Source: States Times Review
PAP Minister Amy Khor: Pursue new careers at 50 years old
admin / 13 hours ago
In an career fair held at the Singapore Expo today, the Senior Minister of State for Manpower and Health Dr Amy Khor has called for elderly Singaporeans to embark on a new career at 50 years old because “it is common to see seniors living past 80 years old”:
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The government-controlled mainstream media, Channel News Asia, even featured a senior participant of the “active ageing” career expo today. A certain “Pearl Tang” said she signed up for a Chinese painting class last month and “never looked back”.
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Do you think Singaporean elderly working as cleaners and tissue paper peddlers should start their “second growth” as Minister Amy Khor suggested?
Netizens' comment:
Collin Lee
Andrew Toh
Patrick Leong
Faz Lee Na
PAP Minister Amy Khor: Pursue new careers at 50 years old
admin / 13 hours ago
In an career fair held at the Singapore Expo today, the Senior Minister of State for Manpower and Health Dr Amy Khor has called for elderly Singaporeans to embark on a new career at 50 years old because “it is common to see seniors living past 80 years old”:
“it is common to see seniors living past 80 years old. She said that at 50 years old, it can be the start of a period of “second growth” where seniors learn and experience new things, and pursue new careers.”
Photo by Mediacorp
The government-controlled mainstream media, Channel News Asia, even featured a senior participant of the “active ageing” career expo today. A certain “Pearl Tang” said she signed up for a Chinese painting class last month and “never looked back”.
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Do you think Singaporean elderly working as cleaners and tissue paper peddlers should start their “second growth” as Minister Amy Khor suggested?
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Netizens' comment:
Collin Lee
Dear Amy Khor
How STUPID can you be asking or telling people with 2 career after 50 yo you are just making us all AFFIRM that the PAP is truely a confuse party and can not care for Singaporean. And after a person even reaches 40 already get Kickout of a job and replace by FT or New Citizen = FT
How STUPID can you be asking or telling people with 2 career after 50 yo you are just making us all AFFIRM that the PAP is truely a confuse party and can not care for Singaporean. And after a person even reaches 40 already get Kickout of a job and replace by FT or New Citizen = FT
Andrew Toh
Yes, let's force all those useless PAP ministers to pursue new careers at the next GE!
Patrick Leong
Well, I think Amy Khor should make the first move.... let's just make her and her gang a career switch
Faz Lee Na
At the age of 50, I had probably contributed some 20 odd years to the growth and development of this county's economy. If I am to be truthful, I know I have another less than 15 years of active work. Making our senior citizens work when they're past the age of 70 is just plain cruel and sadistic.
If, like the aunty, I take up painting at the age of 50, I see it more as something I can fill my time with when I retire and not something I want to engage actively in as a career. If I can make some money out of it, cool but that won't be the main agenda.
This is of course, assuming we can retire, if not, screw painting skills, I would need a much more stable and feasible skill. Art is not easy to sell.
And Amy Khor's brain is probably made up of rusty nails.
If, like the aunty, I take up painting at the age of 50, I see it more as something I can fill my time with when I retire and not something I want to engage actively in as a career. If I can make some money out of it, cool but that won't be the main agenda.
This is of course, assuming we can retire, if not, screw painting skills, I would need a much more stable and feasible skill. Art is not easy to sell.
And Amy Khor's brain is probably made up of rusty nails.