Working Life in UAE

I guess everyone is admiring people like me got chance to work in Dubai or anywhere in middle east, here I wanted to highlight many things that I'm NOT so enjoy to work in middle east.

Don't just mention about salary, of course it will be higher than what we got in Malaysia, but at my side I'm not earning as much as you all thought. Many were asking me am I earning more than RM 20K per month? Here I'm telling you all the truth, I'm earning LESS than RM 10K as per market rate. I've checked from many sources that my position in current market rate is at least RM 15K per month, so... I'm not in a good position as you all think about.

Posing with project's poster

Working with those middle east people also another problem, I don't want to emphasizing more about it, all I can say is harder than as I can imagine. What I can do now is just be patience, anyway, it also depend my limit, I may give up in the half way. Imagine we are doing a mega project worth RM 4.6 billion, but yet they can't provide us a basic facilities accordingly such as internet access, transportation, printers, photocopy machine and etc... furthermore the company want us to contribute more output, come on... you can't even willing to provide us a proper working tools how do we contribute it?

View of my construction site

I really sacrifice my good life from Malaysia to Dubai, actually I wasn't volunteer to come but my working company is kinda forcing me to work here, I got no more choices so gave myself a chance to start a new life, who knows it ended up so bad and it really de-motivate me. I can't have my freedom as I had in Malaysia which I wanted to go anywhere, anytime as I like, now my royalty is like getting from less to zero to work here, what I got before no longer with me anymore, too many higher level staffs are coming in and me just a 'slave' will get nothing in the end.

Talking about 'slave', I can really feel we are a slave in this region, here doesn't have 'Labours' Day' holiday, what I felt now I'm not a worker here, I'm just a slave which worst than a labour. I can't comment about it since I'm working in other country, it's not under my control anyway. My life here only work, eat, then sleep and it repeats everyday. Most of the time I really forget what day I'm in, now I really don't know today is what day...

Massive construction

I really miss my old days in Malaysia, I can hangout with friends anytime, now I just facing with my colleagues everyday, everyone has their own directions and I really feel so lonely all the time. Friends for me is very important, now I really lost touch with all my friends in Malaysia, sometimes I really think is that worth to have this kind of life?

Now at least we found an activities during weekend eve (Thursday), finally we found badminton courts in Dubai, we're playing it everyday Thursday evening after work to release loads of tensions. Anyway, it's not enough for me, the golf courses here also very expensive for me to practice in driving range. I really pissed with it and I'm going to die with bored.

Badminton session, I was doing jumping smash to release my tensions, can see how tension am I

After deep thought, I really got no road to turn back, the rules here is very strict, I can't simply just resign and come back, company already set the rules which I have to pay back the visa fees and the worst part is they'll never give me the NOC, I'll be black listed in UAE for certain period. This situation really put myself like a slave in this reality world. I think I'll never have my life back for a long long time, my dream to build my own family will be gone if I really stuck here forever.

I can't denied that men will put their career at first, I'm one of them, but now with my situation, I really don't know should I put it first? I really entered into wrong field, construction field is not an ideal field as before anymore, you have to sacrifice more than you contributed to earn back what you wanted to, I'm in this field almost 10 years and I still never see any brighter future in it. What's wrong with my working life? Why I lost my passion with my work recently? I really can't find my answer.

What A Working Life!!!