@veryhappyman I think as long as you have a long-term goal in-mind, and you're able to support yourself; go for it. Personally, I never believe in getting short-changed, but if it will help your situation; then it's a win-win. Life's too short to have regrets, so give it a shot; what's the worse that could happen?
But, make sure you have a long-term plan as once the work stress and workload kicks in; you're definitely going to second-guess the monetary part for sure.
@veryhappyman The demand for CS field in SG seems to be slowed down in the past several months.
For me $3.6k is an okay offer if you don't have commitment. I'm surviving with low $3k with $1.6k commitment + college fees. You could apply for PR as soon as getting 6 months payslip required for the application. Job searching in SG would be much easier once you got your PR. Good luck OP.
@irishunion Tempted to wait, but each day I would be waiting for an uncertainty while I slave away editing my resume to tailor for every potential job. Would I get a callback in 4 more months? Thats really hard to say & which is why I’m so inclined on accepting the offer. Even though deep down I don’t want to.
@veryhappyman To me here's what i think ,going to singapore or anywhere else is the same ,higher paycut means higher expenses ,what i think better is if we could just save up and use it to open another bussiness which has higher sucess rate and we get it from there ,and btw i believe every job in the world has its pros and cons ,its either mental health or stress so i believe every job has 1 ,here's what i think about, anywhere is underpaid ,u said ur underpaid there is even more underpaid person out there that has to do more and yet still underpaid ,getting higher salary cut doesnt mean everyone has the saving type of person
@veryhappyman Im not mean that u shud accept it although it is underpaid its up to u to decide to do it or not but for my situation ,i have a family to take care of so im not able to use the chance like u had to take massive paycut job overseas ,nowadays many people got scammed or con ,promised they ll give out huge paycut and trick u to scam others or hack whatsort nowadays alot of scams and many types
@emily2525 Did you end up finding another job in Singapore? I just got a callback and they’re raising it up to 3 YoE. But the HR lady was not nice about it, and spoke in a rather demeaning tone. I really want to work as an engineer instead, but understand that a lot of people make sacrifices to achieve their long term goal. I don’t know if I should make such a sacrifice too.
