In a time where keywords such as ‘recessions’ and layoffs’ steal the limelight of every major news program and most people are kept worried if they might be the next casuality of an unforgiving economy, the lack of job security can be a scary thing.

Where I am, I am almost oblivious to the fact that there is an economic crisis out there. There can be no better illustration than that there is a cyclone around me, and I live right in the eye of it, oblivious the wreckage that is going on. Events of the outside world has very little impact on the life of a soldier spending 6 days a week stationed in the barracks. At the same time however, being in the eye of the storm also traps me in there, and I can’t leave. I have one thing few people have these days – job security, and too much of it. I’m assured a job for the next 1.5 years. I can’t resign. I can’t be laid off. On the contrary, if I perform poorly (such as being send to the detention barracks), I get even more job security (extension of service period).

Too much job security can be a scary thing.