This post is for GenZ who have learnt minimal lessons on life so as a 90s kid, help mentioning 12 things that GenZ should follow.  Please don’t write  Life is hard and blah blah.   Tip: Advise coul...

This post is for GenZ who have learnt minimal lessons on life so as a 90s kid, help mentioning 1-2 things that GenZ should follow.

Please don’t write - Life is hard and blah blah. 

Tip: Advise could be from your grandparents or parents that is not available in books.

90s kid

Strategy & Operations

90s kid- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

As I have spent decent amount of my time in Software industry now, I see that Millennials (late 20's- early 30's) are moving towards management position (mostly 8-10+ years of experience). 

You may have had awful supervisors who micromanaged you, or a bad team leader who was extremely insecure. It's time for a change the system. To change the system, you must first be a part of it. 

I know it's easier said than done, but be more collaborative with your juniors. They are looking to you for counsel.  

Also, a reminder to Gen Z: Be patient; we millennials have gone through a lot. :D

Millennial Managers.

Software Engineer

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

DINKs, (dual income no kids) have been gaining traction a lot lately. I want to know from the members of gravevine, what are their views on being a DINK couple or a DINKWAD( double income no kids with a dog). From financial prospects like having a huge disposable income to emotional aspects like not having a legacy or going against custom Indian tradition. Do share your thoughts 🤔💭

What are your thoughts about being DINKS?

We are a DINK couple (live-in, will get married soon) and absolutely no plans to have kids. Maybe be a DINKWAD someday by adopting an indie. Also no plans to buy a home or spend on our marriage. This is not a financial decision (both of us are doing decently well in our careers) but we don't want to have a child knowing how nothing around is improving and we don't want to sacrifice the best years of our lives by doing this. We are building a large corpus to be financially independent and travel without any financial restrictions.

Growth Manager

Saw a similar post somewhere from an European and I think it’s pretty valid for India.

For context, I am in my early 30s, a home owner, living in tier-2 city with a pretty high salary. Recently got married and my wife also works as an Enterprise AE for a listed US company. Our cost of living is pretty low given the house and tier-2 city. Even if we had a kid, the overall cost of living will not change a lot. 

I got to where I am, economically, by a combination of hard work and luck. Luck definitely was a huge part of it. Knowing the right people at the right time, working on the right technologies helped a lot more in advancing my career a lot more than grinding for good grades. Even the ability to buy a house without much debt, was partly because I was lucky to sell my shares in a fairly small startup. 

It would be easy to say things aren’t economically bad based on my own experience or that of my close friends. However, when I look at things more objectively, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that we are screwed as a generation. Except for maybe the top 1%, salaries are not keeping up even with inflation. Housing costs, specially in tier 1/2 cities are unbelievably high even if you want an average apartment. Jobs are no where to be seen. The whole generation is living in the hope of the stock market rally never ending. This seems completely unsustainable as a nation. I might be doing well for now, but I still recognise how these are real problems for most Indians, who’ve been waiting for India’s century for 20 years

Given that the services industry contributes more than 50% to the GDP, the current state of joblessness, the overall sluggishness in IT and related sectors, and the fundamental changes happening to the way IT services now work, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a complete recession in the next 4-5 years.  

Lately, there has been a lot of criticism of anyone expressing anger on how bad things are but I think it’s helpful to talk about this.

Is it possible for those doing well to still acknowledge how our generation is screwed economically?

Great post, I was thinking to jot down something similar.     
 The way I see is that our generation(I'm Gen Z), is financially fucked due to 2 main behavioral changes:     
 1. Increase in consOOmerism: We're zoomer consoomer. GenZ is known for show off culture. We will buy the latest and greatest phones on EMI every 2 years. People spend thousands on sneakers, bags, branded clothes.     
 2. No Savings: People are no longer saving money. My then girlfriend used to got mad at me in market when I tried to bargain. Its considered a turn off lmao. People find bargaining bad now... like I'm looting a poor guy. People don't realise how much our parents sacrificed and bargained everyday to save money.

The internet/apps gave people a platform. Everyone is seeking to be popular without putting in the effort. There's no need for 'Deep Work' anymore. Everyone wants to give Gyan and life-lessons on LinkedIn. 

I just lament the subversion of goals and ambition into a phoney-seemingly-all-knowing-charade on one of the social media platforms.

Content-creators are not really 'Content'

Product Owner

I was suffering from 2-3 mild health issues in metro. (prolonged cold n cough, regular sneezing etc)

Came home 🏡 in diwali and now extended wfh due to health gain. Living with parents and consuming clean air + food is helping improve my sleep quality as well ❤️‍🩹 (2h+ deep sleep) 8h continuous sleep.

I did cost benifit analysis and have decided to work on a plan which will eventually help me settle down at my birthplace within 2-5y. 

synopsis --

Children's play under sun 🌞 and have group of 10 kids. They ain't worried about anything. Their happiness index > ceos.  
  
