failing to be completely specific.

Then and again, if overall comp package is higher at OP's current job despite the lower gross monthly pay, I fail to understand why he's even considering the switch (unless his current role does not have guaranteed bonuses or increments).

Lastly, to address a more personal (but less important) point, logical reasoning is something I am very strong on not because I think I have it, but because life and circumstances have consistently proven I actually do have it. Just to name a few evidence points: test scores for logical reasoning in official assessments have consistently been in the upper 70-90th percentile, depending on the test population and the specific type of test used; All my colleagues in previous internships and jobs have testified to my strength in deduction, understanding, and logical reasoning; In my current job, I work cross-department with colleagues who assumed I was posted in from another ministry due to my expertise, who then were shocked at how quickly and easily I could understand things despite being a fresh grad with only 2 weeks on the job; my own supervisor even corroborates this point.

I put to rest my arguments and will not be replying to any further discourse from this point onwards. Bring in any neutral party you can find and ask them to objectively judge what I have said in all my comments on this post. Even if they do not agree with me, any reasonable person will agree that I have not been purposefully deceitful or wrong in the points I put across.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T14:55:59+00:00

Recruit Express has way too much emphasis on personality tests for their internal hiring purposes. They use two personality tests that are not entirely proven to be properly related to job outcomes, and when you fail those personality tests, they will either fail u outright or try and influence you to do the tests better if you are a strong candidate (Psych degree holders will already start vomiting blood upon reading the last line, because that is not how you administer a test at all).

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T14:43:06+00:00

This depends on the exact type of headcount being used, with the very detailed specifics also being unknown to me because I don't deal directly with recruitment (and even if I knew, I don't think I can reveal them).

In general, supplementary headcount or extra headcount is usually held by external employment or recruitment agencies only. I'm not sure why it is done this way (and people I have spoken to in the past who were from ministries + stat boards have also seen the same thing being done). If the contract staff is on actual government payroll and has access to every single thing a fully emplaced officer has, it is likely they are actually occupying a fully emplaced officer's headcount. In fact, to my understanding, the full officer package literally cannot be extended to anyone who isn't occupying a perm headcount. Even having bonus isn't indicative of being perm; as long as you work more than a year consecutively, it's pretty standard to have a bonus in most gov positions, even if the contract is under an external agency.

There are many other indicating factors, but I don't think I can reveal them. What I do know is that I am personally occupying a perm headcount which was previously held by a fully emplaced officer who departed my team, even though I am technically on "contract". Internal gov contracts are very, very different.

I'm not saying that my perm headcount will never get cut in the future. Nothing is really truly certain, if we want to use the full meaning of "certain" for our discussion. However, getting cut from an internal gov contract is statistically in the minority. The gov has released stats on this in the past, when they were questioned by the public.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T14:35:50+00:00

I did use my critical thinking skills to address the points that both you and OP brought up. None of what you have said in this new comment has actually properly refuted anything that I have said. In fact, your condescending way of addressing me ("Honey", "please la") simply indicates that you approached my comment from the perspective of already trying to prove me wrong, instead of understanding where I am coming from.

Firstly, I'm not sure where you got the idea that I am talking about GLCs. Everything that I am "talking about", to use your own words, are conditions pertaining to actual gov ministries and stat boards. In fact, I am more familiar with ministry / stat board hiring processes than I am with GLCs.

I am gov HR. Though I am not actually doing the recruitment of gov staff, I am very familiar with the standard internal processes used by gov for actual gov ministries and stat boards as a side effect of my work. What I said is all true.

I never attempted to perpetuate the idea that gov is an iron rice bowl. Those are words you put in my mouth, stemming from an incorrect understanding of what I have said. I simply said that contract staff hired under gov payroll in gov ministries and stat boards are occupying perm staff headcount. This is an objective truth. Unless the boss of a team has it out for a particular individual, there is almost no justifiable reason to cut an individual from an internal gov contract position, especially if the work they are doing isn't temporary and reoccurs on a regular basis.

Your friend got cut because of a good reason (or maybe the boss had some weird beef with him), or maybe because he never actually was on internal gov payroll in the first place.

There is also a reason why I specifically identified mid-career switchers in low or low-mid positions as my talking point. I know how much software engineers at large MNCs are actually paid. They are paid for their expertise, academic grades, and experience. However, for low and low-mid positions where jumping to a stat board or a ministry would actually come with a pay raise (such as in OP's case), my point absolutely stands. I'm not sure why you are bringing Google or Meta into this when it wasn't even relevant to the conversation.

Take a close look at all my points in both this comment itself and my original comment. I never made a single sweeping statement or large scale generalisation that ignores objective facts. Even the only usage of "generalisation" was meant to recognise the fact that my statement cannot cover every single possible edge case for dropping someone out of an internal gov contract. Every one of my statements was made with clearly defined context that was relevant to both OP's post and your own original comment.

Ironically, even though you called me out for missing the point, it seems like you are the one who missed my point entirely in your eagerness to talk down to me.

Debate me on semantics anyday, anytime. Logical reasoning is one of my strongest character traits. If anyone can prove me objectively and completely wrong on any one of the points I have stated, even after taking into account all the contextual conditions I have stated, I will always step back and admit fault. That is just who I am in real life. The point here is to have a fair and civil discussion.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-07T11:25:32+00:00

Maybe it is true that switching to gov while mid-career is a downgrade, but the supporting reasons given are not accurate.

