How old are you now? Have you taken the trouble to look at what's going on around you in the HDB heartlands of Spore?
The PAP gov't is sponsoring IT upgrade courses for the old. For example they are offering courses on how to use a smartphone
They also have MS Word courses
Many uncles & aunties of Spore are not IT literate. As you get older you will lose touch with the technology. Older citizens also become less flexible & may have problems adjusting to newer technologies. I'm getting getting old myself & can relate to this. You are probably too young to appreciate this but when you get older you will probably face the same problems. As a matter of I haven't worked for 15+ years.
You were from the IT line, so it shouldn't be a problem for you to pick up on software utilization. I'm not asking you to write software & Apps, or into programming. Those are different categories altogether and I would agree that they'll be stressful as one gets older. Just using those free and commercially available ones should never be difficult to pick up and in fact beneficial. And with GOOGLE, a lot of things can be found and learned with just a few keystrokes on the keyboard. Another thing is you have fear with new technologies. For example, you still have no confidence into full scale Internet Banking transactions. Nowadays with 2FA authentication, every payment I need to make has been very much easier with Internet Banking and Internet transfers, not to mention effecting from overseas as well. I was wishing that they could have unlimited funds transfer instead of just S$50k per day, which sometimes can be too troublesome for me.
Your problem could also be having not worked for over 15 years, you may have lagged and not keeping yourself up to date. I also find you to be too conservative in everything you do. For you, it must have to be proven fully workable before you would even dare to take a dip with your toes. At the end of the day, your progress is going to be restricted only by your own fear.
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