Regular officers won’t be that condemned down the line, lah.
lol
The higher your rank (i.e. organizational experience), the more
the GICs & the NGOs will want you to work for them. If still no
lobang, then can still prepare ahead via MINDEF’s
career-change tieups with the outside world. Oops, just googled
that the scheme for senior officers, aka “Career Transition
Partnership”, has formally ended although the consultant company
involved is still advertising. Still, such arrangements look
permanant; the days of zero safety net for lifers are gone, even as
they’re required to retire “young.” (MINDEF also has signed MOUs
with ASPRI, AAIS & ASMI for their
SAF, RSAF & RSN wospecs.)
Of course, one can leave the service earlier by not reupping,
& join the civilian market “blindly” instead. But if the TS is
interested in, say, aerospace technology & hopes to acquire the
knowledge (on taxpayer’s money) before working with an
MNC, then he’d better ask the RSAF
recruitment people how much such a military-career path can be
realized. Or else, he’d better off looking at DSTA or
equivalent, if he likes the technical stuff that much.
I’ll also advise him to look more at the longer-term picture. If
he signs on, his future shall be a middle-management bureaucrat, to
put it crudely. (AEOs manage the hardware – hence the engineering
requisite – while their AOO counterparts specialize
more on the ops side.) He won’t make MAJ until he’s
nearing 30, but shall spend the 3-4 years beforehand “apprenticing”
for the responsibilities (upon making CPT). Shouldn’t
just adopt a junior-officer mindset in this sense, as if it’s still
NS.
Hi. You may wish to back what you say because it is his future
on the line, not yours? Talk is cheap and anyone here can give
their 2 cents worth but he's the one bearing the consequences now
and the future.
GIC is Government Investment Corp. It's the agency that manages
our country's reserves.
Did you mean GLC (Government Linked Corp)? and not GIC? And NGO?
NGO is just a term bandied about frequently in economics at A level
and uni and all it means is "Non Governmental Organisation" which
does not mean or say anything at all- All non GLCs in the private
sector is a NGO!You're basically not saying much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization
Are you SURE that our GLCs (I hope you meant GLC because GIC
would make no sense at all in your sentence) employ our ex farmer
regulars by the bucketloads? Pls substantiate this because I know
this to be false. You made a lot of assumptions without any
evidence, and practically just blurted that without giving any
substantiation, while more than one person including me in this
thread have know ex regulars who ended up doing odd jobs.
I know one retired as LTC, ended up opening his own small PR co.
(the type that hire a few people only) and buying a heartland condo
in Clementi when the property prices were very low 10 yrs after he
retired.
One retired as COL, I know managed to get a job in one of the
ministries, holding a portfolio that is lower than what a young,
late 20s or early 30s MAP associate would hold. Quite sad for a 45
yr old but no choice.
The rest were taxi drivers, school discipline masters and
another one works in admn department of JC.
nolatari: since you like the engineering bit so much you should
be going to DSTA instead. It's an engineering company. And if
engineering is your passion, esp aerospace engineering, you may
like to know that there is a boom happening now in the aerospace
engineering industry. Players include ST Aerospace, you can also
try SIA Engineering, ST Kinetics, and a lot of private sector
players. SAF is for people into command and if you didn't even go
to OCS, I don't think command was ever up your alley or your cup of
tea.
Ppl are more desperate to sign on during recession. That's
why during the slowdown from 2000 to 2003, the no. of ppl signing
on SAF and MOE for teaching went up sharply. Now is boom time for
aerospace engineering industry, of all times that you are FORCED to
sign on, this is the least of all.
