Seriously, when you’re the Full-Time National Servicemen you think about going ‘out there’ to work and complain about the lack of freedom, the alienation, the pile of self-created workload and stuff like that. A word for you NSFs from someone who ORDed, the outside world is the same. Or to say the very least, it isn’t any better. Sure enough you get to go home after work but the traveling makes you tired; you get to choose what you want to eat during lunch but more often than not you just eat the few lousy food choices you have (some of them made lousy by the frequency by which you eat them); you get to go out and do all sorts of stuff like eat supper, buy whatever you want, go shopping but all that is going to happen only on weekends because you’re going to be tired from work.
Civilian life subjects you to more forces of circumstances, that’s all. Those in camp, rejoice!
