Hello all. I'm curious about whatever you studied in tertiary education ended up being directly relevant to your line of work.

For me, not very relevant. I studied chemical engineering in a local uni and now I'm working for a e-commerce company (not gonna name it), mostly focusing on optimising its operations.

There's still a little relevance I guess, as the scientific methods and data analysis skills I learned in chemical engineering are employed at my job every day. But obviously, I'm not dealing with chemicals anymore.

What about you guys? Looking forward to reading your experiences.

I Studied Marine and Offshore in poly and uni..
Abit lucky, NSF as Navy Engineer, than working in marine industry for 6 years already so yeah can say related field.
Studies were on designs, work is about Repair and Spare supplies.

I studied accountancy in uni and I'm doing accountancy now. Nothing unexpected so all's good.

(02-01-2022, 08:03 PM)MooMooBird Wrote: Hello all. I'm curious about whatever you studied in tertiary education ended up being directly relevant to your line of work.

For me, not very relevant. I studied chemical engineering in a local uni and now I'm working for a e-commerce company (not gonna name it), mostly focusing on optimising its operations.

There's still a little relevance I guess, as the scientific methods and data analysis skills I learned in chemical engineering are employed at my job every day. But obviously, I'm not dealing with chemicals anymore.

What about you guys? Looking forward to reading your experiences.

That doesn't too bad. Like you said, the core techniques like data analysis you learned in university still come in useful for your work.

For me it's more direct. I studied marketing and I'm more or less using the same skillset for work, although marketing was going through a huge change (digitisation) when I was in school so I had to pick up a few new skills such as learning about new platforms when I entered the workforce.

I have a degree in English Lit but I'm in HR now. Kinda expected that I wouldn't be doing something directly related to English Lit because it's notoriously difficult to do so with a arts degree.

(04-01-2022, 03:11 PM)j0krJag Wrote: I Studied Marine and Offshore in poly and uni..
Abit lucky, NSF as Navy Engineer, than working in marine industry for 6 years already so yeah can say related field.
Studies were on designs, work is about Repair and Spare supplies.

Yeah it does sound like you managed to land a very relevant NSF vocation. Not many Singaporean guys are so lucky.
Is your passion still on designing rather than repair and spare supplies? 

(05-01-2022, 07:35 PM)kxingstar Wrote: That doesn't too bad. Like you said, the core techniques like data analysis you learned in university still come in useful for your work.

Definitely not so bad but I sometimes wonder how things would be if I had landed a more research-heavy role instead. 

(06-01-2022, 11:15 PM)ScornfulScone Wrote: I have a degree in English Lit but I'm in HR now. Kinda expected that I wouldn't be doing something directly related to English Lit because it's notoriously difficult to do so with a arts degree.

Yes that's true. I have a couple of friends who graduated with an arts degree and they're both in some kind of corporate department now. I'd say it's not that bad also because those jobs pay well.

(19-01-2022, 11:05 AM)MooMooBird Wrote:

(04-01-2022, 03:11 PM)j0krJag Wrote: I Studied Marine and Offshore in poly and uni..
Abit lucky, NSF as Navy Engineer, than working in marine industry for 6 years already so yeah can say related field.
Studies were on designs, work is about Repair and Spare supplies.

Yeah it does sound like you managed to land a very relevant NSF vocation. Not many Singaporean guys are so lucky.
Is your passion still on designing rather than repair and spare supplies?

Well, its just different stages of the process. 
Its more interesting to be on the repair side. As we are involved with more components rather designing just one section.

(25-01-2022, 10:43 AM)j0krJag Wrote: Well, its just different stages of the process. 
Its more interesting to be on the repair side. As we are involved with more components rather designing just one section.

Nice to hear that it's more interesting. I can only imagine the sheer number of components you have to be familiar with.