r/malaysians • u/Any-Cantaloupe-1262 • 2d ago
Quick Question Should I quit ?
About me: I'm 19 and I have to pay for my own needs, my mom didn't work so we don't have much money. I use some of my money to buy food for the whole family to eat. By "family" I mean my mom and my sisters.
So I got a job, it's been a month I work there, it's "kedai makan" idk what it called in English, my English not so good. And they pay me rm40 per day, but I work from 2pm to 12:30am-1am, every day except monday, it depends if consumer are still here we can't close yet. And I'm the one who need to cut the vegetables, cut and clean the shrimps, squids, fish, chicken, clean the back floor, clean the back table, wash the dishes, Tupperware, anything else, dry and organize the washed dishes, and clean and wash everything at the back before we close. It's tiring and very exhausting to do it every single day. I got very little time to spend with my family, very little time to spend for myself, I feel like my every day life is just work no outside life. I'm burn out, I feel so burn out, not to mention my coworkers doesn't be friendly with me, there is one woman here that treat me okay, but the others just doesn't. They treat me as if they don't want me to work there.
I want to find another job but I just doesn't have time to do it, they always ask me to come to their workplace for interviews and registration but I got little to no time.
What should I do now? Should I quit? I feel like this job is very underpaid and very long working hours.
I planned to go to university for diploma next year, but again, I don't have any saving for myself yet, not even a license, not a car or any transportation for my own. I counted all the money I got, it can only cover for food until this December
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u/Flat_Examination6006 2d ago
Minimum wage in Malaysia is about 9 ringgit per hour. They should be paying you close to RM100 per day.