Well, turns out I was working my dream job previously, then I joined at a new place cause I THOUGHT it's my dream job but it's really not 😔

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Describe your dream job

UX/UI Designer

Describe your dream job- Grapevine

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Looking for new job role in good organisation . Let me know if available . Experience 0 - 2 Years and presently working in Capgemini as .Net Full Stack Developer.

Restarting !!

I have been into programming since I was 15.
I have been working in the IT industry for the past 8 years and have been very successful in my domain because of my will to solve problems at work as interesting puzzles.

But this interest has slowly and gradually formed a huge part of my life to a level that if I am away from it for sometime, it gives me anxiety.

I am afraid this will affect my other parts of life like giving attention to my family, spending ample time with them.

As a process, I started to have no code Saturdays so that I am completely away from my laptop and spend time doing other mundane things. But this has not reduced the anxiety.


Any suggestions for reducing my workaholic nature ?

Turning into a workaholic is ruining my life

please share something you have been working on and would like to become really good at doing it or even if you are just dreaming about it and would like to start doing it. 

It could be related to anything in your life.

What do you want to become good at ?

Senior Software Engineer

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

So I'm a Marketing & Growth Guy with 7 years of experience (Expertise - Performance Marketing) and currently working for Company abroad as a Growth Lead for one of their projects. I get 2.5 Lacs (In Hand) every month as a salary.

Now the problem is, they hired me last year April. And product isn't ready till now. Whenever it is about to be ready, there's a new pivot that comes across and I go completely free. I've done only 2-3 mini campaigns. 

Also, its WFH so I've plenty of free time. And I'm wasting it by sleeping in the afternoon. It's like I'm getting free salary without doing anything. Recently I've started actively swing trading in Stock Market and have got 2 small freelancing projects - Just to keep myself busy.

With this, I'm obviously not learning anything at work and also, there's a sense of insecurity that I'll be laid off anytime. 

What should I do? Leave it? Or continue my guilty pleasure? My age is 29 and I would want to move towards stability.

Kare toh Kare kya? Resign or Continue?

Growth Manager

I’m an MBA student at a tier-2 IIM, with a bachelor’s degree in management studies and a specialization in marketing. I also have 20 months of work experience in digital marketing.

I have secured a digital marketing internship (off campus) at a SaaS company in Bangalore, through wellfound. The company is good and willing to offer PPO opportunity. My career goal is to pursue product marketing or related roles.

What are the best ways to enhance my skills and profile for core marketing roles (No sales)?

My college mostly provides sales roles in the final placement for marketing students. So I need to either get an offer from my internship company or find an off-campus placement.

My dream job is to be a digital marketing strategist at Google.

Career Advice for Marketing

Hey All, I am done with my 2 year job.. I am not able to find what should i do boost up my career. Well, i am not a type of guy who likes to sit in front of a laptop and work. I mostly like to work upon the things that do have practical impact.

What would be the correct way to find the best version of yourself.

Finding the right passion

Software Developer

Doston, I'm a 26 year old, run-of-the-mill MBA grad who has just been coasting through life until a very recent and intense encounter with the perils of modern life. 

Background brief: 
Academics : 8/5/8; MBA from NMIMS Mumbai
~2yrs of work ex in sales; have worked in financial sales, currently working in non-alco bev sales
  
I have very few hard skills and am not sure where to start. Still, I'm seduced by other lucrative jobs/profiles such as finance, PM, consulting, which feel inaccessible at this point. I've accepted that there's nothing I can do to change the past, but I'm seeking guidance on how to shape my career from this point forward. Looking forward to any advice about jobs, career planning, and even life. Thank you!

Seeking career advice 🙏

Sales Manager

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Have been on my first job for over 8 years now. Joined as an associate, changed various roles and made progress to become a PM. Happy with my job and importantly, I've been learning new things everyday and have a great leader.
But constantly, at the back of my mind, i have a thought, will i become irrelevant one day? Is it bad to stay at the same company for too long (or forever)? What are the pros of changing the job? What are cons of sticking back?
Any input, is much appreciated!

