It’s very common for people to leave their jobs because they’re in pain. The miserable working life, working overtime with low pay, annual bonus are way-too-low, not happy working with the company. It has become a phenomena which makes nowadays simply changing jobs for their own will. In fact, you might realized that many of your friends around you are made their changing career paths, either resigning their recent jobs or hopping to a better workplace. Well, it’s something we need to discuss: Does job-hopping your career killer or savior?
“Hop” for a Better Life
Some of my friends told me they’re leaving because of their low salaries. According to the research from Ministry of Human Resources, the basic pay grade for office freshmen are between RM1,500 to RM1,800. Small raises will be given if you’re serve the company for quite sometime or you have an advancement opportunity. Clearly that’s not enough to feed themselves in urban areas and this will be their main reason to hop for a better job, at least we could have a slight raise of 10-15% of your previous pay. But if this is your only reason to go for job-hopping, you’ll end up unsatisfied in the long run.
I’m Not Being “Appreciated”
Duh, it’s kind of a lousy reason for most of us. We might not be appreciated by our supervisors or team leader even you’ve done a good job, cause they have so many stuff to deal with, it’s normal that they might not noticed you sometimes. But there’s only ONE supervisor/manager over 20-odd staff, come on, please hide your egoism and do your job. Same thing will happen to you even you hop to the other workplace. Do understand their situation before complaining.
I Can’t “Mix” Well with my Colleagues
How about a job as an entertainment newscaster? Remember, you’re not working in a gossip publication. If this is the only thing that you want to achieve, you better don’t take that as your reason to leave your company. Office politics are all around the place, sometimes you might not even realized that you’re enrolled in this tribune.
These are not my excuses for me to leave a company as I’ve experienced several companies who don’t pay me for what I do. Be smart when you’re in the battlefield. Think twice before you make the move, and once you’ve done, don’t regret it.