They don't know about masturbation till 10th or age 14 if they don't have a smartphone.   
  
My workplace is open and aqi is below 10. Strong peepal and banyan trees 🌴 even 100y old. When I feel stressed due to any reason I just go to see sunset near my place hardly 2km away. It's a stress buster with earbuds in and watching migrant birds crossing river.  
  
Ain't those birds more free and independent than us? Like they don't give a damn 🕊️ about future and enjoy the present.  
  
Very less car and almost 0 traffic ⛔. People still use bicycles and cycle repair shop>garages.   
  
Life is slow and peaceful. People go to sleep at 9-10pm and wake up at 5-6am.  
  
Life is too easy. Cost of a family with 2acre land is hardly 25k/m here.  
  
Sometimes I wonder why chase 2 lac/month sacrificing so much in a so called developed city.  
  
Society is ambivert. Pizza 🍕 🍔 burger biryani is trying to enter these areas.  
  
But I don't miss swiggy.  
  
Zeptonis redundant here.  
  
My 💳 credit card is lying there thinking why am not swiping it...  
  
  
  
यहाँ कोई मित्र नहीं है, कोई आश्वस्त चरित्न नहीं है,  
सब अर्धनिर्मित है।  
अर्धनिर्मित इमारतें हैं, अर्धनिर्मित बच्चों कि शरारतें हैं,  
अर्धनिर्मित ज़िन्दगी कि शर्ते हैं,  
अर्धनिर्मित जीवन पाने के लिए लोग रोज़ यहाँ मरते हैं।  
  
अर्धनिर्मित है यहाँ के प्रेमियों का प्यार,  
अर्धनिर्मित है यहाँ मनुष्यों के जीवन के आधार  
आज का दिन अर्धनिर्मित

Rural Life Experience.

Toughest part is to find better half with same mindset. 
  
 I travel frequently and have covered whole india except 3-4 places like Andaman, lakshadweep and NE. 
  
 What I have noticed is gen z is very high on drugs and manyatimes they have 4-5 digit savings even after working for 4-5y. I am not generalising or against it, they can live their life the way they want but it's the harsh reality. 
  
 Can anyone live without malls, clubs, multiplex and junk food nowadays? 
  
 Anyone on same boat or think like this or have any other perspective? 
  
 Am all ears ...

Senior Consultant

That you can do anything you want. Literally anything. Just do it fairly, and with all your heart, while keeping a smile on your face and you’ll be a happy person.

The most important thing I want to tell my son/daughter some day is

Product Marketing Manager

I am a middle class guy who had a family burden to handle at an early age understood the responsibility worked hard and got a job by missing other sides like hanging out with girls or focusing on getting friendly with them etc after becoming quite successful I am feeling missed out of having a relationship/friendship with a girls how to overcome this moved to the different city don't have many friends in this situation help me with possible solutions. I still have a lot to achieve in life should I completely focus on that or try to explore other joys of life if yes suggest ways to do that if no, how to stay focused without feeling FOMO?

How to overcome fomo in modern relationships?

Please mention your generation- GenZ Millennial GenX

I have a hunch there will be patterns emerging here, but let's see how it goes

And no - "my life is perfect" "I wouldn't change a thing" interview fake stuff

What is one thing that you would change, by going back in life?

Consultant

Is it just me or you'll think that our millennial's  adult life is hard compared with all these generations.

Millennial's Adult life

SAP Consultant

Did anyone go through the journey of Twin Flames. I would like to fetch you're experiences, Because I can manifest this with a person right now.

Unique Encounters of Sprituality

Program Manager

Hearing alot about GenZ not being serious about work, lack of expected manners, careless about impact (these are not my opinions) etc, i was wondering this is the reason why 
a) millennials are able to save their jobs bcoz their managers are used to of certain way of working 
b) freshers are not getting jobs as it was 3-4 years back, even out of top colleges! (Source - Latest IIT placement reports)

is it true or i am just being optimistic that my job is secured? 😂

GenZ as workforce

Sales Manager

What is the best piece of advice you wanna give to people who are in their 20s?

Best piece of Advice for people in 20s

Software Developer

genz

And at work 
  
 + the endless chase for the mirage that is wlb 
 + if anything isn't per their expectation, its toxic

How long and at what age your net worth reached INR 1 Cr? And if you are on the way then what’s your projections?

Race to 1 crore net worth

Please repeat after me. 
  
 Your life != My life 
 Your family != My family 
 Your responsibilities != My responsibilities 
 Your 1cr != My 1cr

Analyst

My 2 cents to future Richie Rich parents:

Kids are growing up in a fast paced and curiosity driven environment. the dopamine hit is crazy on kids these days. I would not simply blame social media for all of these uncultured activities which are taken up by kids these days. But the generation is growing up that way. We have to help out our next generation to take up a sport or an artform to learn discipline. Which leads them in the right way shows them life is not easy .

90s kid

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