Contemplating my decision making

So, i'm on the job hunt again & i spend a good chunk of my day thinking about the decisions i have made. 1. Quit my first job at Digit insurance because the work was super monotonous. Wanted to try something different. 2. Discovered product management, started doing cases, eventually got an internship- Gap of 6 months 3. Did internships at a solar company & Shiprocket, then got a full time APM job at a logistics firm- salary bump of 4X 4. Learned that my mother had complications on her knee surgery, got severely sick & would require constant care. Quit my job to take care of her for 6 months. 5. Explored an idea of mentorship platform, validated with 100+ people but couldn't start due to feasibility problems. Got an offer from Cashkaro next as APM- Gap of 6 months Total gap so far- 18 months 6. Quit cashkaro on may due to very disrespectful culture(created specifically by founders), authority over influence, severe communication gap between tech & product(no standups, no meetings, no updates) 7. Looking for opportunities again- current gap of 3 months already What are your views on this? Anything i could've done better? I'm asking because no matter how hard I try to explain the gaps, the eyebrows are always raised. Getting rejected left & right, 70% of the jobs are secured for tier-1 folks & for the rest, it feels like you have to Ranbir Kapoor in Animal with Arjan vaily playing in the background(just slaughter everyone to go through) Would appreciate your views

UsedSunset

Student

22 days ago

Why you keep quitting jobs. Understand that you cannot be right in all the scenarios and there must some change required in you. Just FYI don’t go by YouTube and Instagram videos that toxic work culture is in company and I will quit. Reality is 90% people are still doing these jobs and handling much more tough situations rather than quitting

SarcasticNinja

Unemployed

22 days ago

@UsedSunset i understand but after a year of staying at a company, if you look back & see that majority of work you have done is filling up excel sheets, improving legacy systems, generating ideas validated by product team but no buy-in from leadership along with disrespect at every meeting, your teammates ignoring meetings with founders, everyone around you frustrated to the core, is that a definition for growth? what would i have to show in my resume then?

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KhattaAngoorrr

Stealth

22 days ago

You get paid for your time. Why care much?

LawfulScrip4

Samsung

22 days ago

You have taken dumb decisions and have a sense of entitlement. Other than mom's health i dont see any reason why you quit jobs digit or cashkaro. You were paid 4X for a reason. If you cant stick through why should one hire you - unless you have any proof of a genius (tier1 college etc)

SarcasticNinja

Unemployed

22 days ago

@LawfulScrip4 appreciate the feedback. Digit was a job where i was severely underpaid & i was struggling in a city like Bangalore. covid happened at that time & i didn't have money sometimes to come to my home for wfh & my parents had to pay for it. That got me thinking about the condition i was living in & that i needed to focus on something else entirely otherwise its going to be tough. Thats why i left For cashkaro 1. every meeting with the founders turned out to be disastrous. no one was spared from interns to director level people especially in product & the feedback was very disrespectful. 2. leaders are supposed to show calm & composure but it was the exact opposite & cashkaro was not a startup, it had 10yrs of growth behind it. product team was formed 2 yrs back & people transitioned from influencer marketing, CRM to lead the team. They just solved ad hoc tasks & tickets but no real impact was created. When they hired product people externally, they put immense pressure on them(me & an AD of product). 3. The AD of product was from myntra who led the personalization charter. He was one of the best people that i have worked with & he was confused everyday about what he was doing, he came to do strategic work, to explore new revenue options but was almost forced to do execution work & mostly process improvements 4. there was no comm b/e tech & product. we didnt had standups, meetings, had separate channels(teams for us & skype for them), didnt reposnd to junior PMs, had no clarity about what they were working on. In fact a project was shipped to them at the end of April & i don't think it still has been deployed 5. There came a time where my team members told me to not include them in further meetings with the founders & just relay the feedback that they give since they didn't wanted to have conversations with them 6. Half of the people lived in delhi ncr & so they were like we are staying because its convenient not because we want to. And when they got better opportunities they quit And these are just some of the problems. How can one expect to grow the way they want to in this kind of an environment?