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Four years ago, Singaporean Matthew Tay made headlines for turning down university offers to become a bus captain and pursue his passion for buses.
Matthew had already accepted a place to study Business Administration at NUS in 2020 and also received offers from NTU and SMU.
It wasn’t the most conventional decision, and Matthew remembers people questioning how far he could go without a degree.
Well, four years later, things have worked out pretty nicely for the now-27-year-old.
Matthew has graduated with a Bachelor of Business from RMIT University — and in a full-circle moment, his degree was sponsored by Tower Transit Singapore, the bus company he chose to work for.
Speaking to 8days.sg, Matthew says delaying university was never about giving up on education. He simply didn’t want to go straight to university because it was the conventional next step.
Thankfully, his parents didn’t try to talk him out of it.
“My parents had always been quite supportive of my decisions. They could see that I had thought carefully about what I wanted to do,” he tells us.
“Looking back now, that decision gave me experiences that I would never have gained in a classroom. And eventually, I still found my way back to university,” he added.
That opportunity came through Tower Transit’s Future Leaders Programme, which included a company-sponsored bachelor’s degree.
“When the offer was made to me, I didn’t have to think twice,” Matthew recalls.
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