Hello guys. Boleh panggil aku bunga lalang. Lewat 20-an. Sudah berkahwin. Dikurniakan seorang anak perempuan berumur 1 tahun 6 bulan. Alhamdulillah
I got many stories. But the one i’m about to tell you guys is about my career journey. So i started off doing sales at 22 y/o. Aku dulu belajar diploma dalam bidang perakaunan. So lepas graduate, terasa nak kerja dulu sebelum sambung belajar degree pulak.
At that time, there’s an opening as a salesman dekat a newly-founded SME company. Jual frozen food je. Hari2 naik moto pergi kedai ke kedai, nak try close kedai tu amek barang yang company aku jual. Lepas 6 bulan, aku jadi top salesman la kat situ.
Aku ada about 100+ Kedai yang amek barang dgn aku. Tapi yang betul2 solid ada la dalam 20 kedai, including 1 hotel dekat bangi (this one bersebelahan golf resort). A freaking hotel bro.
Takde budak sales dekat company aku dapat close hotel. I was the only one dapat close. Padahal, it was not even in my plan pun haritu nak pergi hotel.
Looking back, that was one of my biggest achievement dekat situ. Alhamdulilah, Allah mudahkan jalan. Aku juga dapat close 1 distributor dekat Melaka. Time tu sales aku kaw-kaw la. Tu yang aku decided to continue working and sambung belajar part time.
Long story short, sebabkan company tu distributor sahaja, kitorg kena sailang dengan kilang. And it went downhill for that company after that. And i left.
Alhamdulillah, diterima masuk sebagai exec dekat satu SME company dekat Kl pula lepas tu. Started doing business development and eventually aku masuk bidang akaun balik sebab ada opening.
This is where i met my wife. Aku pun ditemukan ramai kawan2 yang baik. Not really a steep learning curve for me here. But overall, it was a good exposure to corporate culture. And i left after slightly over 2 years. Masa ni, aku mmg tekad nak cari kerja baru sebab nak kumpul duit nak kahwin. Dan alhamdulillah, Allah makbulkan.
Aku join satu company MNC dekat Bangsar South. UK-based company. Work life balance. Team member tersangatlah best. Facilities aweosome. Aku hari-hari main ping pong hahaha. Anyway, my salary jumped about 20% from 1.8k to 2.5k and now 3.2k (excluding bonus dekat company skrg ni).
Company ni shared-service. So I would liaise with lots of people from different team. And this is where i improve my english. Coz memang semua orang speaking je dekat situ. Whole new experience jugak sebab aku buat contract management.
But after 1 year +, almost 90% staff dekat situ kena terminate sebab diorg move everything to shared-service hub dekat India. Aku time tu dengan bini tengah sarat lagi sebulan lebih nak bersalin, memang koyak la. Savings time tu tak banyak mana sebab aku dh bayar legal fee utk rumah pertama aku.
By the time aku dh kena terminate tu, wife aku dh selamat bersalin anak pertama kitorg. Nak kata hebatnya perancangan Allah ni, lepas je bini aku habis pantang, aku dapat offer kerja baru jadi finance exec. And aku pun dpt increment about 30% from last drawn salary.
MashaAllah. Hebatnya Allah. Aku syukur sangat2.
Time aku join sini, semua tengah lockdown. And aku pun continue work from home from the first lockdown. Team aku based dekat Thailand. Good people. Cumanya bila sembang tu, struggle sikit la nak faham sebab language barrier. Aku belajar completely new stuff here.
Work with a lot of people. Dekat Malaysia, aku sorang je pegang position ni.
And by 4-5 months, aku dh boleh handle semua workload by myself. Alhamdulillah. Boleh dikatakan subject matter expert la sebab aku jadi go-to person for a certain issue/queries. And i did a very good job.
Boss aku puji aku cakap i was one of his best decision. He hired me without aku ada apa2 related experience for this particular job. And dia jenis manager yang tak micromanage kita. He set me free and let me determine how i wanna do my job. I oversee a team’s work in India. And it was a very good learning experience for me here.
Again, aku bersyukur sebab Allah selalu temukan aku dengan orang yang baik-baik. People who bring out the best from me. Couple of months back, right before puasa, aku dapat offer baru untuk join satu company MNC jugak.
With 25% increment. Tapi aku decline sebab aku nak stay here and push for promotion. Bos aku bgtau ada opening nanti and dia nak push aku to get that post.
Unfortunately, ada satu conference call a week after that. And aku kena terminate lagi sekali by 31 Aug nanti. Including boss aku dgn team aku dekat Thailand.
Aku tak berapa koyak sangat la time ni. Cumanya aku terkilan sebab aku memang nak sangat grow dalam field aku buat ni. I worked my ass off for the last couple of months. But it was beyond me. Even beyond my boss’s boss. It is what it is.
But hey, aku still ada kerja sampai Aug. And there is plenty of time till then. Lagi sekali, hebatnya perancangan Allah. Aku dapat offer internally dengan company ni.
Dapat promotion jugak tau. Different scope from what im doing rn. Aku kena manage APAC countries pnya forecasting. And the best part of it, boss aku punya boss yang propose nama aku.
At the same time, aku dapat lagi satu interview for a US-based company dekat downtown KL. Time ni, aku mmg nekad nak join company baru ni sebab scope kerja mmg apa yang aku nak. Alhamdulillah, aku dapat kerja tu with a 50% increment. Allahuakbar.
All i can is: have faith in Allah. Dia atur kan semua untuk kita. Just be a good person. Solat jangan tinggal. Tunaikan hak orang lain (family & especially majikan). And bersyukur dengan apa yang ada.
I told my wife and my interviewer: i got terminated twice in the span of 2 years. Its becoming an annual event now. And we all laughed.
Jokes aside, aku nak nasihatkan buat orang-orang yang tengah struggle in their career, yang baru nak mula bekerja: you all kena tahu apa yang you nak achieve in long run. And how can u add value to your employer. If you have these, InshaAllah you can grow further.
Mohon doakan aku dan keluarga kecil aku. Semoga kami berterusan berada dalam lindungan Alla SWT. And aku juga doakan orang yang membaca confession aku ni senantiasa berada dalam rahmat Allah.
– Bunga Lalang (Bukan nama sebenar)
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