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On The Red Dot: Graduated, Now What?

22:37 Min
On The Red Dot: Graduated, Now What?

On The Red Dot: Graduated, Now What? - Nicholas Fheng & Dave Peter Ho

15 Nov 2025 11:00pm
After repeated rejections, Nicholas builds a barbering business. Dave gets over 100 no’s but finds viral traction on TikTok, giving him the confidence to jump into livestream sales.
About the Show

In Singapore, academic success is still often seen as the golden ticket to white-collar careers. Many parents continue to view a stable professional job as the ideal outcome for their children. Yet, today’s university graduates are entering a tougher job market - one with fewer conventional corporate openings and a growing interest among young workers in skills-based or independent careers.

But what happens when graduates take an even bolder step - trading boardrooms for workshops, wet markets, and repair bays?

This three-part series follows degree-holders who’ve taken the road less travelled. Some are driven by passion, others by purpose, and a few by the dream of building something on their own terms. Along the way, they confront social expectations, financial uncertainty, and the lingering stigma attached to blue-collar work in a degree-obsessed culture. Yet their stories also reveal new ways of defining success - not by status or salary, but by meaning, craft, and resilience.

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