What is worse than being an NUS grad?
IS THAT YOU ARE A LIFE SCIENCE GRADUATE FROM NUS.
MUWAHAHAHAHA.
I thought all the while that my bachelor degree was the most useless piece of paper from NUS. It would be more useful getting a clown degree from the McDonalds Clown College for Laughs. My degree is so useless that I made it a point to boycott my own convocation ceremony. NUS calls it "a commencement ceremony" now but it is the same bullshit burger topped with extra TOOTB sauce with a fancy name (reminds me of McDonald's bullshit samurai burger). What exactly are we celebrating commencement for? Commencing on your horrible working life filled with low pay, workplace bullies, posers and back/frontstabbers? Save it. I rather spend my commencement drinking beer.
So imagine my awe when I heard that Life Sciences graduates are faring worse. Not only are there no jobs for them, but any starting pay for these graduates is horrendously low - low like child labour working in a Nike sweatshop in Nigeria. You see, these graduates who jumped onto the Life Sciences bandwagon four years ago (remember all the hoo-haa about the Biopolis and bio-medical science?) just realised that it is not enough getting a bachelor degree. Without a PhD, most of Singapore’s life sciences graduates are only qualified to work as research assistants. And both life sciences graduates and diploma holders from polytechnics are vying for these same positions that could pay less than $2,000 a month. Yup, graduates fighting with diploma holders for the same jobs. Guess who the companies are going to hire? No need to think out of the box (TOOTB) here!
In reality, these graduates have no one but themselves to blame. In 2002, when Singapore universities had barely begun producing their own life sciences graduates, Mr Philip Yeo, chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), famously rattled those undergraduates when he said that they would only be qualified to wash test tubes. WASH TEST TUBES LEH! MUWAHWAHA. But subsequent generations ignored his advice and still decided to jump on the life sciences craze and signed up for a 4-year "cool" degree. Oooh, I am going to work in the biomedical hub, how cool can it be! CO must agree that washing test tubes and testing bunsen burners must be damn cool.
Read the below excerpt to see what the first batch of life sciences graduates is doing. I took the liberty of highlighting all the wacky jobs which these graduates are now doing since they can't find relevant jobs:
Many from the first cohort have ended up in junior research positions or manufacturing and sales jobs in the industry - positions that do not require a life sciences degree. Others find themselves completely out of the field. Said Edmund Lim, 27, who graduated two years ago, and now works as a property agent: “One of my classmates is working illegally in Australia, peddling psychotropic drugs to clubbers. Many of my classmates have gone into teaching. Others are in pharmaceutical or equipment sales.”Another life sciences graduate, who declined to be named, found a job recently at a tuition centre, after failing to land research-related positions for over a year despite numerous job applications.
End up selling illegal drugs to clubbers in Australia? Holy shit! Thinking out of the Box right there!
Sounds familiar? Of course, this is what happened to me and to almost everyone in my miserable cohort of posers and idiots. Only like 10% (my very optimistic estimate) are still struggling in the very industry which we are supposed to join with our "esteemed" degree. The rest of us are somewhere in completely UNRELATED jobs compared to what we studied. Most girls already given up the fight to become full time housewives. I can't say I blame them.
Sure, we should look into the mirror and blame ourselves for signing up in worthless degree programme. Nobody pointed a gun at us. But we were young, and young people are stupid. Someone should have given us proper advice when we needed it the most. Who's to blame for this debacle? Who can we blame for cheating our money and youth? Who can we blame for producing thousands of useless graduates with worthless skills? Who force batches after batches of students into completely unrelated jobs such as real estate agents, car salesmen, insurance agents, tuition teachers and now illegal drug peddlars? Why, none other than good, old NUS of course! Yee-Haw!
Don't believe me? Think I am too harsh? Just read what the NUS Dean of Science has to say about the oversupply of life sciences graduates:
Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS’ Dean of Science - who believes that it could take another five years for the industry to establish itself - acknowledged that his school’s intake of life sciences undergraduates was “a bit too high”.“When we started offering a major in life sciences in 2001, 550 students took up the programme. For the subsequent intakes, the number stabilised at about 450. But we would be more comfortable with about a hundred less,” said Prof Tan, who added that many students were “unrealistic” about their job prospects.Said Prof Tan: “A lot of students were probably all hyped up to look for R&D jobs. And when they can’t get such jobs, they could be disappointed. If they want to do research, they should further their studies.”
TRANSLATION : YOU JUST GOT F-CKD BECAUSE WE ARE NEGLIGENT IN OUR PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND OVERESTIMATED THE INDUSTRY'S DEMAND. SORRY LAH. STUDY SOME MORE?
The Dean actually has the audacity to advise students to "further their studies" so that they can try to get a PHD. AWESOME!!!! It is not enough to cheat a student out of four years of their youth and precious money. They want to suck them drier! Bastards and vampires. Satan would be so pleased that he would get an instant erection when he sees the depth of evil and professional negligence at NUS.
I fear for Singapore's economy as long as NUS is still around. God knows how many useless graduates it is churning out every year. I think we have more than enough tuition teachers and insurance agents already. Hell, we even got one working illegally in Australia selling drugs to clubbers.
MUWAHAHAHAHA.
I thought all the while that my bachelor degree was the most useless piece of paper from NUS. It would be more useful getting a clown degree from the McDonalds Clown College for Laughs. My degree is so useless that I made it a point to boycott my own convocation ceremony. NUS calls it "a commencement ceremony" now but it is the same bullshit burger topped with extra TOOTB sauce with a fancy name (reminds me of McDonald's bullshit samurai burger). What exactly are we celebrating commencement for? Commencing on your horrible working life filled with low pay, workplace bullies, posers and back/frontstabbers? Save it. I rather spend my commencement drinking beer.
