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May 27, 2010

OVERSEAS GRADUATE'S DILEMMA
To stay or return home?

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BORN and raised in Singapore, I have spent the past eight years in Australia. On the cusp of completing my postgraduate studies in clinical psychology, I have a major life-changing decision to make: Where do I go from here?
I believe this question is on the minds of many overseas Singaporean graduates.
I often read about how the Government is concerned about the increasing number of overseas-educated Singaporeans who choose to remain in their adopted countries after graduation to build their own lives - that is, young Singaporeans like me.
I am blessed with exceedingly supportive parents who, I know, will respect my decision, regardless of whether I stay and make a life for myself in Australia, or return home.
I feel privileged that my parents do not expect me, as an only child, to return to Singapore and fulfil my filial duty.
As much as I love them, I was not raised this way and I love them more for it.
And yes, of course, I will miss them.
I am lucky to have received job offers to work in public hospitals in Australia as well as Singapore. I am passionate about my chosen profession which adds meaning to my life.
While money is not the sole motivating factor for me, it is important to help me maintain a preferred lifestyle. So, it is hard when the pay being offered in Singapore pales in comparison to the one I am being offered in Australia.
Being a primarily Western-oriented field, clinical psychology understandably is not as developed in Singapore as it is Down Under. Despite talk of increased funding for mental health and the launching of new postgraduate training courses in the field recently, I remain hesitant in thinking that enough is being done in Singapore.
I admit I have become a little disconnected with home country in my time in Australia. And although I do not shy away from identifying myself as a Singaporean, I have also embraced the Australian way of life and grown fond of the country and its people.
I am writing about my ambivalent feelings because I believe that many young Singaporean graduates find themselves in a similar position: caught in a dilemma over whether to stay or return.
Weiwen Yang

 

[Rogue Trader]

Mr yang, come back and be cheaper faster better la la la la laaa

 

[red amoeba]

the biggest crux of the problem is, his field of specialisation is not fully appreciated and recognised here vis-a-vis Australia.

Here you end up at IMH,under the ass of some young punk scholar who knows zip about psychology and thus destroy any talents that he may have or passion that he have in the field.

Rather, he stay away and hone his skills and come back later for private practice. This also depend largely on social's acceptance and maturity towards psychology because sad to say, we still associate them with crazy and the mentally ill.

Stay away if you can - given pay and work-life balance is more superior in Australia - why come back?

 

[Watchman]

By the way red amoeba, I love your true to heart short brief .

Weiwen Yang .

The regime reeks of red-tape control, forces you to re-organize outside .

You got what you want .

But then again if you come back and work for others .
You be subjected to their terms and condition .
Like the pilot who got his credentials through back-door methods .
But denied a placement in gainful employment .

The problem with how things are run here is saddening .
The root of the problem goes back to those in administration
They would think that Singapore is NOT big enough for everyone
to choose their love in life, their career . But they are so wrong .
It's that their insecurity and cushy jobs that allows them
to make such high handed decision .
Today we will make them fall . Maybe not today, maybe not so soon .
Maybe they can evolve . We make them comply to be like us .
We in private sector gotta set the pace and really shake them up .
So that we will constantly get fall outs of men with good caliber

I will think otherwise.
In natural selection and natural open market sense .
People like you will trump over time .



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