How is life being a JO...?

• WiNtEr'SkiLL

  13 Jun 07, 16:52

  
• Tiggerific

  13 Jun 07, 17:06

  
  

  Originally posted by Bamboozler:

  Thank you for going out on the streets everyday. You guys are definitely appreciated!
  
  Chin up, yours is truly a noble profession.
  
  Salute!

  if only everyone thought the same way as you did. *shrugs*
  
  but then, I guess it's hard for them too. anyway, Thank you for thinking that.
  
  though I suppose it's hard to survive on intangilbe benefits alone [nobility, pride, etc]... which could be why some people leave.
  
  but still. I agree with you lah. It's a noble job.
• viciouskitty74

  14 Jun 07, 04:39

  I miss the orang lamas.
• Tiggerific

  14 Jun 07, 07:17

  Originally posted by viciouskitty74:

  I miss the orang lamas.

  well, some of the 9-series and tangoes aren't too bad too, you know.
• viciouskitty74

  14 Jun 07, 08:25

  Originally posted by Tiggerific:

  well, some of the 9-series and tangoes aren't too bad too, you know.

  technically, they are old bird nowadays to newer ones.
• peychinhwee

  14 Jun 07, 19:18

  ya Today i just send my application for SO, dunno what is the job like?
  
  The retirement scheme is good.
  
  U work outside where go retirement scheme one....
• laoda99

  16 Jun 07, 09:59

  Originally posted by peychinhwee:

  ya Today i just send my application for SO, dunno what is the job like?
  
  The retirement scheme is good.
  
  U work outside where go retirement scheme one....

  u will need to do investigation once u pass out from academy
  
  after one year it will be staff/command posting (everyday drink coffee and shoot email only).
• Tiggerific

  16 Jun 07, 10:05

  Originally posted by laoda99:

  u will need to do investigation once u pass out from academy
  
  after one year it will be staff/command posting (everyday drink coffee and shoot email only).

  spot on, mate.
• corebooster

  16 Jun 07, 11:58

  can drink tea instead?
• Deunamist

  16 Jun 07, 13:27

  
• huaiwei

  18 Jun 07, 01:16

  Originally posted by laoda99:

  My advice is for those who want to join to obtain the highest qualifications before they join. Just three years of university makes a hell of a difference in terms of prospects/welfare.
  
  Some of those who have insisted to join as JO now regretted and they spoke to me.
  

  I find this comment very common amongst POs who look above them and imagine middle/senior management as cushy positions relative to the hard work POs have to put in on the beat day after day. But reality is far more complicated than that, of course. The grass is always greener on the other side.
  
  Here I am sometimes regretting that I "over-studied". Given a choice now, and I would pick to be a PO any day, and do what I truly love to do, if I am given the opportunity to. Being qualified for those "cushy" jobs may mean you are playing a completely different ball game when it comes to securing that job in the first place. Fact is at present, the SPF is becoming increasingly top-heavy if things are left unchecked, and becoming a SO, either via direct-entry or via conversion from a PO, will become increasingly difficult at least in the short term.