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How do you all navigate the pressure to constantly hustle and showcase your successes? 

Have you found ways to unplug and focus on your own path without getting caught up in the comparison game?"

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How do you all navigate the pressure to constantly hustle and showcase your successes? 

Have you found ways to unplug and focus on your own path without getting caught up in the comparison game?"- Grapevine

The rise of social media has made it easier than ever to compare ourselves to others. I'll admit, I've fallen into the trap of scrolling through LinkedIn and feeling like I'm not achieving enough. 

How do you all navigate the pressure to constantly hustle and showcase your successes? Have you found ways to unplug and focus on your own path without getting caught up in the comparison game?

Navigating the pressure to constantly hustle: How do you avoid the comparison trap and focus on your own path?

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How come the life of everyone on social media is sooo good? 

I mean I know most of them are just pretending but even that is so tempting, here I am who always forgets to take a snap of my food before eating it! 😂😂

Working, then working out, trying to eat right, and trying to stay connected with friends on weekends feels taxing now and I feel and blame myself for losing my circle day by day as I'm too exhausted to make efforts anymore.

The night feels worse cause the silence of the city makes me hear the noise inside me even more evidently. 🥺

Late night thought!!

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Seeing colleagues getting promoted while your contribution goes unnoticed. Working on projects that none of your peers care about. Figuring out the balance between work and personal life. Regret of ignoring physical health due to work.

There are endless reasons that can trigger the imposter syndrome. How are you guys coping up with this?

How do you guys cope up with the imposter syndrome

I started a side business. These fuckers can have their promotions. I work for the salary now. I don't contribute beyond the basic limit.  It's liberating. I don't even laugh at the stupid jokes at meeting.

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Software Developer

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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 🙏

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Disclaimer: This post is not for self validation or to seek attention. Posting here strictly for advice as I believe many people here must have gone through this.

I’m a final year student studying BTech in India. I have a foreign internship confirmed from Feb next year, and my current intern at a startup is ending at 30th November. I’ve been working at this startup for more than 2 years now, poured my heart and soul into it, but due to career growth decisions I had to leave it.

With nothing to do for next 2 months, I have started slacking off from work even though I have 20 days left, which is bad. All work and no play since last 3 months have left me so burnt out that I have done less than 6 hours of coding in last 1 week.

It’s eating me up from inside as I have a huge obligation to this startup, plus there is so much to learn, and I don’t want to start my career with such unprofessional behaviour. Instagram and YouTube shorts have ruined my attention span, mental energy and will to work, and it’s affecting my mental and physical health as well.

I have tried multiple motivational videos, practices, tips and tricks, everything. They help for maximum of 2 days and then it’s again back to this. Even though I’m hugely interested in tech, learning, devops and programming… motivation is dead and my life feels ruined, especially after seeing all the achievements people are having in and around social media, linkedin etc.

I just don’t know what to do to overcome this lazyness.

Feeling Burnt Out, Purposeless and like an Imposter

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Thoughts on “hustle culture”?

Software Engineer

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I have observed this( at least with my self) that whatever goals you set for your self ( X salary, Y net worth etc etc.) once you're there it becomes ordinary extremely fast and it starts feeling normal again and on you go towards the next milestone.
I was wondering when does this end? Do any of you have reached a point where you don't have the lust for more? You're happy with what you have? 
Did you do something actively to make that mindset? Or were you a "satisfied with what you have" kind of a person all your life?

How do you fight the consistent dissatisfaction?

Backend Engineer

Tldr: title
Living with my parents has allowed me to save a decent amount and invest while enjoying time with friends. My job is fun; I work with a tech stack I love (Golang) and learn new things regularly since it's a scratch project. My manager is great, an expert in SQL, and doesn't scrutinize my code much. My salary is around 9.5 LPA, and I have close to two years of experience. 

Being part of the tech community, I strive for a better salary. However, my efforts to switch jobs have been inconsistent. I dedicated two weeks to practicing DSA and applying for jobs but received no callbacks, which was tough to swallow. My goal is to achieve a salary around 14 LPA in my next jump, but sometimes I wonder if I'm being delusional.

I know there are amazing folks who get 20 or 30 LPA straight out of college, and I wish them the best. Comparing myself to them hasn't been effective. Even trying to dislike my company, thinking about how I barely make $10,000 while the company profits millions, hasn't motivated me.

what might be your strategy you if you were in a similar situation?

