Originally posted by Doom:
Hiya...the thing is because that i am currently overseas studing and the reason is because that she is afraid that i will get sick with the job and then will not be happy workong there...

(because Mata cannot anyhow juz come out one mah...) and also mainly because i have to go thru another 9 mths of training which is stayin at PA loe...so she said that no time to accompany her...

Alas...my dream ger is the one that stops me frm pursuing my dream career...

how sad.....
It sounds like your girlfriend do not want you to go through the frustration of hating your job after some time. Maybe she knows someone who is stuck in such a job and is complaining all the time.
Have you talked to enough people in different jobs to decide that being in the police is really your dream job ? I did not. I thought of teaching or police while in university and then chose police.
The 9 months in academy was ok. Like army training but with law and stuff thrown in. The job is quite different from TV portrayals. Your first 2 years are definitely going to be in Investigation work - tons and tons of paperwork, phone calls, interviews and more paperwork.
You will almost never see action. You arrive at the scene hours after. After everyone else. You work bad hours. You work all hours. You get more depressed than divorce lawyers. Day in and day out, you deal with loss, death, injury and hate. And no one appreciates you. The complainant says you are slow, the defendent is abusive, your boss says you are incompetent, and of course your girlfriend wonders where you are all the time and why you prefer to sleep to meeting her.
Promotion ? Forget it. You start with Inspector or Asst Superintendent and then stay there for years. Your peers who are scholars zoom past you with doing a bit of this and a bit of that and before long, one of them is the commander of your division while you are still doing whatever you have been doing since day 1.
Sorry for all the negative stuff - just want to go beyond the "server the nation" and "help the weak" stuff. I did feel that I learnt more about people and life during those years. Sort of an accelerated maturing process.