Most professional athletes travel in every sport

UX/UI Designer

Business Analyst

Product Designer

Badminton, i used to play very well, and still think I could have achieved much success professionally.

Software Engineer

If you could be a professional athlete in any sport, which would you choose and why?

If you could be a professional athlete in any sport, which would you choose and why?- Grapevine

Which is a sport that you always wanted to play or learn? But didn’t get chance until now

Product Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Rant alert: 

Have you felt the same way? How many years of work ex after which you started feeling this way? 

Stability and money I’m grateful for. But I hate the constant comparison and competitiveness among peers/colleagues. Makes me want to quit and do a Teach for India fellowship. A little corporate detox. 

Wish I had become an athlete instead. I know it’s not an easy life, but It’s the kind of competitiveness I’m inclined towards. Not inclined towards the kind where you compete with people to please a company that will never care for you as a human. But people fail to recognise that, lose perspective, and lose themselves too. People have no class in this shitty world. If I have kids, they’re definitely becoming athletes and not entering this hellhole. 

Most ironically, I’m borderline considering an MBA to escape the corporate life for 2 years, but obviously I’m aware I will only get entrenched further in it due to the degree.

Corporate is not for me

Oh man. Just hoping for the day i can quit it all. Right now on the blue pill, but ek din ayega. I'm convinced only sociopaths and people with no personalities can enjoy being in this rut. Lavda build something - it's just about keeping the hamster wheel rolling.

Brand Marketing Manager

Who is your all-time favorite athlete, and why?

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Basically the title. I have been working in the sales domain for more than 5 years and for the last couple of years, I absolutely hate it due to stress and lack of interest. I have been learning python inconsistently for the last 1 year but now I have shifted my gears and learning statistics and ways to implement it on the real world problems through Python. Internal transfer is almost impossible as it is a pure sales organisation which outsource equipment from China and sell it here.

I am a little bit concerned about my efforts and time which I am dedicating for the learning as I have gone through various articles and similar LinkedIn profiles and found one point of commonality i.e. Almost everyone had undergone a course based certification from Learning Sites such as Upgrad, Simplilearn etc. this questions my process of learning and making me worried about my decision to go on a self learning path. I don't have any Godfather in companies or good friends through whom I can at least apply for a refer. All I can do is to apply directly over the website. Would like to know your opinion?

Is it necessary to do a data scientist course to transit from a different role?

Sales Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Always had a fascination for flying objects as a kid. 

If this held true, I would really love to work in the aerospace domain. Building insane drones or UAVs would be awesome, especially after a decent stint in software.

Was reading about this company called Zipline which works in autonomous aerial delivery. Quite insane how they supply medical supplies in Rwanda using gliding drones that are launched across the country.

Stories like these inspire an entire generation to take up engineering and change the world.

What about you all?

[Thread] If all jobs paid the same and qualifications were no issue, what career would you choose instead of your current role?

What problems would Indian and Global startups be solving in the next decade, or they would be just throwing random yearly new buzz words and as usual VCs would be having orgasms on these buzz words.

I mean real problems.

Startups of the coming age

Frontend Engineer

I will start. 
I am jealous of Pilots as they get to travel a lot while being paid. ( Having Airhostess/es in their close circles is also one of the reasons )

Professions you are jealous of :)

Am jealous of politicians...kind of power they have simply intriguing

Senior Consultant

I might sound biased but hear me out.

Therepists are cheapstake businessmen/businesswomen anyway.

We are always questioned for sharing stuff

They pretend that they are listening to us but all they care about is their fees. They keep looking at the clock as to when the session would get concluded. They secreatly 

"But why would you blame all the therapists just because yours was toxic?". Nice question.

The moment you open up, they start drawing a perception. That point on, they only look down upon you as a person and consider you a massive loser. They might say the opposite but they dont really mean any of that.

