Hey man. It's ok to feel that way. Could you give more clarification on what's happening in your mind?

Software Engineer

Did you got placement, if yes then wait for the full time joining uske baad sab theek ho jayega

Completed my graduation ( given last semester exam) now everything seems to be blurred

I'm stuck and my age is 21

I'm stuck and my age is 21- Grapevine

My overall education started a bit late than normal people due to my fathers transfers and school admission rules. Consequently when I applied for JEE Advanced back in 2017 i was 19.5 years old.  I got it but wasnt satisfied so dropped a year and got a better rank. I was 20.5 years old when I finally joined IIT. 
Somewhere subconciously throughout my college life i felt that I did achieve what I wanted to but really late. I know theres nothing I could do about it but this was something still killing me inside. Most of my batchmates where 18 year olds and even the ones who dropped where at most 19. 

I always wanted to pursue my masters and phd but somewhere at the back of my mind I feel I would have to go theough the same feelings again. It just kills me so much inside. 

Currently I have completed 2 years as a software engineer and I am 26 years old. 
On one part my mind tells me that I am made for much more than just an IT job and should go to academia. On the other hand it feels like I am too old for it. 

I dont know what to do. I am not able to rationalize my thoughts. I am not able to understand how can I bring myself to overcome my fears and achieve what i really want in life.

A subconcious insecurity

Software Developer

Ever since 2020, it feels like years have passed within weeks. I can't possibly explain this in words, but for some reason, time has been passing a bit too fast. Before I realized it, my graduation was completed, someone who would seem a grown-up to the person I was before the lockdown. Festivals don't seem to make me happy now, and neither does having friends and going out with anyone...everything seems normal and everything goes by before I can process anything on my mind. Is it just me? I can't feel any emotions like I used to, is it something that all grown-ups go through/suffer with?

Is Time Really Passing Too Fast Now?

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

I am currently a bachelors student and stuck in the dilemma of job bs masters after graduation... Any insights from the ppl in the industry?

Too confused in this field

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I am a final-year CS student and will be graduating this June. I have been doing internships since 6th semester. In my first and second year I used to code like 9 to 10 hours a day and learn new skills and thanks to that I was able to grep an internship in start of 6th sem and since then I am doing internships and its been 1.5 years and I have done 2 internships, one as an backend developer for 6 months and another as an ML Engineer for 10 months and I am still interning over here and I have learned a lot and have worked on many amazing projects, now the problem is my current company told that they will give me full time offer if they receive the funding in April or may and HR told me to consider this as no and now the CEO of my previous internship called me and asked me if I am willing to join there for full time and I told him I am waiting for the offer from here and he told me that he will try to match the offer but I don't want to join the older company as there the culture is toxic and I also don't have other offer to negotiate as I did not sit for on campus placement as I am getting paid more as an intern(50k per month) then the full time offers the companies are giving on campus. Now in 2 months, I will be graduating and still, I don't have full-time offer now I feel like all the sacrifices I made in my first and second years went in vain, all the hard work, consistency, missing parties and trips all these things now makes me depressed, where did I go wrong and what should I do now?

Need advice from seniors, please help

I turned 30 last month and I still feel i am a 20 year old. I lost the last 4 years of my life working from home and have started to go to office recently. I never worked together in a team, never been out for team lunches/dinners, never presented my work to the seniors/leadership. I have 4.5 years experience on the paper and my interaction with colleagues in person has been almost zero .

I don’t know how to do my taxes, can’t do basic servicing of my bike, extremely indiscipline’s, rarely track my expenses, can’t say ‘No’, haven’t upskill we and hence stuck in TCS, can’t stick to a hobby or interest, pathetic in managing my time, have no sense of punctuality, socially awakened, overweight with a pot belly and hence have confidence issues, can’t take care of myself in terms of self grooming, couldn’t maintain friendships as I used  to get offended when someone made fun of me or mocked me- my inflated ego is just useless. 

I can’t control my emotions, I sometimes get emotional and have tears in my eyes, I show emotions easily on my face, not smart when it comes to dealing with others, don’t know how much to talk to whom, whom to talk to, how to talk to and when to talk.

I’ve been told I’m pessimistic and highly negative about myself but I’m just saying things the way it is.
I have no responsibilities on life. I’ll be getting married the next year and I know I can take up the responsibility. But I still have the fear of putting my fiancé down. I love her a lot and I never even  would do anything to put her down.

My bad time management skills, inability to focus, getting distracted badly, being a slow learner, not networking, not having idea on making switches regularly, being too lazy and impatient to learn new things, not being updated in terms of on demand skills, tools , technologies, reluctance to learn something new and hence staying in comfort zone has screwed up my career.

I feel stuck and lost in life.
I honestly don’t know what to do.

Being a man child at the age of 30

Product Designer

I don't know if it's the company I'm working at, or the projects I'm working on or it's my ADHD but I feel I don't enjoy UI/UX. I feel I lack the trait where one gives tiny attention to details as I have 'chalega / chaltha hai' attitude. I also realized I hate sitting in front of the screen for long hours. I loved physical product design and had to switch to digital product design due to circumstances that were not in control.
I honestly don't understand computers much. I neither enjoy designing app interactions, think about the business aspect of the UI / UX, metrics etc. I sometimes feel like this field isn't for me and I don't know why.

