This Is The Next 10 Years Of Your Life As A Young Working Malaysian

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TL;DR: Follow your dreams and learn to take on risks 

YEAR 1: FREEFALL

It’s bliss isn’t it? You’re up early, the LRT is empty and you already had your breakfast. Armed with a leather messenger bag and a freshly pressed suit, you tell yourself that today is going to be a good day.

Your get off at your stop and Google Map your way to the office building. It’s a short walk, and the sun isn’t up to beat on you yet.

The office is pretty conveniently located. Most of your college mates are still hustling through the interview process!

You’re nervous, but if there’s one thing you know better than critiquing teh tarik, it’s faking confidence. I mean, you literally spent nights reading self-help books and Elite Daily articles instead of hanging with the boys. You got this!

You look around and scout the ‘competition’. The other greenhorns look nice, but you can tell the slackers, the geniuses and the pakar ekonomi apart already. You hope the boss will take note of your CGPA and marvel at it, but in reality, he prefers DC.

That means he actually couldn’t give a fuck less if he could.

YEAR 2: HITTING CONCRETE

It’s performance review day at the office, all the targets you hit and KPIs you met have led up to this. Now they’ll grade you on a scale so you could physically see how much better you are, just like in your University days.

You step into the boss’ office and tells you how appreciative he is of you and what you have done for the company, but he rated you a 3+… “Competent worker; slightly above average”. You take a look around and see the slackers also got around the 3 point mark.

“What the actual… they take more than an hour lunch breaks and smoke every half hour! How am I equal to that?!”

In desperation you seek out those who scored higher than you, the 1 and 2 pointers who’s bonuses alone will be double that are yours. You find that it’s the pakar ekonomi guys and loud mouthed jokers who score that high.

But of course, all you did about is was smile and thanked your boss for the rating, only to bitch about it later on Facebook. Typical.

YEAR 3: LUST YOUR NEIGHBOUR

It’s the start of another year,  you know the company inside and out and you’re enjoying the privilege seniority gives you.

You finally learnt why sometimes sucking up to the bosses is better than actually hunkering down and getting stuff done.

You look outside, to your friends that you used to greet with curses. What have they been up to? The stock brokers seem to be rolling in dough and the lawyers and accountants seem to be holding up just fine.

Lord knows what happened to the doctors though, their social media has been dead for a few years and by your estimates they should be in their last few years of specialist training.

Every now and again you’ll notice an Instagram pic of one of them in some exotic country and wonder how they can afford it? You’re already swamped with work and have burnt so many annual leaves you lost count.

You deserve better, don’t you? You deserve to earn just as much or more than what they’re probably making. How else can you upgrade your Proton to a nice continental car?

Back online you begin to read more Facebook articles and they all seem to be spitting the same spiel; quit and do what makes you happy.

So you do just that… just as soon as your 2^nd year bonus comes in! Speaking of which how long does it take to bank in one bloody check anyway?

YEAR 4: GENESIS OR REVELATION?

You change to a smaller company now and you know you’ll get paid what you deserve here! Everyone seems nice.

With this small but growing company, you move up really fast, with the bosses even talking about moving you up to managerial duties within the year. Your former colleagues are relegated to a distant memories and occasional meet-ups at mamaks just to show face.

Their remarks at how much happier and better off you are make you feel great. So great, in fact that you almost forget the workload you have to face come Monday morning.

You have yet to see your family for a while and even skip new year meets with them. They’ll understand, after all you’re busy working towards a better life just like how your parents constantly drilled it in your head back when you were sitting for your SPM.

They’ll understand.

Your high-school and college kaki all want to meet up again to catch up, but you always have another  project upcoming so that’s a no-go for you. To ensure they don’t think you’re blowing them off, you pop by for an hour-ish for drinks but that’s it.

They’ll understand.

The doctors are still MIA at this point, you wonder what ever happened to them, they’re probably still hustling though.

You understand.

YEAR 5: DEJA VU

It’s two years in your new company and already you’re feeling itchy.

You’ve no motivation and waking up involves calculating how much an unpaid leave will cost you. You decide to go to work anyway though since you’re buddies with your boss, you can show up as late as you want. But one day you see a memo you’ve never noticed on the board to all employees. As you begin to re-evaluate your performance mentally your colleague comes up and tells you the boss wants to see you in his office.

You panic.

You begin quickly planning your next move, brainstorming other similar companies you can seek out and stuff. Sitting down though, he tells you that you have nothing to worry about and you’ll be fine. But you can’t slack around anymore.

