Please if you have a degree , don't ever take up the offer as a TSO because you will always be bullied by the management to take up roles that lecturers refused to do.

just to share my experience for working in one of the top 2 polytechnic in Singapore

1) Lecturer as supervisor of the Final year project will ask his/her students to approach you for assistance. Most of the lecturers especially those on Pax3 above will try to shut responsibilities

2) TSOs has to go for training to use machine whereas lecturers are not required to learn because they are academic staff

3) Their PB will usually range from 1.5 -4 month depend of PB grading whereas the TSOs will get 0.5 to 1.5

4) During the flag day , lecturers will just take attendance and TSOs will carry the tin and heavy load. My colleague who is in his 50s , has to carry heavy load for a young lecturers in his 30s