I neither have the privilege's to switch to a new field. I am a slow learner and I admit that I don't have a sharp mind - thanks to ADD. I am 30 YO and I feel like a 22 year old college grad. 
I have responsibilities on my shoulders and I can't take a break, be on a sabbatical, or resign. I have 4 YOE on the paper but I feel like I just have 2 YOE.

All I can do now is to learn things I don't enjoy and love the work I do as I have to work and bring bread on the table. I have been telling I will switch since 2-3 years and I am yet to do it. I've noticed that it's all about skills that's stopping me. I feel lethargic and bored to learn something new that I feel is though, boring or something that takes me lot of time to learn. Since the last 4 years, I haven't designed a since mobile app screen and I have been in the comfort zone of just designing for desktops. I feel intimidated by seeing apps screenshots in Mobbin and realizing that UI design is a craft that takes learn to learn, I just procrastinate learning app UI design.

My pay is low to live a comfortable life in a tier 1 city.  I need to switch to a different company. I lack UI design skills and hence I lack confidence in myself. I regret wasting my time and at the same time, find the process of learning UI design tough. How do I overcome this?

How do I cultivate a mindset to learn things I don't enjoy and love the work I don't like?

Veritas Technologies LLC came to my college in August and selected me for the Associate Software Engineer role. However, they revoked the offer in December. I missed out on other opportunities that came my way because, according to my college policy, I could only accept one offer. I accepted theirs, only to be left jobless now, despite being offered the highest package in our college. This has really impacted my career badly as a fresher. With only two months left of college, I'm feeling lost and unsure of what to do next : ( .
#veritas
#veritastechllc
#revoked

Veritas Technologies revoked my offer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Current state - I work as a PM intern at a startup. We shipped a major release few months back and since then I barely have any work. It's an ops heavy startup, so the work we do is just supplementary and I'm not making a huge impact anymore. I'm one of the select remote workers here and I've been with the org for the last 2 yrs, working parallelly alongside my college. Initially the work was exciting but now it has died down. The org has a okayish culture. There's no downside but limited upside as well. Pay is pretty good for me (considering I work <2hrs/week) but below average for fulltimers.

A little context - I'm pursuing an integrated(5yr) degree from a reputed B-school in Mumbai and I'll be graduating coming July. The placement cycle will start soon but I'm extremely unsure of what I want to go ahead with. I have varied interest. I like to tinker and play around with things. I've built successful social media pages & YT channels in the past. I've freelanced in digital marketing, web development and made decent money out of it. I've built chrome extensions and apps with several thousand users. I feel like I also have interest in web3, strategy, founders office and consulting roles. Few months back, I got an offer from a DeFi company, however they receded it once they realised I still have more than a year left to graduate.  

The confusion - I feel like I should leave my current org as there's no more learning here. However, I don't know in which direction should I proceed after that. The only thing I'm sure of is I'm not built for big corporates. I enjoy working with high ownership and small sized startups seem like the only option. I have 8 months of college left and I'll have to start looking for jobs within next 1-2months. (continued in comments)

TLDR: Feeling extremely lost

Product Manager

Hi All,
Hope you're having a great day.
I am 25 years old working in q2b domain at 4LPA. It usually makes me feel dumb when i see people my age are getting 20+LPA while i am still struggling and confused with my career but at the same time motivates me to work harder to achieve my dreams.
I have a really keen interest in equity research and recently i have also completed a course to get a position in the same domain but it isn't easy to get any response from HR. I have applied to 200+ positions with no response from the other side.

I'd appreciate it if someone here could guide me and help me get into equity research.
Thank you.

Confused about my career

Finance Operations

Hello, everyone. I need your thoughts on this subject. I presently have 1.8 years of experience.

After 7 months as a Software Engineer/Analyst, I quit the company due to poor job quality (4 months looking for work).

Later joined a company, worked there for 9 months as a Web Developer, I was laid off. (8 months looking for work) 

currently 5 months (Fresher Application Developer) and counting. They hired me as a fresher because I did not have a good one-year experience.

However, I rarely describe these as experiences 😅 

In my current firm, I work on Flutter, however they recently assigned me testing tasks, which I am currently working on. I haven't done any development work in the last 3 months. When I joined, another guy joined with me; he had recently started a project, but I hadn't. Not only that, but every day I feel as if I am being left out of something vital. Recently, our manager handed us some documents to read, such as HTML and CSS, but that other guy and other members received CI/CD pipelines, Flutter Fastline, and other HTML and CSS-related tools. And the gap in knowledge is that it is constantly expanding between myself and my teammates. 

At home, I'm studying all of this, but they get to experience it firsthand in an established project, whereas I don't. This is making me frustrated and melancholy at the same time. I'm not sure what to do.

How do I proceed from here?  

I need all of your honest feedback on this. Please 🙏🏼

I'm confused about my future

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I was stuck in the UPSC cycle for a long time and never made it to the final list even after pushing my limits.
It has been 5 years since I graduated from Btech CSE.
 
