Data Analyst

Growth Manager

Life is going good, but the pressure of getting a job.

Dear folks in grapwine just asking how is ur life casually

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

How is your life

How is your life- Grapevine

Was just curious how is life , traffic, work life , shared public spaces etc at your city ?

Do you enjoy it there considering we became the most populated nation ?

How's life in your city ?

Business Analyst

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Was off grapevine for two days and seems like so much has changed. Okay I have questions 

1. If we verify our work email, isn't too much information being disclosed. Small company problems. 
2. Also how to verify work email, I cannot find any option 
3. Can we have a 'Grapevine' group, where we post all love and (hate) for the app. It will stay off Misc in that case

Grapeviners grapes - Questions

Consultant

Hello, how's your life going lately my friend?

Life

Software Developer

Millennial and Gen Z face mood swings due to multiple reasons. 

Generally I do below stuffs...

1. Listen to music or watch fav movies 🍿
2. Read a book 📖
3. Swimming or Gym or a sprint run. 
4. Biking at 20kmph and 80kmph also, both have separate zones.
5. Talk to parents or close friends.
6. Sleep
7. Sunsets or birdwatching

Attaching a snap of sunset from my today's bike trip, covered 130km in 2h. It feels so rejuvenating.

Watching reels/shorts is the last option.

What's your method for refreshment?

What do you do to stabilize amidst mood swing!

Posting hypothetical, unrelated questions on Grapevine 🤭

Senior Consultant

Want to know more about what rich single folks at 35 or above are upto in this city? are you guys bored or are you at the next level of existence? how’s your romantic life? do you love your jobs?

Single people of Blr - how are you enjoying your life?

Product Manager

Was thinking about our lives. Ever since you are in school, you have something to look forward to. When you’re in 1st grade, you know next year it’s 2nd grade and so on till you finish your undergrad.

Suddenly, you could be everything or nothing at the same time.

Those who are good at this game of eternal growth end up grinding their lives away in the PCM -> Engg -> B-School -> Consulting hell loop.

Weirdly, the determinism in growth fades away suddenly and you see people finally pursuing diverse fields.

Then, the realisation kicks in. You’ve been conditioned to chase eternal growth. That is what brings meaning to you in every part of your life. Today has to be better than your yesterday, or else it feels like you’ve failed.

I wonder how sustainable that is but till then we will continue to throw our youth away. 

My 2 cents: You have a brief moment in history. Don’t spend your 10 years of prime in doing things that don’t bring you any joy. Don’t make the same mistakes all of us make chasing joys because others are chasing them.

Find your own meaning to this eternal growth.

Is life a race for eternal growth?

How's life ?

It's been 2 days since I joined grapevine and the pressure for thinking a cool or logical question to ask on grapevine is more than the deadline follow-ups by my manager.

What should I ask on grapevine?

Application Engineer

Welcome to Fintech India's Private Community

Hi people

Enterprise

Hope you all are doing great.

So I have a question in my mind regarding this company called Jobsurance.

What do you guys think of the business model and overall use case of this company which is betting on an insurance on a job?

Hi grapeviners 💫

Strategy & Operations

How did you bring it up in conversation?
Asking for a friend 💁‍♀️

Have you introduced Grapevine to your friends or coworkers?

I've turned 27, roughly 3yoe earning 50k which is low but I'm upskilling. Currently due to layoffs, AI news and just a very unhealthy state of IT things are getting very depressing and I personally feel like I've already lost or missed in life. 
People are planning to get married around me everything is so sudden. 

People of grapevine, what advice would you want to give people like me who feel lost. 
Any general advice such as financial planning, lifestyle changes or just tech advice any advice which has helped you to live peacefully and comfortably would be greatly appreciated.

FOMO in tech

Advice : Please stop with the tutorial and enrolling in courses after course. Doesn't take you anywhere. Been there and done that.  
  
 You will end up with stupid clones which does seem like a value add in your resume. It's just there in everyone's resume.  
  
 Build one project, one solid project, maybe something to do with MFE. Not CRA react app but something with webpack if you prefer. Maybe a ecom app with seperate mfe for order and billing. Show the interaction between them, post on Twitter while you build. Share insights and maybe you will end up being in a recruiter's eye.

Frontend Engineer

Software Engineer

I'd made a distressed post after getting laid off.

Update to:  https://grapevine.in/post/86d40198-4ba6-4f24-b830-8934dc196941

I can't help thank you guys enough for helping me get though the tough times and dealing with the shame and shock.

I did end up taking taking the vacation, though I did spend sometime out out it interviewing. I'd only told my fiance about the layoff and she was understanding and supportive 🥹. To the rest of the families I just told them I'm interviewing since I got good reachouts.

I'm thankful to everyone who reached out to me on my post and for the pings with opportunities.

Did end up taking up an offer from one of the reachouts. 

Can't thank you all enough.

& kisses to Michel Scott (No homo) for releasing DMs .

Thank you Grapeviners ❤️❤️❤️

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

I've ammased over 50 grapes 🤯, here's a thread how i did it 🧵👆

Welcome to Consulting's Private Community

I have read a few articles about it and got mixed responses from the internet. Some are saying generalists have the upper hand in this rapidly changing environment & for some specialists will be the top earners.

What's your take on this Grapevine family?

It's important because some people like me get bored easily with monotonous work. Constantly indulging in multiple domains of work keeps us going.

Does future belong to generalists or specialists?

Hello everyone,
 
Hope it's going well.
 
What this post is: a place to hang around and chat just about anything - without having a specific topic to discuss.  
Think of it like the watercooler at your office.  
 
Look forward to hearing from you all :)

Daily Watercooler (27th June)

Founder

I joined AmEx Gurgaon in 2015 in PoS Fraud Strategy as a Business Analyst. I was having a rough time at AmEx as I really wanted to pursue my passion of Mathematics in the US. I had secured an admit at Univeristy of Illinois - Urbana Champaign and UT-Austin in their MS programme and was totally checked out at work.

During my tenure at AmEx, I was mostly bored. Looking at internal tools and spreadsheets was the worst. This coupled with the fact that I was travelling to and fro between Noida and Gurgaon meant that I was commuting a solid 4 hours everyday.

In this time of mental agony, I met this charismatic young woman, she was an Analyst in the Credit Underwriting Team. I don't know what got into me and I asked her out to coffee. We went to the Starbucks in CyberHub the next morning and she was the most delightful personality ever. Sweet and elegant, she talked of her passion with vigour, from her ideals to writing poems. I left that conversation feeling uneasy though. 

She reminded me of what I wanted but also of what I was scared to lose in her. 

We continued to date for the next 6 months in a hush-hush manner to avoid any suspicion at AmEx. I had to start the process of getting my F1-visa for the US and when I told her about it she was extremely disheartened.

In my heart, I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my days with her and life without her was nothing but an empty void. She came with me to the US Consulate Office, and I don't know what got into me but I kissed her.

I knew that I wanted her more than anything else. 

Decided not to give the Visa Interview and applied to ISB with my GRE score. Got into it and ended up becoming a Management Consultant in MBB. 

We got married in 2019 and welcomed our daughter into this world in 2021. 

I wonder what life would've been living in the US. But whatever it would be, it couldn't be better than being in her arms when we come back from work. 

Have faith. Everything will turn out to be okay. Trust the process

When I chose Love over my Career: My Story

... And we will never hear a story a woman doing that much for a guy.

Software Test - QA

Using image in comments feature 😁

P.S. My Grapevine time would be much more, I keep deleting and reinstalling app (like the relationship you cannot get over 🥲)

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