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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Workplace benefits I can't comment because I haven't been to either's offices.
Career progression I suppose would follow the normal uni grad civil servant trajectory lor. Asst Dir, Dy Dir by the time you retire if you're lucky.
I did my ns at Mindef Building and as a now as a civilian guy going back there now to work I will totally hate it because of the oppressive memories I have of that place. Nonetheless I wasn't involved in the daily project research gritty work that the DXOs do so I can't say much. But environment wise.. Mindef is pretty out of the way if you stay in the east and its nowhere near any MRT station. Majorly hard to come to work everyday taking the bus all the time. And the building is damn old fyi. |
Wow... you said until like that then no one dares to join liao. My interaction with the DXOs was during my reservist time in a major airbase located in NE. From my observation, rather than "oppression", I would say they are more rank/senority conscious whereby the lower rank old birdies and higher rank officers feel entitled to "offload" the manual jobs (aka siak kang) to the newbies. Down PES NSFs being on the lowest chain would of course bore the brunt
Now on the positive - hardly any OTs I see. All rush to bus stops or drive out punctually at 530pm if not earlier. Only OT time is during major events like VIP visits or exercise where you would be compensated with off-in-lieu. If posted to camps/bases, free food and free car park as well. These are considered uncommon "privileges" in rest of civil service.