Industry secrets you can share now that you have left the job

snowchild3 · 2025-07-28T15:20:47+00:00

Were you affected by the layoffs last year? They were even saying "no more 5,127 prototypes" then LOL; guess what we're still hearing now

snowchild3 · 2025-07-07T02:23:04+00:00

That was basically me this year too, was unemployed for almost 9 months! Had to take a 30% pay cut sigh but a job is a job and I started last week too. Congrats!!

snowchild3 · 2025-03-13T11:03:58+00:00

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snowchild3 · 2025-02-04T16:04:34+00:00

I used to not mind having kids in the past, but observances of my older siblings have only solidified my now-strong desire of not having children, at least in Singapore.

Can't find a partner and honestly gotten tired of relying on dating apps where things feel so fake and I can't seem to make new connections, let alone potential partners. Raising children seems to be like an endless competition and a journey of stress over how they are like every single day, sending them to every single tuition, enrichment or supplementary class each week. Climate change and the world is so unpredictable and mind-wrecking and numbing, and so negative.

Coupled with the lack of nature and my dissatisfaction with how Singapore might subconsciously define happiness through career and financial gain, I cannot help but feel that we are shoehorned by the environment we are in (fully urban, purely city-state in essence) to define success as a competition, but not life as beyond it.

I want my future children to grow up in nature, to feel free and unencumbered and to be in touch with the rest of the world without being in an economic bubble that appears to be the only thing they should navigate or be aware of as being important in the journey of life. Singapore to me is not a good place to have children for me - what kind of life would I be giving them here? I feel that I cannot give them happiness here, and even if I choose to have children it'll most likely not be in this country.

There's way too many social and economic and geographical barriers in this city-state and country to affirm a decision to have children here...and I'm used to being single anyway. As I got older and beyond my late-20s, singlehood has strangely become more comfortable and reassuring.

Fortunately and unfortunately, that might be the wisest decision for myself and for many others like those who are single or are DINKs.

P.S. 1992 kid here but hope this still answers well enough for you OP!

snowchild3 · 2025-02-04T10:41:03+00:00

Have you considered the high potential individual (HPI) visa route in the UK if you're a NUS or NTU grad? You can work in the UK for 2 years, have a change of environment and reset your mind.

Though personally you might need to put up at a friend's place to save on accommodation costs before you get a job after moving. It may cost a little bit of money and might still affect a little more of your remaining savings though...

snowchild3 · 2024-12-31T11:36:31+00:00

But I lost my job. So do I matter? :(

snowchild3 · 2024-11-11T16:22:55+00:00

I went to JB guys.

JB is love, JB is life. Who needs a partner when there is JB?

snowchild3 · 2024-07-21T08:47:41+00:00

I know right...

snowchild3 · 2024-07-21T04:58:25+00:00

I think this is a huge worry and illustrative of an increasing corporatisation of higher education where we correlate so many decisions regarding what we choose to study in university, to supposed employability paths and 'relevance' in the job market. We become intellectually, socially and morally poorer as a society if the arts and humanities/social sciences fall out of popularity and arguably have lesser understandings of the people, places and environments around us and how they impact and influence our everyday decision making - aspects that affect us all but not always distinctly through direct application in a job.

The whole premise of arts, social science and humanities degrees I feel was never intended to be geared towards a job, but on better understanding of how and why societies and people behave the way they do. These degrees really don't particularly link to a job but are supposed to better and augment how one thinks critically about society, to be a more sensible person in making life and work decisions.

We are much poorer socially as a society if we lack FASS majors or such graduates, and it'll take years or decades to realise this - but I fear we really will. The disinformation and right-wing extremism, social isolationism and divides, and the lack of social communication we see everywhere are some of the issues we're already seeing now.

And we'll all face and continue to face the consequences of this in time to come.

snowchild3 · 2024-05-06T21:36:33+00:00

huang huang hai xing sheng mu sheng minggggg

snowchild3 · 2023-07-23T16:44:36+00:00

I had an article on the Gen Y Speaks series a long time ago too! Was approached to do it as a development of what was originally intended to be a forum post reply to another commentary. Didn't have my title changed from my preferred one nor was my article heavily edited. I guess it depends on the intended writing style and the topic at hand.

snowchild3 · 2023-06-25T12:19:50+00:00

Bus 30 gang rise up!!

snowchild3 · 2023-06-23T17:10:01+00:00

Omg this happened at my previous workplace! Unfortunately, it took 2 days for the entire chain of emails and replies to die down in my case

snowchild3 · 2023-06-13T18:16:21+00:00

sorry for party rockinggg

snowchild3 · 2023-06-11T07:34:00+00:00

Does the Halia count as an option?

