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Originally Posted by deadman
Just to share my story. im 29 (1982) male in IT line
My degree is completed as part-time between 2006 -2008. trying to accumulate work exp + deg at the same time.. as i find it more efficient and cost effective
start work 2005, din go to NUS/ NTU even got offered
first job in mnc doing manufacturing as IT support, start pay 1.2k as contract staff.. become perm then pay become 1.4k, left coy at mid 2006 or something.. last drawn pay is around 1.9k
second job (mid 2006) at IT mnc coy do IT as well with start pay 3.6k, 3months later i ask for revision, then pay become 4.2k. Mid 2008, im asked to be perm, pay become 4.9k. Left coy at around sept 2009?. Last drawn 4.9k.. din wait to collect bonus (AWS) 
3rd job, join a local GLC do IT.. start pay 5.3k, realise not really wat i wan and i think the internal politics abit crazy.. so i left 2 months during probation
4th job/current job .. do IT in a mnc financial industry coy.. start pay 5.8k.. around june last year, converted to perm staff, pay increment to existing 6.2k. Till now, overall annual is about 15 mths package.. no AWS.. so roughly 90+-k/yr
Coming 2011 June, hope got pay increment again to hit into a 100k annual package :P
Im thinking.. if i go into civil services/ IDA or similar, will they be able to pay me according to what im getting now? because i know the way they pay is based on some stupid citeria like below "in orders"
1) Degree branding
2) age
3) work length
4) skill qualifications- professional certs |
Frankly, I find your story quite fantastic.
1. You only graduated in 2008 and furthermore it's a part-time degree, which means you have 3yrs of graduate experience. And yet, you somehow managed to draw 6k a month just on 3yrs of experience??!! In IT somemore.
2. And even
without a degree, you were paid
4.2k in 2006, with
only 2 yrs of experience. I find this impossible to believe. I don't believe there is any company out there that is paying their
junior staff 4k per month (which is what you are if you don't have a degree).
The junior staff in my company get paid 3.2k max of the max, and they have been working for the company for donkey years. And reality check, even if they do complete their part-time degree, it is rare for them to be promoted to an Executive level. In the 6 yrs in my present company, I only managed to successfully recommend one such person for promotion.
3. Furthermore, you are working in IT, which is where all the foreign talent go. The pay is quite miserable.
4. When you convert from a contract to full-time staff, there really isn't any need to give you extra money.
5. Your story would be more believable if you told me you stayed with the same company. Maybe your boss is super dumb and the system in that company is super flawed. But you change so many companies. How can so many companies and bosses be so out of the market?
I have to ask, what's the point of your fantastic story?