Hello all, so you see I have always been one to think and yk the meme “ he white thinks all the time has nothing else to think except his thoughts”, so yeah.
Reading like all this reddits posts in this subreddit and also hearing from people at work (I’m interning) makes me question the amazing RAT RACE in Singapore.
We have grown up to always be competitive, Psle, O levels, A levels, GPA etc, and I don’t feel that the overall usefulness of this competitiveness is helping everyone life as it’s usually study study study exam study and people usually still don’t know what they actually want to do in life. (other than become rich and not work lah right?)
I currently am in polytechnic and I’m interning overseas yeah so I meet a whole new bunch of workforce people and everyone hustles so much but barely earn enough to continuously save for early retirement.
Main thought I have is asking: “Is success through work a scam?” (Terrible phrasing but I’m uncreative at the moment so this is the closest thing I got to it)
Well scam can defined here as people being duped into believing work is the only way to succeed in life by working so hard, get promoted , earn more , get high paying job to have a happy life (I feel this is what most people say when I ask them). There ofc is that small group who finds that life can be quantified as successful by being able to work happily with a work life balance and travel the world yk.
Okay I Deadass lost my train of thought but yeah the rat race is terrible so what to do with life haha, go Uni and get a corporate job or test the waters and do some risky ahh things such as startups (overly saturated rn and SG not that supportive IMO as I tried), social media content creation ( I love to talk and have many many creative ideas but I can’t edit for the life of me) or smt else.
If you read this and still don’t understand I’m terribly sorry as I’m just confused about life rn (summary in a nutshell)
Late night thoughts right guys 😭😭😭