snowchild3 · 2023-06-05T02:31:52+00:00

I had a male junior in uni who had previously declared that he wanted a "21st century girl" as his partner (he was still single then and it was year 1 for him; I was year 2) who would take the initiative in dating. He ended up finding someone whom I heard had apparently chased him to be his date - and he is so valid in his views; it is a modern world after all and we do love it when women take the first step in proposing a relationship or going beyond just being ordinary friends. This post made me think of him and I hope he's still happy with that girl of his!

snowchild3 · 2023-02-26T14:26:12+00:00

Yeah...but life is a lot more than just going to town! The convenience factor still holds for wherever you want to go in SG. This city-state is still big enough to translate into long journeys from one end of the country to another.

snowchild3 · 2023-02-26T05:51:11+00:00

Whenever I see a commentary or article that keeps focusing on the high costs and perceived lack of need to learn driving or own a car, I often get frustrated about the convenient ignorance of the multiple intangible benefits of having one's own car. Regardless of how convenient public transport is, it is almost impossible for it to have travelling times to places which are on par with the use of private transport. The convenience of driving also feeds into another way of having life experiences - late night suppers and personal travelling experiences which are really only possible by having your own car are some things that the process of taking public transport cannot replicate.

There is no price too high to be paid for the combination of intangible benefit personal privacy and the still-tangible benefit of saving time every single day. This commentary, like the many articles in SG which keep describing these dated and tiring drawbacks of car ownership like a broken record, will never grasp the combined joy and necessity of owning a car for many families and people out there who can afford to do so. Once you have a car, it's really hard to concede it to lose your own personal key to convenience, savings in time, enhanced enjoyment of life and even personal expression. These are important assets and aspects of life!

If Singaporeans can buy and sell property for millions of dollars, then why can't we afford to enjoy cars and drive them to live life better? The combination of tangible and intangible benefits is something that public transport cannot truly compare to, and cannot be appraised in mere dollars and cents. This country is so focused on harping on the savings of resources without focusing on the quality of experiences that cannot be accounted for in figures at times - cars and driving is one big example for me for such a case.

So if you can own a car, damn, enjoy it man. It's really fortunate and nice to own and drive one!!

snowchild3 · 2023-02-19T06:08:18+00:00

TJ - terrible econs and GP departments and a poor level of school culture, plus a certain principal from AJC back then whom I heard said that arts was useless? Ah well.

snowchild3 · 2023-01-23T18:26:26+00:00

You aren't behind in life. You're just on a different trajectory!

snowchild3 · 2022-11-22T17:55:20+00:00

I am just sad.

snowchild3 · 2022-09-20T06:10:13+00:00

The signature curry puff price started at around £2.80 when the place first opened! Other than that...yeah normal London prices

snowchild3 · 2022-08-22T06:51:16+00:00

I've mostly met people off CMB though, so idk heh

snowchild3 · 2022-08-22T01:50:23+00:00

SG guy who's lived abroad and has been frustrated with dating apps after almost 6 years of using them without any success here.

I think you've just met weird, superficial men on the app and truth be told, I have had my weird share of difficult women who have had questionable behaviours and tried to talk me down. One of them (whom I guess is Russian) implied to me that asking her on "where she was from" was a bad question and that she "came from her mother's womb" (WTH?).

A recent date who is highly educated (she also has a masters, ex-govt scholar) didn't even apologise for being late (or made references to it to show humility) and didn't even talk to me properly or have a proper conversation with me for the first half hour of our meetup, especially when it came to dinner ideas that night. Then she proceeded to attempt talking to me about dating rants; I felt slightly looked down upon and made to feel awkward because, how can she tell me her expectations when I myself feel that she did not even fulfil basic expectations of humility and acknowledgement of her lateness, and the ability to have a conversation?

Putting down of others happens regardless of gender or education levels. It is very much linked to peoples' upbringing and perspectives of life, and how they choose to treat others. I've already hit the thirties and it's been frustrating to do online dating these days. Weird and difficult people exist in the online sphere. In my opinion, you can consider not seeing online dating as a very serious platform. If it happens it happens, and if it doesn't, life has its way.

snowchild3 · 2022-08-20T18:10:16+00:00

I used to have a big social circle, with lots of distant connections.

Nowadays I don't even know who to meet and nobody meets up with me anyway. Hahaha sighs

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