How long should one work at the same company?

Program Manager

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Hi all, just looking for guidance or maybe similar people. Working in a service based company from past two years. Got this job from college placements. Work feels monotonous at best and there is nothing challenging. I don't even care about the pennies I am earning, nothing feels good. No sense of purpose. Want to switch not even getting a single selection mail lol. Maybe my resume is weak IDK. 
Maybe want to pursue higher studies again IDK.
Maybe I want to change entire field and go into something animation related, again IDK. 
Ahh IDK what I am even writing, I just get bored of everything very fast and can't imagine myself working in same field for very long. Also, I want to learn everything at same time. Does any of this even makes sense!?
Sorry, if this post wasted your time 🥲

Maybe just another lost soul

I have 2 Offers, both from start ups, A is a consumer faced growing startup with good & lots of work! Pros of A are: Culture seems good, maybe good quality work, peers okay! Cons are : No flexibility with WFH, package 4 lakhs less than B, maybe lots of work.

Pros of B: Higher package (+4 lacs), option to work from anywhere, dont know about kind of work!
Cons; SaaS based startup so don’t know about kind of work I would get, maybe dashboard or external services integration, WLB may be fucked up! 

What should I join? I am in dilemma, what if I join A and I get overwhelmed with work and get burned out, package also less.

What if join B and I do not get quality work and do not grow as a Frontend developer? 

Folks with experience help!!!!!!!!
I previously joined a startup, got burned out pretty quickly!

Help choose me offer!

Hi devs,

I’ve recently joined Accenture as an ASE (this is my 1st job) with a package of 4.6LPA.

While I was searching for rents , I felt very demotivated as getting rents in Bangalore is so costly as well as the commute.

It made me feel like I came here for a very minimal salary job and it’s making me worried about myself , as if will I be able to survive here well enough without having any trouble financially. 

Apparently this is also making me want to work hard to grow my salary as quickly as possible and land a perfect job(if that exists). Possibly a permanent WFH job while I go back to my hometown.

I want to know from all the seniors in our dev community as in how should I excel up in my career as quickly as possible. How I should manage my time and expenses and how should I get landed onto a dream job. 

Current tech stack - MERN ( highly proficient ) , Web sockets , AWS

Advice on how to grow as a Software Engineer.

What do you do outside of work? Are there any hobbies you genuinely love and don’t just do to pass the time? Do you have any secondary sources of income?

From what I have seen, most people in corporate lack ambition. They don’t have any passion, nor is there any will to do anything outside of work. While I completely agree there is nothing wrong with it, the sheer low percentage of people who are passionate about their life just astonishes me. Maybe I am expecting a lot and am wrong here. I wanted to know others’ opinions as well. What do you people think can be the reason?

Do you have any ambitions?

I actually don't want to climb any corporate ladders. I don't care about job titles and don't need any accolades. 
 I just want to have income to fund my lifestyle, not be depressed working with assholes, help other people and be around good humans. That's it.

Corporate Strategist

👋 Hey everyone! I'm a mobile developer with 2.5 years of experience in React Native and Flutter. I'm thinking about making a change and getting back into DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms). Any tips on where to start? Also, how long might it take to get interview-ready if I dedicate 1-2 hours daily and 4-6 hours on weekends? I've been applying for jobs but haven't heard back, any advice? Feeling a bit stuck in my current role and looking for a fresh start. Appreciate your thoughts! 🔄📱 #CareerChange #HelpNeeded

Seeking Career Change! 🔄📱

Hello everyone,
After losing all of my hope in finding job related my stream, I wanted to try out something new. I wanted to go of UI/UX designer role.

But to start that I would like to have some sort of roadmap that could help me start.

I would like to know about what to expect from this industry and what kind of challenges I might face.

