You need to learn how to delegate work to your team

You have to attend meetings with your western counterparts if you’re in MNCs.

Take it this way, dont take the job if the demand does not match with your life preference n expectation. Whatever jobs you’re “interested” in, must be a job that you REALLY LIKE or have passion for. Dont take it or apply for the sake of name n salary. You wont live a fulfilled life. You will be stressed out, burnt out, unhappy, missing things in life

You're a coordinator

When you have subordinates to delegate and direct, you manyzer

But I understand your pain

If you get in too deep it will be hard to quit your job because you will always have unfinished jobs with a long time horizon that you just can't easily handover to the next person

You quitting means your boss will hate you and you'll be getting a shit rap

Tell your boss you're overworked and are unable to keep up

If your boss die die don't get you a helper, go fail some task and let it hit his bottomline

my real life example of me in the past that made me rethink alot of wanting a "manger role"

>years ago in ex kampeni i was kuli level earning around RM4-5k/mth. work was decent, clock in 9-6pm daily, low stress role
>so being young want to rank up by going into asst manager since manager also encouraged plus want earn more money
>for a period i worked/shadow with current asst manager temporarily, technically become like a 2nd asst manager but in training and working some of her roles
>so what i got was basically tonnes of meetings every week and cadence scheduled. lots of planning and compilation of reports etc, but the stupid part is so many meetings to the point you dont have time to actually do your own shit, constantly on the move from meeting to meeting. outlook calendar is like maxed out gila wan
>not to mention constant grilling in meeting on performance, being asked tough ass questions that you know you cannot win against the upper management cause theyll find a way to tibai regardless. like if you pull out stuff to protek your team members like "staff A & B achieved and exceeded KPI A requirement.", but upper management will just tibai back with "but they missing KPI B and C? wheres the improvement?"
>after that i secretly asked my asst manager how much she earning that time. she told me she was only RM7k/mth 

shit's aint worth it in terms of the stress to higher salary. during asst manger leave also still has to stay on call and attend meetings kekpot, whats the point of leaves in first place?

so what do u "manage" actually?? deadlines?? also what is the difference from you being an exec? since you also be the one doing the work without a team..

If give me another chance i rather become lorry driver or welder. Or tukang paip.

Took the role for 3 years, jump ship back to exec level and the stress level gone down significantly.

When subordinate screwup, left right front back manager kena, and endless meeting just to explain and fix the screw up.

As an exec, when i screw up, i only answer to my manager.

And the drama with with each subordinate….

Jumped to different company. But really had to be careful when answering why applying exec role from manager role.