1- First co. is a big GLC MNC (for which I partially regretted for not taking up their offer to continue after internship as it was out of my field of study. The salary is okay, benefits are nice, work hours are balanced too. Basically win-win in almost all respect).

2-Second co. Big MNC but in construction field. Has lots of politics and toxic environment, work 6 days. Hellish, yeah. I'd say this was the most hellish work experience I had so far.

3-Third co. SME co. pay peanuts. AL also only 8 days for the first year, and basically observes the minimum required public holiday. benefits minimal or non-existant. Iirc even insurance or medical card was cut off later. Needless to say, it has fairly relaxing work pace. Very rigid work hours, but after work hours nobody will kacau anymore. After the first and second year, basically there is no more growth in that company. Good if you're already wanting to retire or settle down, but career growth will suffer lah, so I find new job after this.

4-Forth co. Current co, SME as well. Flexible hours, but before that I feel like a few red flags, but I decided to take anyway. Salary is good compared to previous. Red flags at first was - no company laptop or desktop provided (so this is going to be where "you take your work home with you, huh?" was my first initial reaction). Notice period is 3 month, for a basically just junior exec role. 'Flexible' hours seems bullshit so far, after hearing a coworker saying "and this you could do over the weekend". I suppose for the past 3 jobs, I could safely switch off my phone and my mind from work during weekends, but here not so. Guidance or onboarding seems... terrible. First week in, give briefing on current project, then decides to let me handle a few troublesome projects and refer back to me as if I already knew the projects all ins and outs. People kept talking about work on weekends or at night (or even weekend nights at 11:50pm!). I guess, the pacing of this new job came as a shock to me, like first week discussion on some project, and then expecting a result in 30 minutes or so. Or discussion on literally 6:30pm, and then next day first thing morning ask already about what was discussed yesterday (wtf do I have to do this work AT home at night ah?!). Or suddenly saying at 6:30pm friday on certain things need to be done, next week monday want to discuss with customer here there (aiyo! that means I have to do this shit on weekends lah like this! If it's just like 10mins-30 mins, fine lah. I thought it was a 5-15 mins task too, but then open document, this looks like a 2-4hour task! And I was only made known to this on-going project this week! You expect me to know every ins and outs of it AND do it over the weekend AND there is no time for reviewing because Monday morning already go meet client?!). Coworkers are good so far. But basically like no guidance or onboarding process lah. It's like coming first day and brief A to Z and then poof there you go you know everything from A to Z now while you're just wondering why the fuck is D and F repeated twice and there's also an upside down G in the middle for some reason.




Anyway basically only 3 weeks in... I wonder if I should wait for a bit longer or decide it's not a good fit. Previous company did counter-offered the same salary as my current one but rejected anyway to learn something new. Now I wonder if I am going to regret it. Financially not really an issue (I have a second income freelancing making as much as my previous job's salary). I'm thinking of just getting a slow-paced job and then just put in 250% effort on my freelancing while I'm still not married lel. Last month I made 5k from freelancing alone.



Addition:
Freelancing is in art industry basically. Digital artist. I've been thinking of probably making it a life-long career since I enjoyed it even with dealing with bullshit like clients or unreasonable demands. Thinking of expanding my skillset to animation (Live2D or spine animations), 3D artist/modelling and animations as well. I wonder if it's a good idea to make it a full-time job as I'd pretty much be wasting my engineering degree, and it's only going to be a few more years before I hit 30 where it'll be harder to get a professional, stable job later on.