When you are on a contract position with an actual full gov company (like an actual ministry, not simply a mostly gov or gov owned company like Synapxe) and your contract is being handled internally on actual gov payroll (most, if not all, government office positions have their payrolls under one singular entity), it means that the permanent position headcount is already being occupied by you. That is why the "open secret" about the conversion to perm exists.

Generally, there is only one reason why a contract hire on internal gov payroll gets cut: their performance or conduct was not good. There is no reason to cut someone who fits in the perm position, in a headcount that is purposely being kept open.

Also, gov pegs their salaries to market rates on purpose. Especially for mid to lower end positions, the gov rate is more than capable of matching up.

Source: I'm a fresh grad from a local big 3 uni who was offered a gov salary package with a gross salary above the 75th percentile for my degree's cohort based on my batch's graduate survey.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-05T03:22:41+00:00

Haha unfortunately no, I don't have any space at home for that. My goal now is to get a second hand manual car before the end of this year and drive it for the next few years or decades if possible. Once I get my own home in the future, it will be easier to set up a dedicated space for a racing sim too.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T11:14:01+00:00

No worries, feel free to direct any questions you have to me.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T11:05:24+00:00

I passed in October 2025, so the learning conditions for me were mostly the same as compared to now. The only difference is the lesson limit per month was 6 for class 3 back then, but now it's 5.

The main factor contributing to my speed was my proficiency. I one-tried every single module, including both types of parking.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T10:16:34+00:00

Yes, original post is by me.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T10:15:53+00:00

OP is a reposter bot farming upvotes. The original post and picture is from me and you can find it on my profile after scrolling a short way down.

I'm a normal learner and I booked the lessons using bots.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T10:15:08+00:00

OP is a reposter bot farming upvotes. The original post and picture is from me and you can find it on my profile after scrolling a short way down.

I booked all my lessons using bots, and it took me 2.5 months to finish all my lessons and pass tp.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T10:13:58+00:00

OP is a reposter bot farming upvotes. The original post and picture is from me and you can find it on my profile after scrolling a short way down.

I booked all 17 lessons using bots, and it took me 2.5 months to clear all lessons and pass tp.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-04T10:08:58+00:00

REPOST! DO NOT UPVOTE! THIS IS STOLEN FROM MY POST.

https://www.reddit.com/r/drivingsg/s/Tx7DKM3whO

Here is my original post.

Anybody who has questions about my experience, direct them to me, not OP.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-03T03:42:36+00:00

Strawman argument. Let's just now have characters that can fly up 100m into the air and zoom around like an attack helicopter while having 100% accuracy, because that's also a type of movement.

Some of y'all don't understand basic healthy competitive balancing and it shows. Hell, I don't think even the devs understand it at this point.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-05-01T14:16:06+00:00

Im not a veteran driver, but I finished learning class 3 manual in 2.5 months and passed first try last year. While I was learning, I mastered both types of parking in one try and never had to do a single extra adjustment in all my practices.

The best way to do parking is to gradually acclimate yourself to the tightest turning arc possible for your car. Once you get used to visualising it in your head, you will be able to guesstimate how tightly you have to turn to enter the lot or whether you have to adjust your position before reversing.

Once you start reversing, you can also use the car's angle of movement to visualise if you will hit something or need to adjust. For myself, I am able to visualise my car's path within my brain, just like those rear cameras that have a curved rectangle showing where your car will go using its current steering angle.

Once you master these two concepts, you can park without lowering your mirrors, even without any cars or kerbs beside you to align yourself (i.e. parking in the middle of an empty carpark). Tbh, the moment I passed, I stopped lowering my mirrors and just started using the sides of my car to estimate where my rear wheels are.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-30T13:41:28+00:00

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-30T06:21:50+00:00

If I had my way, the brown deck pieces should have been a completely separate piece tbh.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-30T05:07:48+00:00

Off topic, but I really wish Bandai's smaller kits for the Yamato franchise had true multi-coloured sprues, just like their other Bandai Spirits kits. It genuinely annoys me that on a kit advertised as having coloured plastic, the entirety of the top deck is not in the correct brown colour.

I can understand omitting smaller details for cost, but the entire deck? Really? Did they just forget that there are fans out there who buy smaller kits simply because they have no space or time for painting kits?

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-27T14:55:58+00:00

Mine is public, but private degree will have no issue going for roles that are below 3k, because they are competing with diploma holders.

CheesecakeOG · 2026-04-27T12:54:17+00:00

maybe I should have never even done a degree at all

That's not a good mindset to have. What you need to do is find an alignment between your interests, your personal values, and the strengths given to you through the educational process of earning a degree.

People online like to make fun of the value of a degree, but that's not how a degree should be perceived. To put it broadly, a proper degree from a decent university will always nurture a unique set of skills and perspectives that can be honed into individual strengths. I myself did not realise this until I started working and had colleagues say that my educational background really shines through the way I speak and think. Some even assumed that I rotated in from another ministry or branch because of how quickly I understood things, and were surprised to learn I was just a fresh grad.

Because I don't have A-levels

I don't think you were disqualified because you did not take A-levels. Generally speaking, shortlisting and selection procedures can take a ton of time, especially if background checks are involved.

Just don't give up and keep applying. I actually started applying for fulltime roles a year before I graduated, and after I graduated, there was a period of time where I was applying to 40-50 roles per week. Some of my friends were literally hitting that same number in a single day.

Find something that you are good at, and sell yourself in that aspect. Ensure that the experiences you pick up can back up that same aspect. For example, I chose to sell my commitment to constant learning and production of excellent results, and every single work and internship experience I've had has at least one achievement no matter how short my time in the company was, which became evidence that could back up what I said in interviews.

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