I want to enter into the tech industry for my livelihood, it seems like a last option but my confidence is at rock bottom, not even getting any opportunity anywhere.

No matter how hard you try, how close you are to your final knock, life works as a Boolean.
0.9999 is still less than 1.


I have no answers only questions. 
Am I too stale for this industry?

Stucked. Darkness is crawling in.

I'm a 2023 grad, and gained 6 months of experience in RPA, specifically Power Automate and Apps. 
However, I'm facing a lack of growth in my current role, as the projects as less.

I've become comfortable with my current situation, receiving a consistent salary and doing wfh, but now I'm concerned about the future and the stagnation of my skill set.

I've decided to upskill myself with a more relevant tech stack. I'm confused between opting for 
1. Java backend with Spring Boot.
2. MERN stack. 
3. Upkill in power automate, apps. 

As a fresher, I'm unsure which path to take. Any advice would be appreciated.

Confusion hai, solution pata nahi🥲

RPA Developer

Hey guys, I am an arts graduate from 2019. I have successfully wasted 4 years since now doing govt exams and other competitive exams. Now since the last 1.5 years I have been doing, front-end development, mainly self taught. Made some projects as well. The complexity of those projects are not super basic either. But now when I started applying for a job, things are getting clearer, that this market doesn't have a job for me. I came into this field, because when I am still figuring out what to do, this field feels really really good and interesting. I still have the passion for it and will continue to have it. Even if not in the shape of a job, I will continue learning and build an actual product. But now it's the peak age, to EARN. So, I need suggestions from you guys, that if I have any chance in this field or I should quit this field and started applying for any jobs I get to start earning asap.

Should I continue in this field?

Hi i am b.E electrical batch, had a lot(15+) arrears. Spent 2.5 years in trying to complete. Some papers cleared(corona didn't help much).Now i don't want to waste anymore time, as i already wasted many years. I gave my max effort but didn't help.

Most of the industrial jobs require a degree or diploma in specific field. I don't have one. Spending some time in internet searching about jobs. Many iT companies(zoho upon my searching) doesn't see degree as an measurement(?). 

Now should i try to learn coding or design? 
Coding requires logical thinking and i may not be a bright person for that given my history.

Can i try ui/ux designing. Is it a stable and future proof steam? Pay is similar to what software engineers got in placements. But as I am an non degree person it may be smaller. 

Thanks

Advice needed

UX/UI designer

So today I gave my final exam of my engineering and within a blink the journey of 4 amazing years came to an end. It feels like it was just yesterday when I took admission in college. 

Now I am doing an wfh internship and I am feeling like I will be lonely, since I don't have any friends apart from college (which I am pretty sure there are less chances of meeting as I had lot of friend but I was close to none🙂). Earlier I used to go to college and I was kinda a known personality, but now as it is ended so no more going to college and thought of working from home all day is making me anxious and depressed. So want advice from you guys about what should I do, how did you tackled this phase? I know I might sound cringe and sorry for that, but I am writing this just for help and advice.

Gave my final exam and have mix feelings

I am from a tier 3 college, going to graduate in 2024. With all these layoffs, recession scene going on I am completely stressed out. My college started pretty late, I am in third year within just 1 year of offline college and 1 year of online. Didn't really get time to learn and explore initially, I haven't done much development neither LeetCode, I feel like I am effed now. 

What and how should I start getting a grip on things? I have done basic HTML, CSS, know python and basics of JS plus Java, C and C++. 

I really want some guidance on how to proceed ahead with learning development, I really want a job and get out of my toxic household.

Need guidance

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I am just out of college, and while being in college I didn't feel it much but now I am in my 4th year and doing an internship. So the thing is here I see my peers along with the work also doing numerous things in life such as , clubbing, drinking alcohol, getting into relationships etc . And I sometimes feel like I am behind /leftout . I am not that much bothered about drinking alcohol but I really feel missing out of having a relationship. I am a 22 year old male never had a girlfriend but here almost all my peers have one . Sometimes I feel I need a gf and sometimes don't. So what to do ? is it late at 22 ( will be 23 in feb 2024 ) to be single and virgin ?

Confused about life

What's your biggest mistake that you made in college.

As the title says, feeling really devastated and less of hope for life. Feeling like I have been useless since all of time. And I can't say where I am wrong.

I have learnt Java and Backend development
Even learnt the knowledge of basic LLD too
Leetcode is still regular
Suggestions to apply on further job portals like Naukri, Instahyre, Wellfound etc I followed
Current company where I'm interning has given the signs that I won't be given PPO most likely even though I was very productive. 
I have projects which have been remarked as good by others of different designations
Resume is single column ATS friendly
I come from a Tier 2 institute

On campus is a dead ground now. Earlier it was GPA cuts, 12th board, gender cuts etc. 
For Off campus, which are very less to begin with, even after giving OAs completely, I'm still get ghosted.
Talked with a few founders and connections, they are either looking for seniors, not freshers or just hiring interns. 

What should I do?

I'm stuck and my age is 21

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