Coming out with a Law degree and not getting into legal practice is not a badge of honour. In Singaporean society, there are basically three career options :

1. a) Doctor
2. b) Lawyer
3. c) Disgrace to the family

Folks will challenge you if you study Law and decide to do something else with your life. I find particularly kuai lan are the Boomers with children who are lawyers - they think I am chickening out and love to ask whether my degree went to waste. So I was kind of surprised that the Rotary Club would invite me to speak to young Rotarians on pursuing alternate career paths for law students. In spite of one half of my family having proud Rotarian roots, I never developed any Rotarian ties, so giving a speech to the Rotary Club was a very novel experience for me. I had about 40 teenagers who probably scored really well for their A levels and the host's Linkedin profile displayed an...