How do you fight complacency?

Hi all, I have noticed that the experienced senior people around me [ ICs, EMs, etc ] have too much work and they are always in a work mode. 

Seeing them makes me wonder whether I would want to be like them in the future.

All the senior experienced people here, how stressful / hectic / difficult is your work life as you move up the corporate ladder? 

Is it even worth it to chase meaningless numbers, and promotions, and grow up the career ladder?

Work life at senior positions

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I'm surprised to see on the comment section that people actually support this load of crap. 

To any newbies or freshers entering tech this year, don't follow this advice. These CEOs exploit your time to gain revenue and when the time is not good they wouldn't think twice before considering layoffs. Just do your job and go home to your life and family. 

This advice only applies to entrepreneurs who have huge stakes in the company. Because if the company do well they get millions in returns as dividends. As an employee, even if you work for 25 hours you only get the same salary. 

Don't follow any so called self procalimed entrepreneurs advocating for the hustle culture. You hustle for your life, not for your boss or your job.

More push towards grind and sacrifice.

Analyst

I have been wfh for than a year now, my parents would keep ordering me to do small household work even when I’m working. I have asked them not to do that as it distracts me, but they will not simply listen and even scold me and compare me with others that they help their parents 😅

I have thought about just going to a different city and wfh from there but my parents are also getting old so have to think about that also.

People who are WFH, how do you stay focused in work when your family members / parents keep distracting you?

I distract myself scrolling reels, who else can distract me 😭

Associate

Hello, Friday is here and so is one pick of mine to read as we get ready for the weekend. This is one of the lists I like to refer to every now and then.

https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Please share thoughts. Share your read for the weekend too!

Weekend musings - edition #2

- "We will get back to you" over and over again 
- 2YOE getting 95LPA
- Mom forwarding her friends' married kids pictures (dropping subtle hints)
- Attracting red flags, where efforts have dried up 
- Movies and shows watchlist growing, but guilt makes us think we are better off working
- Travel bucket is overflowing
- Personal projects have sided in a corner, because that ain’t getting anything
- Age is catching up and money is not 

How do you handle all this?! How!

How are you handling the spiralling moments? (which are just too many now)

Hi Grapevine, 

I'm Arnav, Director of Engg at Jio Cinema. I previously exited my startup to Scaler. Some of you may know me from ScalerPod. I've also led engineering teams at Zomato & Target. 

Here to chat with you about my journey in startups, leading engineering teams, and products at scale, among other things.

Ask me your question. I'll be back at 8 pm and begin answering!

I'm Arnav Gupta, Director of Engineering at Jio Cinema. Ask me anything!

Why is jiocinema so effin horrible to use on Samsung tvs ? Just fix this shit already.

Intern

When i was in college i wanted to build my own company/product. Thought of many ideas and tried to build something. None of them worked and it affected my studies so I had to quit just to clear my exams.

After college I took placements in a WITCH like company where I got put into data entry/operations job after clearing difficult coding interviews (kismat kharab?). 
Somehow learnt new technologies on the side and managed to switch to a development role at a lower salary in a startup.

After 3 years Worked hard on DSA and (barely) managed to get a good offer with above average pay. But the company is not stable anymore and may layoff at any time. 
Right now struggling to learn enough DSA to crack any company.
Now I am almost 30, i have no hobbies,no talents, no relationships just trying to have a stable career.

I see people everywhere doing so many things at once. How do they manage to do this.
They are working at FAANG and managing businesses at the same time, have a bunch of friends.
What am I doing wrong?

Just a long rant about life

It is just luck + hardwork man. Work harder at everything and you will get there.

not only in monetary terms, but anything

this is simply an introspection, so avoid giving "don't compare" gyaan

[Introspection] How do you feel about your friends who took a leap of faith or risk and are doing much better than you because of that, do you feel left behind somehow ?

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Is it true that after reaching a certain point in life, after achieving something you’ve been striving to accomplish for years, you often feel the most empty afterwards?

People say we should always set new goals and keep working towards them, but does it really bring happiness?

I mean, after becoming a millionaire, if you make another million, will it feel the same as when you made your first million, or does it hardly matter after a while?

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I want to see how different people perceive success. When will they feel successful, after achieving what? Like x amount of money, a house, a car, a partner, and what else could it be?

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