being a potential PE student, i'm suprised that you even pose the question...
your lcourse consultant must be "reasurring"

even if it dies in malaysia, it won't elsewhere...
but we still got a good 35 years in the bag and more to come...
go figure

else u can join an already dying industry called electronics...


This post has been edited by BRC: Mar 21 2012, 10:22 AM

do you know that a maintenance eng can be in field as well?
and not all field engineers get paid well...

you said you got offered halli?
thats one of the big daddies of O&G service providers...

where do i start...
well demand is high but.... BUT

everyone expects MORE for less
more prod for less cost...
electronics have always been evolving... 6" >8">12" wafers in no time...
margin is small and Continuous improvement is key to profitability...

labour aint cheap in Malaysia and its harder to do business once min wage policy applied nationwide...
raw materials arent from here so shipping is a concern...

so you are working with quantity based profit...
as the margins are miniscule...
Thats what i meant by dying...

and 5 years back... i was a vendor to semicon industry...
for RM1mil product for production line, takes 1 year to evaluate with multiple discussions from ALL levels... an essential item to the line
bare in mind we are talking about the biggies in semicon...

so electronics, put it this way...
first to feel the effects of an econ. downturn, last to feel the effects of a booming economy...
evolving too fast, hard to keep up....
wages arent good either



This post has been edited by BRC: Mar 22 2012, 11:26 AM

honestly...
not all O&G jobs are technical ppl...
think of a total solutions business...
same as not all engineers in a semicon...

account, supply chain, business improvement, corporate affairs, legal, finance exec
so many roles for a finance personnel

i would go for cameron...
they are specialist in subsea and wells...

technip more turn key... huge scope
if you are in the right dept... why not either

in operating companies, u need at least 3 years or more...
else will be considered grad

lets put it this way...
my company itself hires 6000ppl and 100000+ worldwide...
we don all do the same thing...

there's many depts, dicispline, roles...
so when you are what O&G company that is good...

what do you wanna do in the first place...???
don give open ended questions...

cos if i really wanna reply, it would be too long and i might as well just ignore the question all together...

when u go outside, and ppl say O&G is lucrative...
dont just tell ppl you wanna do O&G...
its a tell tale that you are a NOOB...
stop being one and read more, find out what you wan and ask from there...

else go talk to someone over tea... the keyboard is too taxing for explaining open ended questions