My therapist, she went out of the way to convince me that I dont deserve to be loved. She pointed out that just because I feel too many things at once, I might have trouble emotionally satisfying a woman and should be okay with lonliness. She suggested me to play a sport, not because she wanted me to stay fit, but simply because "being sporty might increase my masculanity". I have never been good at sports (never interested me).  I have always been into music and poetry. I have been composing music since I was 16. I have no regrets. Why would you berate me just because my hobbies dont fit into a certain mould. I have heard enough from other people about not being sporty. 

Victim blaming must be stopped in the pretext of "only you can help yourself" or "work on those factors which you control".

Men cant reveal their problems to their friends and family as they would start judging them. They cant even share such concerns with their romantic partners because of the fear of losing them or sounding incompatible. And voila !
Medical therapy also turned out to be a sham for men.

Continued in the comments

Reason why therapy doesnt work on men

Data engineer

Do you know the reason for getting up everyday and working? Have you found why you wanna do what you wanna do?

Examples from TV series -
Naruto wanted to be Hokage because he wanted everyone to see him, acknowledge that he exists and he is someone important.

Mike Ross in Suits wanted to be lawyer to help people because of what happened with his parents

Patrick Jane in Mentalist was a CBI consultant because he wanted to find killer of his wife and Daughter

Sheldon cooper pursued physics bcoz it made sense to him and he wanted to win a Nobel

I can only quote such examples as I haven't found real life people who have any reasons for why they do what they do apart from the reason of making money.
Even here, I find most posts about making money/salary discussions. I have rarely found any post which talks about something meaningful other than money.

Disclaimer- I am not saying money isn't a good enough reason. I am trying to figure out if someone has reasons other than money. 

Would like to hear why they chose the field they chose!

Have you figured out your reason for doing what you do?

Consultant

This is a curious question from someone who is exactly opposite to what hustle culture boasts about. It is also my attempt to understand how people are capable of pushing themselves to limits that are not natural, that too, for months and sometimes years.

Context on my contrarianism:
- I don't have an ounce of inclination to push myself to work relentlessly. I don't thrive in such practice, nor do I want to put my health at unnecessary risk.
- Even if I wanted to try to follow the hustle culture, I am physically incapable of doing it. My mind and body shut down after 2-3 days if I have long working hours. I don't compromise on sleep, but the toll of long continuous work hours, even for such a short period of time, is my bane.

For me it isn't a choice between can't or won't, it is both.

Hence the questions:
1. Why are you doing this? 
2. How do your mind and body endure working for hours on end with less time to refuel with sleep?

People who partake in hustle culture - how, and why, do you do it?

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What career would you choose if salary didn’t matter?

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Assume you're currently enjoying your role as a jack of all trades. If your manager come and tell you that you need to choose whether you need to be a 
- Software Engineer
- Product Manager
- Program Manager
- Analyst
- Product Operations Manager

Which one would you choose? And why? 


Note: You're currently contributing to all of this in someway or the other, and the manager wants to ensure that you are also having a good career growth within the company, or you should be ready if you're looking for an external job.

The manager and the team is 100% in on supporting you on any of the above choice. 

[These are not random options, but came up because of the exposure to these domains and the related results delivered]

Selecting a Career

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

If you could instantly become an expert in any field, what would it be?

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Would you prefer to be average in a top-tier org or the best in a lower-tier org? Why?

What are the best ways to get involved in sports management or coaching?

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?

If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would you go? and why

How to find hobbies or anything that I like to do? I’m in Bengaluru, with a lot of free time. I don’t know what I like anymore. I frequently watch movies from theatre and that’s the only thing I do now

How to find hobbies?

Get married. 
  
 If you don't know what to do, your wife will ensure you do what she wants you to do.

Program Manager

As the title suggests, I often wonder what is the natural progression for people who join startups in Chief of Staff or even Founder's office roles? Do they move to a specialized vertical internally? Or do they move to other startups in CoS roles? Or they do their own venture (I like to believe this is still less likely). Have this thought because a lot of Tier 1 MBA, MBB consultant profiles have been moving to these roles and it really makes me wonder what path would the careers of these top talents take?

Future of Chief of Staff roles

I'll go first: I would love to teach kids and write books in my free time :")

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