Corporate is not for me

Hi everyone , as the title mentioned i am getting tired with this corp culture. My managers are giving bullshit timelines for tasks and expects me to finish it. Now i know u guys gonna give me advice to switch on mncs but my friends at mnc are also saying same things. I am just really getting fed up . Its just been 2yrs for me. Expect salary i could never find anything good in it but i really dont see a long term career in this .

I am a 2022 grad and 1yr into my corporate life and I have stopped liking software engineering. I took software engineering as a career because for the love of it but after experiencing the office politics and constant mundane work I have lost my zeal. We are always caught between the CTO and the Manager not being on the same page and redoing a lot of our work. For the past 1yr we have been migrating the same stuff to different platforms. No innovative work, no recognition for good work. Is this normal in the corporate world? Also I am thinking of taking a break as I want to focus on my health. Is it a good idea to take a break now for 3-5 months and then get back to working again?

Excuse me for being all philosophical and emo but surely this isn’t what life is all about! Waiting for weekends, sleep deprived weekdays, questioning “what am I doing” every second week? Like what are we even solving for? The governments and corporates control it all while we work like puppets. Does having something of your own (a business for the lack of a better example) make things better? Thoughts?

I think it’s not the work that I am bored of but the fact that corporate doesn’t allow you personal time and space. My timings have always been 10 to 8 or 11 to 9 and it’s next to impossible to get a project that has 9 to 6ish. How are people managing this after marriage and kids? Where is the time to focus on your personal goals and quality time for your family? Or do we target to achieve FIRE? But if that means slogging in the present, how is it useful to compromise your present altogether. Maybe this is just a rant, but I am fed up. I need my evenings now. I need my evenings to be free and not full of “So I’m gonna start presenting now”, “can someone please take the MoMs” bs

A decent burger or Small pizza on Zomato is Rs 300+; A coffee at Starbucks is now 450; Movie tickets are 400; the average cost of a weekend drinks and dinner with friends is above 2K; Lets not even talk about how expensive rent is right now. It feels like the cost of everything is just rising and salaries are not growing fast enough to make up for the rising costs

I work in a senior role at a small sized bootstrapped company. Due to health reasons, I have had to take multiple WFHs and Medical Leaves. In the past 3 months, these things have happened during my physical absence at the office: 1. Communicated to my team member that he is doing well and hence getting a surprise hike in compensation. I'm happy for him but I was working on his hike for the past several months and I lost the opportunity to announce it. The leadership was slacking on it for months and immediately when I took leave they announced it. 2. Full on micromanagement of my team bypassing me is now a daily affair. 3. Complementing my team for successes and blaming me for failures. I have spent well over 10y in Corporate India. Isn't all this super toxic?

To tell in one line: I know I am not CEO material. I am not ok with the never ending corporate rat race and it's time to optimise my time and start building something on my own. The game is rigged towards high end degrees and rightly so. I don't want to aim for a unicorn level but a simple trader who rakes in 2 lakh a month - that's the level I want to achieve and grow at a steady pace.

So I left my job at one of the big 4s few months ago. Will discuss the reason some other time. But one of the issues I'm facing right now is that I never felt good in the corporate environment. Bosses shouting at you for your mistakes, you feel threatened to stand up against your own boss since they unfortunately have too much power. You need to take permission for leaves. People can be rude to you and you need to maintain your calm. The corporate politics. Then I left big 4 for some reasons. Took a short break. And now I'm working in one of the Indian firms. They have such policies that your TAT cannot be more than 5 minutes. You cannot log off before 8 pm. If you login after 5 minutes of the actual login time, then you would be marked as absent. Sometimes you're given deadlines which are very difficult to manage and hence you remain stressed out with your work. You don't have the freedom in your work and need to do everything as it has been told. So I don't really feel good in corporates. I feel there is too much pressure and it is just making me feel more and more sad. I don't feel myself anymore and I feel like a puppet. Does anyone else feel the same? How do I deal with this feeling? It scares me to think about how I have just started my career 3-4 years ago and need to work for the significant years of my life and I don't want to wake up and sleep with this feeling EVERYDAY. I think this is the first time I'm talking about it. If anyone would like to share their thoughts, or guide me regarding how do I feel better, or anything you feel I'm doing wrong and could be improved, then I'm all ears. Let's talk it out.

Been working in this firm from quite sometime. Its a service based firm and i work for an American fintech giant. Worked hard, led upgrades, learnt new stuff, delivered complex usecases. Recently i started seeing alot of discrimination from this client as now they have started seeing contractors as 3rd class ppl. It started with not inviting contractors in business discussions to now reached a point where new joiness (full time employees) of theirs are taking credit on a work which i worked on. Sad stuff. I know i have heard that corporate is not family but it hurts to see how self centric people are in this world. I have been very dedicated for them all this while. Now I think its about time to jump ship & get the due respect elsewhere.