So imagine my awe when I heard that Life Sciences graduates are faring worse. Not only are there no jobs for them, but any starting pay for these graduates is horrendously low - low like child labour working in a Nike sweatshop in Nigeria. You see, these graduates who jumped onto the Life Sciences bandwagon four years ago (remember all the hoo-haa about the Biopolis and bio-medical science?) just realised that it is not enough getting a bachelor degree. Without a PhD, most of Singapore’s life sciences graduates are only qualified to work as research assistants. And both life sciences graduates and diploma holders from polytechnics are vying for these same positions that could pay less than $2,000 a month. Yup, graduates fighting with diploma holders for the same jobs. Guess who the companies are going to hire? No need to think out of the box (TOOTB) here!
In reality, these graduates have no one but themselves to blame. In 2002, when Singapore universities had barely begun producing their own life sciences graduates, Mr Philip Yeo, chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), famously rattled those undergraduates when he said that they would only be qualified to wash test tubes. WASH TEST TUBES LEH! MUWAHWAHA. But subsequent generations ignored his advice and still decided to jump on the life sciences craze and signed up for a 4-year "cool" degree. Oooh, I am going to work in the biomedical hub, how cool can it be! CO must agree that washing test tubes and testing bunsen burners must be damn cool.
Read the below excerpt to see what the first batch of life sciences graduates is doing. I took the liberty of highlighting all the wacky jobs which these graduates are now doing since they can't find relevant jobs:
Many from the first cohort have ended up in junior research positions or manufacturing and sales jobs in the industry - positions that do not require a life sciences degree. Others find themselves completely out of the field. Said Edmund Lim, 27, who graduated two years ago, and now works as a property agent: “One of my classmates is working illegally in Australia, peddling psychotropic drugs to clubbers. Many of my classmates have gone into teaching. Others are in pharmaceutical or equipment sales.”Another life sciences graduate, who declined to be named, found a job recently at a tuition centre, after failing to land research-related positions for over a year despite numerous job applications.
End up selling illegal drugs to clubbers in Australia? Holy shit! Thinking out of the Box right there!
Sounds familiar? Of course, this is what happened to me and to almost everyone in my miserable cohort of posers and idiots. Only like 10% (my very optimistic estimate) are still struggling in the very industry which we are supposed to join with our "esteemed" degree. The rest of us are somewhere in completely UNRELATED jobs compared to what we studied. Most girls already given up the fight to become full time housewives. I can't say I blame them.
Sure, we should look into the mirror and blame ourselves for signing up in worthless degree programme. Nobody pointed a gun at us. But we were young, and young people are stupid. Someone should have given us proper advice when we needed it the most. Who's to blame for this debacle? Who can we blame for cheating our money and youth? Who can we blame for producing thousands of useless graduates with worthless skills? Who force batches after batches of students into completely unrelated jobs such as real estate agents, car salesmen, insurance agents, tuition teachers and now illegal drug peddlars? Why, none other than good, old NUS of course! Yee-Haw!
Don't believe me? Think I am too harsh? Just read what the NUS Dean of Science has to say about the oversupply of life sciences graduates:
Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS’ Dean of Science - who believes that it could take another five years for the industry to establish itself - acknowledged that his school’s intake of life sciences undergraduates was “a bit too high”.“When we started offering a major in life sciences in 2001, 550 students took up the programme. For the subsequent intakes, the number stabilised at about 450. But we would be more comfortable with about a hundred less,” said Prof Tan, who added that many students were “unrealistic” about their job prospects.Said Prof Tan: “A lot of students were probably all hyped up to look for R&D jobs. And when they can’t get such jobs, they could be disappointed. If they want to do research, they should further their studies.”
TRANSLATION : YOU JUST GOT F-CKD BECAUSE WE ARE NEGLIGENT IN OUR PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND OVERESTIMATED THE INDUSTRY'S DEMAND. SORRY LAH. STUDY SOME MORE?
The Dean actually has the audacity to advise students to "further their studies" so that they can try to get a PHD. AWESOME!!!! It is not enough to cheat a student out of four years of their youth and precious money. They want to suck them drier! Bastards and vampires. Satan would be so pleased that he would get an instant erection when he sees the depth of evil and professional negligence at NUS.
I fear for Singapore's economy as long as NUS is still around. God knows how many useless graduates it is churning out every year. I think we have more than enough tuition teachers and insurance agents already. Hell, we even got one working illegally in Australia selling drugs to clubbers.
posted by Captain Obvious at 3:44 AM
5 Comments:
One of my friend is doing her PHD in Biopolis, she is from life science. One sat morning we were out at some fair when her phone rang.
It was from a professor who was trying to use some equipment for her experiment. She does not know how to operate that machine.
Within an hour, she called twice for assistance.
Actually, there is a shortage of tube test cleaners.
Heh, you don't need a bachelor degree to clean test tube thoug. Just to check whether your friend's surname is Teoh?
Err... good Q. Never found out my friend's surname.
Vanilla: there's shortage of test tube cleaners because PIs are reluctant to hire. it comes from their grant $$. one doesn't simply hire test tube cleaners when u can get free labor from graduate/undergraduate students.
well I am going to join NUS dept of biological sciences for PhD but I am apprehensive after reading these blogs.please tell me about the kind of jobs that one gets and how is this place for research?If it is that bad how is it placed in top 20 in QS ranking?please reply to me wisely.
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