I think another thing which needs to be taken into account for the Main Stream is whether they even have an option to opt in or out of the Executive Stream. If not, your Desk Officer is effectively telling you to give up all hopes of a career and just take the money! The plum jobs will be filled by the Exec stream, leaving the naff ones for everyone else. In addition, what if you are posted to a job which you did not want, in an area which you did not want to be posted to and are told to suck it up for 5 years! You would surely have to opt in to such a scheme to be prepared for such an eventuality, rather than be at the whim of a incompetent desk officer who sends you to, say Lossie, for 5 years because he either ballsed up or couldn't be bothered; 'Service need, get on with it'. May lead to a lot of PVRs (or is that the point......?)
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