Set and Go

Boss announced I will be leaving in 1 month time and the next thing is i am out from meetings and emails. The feeling is not positive like the previous jumpship. May be this time round I am not leaving because i don like my current role . 

I got this revelation while trying to balance up my feeling. For the longest of time, I stand at the cross road of should I quit Wealth Management and Investment where I have spent  my 9 years in it and venture into something non related .

Review the pass 9 years and I realized there is no right decision when the decision is made . Every decision is right if we commit it with all our heart and effort. After graduated, I wanted to earn slightly more than average salary and work in a bank. Get myself into the highest paid bank for fresh graduate (Year 2008). After 3 years , a product manager work in down town KL, making business decision . Get myself into the largest bank in the country without relationship and referral. Another 3 years passed , I am bored wanted to be running at front line to close deal to have more influence. Get myself into a boutique investment firm (consider one of the smallest in the country) where everything is so lean. 

From the biggest to the smallest, what is next ? Now, I want to set a life that I can have more control and able to use my hand to create.. People are saying this is career suiciding’. Am I fearful ? Yes , very anxious but it is more excited to see what I get myself into after 3 years.  

My life after banking

I was working with various banks for the past 8 years since age 22. Actually, even before graduated, I am a ‘banker’ to promote credit card on the street. Being a banker seem like my entire life career. Jumping from one bank to another, come with higher paid also golden hand craft.

About three years ago, I felt I am unemployed beside having a job that seem secure I have nothing to employ my career. I start to wonder what is the meaning to work in corporate? Is it to chase for better car, luxury hand bag , bigger house and once a year vocation? There is a big hole of unsatisfaction that cannot be full filled through my career.

So, I decided to join a very small asset management firm. The first step of stepping out from bank. Beginning of it, there is a period of adjusting. Today, I look back , I know it is a right decision. Bigger things are ahead. Come on life after working for other.