If someone can share how they started and progressed then I would be thankful for the guidance.

Need guidance

Talking to a lot of senior folks I’ve realised something:

If you’re good at what you do,
20s are marked by meteoric growth, salaries increase exponentially as you climb the corporate ladder but it is at the expense of your youth and vitality.

By mid 30s, you’ve been robbed of your youth while you were busy chasing the next paycheck and your earnings stay consistent as progression starts to plateau.

That’s why a lot of these B2B SaaS founders are mid 30s. There’s now a trend for an entrepreneurial switch at that point in life because it is the only way to sustain the same level of earnings growth as your 20s. 

A lesson learnt too late, maybe?
Because, we all think about financial risk but not much about time risk.

Now imagine if only you would spend the early part of your adulthood doing something that is mightily ambitious, foregoing your “career” earnings for some time in exchange for impact and reward, while your youth hasn’t faded away.

It doesn’t have to be the case that you become a founder, but perhaps you can join a company which is a melting pot of highly talented folks aligned on the same goal, something that inspires you as well.

Drop by with your professional purpose that drives you in your life, would love to hear your perspective.

[Thread] What is your Professional Mission in Life?

Product Manager

This video changed the way I started to think about value creation and making money. When I think about it, it makes me wonder that life is good and it will be great.

Lecture Transcript: http://www.tech.genius.com/Peter-thiel-lecture-5-business-strategy-and-monopoly-theory-annotatedPeter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palant...

Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)

[Thread] Share a link to a video that changed your life.

Having worked in IT as a developer and other tech roles, I am having a feeling of how long I am going to do the same and keep grinding myself for someone else’s businesses to grow.

I personally feel from childhood I would enjoy and love to do something of my own but I am so confused and have not much idea on what to start and from where to start.

Feels stuck somewhere and actually I am doing nothing.

Any suggestions?

Wish to start something of my own

Have you ever felt that you are bored with the job....

Sometime it feels what's next - the goal was to get a good job and earn well but after 2-3 years it feels what's next... The excitement is not there tbh that we had the first day.

Anyone who has similar thoughts and how to find what's next...

What's Next?

Marketing Manager

Qualifications: BTech IT from tier-3 college, Pass Out in 2021, CGPA 7

Skills: Python + DSA (Intermediate), HTML, CSS, JS (Intermediate).

In 2021 I was preparing for government job and was really passionate about govt services but I failed in CDS II 2021 and lose all of my focus and my parents want me to get a job in related field so in January 2022 I started looking for job in IT but I was not good at anything and so I thought I wasn't job ready and start learning to Python and DSA and Web Development but in meantime I procrastinated and wasted so much of my time I was demotivated with zero focus and after months I am still not good at anything I don't have anything to show on my resume no projects, no experience nothing.

I have wasted more than a year just thinking what should I do and got nowhere. Lately I started to learn web dev from theodinproject.com and have completed foundations. Tbh i wasted time during this learning phase also and manage to complete this in a month. And after that I started to learn reactjs (haven't completed it yet)

And now I am really desperate for a job. What should I do to get a job with minimum preparation like give 1 months and get a job? I am not looking for something specific. I don't have any goals. ATM I have no idea what I am passionate about.

I'm 24 and unemployed and How can I turn my life around? All those years in school and college I never worked hard enough but now I regret it. I want to work hard now but have been procrastinating a lot. I need guidance on how to get a job and what to learn further to get a job. 

I would really appreciate it if you guys can guide me.

What should I do to turn my life around?

Frontend Engineer

My last job ended in Dec 2023 as amazon contract employee , i am trying to get another for dec to till date, in jan nothing converted to offer letter. Last week i got 3 offers from different companies one is contract role that came first , another is a crm company , i don’t like this company as there would not be any growth here & another is a services based company , all companies are paying the around the same compensation around 15 lpa , I don’t think it the right amount for me has to join one company for bread & butter , any advice would be appreciated

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