Hi there,

Lucky to have this forum, wanted to share this with you guys. Please comment on my current job.

Job Title : Senior Engineer (Marketing Dept)
Job Desciption : 1 Leg Kick (even on non job related tasks eg: IT, HR etc)
Years spent in company : 5 yrs and 8 months
Company : Electrical & Automation
Industry : Electrical & Automation
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Senior
Salary : RM 3k + RM850 on car maintenance, toll, parking AND petrol allowance + RM150 hp allowance
Working hrs: 8.30 am - 5.30pm, alternate Saturday-off (just started this year, b4 this working on every Saturday).

This is my first job after graduated, and went into this company as a salesperson (basic + allowance = RM1300, can you believe it!!??). First 2 years was tough, but after i found a couple of big customers, life was good, manage to earn around 6k a month.

Then came to forth year, lost interest in sales, backside itchy approach my boss and got transferred to a newly developed marketing dept. Got stuck with my current salary.

There are more stories to tell, maybe i would continue later.

Btw, am i really underpaid? my boss is a nice guy, but loyalty can't feed me and my loans. Should i go? I got a degree in E&E and finishing my MBA soon. Sighh.....

Hmm... to my surprise, based on my own research, there are tons of MBA in the market right now, and MBA cant guarantee a good pay. What's important is not the skill or qualification, it's the previous company that you worked before. I see big MNC comp wont take ppl from small potatoes company like me... Sigghh....

Yeah.. I applied for a position in BAT too... the problem is, there are are 287 applicants (thru jobstreet alone), 198 of them have MBA, and 4 of them PhD.. fighting for 1 position...

Yeah, it's British American Tobacco. I would do anything to work for them if given the chance.... hehe

Age: 28
Job Title : Marketing / Business Development
Job Desciption : super 1 leg kick multi tasker
Years spent in company : 6+
Company : mid sized local chinaman comp
Industry : Engineering / FMCG / Channel Management
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : so-called manager
Experience before joining : fresh
salary : RM 5k + 1.6k allowance
Location: KL
Benefit: normal

Since this is my 1st job, i alwiz wanted to try a MNC. But too bad stayed in an unknown comp for too long, hard to leave now. How was it like to worked in an MNC, especially in management level?

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Added on August 18, 2008, 7:03 pmnanahara, sorry to say this, but considering ur position as a senior in business development (arguably one of the most important dept in a comp) in a listed comp, aren't u a bit underpaid?



This post has been edited by Star_Scream: Aug 18 2008, 07:03 PM

RM 1k for RM 380k house? i dun think so, unless u put deposit 200k for the house...

yeah.. plus other expenses such as insurance, money for parents, car maintenance etc.. etc..

wow RM8k is not so much after all...

Oh... allow me to answer this. You dun need a big family to 'hardly' survive with 5~6k.

i am not married but my expenses:

housing loan = 1400
car loan = 1000
parents = 500
insurance = 300
petrol = 400
utilities (+ astro + internet)= 400
handphone = 100

total = 4100

not to mention unforeseen expenses eg. toiletries, entertainment, friend's wedding ang pow money, etc etc

if you are earning rm5000, after epf deduction etc balance 4450.00

4450 - 4100 = 350 divided by 30 days = RM 11.60 per day for your meal.... heheh

ohh... i din mention about savings, did i?

unnecessary items? insurance? later i masuk hospital who want to bear the cost? utilities? takkan cannot use electricity and water kot? rm1k per month for a 70k car, not too much ler.. house? it can be a form of investment, better than renting (or in other words paying other ppl's house... if can afford lar..) other expenses like petrol, handphone, parents... can i not pay it?

however, i strongly believes that i am caught in the rat race... but how much do we need to earn to live a quality life?? What i possessed now is not luxurious..

I know, i know... i can still drive Kancil (no offence to Kancil driver!!), rent a room, eat economic rice everyday (even that is not cheap)... i can still prove that with 5k salary, by living in that life will not lead you to anywhere...

well, i m juz trying to support the statement that 5k salary is 'kinda hard' to survive.. especially those not staying with parents and did not take subsidies from MBF (mama bapa bank)...

oppss.. off topic... sorry!

what i wrote was juz an example.. the expenses breakdown is real but of cuz my salary is not rm5k... anyway nice guessing.. i m driving a vios..

wat u say is very correct.. dat's why i am alwiz short of money..

anyway, i still would like to make a statement that, 5k salary is still 'kinda hard' to survive in M'sia...