ACCA

[Jman888]

 

Alot of my friend gotten their MBA , Msc , grad dip..not consider in their employment largely.

 

 

i did a couple of those too, not really help in my career but help in doing my job, for learning and interest purpose.

 

i agree.

 

had a colleague was a sr engineer liaoz. found that engineer prospect not good. study ACCA now a auditor in big 4.

 

have to restart from scratch. starting pay 2k+. late 30s guy reporting to a young girl. he also Lan lan suck thumb. but at least the annual increments quite good.

 

 

he will be wondering wtf am i doing this at 40 year old, late night, meeting deadline, pressure by young girl

[ShepherdPie]

 

he will be wondering wtf am i doing this at 40 year old, late night, meeting deadline, pressure by young girl

 

at least he know by 50s, he still have alot of job opportunities.. i see my dept from Mgr to GM... hardly any resignation... I wonder if there is a retrenchment..what will happen to us.

 

I am in the inhouse IT ... seriously seniority is not an advantage..

Edited December 19, 2013 by ShepherdPie

[Fishy]

 

i agree.

 

had a colleague was a sr engineer liaoz. found that engineer prospect not good. study ACCA now a auditor in big 4.

 

have to restart from scratch. starting pay 2k+. late 30s guy reporting to a young girl. he also Lan lan suck thumb. but at least the annual increments quite good.

 

I also ex engineer but in bank now. Reported to a young gal fresh from poly for the 1st few months but lucky no pay cut. they matched my engineering pay.

annual increments quite ok, within 5yrs, i managed to get more than what my engineering peers would have gotten... but overall i think i prefer the friendly engineering environment ...

Edited December 19, 2013 by Fishy

[Jman888]

 

at least he know by 50s, he still have alot of job opportunities.. i see my dept from Mgr to GM... hardly any resignation... I wonder if there is a retrenchment..what will happen to us.

 

I am in the inhouse IT ... seriously seniority is not an advantage..

 

 

that is true also, but you must find your comfort zone to stay till retirement. but comfort zone mean very little or no increment type, cos you are just a robot doing the same thing everyday.

 

but at 50s, i doubt you will have alot of opportunities when you are competing with the young fresh grads.

Edited December 19, 2013 by Jman888

[Little_prince]

 

I also ex engineer but in bank now. Reported to a young gal fresh from poly for the 1st few months but lucky no pay cut. they matched my engineering pay.

annual increments quite ok, within 5yrs, i managed to get more than what my engineering peers would have gotten... but overall i think i prefer the friendly engineering environment ...

yeah man. i also moved out from engineering. but not banking.... really looking back, no regrets leaving engineering.

 

work 10 yrs at most senior engineer. 4-5k salary. anytime retrenchment can easily be replaced by fresh grads.

Edited December 19, 2013 by Little_prince

[ShepherdPie]

 

 

that is true also, but you must find your comfort zone to stay till retirement. but comfort zone mean very little or no increment type, cos you are just a robot doing the same thing everyday.

 

but at 50s, i doubt you will have alot of opportunities when you are competing with the young fresh grads.

 

no want to compete lah.. just a decent job will do..

 

at 50s, you shld spend more of your time planning your next holiday! aniway.. if you are a CPA.. there is alot of ad-hoc jobs that you can take up.

[Fishy]

yeah man. i also moved out from engineering. but not banking.... really looking back, no regrets leaving engineering.

 

work 10 yrs at most senior engineer. 4-5k salary. anytime retrenchment can easily be replaced by fresh grads.

 

correction

anytime retrenchment can easily be replaced by FT.

also, i was told engineering fresh grad pay is about 3k now, much lesser than what the banks IT are paying. hence my friend tell me no fresh hire will want to join engineering.

so they imported FT to suppress engineer's pays... in order to keep costs low to be attractive to foreign investment? OMG...

[Little_prince]

 

correction

anytime retrenchment can easily be replaced by FT.

also, i was told engineering fresh grad pay is about 3k now, much lesser than what the banks IT are paying. hence my friend tell me no fresh hire will want to join engineering.

so they imported FT to suppress engineer's pays... in order to keep costs low to be attractive to foreign investment? OMG...

yeah. that's true. fresh engineering grad abt 3k. but increment rather pathetic. 3-5%. after 10 yrs also barely 5k.

[ShepherdPie]

yeah. that's true. fresh engineering grad abt 3k. but increment rather pathetic. 3-5%. after 10 yrs also barely 5k.

 

 

Yeah.. in the early 2000.. there is still decent bonus to topup ... nowadays.. *sigh*...

[Little_prince]

 

 

Yeah.. in the early 2000.. there is still decent bonus to topup ... nowadays.. *sigh*...

depending on industry la.

 

Aviation. Oils and gas. Etc stil got 4-5mth bonus