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22-04-2013, 10:46 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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relatively high paying monotonous job
Hi,
I would like to get some career advice from the folks on this forum.
About myself: Graduated in 2010 with a technical degree. I have about 3 years of work experience now.
Working for a US MNC. Basic Salary is 6900. Annual bonus is 2 months.
On paper, my relatively high salary looks good for my age and experience. However, I find my job quite boring. I have been at my current position for 1 year+. Essentially, I am an overpaid computer operator. My primary job is to decide between clicking between button "A", "B", "C", for about 200 times a day. I'm not learning anything new.
Work-life balance is good and I generally end work before 6pm.
What do u think I should do? Here are some of my thoughts:
1) Look for a new job. If i look for a new job outside, I doubt I will find a job that matches/beats my current salary. I think I will be looking at a 2k salary cut.
2) The company is big so I can perhaps try to do an internal transfer.
3) I can use my free time to pick up new skills or maybe do a part-time masters/MBA.
4) Continue doing what I do and enjoy my work-life balance.
Regards,
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22-04-2013, 11:08 PM
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Verified Member
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 24
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I think there's no guarantee that you will enjoy a less monotonous job, so leaving for one on top of taking a paycut doesn't seem wise. Go pick up a hobby or something.
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23-04-2013, 12:12 AM
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chances of finding a job that pays anywhere near your current salary with your job experience is extremely slim. I would recommend 2 or 3, in fact you are in a pretty good position to do 3 so I would go ahead with that.
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23-04-2013, 02:24 AM
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I had the same job, just that mine has 4 "buttons." Salary could be as high as 20K if I clicked the right button at the right time. Stressful job.
Yes, it's true. Such a job exist.
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23-04-2013, 11:08 AM
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I shall repost my previous comment on some guy asking to stay or leave after having a boring job...
[repost]
You wan a sense of achievement?
Be a R&D engineer, you get to deal with everything...
Solution conception
while(customer != happy)
{
Costing
Negotiation
Proposal
Negotiation
Tender
Circuit design
Sourcing
Firmware programming
PCB design
Software
Verification
}
while(price > budget) //this part is super time wasting
{
Enclosure sourcing
Negotiation
Component sourcing
Negotiation
Fabrication
Assembly
}
Prototype trial run
if(customer != happy)
goto : Solution verification
else if(estimated budget overrun)
super long talk with boss
if(prototype == success && customer == happy)
{
Ship product!
while(you still alive)
{
unlimited lifetime support with people who are not interested
Spam emails and calls to see if anyone else wants the solution
}
}
interrupt(last day of the month)
{
collect $2132 check
}
See, you get to solution someone's or an entire group/company/national problems alone!! assumed sense of achievement = over 9000!
and you get to draw a pathetic pay as a bonus!
[/repost]
Oh wait i just realized, since all of these are actually in a infinite loop so its still monotonous, but wait... this one has a much lower pay!! Sounds exciting rite!
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23-04-2013, 11:58 AM
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I have the same problem also. Been working for 5 years now making close to 15k per month but find the job meaningless, I have decided to move on to do social conselling work for 2.5k monthly to be more meaningful.
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23-04-2013, 11:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Unregistered
I had the same job, just that mine has 4 "buttons." Salary could be as high as 20K if I clicked the right button at the right time. Stressful job.
Yes, it's true. Such a job exist.
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It's call trading. The four buttons are buy, sell, stop order, limit order.
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25-04-2013, 02:22 PM
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ts if I were u I will keep the "monotonous" 6.9k job and pickup a skill or hobby, u will regret later u found a more challenging job but paying u less.
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