I suppose in one way it does give you valuable work experience, and everyone has to do it

Yeah, even though it is forced work you can always learn from it. But the funny thing is that usually I literally don't have tasks for the whole work day but I still have to be there for 7h 51 minutes because of, I don't know, reasons? Some stupid law? The civil service law actually says that the minimum working hours weekly is 36 which would make 6 hours a day. But I'm nonetheless treated as "equal" when I'm actually not.

Sorry about the ranting; sometimes things just make little sense to me. Anyway, the quality of the service very much depends on the place one gets (which is chosen and applied by the servant himself). But the best thing about the whole service was the 30-day education period where we learned stuff like CPR, initial firefighting and lot of other interesting stuff.

In my work service I've now gotten into helping with an intoxicant prevention program. I get to tutor kids and discuss about these things through a story we tell them so it's not all too grim. That's actually way more valuable experience than what I regularly do; archiving, hoovering, repetitive stuff that I don't actually learn anything other than endure dullness.