It depends on your motive...

I have never once looked for a high salary job, nor a job with career growth...

What I looked for in my 20s was to build career skills...

Most people have it that they MUST be paid to learn new skills... In my opinion, that is an entirely wrong and misleading approach...

Instead, you should be equipping yourself with new skills consistently BY STUDYING on your own if you are to remain for the industry...

Next, specialize into a unique skillset that is ultra-rare in this world... I am strictly talking about something that is uncommonly found not just in Malaysia, but the whole world...

As I am part of the IT sector, I possess a rare coding skillset that is used, but often overlooked, and some 5% - 15% in this industry knows about it...

All these combined has helped me to gain jobs fairly easily compared to when I first started out...

These days, people look for me for jobs instead of me applying for them...

Another fun fact is that if you so highly valued, the more you converse with your head of department / board of director (who has the same skillset as you), they'd be shocked for their lives about the wealth of knowledge you have...

My take is that you should look to master skills first and maintain an average salary job...

Once you have mastered all there is, go for higher ones with repetition but look to move out to do something else... Because this is what I am doing at the moment... I no longer want to continue a high salary job nor for career growth. I may be wanted but I am looking to move out and to be self-employed...