Sign on or out?
Since young, my parents had always emphasised the importance of studying hard so that I can get into a good school and find a good job in the government sector.
In fact, my whole family is in the public service! My dad used to be an army regular but had since retired, and now both my elder brothers took after him and signed on too.
In a few months, I’m going to complete my National Service and my parents have been bugging me to apply for a government scholarship so I won’t be afraid of not being able to secure a job when I graduate. I’m so tempted to do that just so they will stop nagging me about it but the thing is, I can’t imagine myself being bonded to a single organisation for like what, 5-6 years of my life! And I don’t even enjoy serving NS, why would I want to sign on?
I have already thought of what I wanted to do after NS and that is to apply for NAFA and study Fashion Design but I think if I tell them this, they’ll faint. They might even disown me. And it definitely doesn’t help that my snooty cousins are either doctors or lawyers. I can already picture the judgy faces of my aunts and the kind of bullshit that they’ll say to my parents about me.
Should I just lie to my parents that I applied but got rejected by SAF or should I thrash this out with them? Never knew ORD could be such a pain.
Here are what netizens think:
- You want go Nafa ah, 99% all become admin. not doing anything to do with arts.
- Waste money la, my cousin also same thing knn. Waste my uncle money study nafa end up doing some garbage job.
- Garbage collector also earn more