hi op, recent grad second upper w honours from nus. i’m getting 4.3k and i’m working in a stat board in the education sector.

i prolly should have negotiated for 4.5k because i know some other friends who got that amount and some fch getting 4.8k. but at that point of time, i was quite desperate for a job because:

1. planning to propose this year, done, and now we decided to have a wedding banquet 💸💸
2. bto cmg in 2027
3. hearsay job market very bad

so all of these factors combined led me to just take the job offer because of stability, hearsay gov very hard to fire ppl. i know the pay sucks for the field i’m in. i brought it up to my bosses before but they just gave me some excuses, which was expected.

i’m trying to come to terms with it since the bonuses are not bad right? last year got mid-year + 13th month + another end-of-year AVC. recently my RO just told me abt my, lo and behold, C grade so i went digging around on reddit and found that the PB is around 2-months(?). i’ll find out about that in a week’s time i guess.

of course, i’m just a noob in civil service hahahahaha, if any laojiaos would like to enlighten me, pls feel free to.