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These are all band aid measures,

The only thing the motivates a person is the hope that  he /she will be rewarded appropriately and a decent WLB. When a person belives  the job is a dead end, nothing will motivate. Depending on responsibilites    the person moves around like a zombie.

Many  times when i go home, am always tensed about a meeting the next  day,  When i see a layoff in the company , i feel scared what if am next? i end up overcompensating that fear by working more or atleast  pretending more. 
Its a never ending cycle, that  cannot be solved by arriving early to office.

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Be positive at work...

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Be positive at work...- Grapevine

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1. SET Clear Goals: Understand what you want from your career and set clear, achievable goals. This could be a specific role you want to attain, a skill you want to learn, or a project you want to lead.

2. Continuous Learning: Always be open to learning new skills and improving existing ones. This could be through formal education, online courses, workshops, or self-study.

3. Networking: Build strong relationships with colleagues, managers, and other professionals in your industry. They can provide valuable advice, opportunities, and support.

4. Seek Feedback: Regularly ask for feedback on your performance. This can help you identify areas for improvement and demonstrate your commitment to personal growth.

5. Take Initiative: Show your willingness to take on new responsibilities and challenges. This can demonstrate your commitment and potential to the company.

6. Positive Attitude: Maintain a positive and professional attitude. This can help you navigate challenges and make a good impression on others

7. Work-Lif Balance: While it's important to be dedicated and hardworking, it's also crucial to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This can help prevent burnout and keep you motivated.

8. Mentorship: If possible, find a mentor within your company who can provide guidance and support as you navigate your career path.

Remember, career progression often takes time and patience, so don't be discouraged if you don't see immediate results. Keep working towards your goals and stay open to new opportunities.

Tips for career progression and advancement within a company

Data scientist

A few of my peers in my team talk tech jargons throughout the day in the workplace and do no work at all. They are the ones that are eventually promoted and I feel left out despite doing so much smart work and hard work both.

Teach me some ways to defeat these imposters and grow in my career.

How to grow your career amidst politics?

Software architect

1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural home or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house.
 
2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year.  You are not the pillar of your department.  If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.  Make your family a priority.

3. Don't chase promotions.  Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't,  stay positive to your personal.
development.

4. Avoid office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites  your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda.

5. Don't ever compete with your bosses.  You will burn your fingers.  Don't compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain.

6. Ensure you have a side business.  Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run.

7. Save some money. Let it be deducted automatically from your payslip. 

8. Borrow a loan to invest in a business or to change a situation not to buy luxury. Buy luxury from your profit.

9. Keep your life,marriage and family private. Let them stay away from your work. This is very important.  

10. Be loyal to yourself  and believe in your work. Hanging around your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and  your boss may finally dump you when he leaves. 

11. Retire early.  The best way to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today.  By 40 to 50 be out. 

12. Join work welfare and be an active member always. It will help you a lot when  any eventuality occurs.

13.Take leave days utilize them by developing yr future home or projects..usually what you do during yr leave days is a reflection of how you'll live after retirement.

ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES :

Data engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Here’s mine,
Care deeply about any work that you touch, give your best and more.

The effort really shows, especially when you can solve something better than what they hoped for.

[Thread] Grapeviners 🍇? Drop one lesson from your learnings at work.

Product Manager

I posted a rant about how useless this time logging feature is in my current company and while scrolling LinkedIn I saw a guy asking for job as he’s jobless since past 12 months, “full stack dev” “primary bread earner in the family”. 
And then there’s numerous people working countless hours for a legit looped job, every single day. 
I understand this statement is highly debatable and you can always work harder and get a position to be a little free from the race, but don’t forget to be grateful for what you have today.

Be Grateful, Have sense of what’s enough.

System administrator

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Every day the day ends and as I am about to leave, i feel like i am wasting my time and day at this company. I am a backend developer  and they are having me write automation testing (I started it for them). I see developers around getting new modules to work but for me it is only browser.find_element. I asked CTO and CPO and they said CEO wants me to do automation for sometime.

I have been trying to apply at places but getting no response from anywhere.

Suggest something I should be doing. Help me, I need it.

Wasting my days

Software Engineer

I have been suffering from work related anxiety for the last 3-4 months. I have recently started taking medications for it. I am supposed to move to Bengaluru as my wfh has ended. My parents think it's a good idea as it will help change my environment. I am wondering if it's a good idea to share about it at my workplace with my manager/superior. I know it's subjective, but still. Because I am worried this has started to affect my performance. Also, I am a talkative and emotional person and may end up slipping these things anyway.

Informing manager / superior about anxiety

I have become bitter about this corporate work culture.
Had some terrible work culture in my last 2 jobs
This has affected me a lot.

Joined a new one, though it's good in terms of culture to an extent.
I have gotten into the phase of not taking phony talks or fake conversations .

