I really like jobs that their salaries are depending on certification or exams taken. Pass a few exam can get a lot of increment already.

On the other hand, software field not really much. Boss always says "LEL software? You can always Google"

Well deserved pay. Heard from my fellow actuary friends those exams are no easy stuff. They put lots of dedication, blood and sweat into it and some could barely pass it.

Truly a profession for the elites

This post has been edited by budang: Apr 2 2019, 11:05 AM

The exam is excruciating indeed.
After working will spend at least one hour to study at home, weekend allocate at least 8 hours on studying for exams since I joined the industry. So life is basically work and exam with little social life. To make it worse, I am not a smart person and failed the same exam a few times.

Imagine i am close to 30 already but still need to take exam. Many people quit taking exam once they have kids... it is very tiring.

you deserve every single cent of it. its tiring for sure

Wow doing good!

I agree that exam can be even stressful than our daily job. I just prefer certifications because they are straight forward enough to determine one's skill and boost one's career. You pass? Get promoted and get increment. You failed? or you don't bother to take those exams? You get the annual 2% increment and queue for the promotion when time comes.

You totally deserve the salary you got now and the position. Hard work always pays.

This post has been edited by icebryanchan: Apr 2 2019, 01:18 PM

Job Title : Actuarial Manager
Job Description : Life Insurance Valuation
Age : 28
Years spent in company : around 4.5 Years
Company : Local Insurance Company
Industry : Insurance
Employment Level : Manager (but more like AM, one level after senior exec)
Experience before joining : 1 year
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Fellowship
Salary : 13.7k
Bonus : 3 months

Feel like quite underpaid in my current company.

Then I more underpaid than you lol.

13K is consider good earning at your age, i'm sure out there at your age earning less than half of it. Don't compare with others - enjoy your own life.

Job Title : Contract Excecutive
Job Description : Quantity Surveyor job
Age : 25
Years spent in company : few month
Company : Main contractor
Industry : Construction
Employment Level : Chinapek company, direct to boss
Experience before joining : 1 year+=
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree
Salary : 4.3K+ Allowance for petrol + OT claim
Working hours : 9am to 7-8pm, 5 day a week on non peak. sometime need work on weekend
Benifit : everything flexible, can come office late, as long work done, always got free meal from boss

Anyone from construction field? mind sharing

This post has been edited by kelvin988: Apr 3 2019, 04:22 PM

Job Title: channel manager
Job Description: Recruit partner, product training/demo/presentation, partner management, close deals & etc (As instructed by superior)
Age: 29
Years spent in company: 2 years 7 months
Company: A very small Sdn Bhd, less than 10 staff
Industry: IT, software distribution
Tenure: Permanent
Employment Level: Senior, i guess
Experience before joining (years): 4 and half years in IT field, hardware sales, and project management
Highest paper qualification/ education background: Bachelor's Degree
Location: Klang Valley
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 9am to 6pm, mostly depend on the appointments/meetings

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance: RM 5130
Contractual Bonus (months): I'll explain later
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : Monthly commission payout, highest commission is RM 10,099.73

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits: Annual RM 700 claim
Transport Benefits: Claimable if outstation
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : N/A
Flexi Working Hours: Yes
Other Benefits: N/A

Problem:
Only 1 month bonus were given on Jan 2018, and a 2K angpow on Jan 2019.
No increment up til today, and I've reach the end of the career development.
No technical training given, all self learn, and sell on your own #allthebest

I guess is time to move on to another IT distribution company.

Once u reached the stagnant period, it's time to refresh and look out. Or ask your boss change department

This is very good offer . At your age and qualification, reasonable range is 3300 to 3500.

Job Title : Senior Assistant Manager
Job Description : Forest Plantation
Age : 33
Years spent in company : 3 month
Company : Local Company
Industry : Forestry / Plantation
Employment Level : AM
Experience before joining : 10 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bach Degree
Salary : RM 5.1k, Company car & House
Bonus : Dunno since i just join
Average working hours : 7am to 4pm.
This industry salary is not as good as other but stress level is quite low. Thinking to go back to my previous company due to some personal issues but felt shy since I reject their 3 times counter offer before I join this company. The previous company is wood product manufacturing industry. Any advice on returning back there?

Job Title : Control Analyst
Job Description : Quality Control / Assurance + Compliance role
Age : 27
Years spent in company : 1st month
Company : Telemarketing arm of a foreign bank
Industry : Telemarketing Sales
Employment Level : Senior Executive
Experience before joining : 2.5 years accounting role and 2.5 years in project finance/credit analysis
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor's Degree
Salary : RM 4,800, basically only RM100 increased salary from previous job due to a lack of experience
Bonus : 15% of annual income, so slight below 2 months


Now my job is basically easy and just become a corporate police performing desk / email checks etc, nothing to learn at all. Trying to get into banking credit analytics, but its not easy. Hoping to do internal transfer in the future. While I'm wasting my time at this job, many of my peers are leaving me in the dust

Don't need to be shy
Be professional then u are good to go

I rejected their offer 3 times when the COO personally invite me to his room and request me to stay. I hope he did not get pissed of with me after that incident which make me a bit worry to return there. How bad is it returning to your former company? Anyone have experience here? Hope you guys can give me a professional advice.

Ouch. Hahah, there's many companies out there. U sure u wanna go back then? They might give u hard time, might not.

Put the face away, man up and try asking. But be aware if u get accepted, might give u some hard time

If not, then it's the best case

which salary would you take monthly, 22k MYR to 10k SGD ? assuming benefits and career aspiration are the same.

Same position same job scope ? Try to nego on the sgd side to shout sgd13-14k