What i think of SAF regulars:
Its a job. The SAF offers something other jobs can't. For one
thing, you are really shielded from 'real' life. It is difficult to
starve in the SAF, accom is more or less guaranteed, and, at the
end of the day, its not really a difficult job. Now, to say that it
is not a diffcult job does not mean that its an easy life; it is
not. However, it is something that almost anyone can do because the
SAF is really, within reason, quite forgiving towards its members.
The pay's not bad at all as well.
However, i think that a career in the SAF is, at the end of the
day, an acceptance of mediocrity. I think this applies especially
to Specialists. There really isn't anything wrong with mediocrity.
A large majority of people have no more than mediocre careers as
some kind of office 'executive', or as a 'supervisor' of some sort.
But, this applies more to the SAF than elsewhere because, unlike in
civvie street where there are clients to win over, presentations to
make, networking to do, profit margins to watch, and projects to
complete, the aren't really that many ways to shine in the SAF. For
the most part, you drift through each post barely even making a
ripple in the status quo. You get promoted if you wait long enough
(and if you dun fcuk up too badly of course).
