Look Hard
La Maison du Chye houses Mademoiselle Peiting for the first half of this week. She's not the one Tat used to pine for in JC but rather, a longlost primary school friend of mine whose friendship I rediscovered at a Calculus lecture in NUS 3 years back.
She just graduated recently and is now on her graduation trip in Europe. She chose to graduate without honours - I suppose she had a choice=p - but she had already secured a job as an underwriter at an English firm. I do not know exactly what an underwriter does, but according to Peiting, an underwriter evaluates risks that companies or governments may potentially face and associates a value in monetary terms to them, so that the companies or governments can insure these risks with insurance companies.
Her starting pay is nothing mind-wobbling. 2,700 sing. But I think that's not too bad a starting pay for a graduate without honours. Furthermore, she will be paid to go to London next year to study for 6 to 9 months in order to obtain some underwriting certificate. Her job certainly holds exciting prospects, especially monetary ones=)
She told me a large part of her time in her last semester in NUS was spent looking for jobs - online and in Classified - and going for interviews. Her visit made me realised that to find a good paying job, one does not need to have a very good degree (read: study very hard) but just need to look hard enough for jobs. That is to say, we can enjoy ourselves for 2 and a half years in NUS and for the last half a year, work ours socks off to look for a good job. This definitely sounds better than working our socks off for 4 years, working our socks off to look for a good job and working our socks off for the rest of our life.
So, Royce Ton, if you are doing what I think you were intending to do, hope you've already managed to find a job that has as good a prospect as that of Peiting's.
I attach below a picture of the latest visitor to the Maison, seen (not too clearly) with Lida:
She just graduated recently and is now on her graduation trip in Europe. She chose to graduate without honours - I suppose she had a choice=p - but she had already secured a job as an underwriter at an English firm. I do not know exactly what an underwriter does, but according to Peiting, an underwriter evaluates risks that companies or governments may potentially face and associates a value in monetary terms to them, so that the companies or governments can insure these risks with insurance companies.
Her starting pay is nothing mind-wobbling. 2,700 sing. But I think that's not too bad a starting pay for a graduate without honours. Furthermore, she will be paid to go to London next year to study for 6 to 9 months in order to obtain some underwriting certificate. Her job certainly holds exciting prospects, especially monetary ones=)
She told me a large part of her time in her last semester in NUS was spent looking for jobs - online and in Classified - and going for interviews. Her visit made me realised that to find a good paying job, one does not need to have a very good degree (read: study very hard) but just need to look hard enough for jobs. That is to say, we can enjoy ourselves for 2 and a half years in NUS and for the last half a year, work ours socks off to look for a good job. This definitely sounds better than working our socks off for 4 years, working our socks off to look for a good job and working our socks off for the rest of our life.
So, Royce Ton, if you are doing what I think you were intending to do, hope you've already managed to find a job that has as good a prospect as that of Peiting's.
I attach below a picture of the latest visitor to the Maison, seen (not too clearly) with Lida:
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