It's getting hard to socialize, all I see is power play, insecurity and selfish motives.

I can't talk to everyone and mostly can't take the fake things.
This has increased more as I changed jobs and got older

All they say is communicate more , increase visibility.

Not sure how I will get used to things.
It's getting very tough as I gain experience.

I somehow feel this is affecting my growth.

Any suggestions to overcome this

I’m really curious to know what exactly the Marketing Team does cause in the previous two organisations that I worked at , The Marketing Dept was kinda meh. So I wanted to know if it’s the case everywhere or does an actual good Marketing Team exist as the ones I’ve interacted with their lead generation and marketing was trash.

Do Marketing Teams Actually Do Anything ?

Assistant Manager

Eg: you're a graduate in mass media, now you're working in an advertising agency stuck managing social media of brands and listen to bs from your managers/seniors who pretend to be marketing geniuses on a daily basis. You know you're not learning anything concrete about the industry from them + this is not even your passion, but you're doing this job because of financial responsibilities. You can't follow your passion until you bring yourself in a position of making a choice. You keep overthinking about this everyday and hence you cannot perform at work. This demotivates you even more and suddenly it becomes a loop. 

(Asking for a friend)

How do you cope with jobs that you don't like but you need?

Founder

Women of grapevine, if you had to share one advice with your younger self what would it be?

Aight so I'm joining my first ever job next week. Super scared and thinking a lottttt. What to do? How to go? What to wear? What to be brushed up with? etc etc.
How the hell does my uncomfortable self make a good impression?
Any advice will be appreciated thanks you guys

DOs and DONT's before first job

Account manager

Hi all, 
I am a software engineer in a * company. But here the point is about myself, i don't like to code at all, infect i hate it now, but still i am doing it , because i have no choice, i can't leave it nor my family will be  supportive about it. I know its the best work in today's time but not for me. I also got promoted and been on a good pay (acc to exp). But i just don't want to do this job at all. My brain is affecting to a large extent , i have been hiding it from my family. I have a lot of headaches and tension of work like how am i going to do this. Because of having no interest in this, i am not improving my knowledge in this field, which have created fear about switching jobs. I forgets concepts , but i am able to work , don't know how, but i am afraid how long will i survive. My life is ahead me, many responsibilities lying ahead, but also i dont want to do this. What should i do ? Please help me , i can see only one option and that the very last option.

Coding...

Hey guys, i am going to be a manager for the first time in a company that i have been working at for 3 years and I have people joining me from monday.. any tips for being a good manager?

Going to be a manager for the first time

Symptoms of being ‘too nice’ to people at work:
- Overuse of gratitude words like Thank you, please, could you, kindly, etc on all forms of communication at work.
- Registering your reactions like thumbs up & clap to literally every chat message in slack/teams/discord channels at work.
- Praise excessively on meetings like retrospectives, etc.
- Replying ‘thank you’ to every individual person who wished you or congratulated you for some occasion, especially in WhatsApp groups.

Have you ever introspected why you are ‘too nice’ to people instead of just being ‘nice’ to people?

Are you too nice to people at work?

I am currently expecting, and while I am overjoyed about this new chapter in my life, I've also been facing some unique challenges in balancing my personal and professional responsibilities. 

I believe that some of you have been through similar experiences, and your insights would mean the world to me.

I had a few questions on:

1. When and how did you choose to disclose your pregnancy to your colleagues and superiors? 

2. How did you handle any potential changes in workload or responsibilities?

3. How do you stay energized and focused during the workday, especially in the later stages of pregnancy?

I understand that everyone's experiences are unique, but I believe your advice and insights can provide valuable guidance during this exciting but sometimes challenging time. Please feel free to share some stories that you're comfortable with.

How do I cope with the challenges of Pregnancy while maintaining professionalism?

Positive vibes only

Software Test- QA

I'll go first.

1. even healthcare
2. Hike/Rush
3. Spartan Poker
4. Ultrahuman
5. Invideo

Mention the reason too if possible.
Let's discover some hidden ones. Brownie points if you mention startups that only a few have heard of.

If you know a less-known Indian startup that is doing some crazy shit (not so obvious ones), do mention.

Your turn.

What are some cool startups (Indian) you would love to work with?

Hello everyone, 

I've been actively job hunting for some time now, but I haven't received a single call in the last four months. It's starting to make me feel quite worthless. 

How do you handle this kind of situation?

Struggling with Job Search: How to Stay Positive During a Long Wait?

Founding Engineer

Hey everyone, heading into my first internship this summer, no other work experience  and want to hear from full time employees on the lesser known things that secure the return offer. By this I mean things other than being able to adapt to work, ask questions, not making same mistake over and over - basically the things that aren't talked about but from your perspective really makes huge a difference in your opinion on the intern.

Thanks in advance!

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