The main stream media recently reported on the starting salaries of graduates in 2008 which was released by SMU, NTU and NUS in their respective graduate employment surveys.
My own sense of the figures are that they are somewhat high because they were taken prior to the economy feeling the full effects of the global economic recession brought about by the US financial crisis. This post doesn’t debate which courses lead to a better career money-wise but rather to the underlying reasons WHY we choose a course/career in the first place. Continue reading