Dont bother joining. You spend 4 years for SIA as a trainee and then you will get a pay of 3.3k after 4 years. For the first 4 years,your pay will be 2.5k.

As for ST aero,it will be 6-8 years if I'm not mistaken. But theres alot of OT for ST LAE engineers. The set back is the long training years and you might not passout as a LAE engineer if you fail the interview with the QA. The waiting time for the next interview might be long and thus affecting your pay.


My suggestion if you are a diploma grad,go to a private sector company / mnc aerospace company. You might get sponsorship till masters. On top of that, you can progress quite fast even if you started of as a technician.