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Originally Posted by Unregistered

What's wrong with being earning 5k/mth? At least it is comfortable if you spend within your means. Not everyone can be rich and successful, take a look at reality before setting your expectations and ambitions. It is good to aim big but what is the possibility you achieving that? Just do your work well and live a decent life would suffice.

Originally Posted by rubberbus

Ya whatever you all said, makes sense and sad to know that will normally happen. But if you have capability and your performance are good, I don't see a reason that you will struck with a lousy role of 5k pay at the company.

Your future lies on your own hand. Unless you got zero luck.
Aim high to reach the top , not the average group!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

In every company there are limited management positions. Companies recognized that and most have created technical career ladder to retain their technical staff. For my stat board, our engineers can therefore progress along this ladder. You start off as engineer, move on to senior engineer, principal engineer and senior principal engineer. Senior PE salary overlaps that of Tech. Manager

Originally Posted by badoo412

Hi, may i know how hard is it to reach management position?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I started off as a mech engineer, 2nd upp fron NUS. My one and only employer is a big stat board. Within 3 yrs of work, I took up a part time MSc with NUS. After securing the MSc, I was awarded a scholarship to pursue another MSc. (systems engineering) in the US. This time, it was full time studying with full salary and tuition paid for, some more with allowance for food and lodging. Of course I had to sign on a bond.

Now I am a technical manager leading a team of engineers. Pay wise around $200k. With wife earning another $150k, we can live comfortably, but still cannot compare with those in finance line or other professions like doctors and lawyers.

Work wise, there is quite good work life balance with the occasional high stress all nighter kind of project work. I would be lying if I say I did not ever consider changing my line of work. But after seeing some friends and colleagues who job hopped and never seem to settle, I thought I better stay on.

The stat board has been my only employer for 30 yrs, I can't say it is a bad employer. Otherwise I wouldn't last this long.

Originally Posted by Fugutaiten

Hi, may I know what kind of engineer are you? How does your work typically like when you first started out? Thanks!

Originally Posted by rubberbus

Hahaha you are wrong! This is SINGAPORE!

Originally Posted by badoo412

I agree totally on that. But everyone has the same mindset as you where they work hard for what they want, hoping that they will escape that lousy role of 5k pay at the company lol. I guess this is life...

Originally Posted by rubberbus

Ya whatever you all said, makes sense and sad to know that will normally happen. But if you have capability and your performance are good, I don't see a reason that you will struck with a lousy role of 5k pay at the company.

Your future lies on your own hand. Unless you got zero luck.
Aim high to reach the top , not the average group!

Originally Posted by badoo412

Yeah...that's what some of the engineers told me...they got a few promotion and they kinda got stuck with 5k...They said that it's hard to job hop after that because most of the jobs out there although they met the amount of experience, theres a certain criteria with regards to the skillset required for the job which caused them to be left with no option but to stay on their current job for stability... They also might experience pay cut if they were to switch companies...

Originally Posted by Unregistered

promotion every 2 years maybe 1st few times nia, otherwise all the engineers will be directors within 10 years liao, not struggling with mid life crisis at mid/late 30s with a 5k pay.