career worries?

Just trying to kill off some time in the office so here i am blogging.

First of all, it wasnt exactly an exciting news for me, i was promoted to senior executive. (p/s: it does not come with salary increment as company is not in good financial position)

why wasnt i happy with the promotion? because i anticipated it on january - february when the company was distributing bonus. this is also usually the time of promotion and salary increment etc. sadly i wasnt offer a promotion nor salary increment even though they say there'll be salary adjustment after 1 year service subjecting to performance review.

and why did they promote me in midst of crisis? the company's financial is still stable but it's definitely not as strong now. and i broke  this news to my colleague in another department, to my surprise quite a number of employees were promoted (prolly without increment like i do). and some were promoted to SVP level, and since company has released memo earlier where employees with SVP level and above will be subjected to 10-20% paycut. therefore, newly promoted SVP got their pay cut. i know, this is also wtf to me.

i have been wanting to leave anyway. i feel my learning curve has been stagnant for quite some time and i want to do something different. definitely to get someone who will actually appreciate and value me. obviously times like this are hard. but im still very eager to change. just want things to get better.

so speaking of change, ofc im rather ambitious that i would want to prolly start fresh to be digital marketer in retailer (even without relevant skills lulz because i thought i can pick them up along the way) but apparently digital marketing courses have been made available and taught in universities. so obviously those fresh grads would have even better skillsets than i have even though i have 2 years working experiences. i mean ofc what i've been working is so different from digital marketing but i still understand the dataset and knowledge on how to comprehend.

anyhow, i have accepted the fact that i cant actually venture into pathways that are too varied and way outside my league. picking up CFA classes have not been helping because i still do not have economic background as support for most banking roles. therefore i was trying my luck if i can have consulting managing role in the big 4s. sadly no luck as well as big 4s in malaysia are not as advance and diverse compared to other countries where they have retail consultation and other exciting consultancy roles. yes this is applicable to mckenzie here as well.

i have been actively applying a lot of new business development roles on job street. 90% of my applications were rejected. i highly suspect because of my degree even though they say they dont mind any degrees and i have very customer centric experience. i do not understand why im not qualified for all these new roles when im even willing to give up my salaries for it.

anyhow, on the brightside of my promotion, i am able to ask for a better position in next firm and hopefully a better salary given in this situation.

so my plan now is still not too far off from my original plan of going to investment industry. i will now try my best to get into competitor firms for better positions. for now, self advancement is what i value most.

i hope everyone is encouraging each other at this challenging time. i just hope everyone is not too sad over the job less for now and i wish for a prosperous year ahead.

see yall loves x


(meanwhile im trying to categorise my few hundreds of liked songs on my spotify into different play lists by listen to all songs one by one. i'll update you all if i am able to finish them this month haha.)