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Old 08-08-2012, 07:51 PM
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Default Industrial Postgraduate Program or Civil sector

Hi all, I am new here and would like some advice from the community here. I have just graduated is now faced with a dilemma in choosing my career path.

1) IPP allows me to be employed by a company, while working towards getting a phD by the fourth year. I have done relatively well in my FYP due to my interest in it and taking up this path seems to be a natural path for me. Reading up some advice online seems to discourage me from going into such a specialised field at such a young age.

2) Was offered an engineer position in a stat board, job scope will be a typical engineer. Very likely I would be able to face a broad aspect of current problems that I hope my undergrad course would allow me to solve. I would NOT be (required to/doing) any research.

Salary wise, both are reasonable with the IPP lower by around $300. There will be no increment for the 4 years of study, 1 month of bonus max. No bond required.

I would like to take the opportunity to ask for perhaps advice from anyone whom walked through the 2 paths and let me know the pros/cons to make my decision.

If I am allowed to follow my passion, I would go with the IPP. I admit I am quite an ambitious chap who enjoys challenges and strives for the best. However, the rising living cost in SG led me to believe that I may be at a disadvantage if I were to go that route. I have no interest in getting tenured as a prof, also even if I want most SG phD cant get in SG uni. My ideal job if I were to complete the phD would be in consulting of engineering issues related to the environment. Perhaps taking the second route would eventually get me there as well, as it seems from some of the companies that I have researched on.


Please advise, thank you in advance.


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