hmm its seems that most of you all here are quite luck so young yet so much potential and earning power. Consider yourself to be very luck for the ppl who has to strive from the very start from - form 5 started working and then to pay for his or her's education and after few dog gone years at 28 still earning peanuts of RM3.2K that is not much if you are living in KL/ City area. With Car loans and mistakes u made by having credit card and duped by some MLM ppl it not easy to make ends meet. For all that i can say is that stick to non contract jobs as its better and dont take things for granted.

Thats your ego. It really depends on how you look at the whole picture. Some people really wanted to show dependency by moving out living alone or just wanna have their own life. But in reality, its aint simple as that. You have a price to pay for what you wish for, its fair and square.

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Added on December 18, 2009, 6:52 pmThen start living as someone with 3,2k salary and not 5k salary. We do take things for granted and spent money unwisely for most of the time.

This post has been edited by andrekua: Dec 18 2009, 06:52 PM

Field : Semiconductor
Years of Exp : 4 years
Position : Snr Engineer
Salary : 5k
Age : 28

Underpaid?

wat engineer r u?

if u are talking bout aircraft engineer,they earn more or less like a pilot..
its juz tht it will take a while before u starting to earn much..compared to pilot..

Hi I'm 24 and I'm earning more than RM5k

My tips is, be the best, start from small, learn the hard way, and be modest.

just wanna share.. i'm 28..almost 6yrs exp in J2EE field.. earning ~8k++ now.. most of the time i accept only contract jobs (1-2yrs renewable like dat)so i can demand higher, and from project based job, can put more/better project history in my resume.. doing some part time jobs also so sometimes can exceed 10k per month

... almost every working malaysian is doing that

oh really ahh.. lol

I believe it is not that difficult to make more than 5K in KL these days, almost all my frens who have a degree make more than 5K in their late 20s in KL. The factors to help u get 5K mayb are:
1) the field u r in
2) qualification
3) company u join
4) some luck
5) personality and capability
6) and etc...
Few years back (2005) I used to make 5k (when I was below 28), and I feel that it is alot, and I live a quality life. But when I come back to KL recently, everything is so expensive, the chicken rice is 4rm now (or more). The only thing is still cheap in KL is petrol (heard it will increase next year) and car (I mean proton). But it is just very hard to survive on ur own with 2k or 3k nowadays in KL. That's y I really think 5k at 28 is really a norm now, nothing to shout about. We should change the thread to "how to make more than 10K at 30"...

the field i join (FMCG)
qualification (degree)
luck (50-50)


but my salary is damn low

How did you bargain for 50% increment for new job?

This post has been edited by debbieyss: Dec 21 2009, 04:09 PM

have a feeling of changing to network engineering.....but now in programming..3 days after i started work..an ISP called me for interview..and i rejected it... ..but not enough qualifications yet..so have to tahan..

i was doing IT in a company as fresh grad rm2k, then my next job was RM22k per month, it's like 1000% increment but it's contract la

fuhh...thats really something

How many years have you been working for the first job before accepting the contract based job?

where do u work?in malaysia?

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=30662178

The contract job is with an O&G company in Cyberjaya

wow 22k per mth ?
wow are u sure the company stable ?

I left the company dy.. it's Shell actually u say stable anot

I sudah moved on to work in Europe 1 yr, then now back in Msia with another company