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Old 12-12-2015, 01:50 PM
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From the girl's perspective - Not everything is about the pay and the opportunity to climb up the corporate ladder. I've got a friend working in the audit department, fresh grad and her starting pay is a couple hundred shy of 4k. Which is good enough for her, since she's engaged to a guy who's doing super well himself, and she'd rather have the stability and benefits that come with a government job.

Therein lies the answer. A DXO's job is for someone with middling ambition who wants to walk out of the door at 5.30 sharp every day.

Just think, if your friend wasn't engaged to a guy who's "doing super well", I'd doubt she would settle for DXO.

There are government/civil service positions that offer greater challenge and prospects for developing transferable skills, and with hours just marginally longer than a DXO position.

I agree somewhat with the poster above that it seems a bit of a waste to study for 16 years to do something so insipid, esp. if you went to a local uni and went through the whole fairly competitve grind of local education.
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