Confused, you return to your tiny cubicle and later that day you see a few HR people escorting him out of his office. He had a box in his hands. He stops by your desk to bid you adieu. That will be the last you see or hear of him.

YEAR 6: THE FUTURE

You’ve done well for yourself, been on a few holidays, got a steady significant other and making okay money.

I mean, by all measure on Google you’re easily earning double the average salary of people your age and your friends look up to you.

But it isn’t enough, I mean, your friend that was working on his tech start-up can afford fancy hotels in fancier places! But then again his dad does have some strings in the government so it isn’t fair.

As for your old friend that you totally did not have a crush on in high school? Hmm they don’t appear to work at all! It’s probably their rich special someone that they’re dating so it isn’t fair.

You want to start up your own company, I mean, that’s what you told yourself right? 5 years working in corporate then you can bring your big idea to life!

But you know better, Google put the number of businesses that fail within 18 months at around 90%! You explore other options; Uber, Real Estate, Stocks, Dropshipping and Insurance.

You even consider becoming a budak MLM! #NeverBecomeABudakMLM

YEAR 7-8: MID-LIFE CRISIS?

Now married and with a baby you don’t really want to spend all that much time at work, but at the same time you fear the cost of the child’s education and want to better provide for your family.

Balancing all of this is impossible. Sometimes you end up spending too little time with both work and family. You dread the weekdays with a special kind of hate. Stress and anxiety begin to set in.

If there’s one thing that can keep you grounded though is your friends, you begin to join in and even plan your weekends out with them. Hell, even the doctors have emerged from wherever they’ve been!

You guys makan, chit-chat and go through the usual adult talk you once hated as a kid. Politics, economy, work, kids, all of them! You begin comparing parenting styles and wonder if you’ve “been there” for your kid.

Eventually you will find yourself discussing business ideas with some of them at a mamak. Brainstorming ideas, the equity splits and what each can bring to the table. Many great ideas were brought forward but there’s never enough time, is there?

But baby steps right? Execution and getting the paperwork sorted can wait. At least you have your blueprints ready on that teh ‘o’ stained receipt.

The dream of financial freedom is sweet.

YEAR 9: CROSSROADS

That business idea has faded and the receipt it was on was discarded when you were switching wallets.

Same shit, different toilet; You want to escape the proverbial ‘rat race’

The buddies you still meet on Saturdays now tell stories on how they left their jobs to pursue their start–ups and how much happier they are with more time to spend on their kids.

You secretly wonder if they’re broke and leaching off their husbands/wives to pay the bills. I mean the economy is bad as it always is and you’re just wondering how their plans are for the future.

You really want to join them in their quest for independence but… commitments. You just bought a brand new BMW and the monthly payments on that alone is staggering. Can a business really help me make ends meet?

It’s not like the car was a rash purchase, I mean, you work hard! You deserved it! What are you going to do if you quit anyway? Music? YouTube? Book writing? Literally no idea what the actual word is, you can tell I don’t read.

Almost the end of the year and your phone rings and it’s the HR director of one of your biggest competitors! Apparently they want to bring you in for a VP position. You like the sound of it… I’m the Vice President of so-and-so…

You’ll do around the same things your boss currently does, which sounds easy enough but is categorically boring! But you do know he earns almost double of what you make and that is something you want.

You’ll be one of the youngest VPs among your peers and it’ll bring so much credibility on your CV. You ask for a few days to mull over this decision, and the HR director was glad to give it to you.

YEAR 10: DESICION TIME

Resignation_Letter.docx

It’s been a blank MS Word document for almost an hour, what do you even do. You’ve told the HR director you’re interested and will confirm after you resigned. So what’s stopping you? Certainly not the money as you’ll even get stock options together with your pay.

It’s fear.

Fear that you’ll be stuck doing the same old, same old. You know you’ll be bored within a year but you’ll be able to indulge in many of life’s pleasures and even take your family wherever they want, if you get off work, that is.

But this isn’t what you want. It took you 3-4 years of undergrad and 10 years of being a working professional afterwards to learn that. Why is this so difficult.

Suddenly you get word that your boss wants to see you. Shit. Does he know? I never told anyone at the office so how could he?

He welcomes you in and informs you that after careful monitoring of your performance, the board of directors wants you to take over the responsibilities of one of their members who is leaving the company.

They’ll discuss salary later after a 6-month probation period for evaluation but it’s likely going to be big.

As your boss asks for your answer you freeze, just for a second. This is an even better offer and you wouldn’t have to yield your seniority and influence. You glance at the calendar on his desk. Today marks 10 years on the dot since the day you were gleefully on the LRT, hoping to get where you are now.

You turn to your boss… you say YES.

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