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Was reading through the AMA of Juleo founder and I realised I wanted to get on this path for so long (startup journey), but been 2 years now and still working for someone 9 to 9   I also realized I...

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Was reading through the AMA of Juleo founder and I realised I wanted to get on this path for so long (startup journey), but been 2 years now and still working for someone 9 to 9 

I also realized I fear extensive, unpredictable work
Like data, paperwork, running to government offices, running behind investors, people's problems.
I'm sure I would manage all of these perfectly, figure out everything. But the initial itch, don't know what to call it

How do I break from this pattern?
I don't want to die mediocre or without doing (atleast trying) something I wil enjoy

Need some direction and lot of motivation

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Need some direction and lot of motivation- Grapevine

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Attaching a recent sunset pic from my gallery.

Thanks for loving Part 1 of my RLE.
https://share.gvine.app/1phkz5E232ikFMwH8

I am loving this phase of my life. Wlb is good.

Eating organic food, drinking clean water 💦 and breathing clean air 🫁.

More time for family and society.
Getting good sleep with deep sleep more than 2h consistently. No regional holiganism. Life ain't kinda hullabaloo which used to be case in metro.

Saving+investing 100% of my salary (thanks to my investments in last 7-8y)

I want to sustain this and live like this for rest of my life.

I am in late 20s and sitting on total 93L savings.

It will cross 8d soon but am confused on how to go through sustainability. 

Please help me navigate.

1. I don't want to do job. 
Startup or Meaningful work is my calling. In Covid i worked for multiple startups and helped them in many ways. MVP to PMF, am good at marketing, sales, HR and tech. Planning to join a remote startup or start my own. But it should be meaningful startup not just a bigger fool game.

2. I Can do agriculture side by side as I have around 15acres of land. It can give output = Median package of tier 1 mba. Have ideas like growing stevia, alovera and other useful stuff instead of wheat n rice like my old generation. Then it will be huge but again have to convince father. Startups like dehaat are helping in this as well.

3. Get a good franchise in nearby city like sleepwell, Pizza Hut, kfc or tamo and get regular returns.

4. Put all money in FD and get 50k/m return and live a happy life. (50k is more than enough for family of 5 where I live currently)

5. I love reading, blogging, debating, quizzing on economics, geopolitics, spirituality, semiconductor, politics and tech. Can build an online business around this on YouTube and internet.


Please guide me how to reach to correct idea and navigate properly with minimal risk.

Thanks in advance and only serious people reply.

If someone is on same boat ⛵ then do DM.

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What is stopping you from starting up your own company?

I work at a startup and have been here for more than 7 years. I joined right after graduating from a tier 1 engineering college (one of the old IITs). I was the first team member after the founders and now hold the position of non tech CXO in the company. The startup has grown significantly, not in traditional funding terms but in actual business. I have dedicated countless days and nights to growing this company, hardly taking a single day off in the initial 4 years, and often working more than 10 hours daily. My salary has increased proportionately to what I should be paid (>65 LPA), and I also have decent ESOPs in the company, which could be worth anywhere between 2 to 4 crores depending on the valuation at which we raise funds. However, I don’t count ESOPs as real money. In the next 10 years, it's going to be a very big thing, and I am glad to be part of it. Many of my friends, who have done MBA from IIMs and worked at BCG or Bain, are craving for the position I am in.

But I feel FOMO about not trying anything else in life. It's like achieving decent success on the first try. I use the word "decent" and not "crazy" because it's not crazy success.

What do I want ideally?
I'd like to take a 6-month break and then figure out my next steps. Maybe start something new or join another company at a leadership level. But I am too afraid of not getting the same opportunities and ending up struggling.

Thus the question:
Is there any agency that works specifically to help you get a job at a CXO position? How does it work? Can a non-MBA with 8 years of work experience get a CXO position at a decently big company (>300-500 crores in revenue)?

CXO Position, Right after college. Confused now !

Growth Manager

I am thinking of leaving my current job and focus on myself, getting to know myself better etc. Currently I have enough money saved for my expenses for next 6-8 months. 
   Everyone I have asked about this say don't leave your job if you don't have another lined up, in this tech winter. I understand their view point. It aligns with what my parents think as well.

Is there anyone who has had done this in the past? Do you recommend this route? Are the consequences far too severe? Does anyone have a different opinion from one stated above?

Anyone ever left job without having another job lying around for their mental peace?

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So I am working at a startup for around a year now. Everyday I see, it feels, what am I really doing? Where is the life headed? 
    Doing bare minimum or doing your tasks and fucking off isn't enough. It's expected that we outgrow constantly, as if it's this work that we can always think about and nothing else. At the end, am wondering if it's still worth it?
    1 day it feels that let's just quit it! Next day I feel, okay, I do want the money. 

I ain't looking for suggestions here, just wanted to see if anyone else felt this way

Getting increasingly bored of work at startup

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

Software Engineer

So , I graduated in 2023 from a decent college (private) and my branch was CSE. I had a job which I didn't do due to some reasons and then started looking for another job .
It's mid of 2024 now and I still don't have a job and I am in desperate need of a job and the problem is I don't know what to do now . I don't know if I should continue preparing on my own or get a course with job support ,I don't know if I should change my sector or continue with it , lots of things going on my head 
I hope to get some great suggestions over here 
P.s. i think getting a course with job support will be ideal for me

Fullstop.

Im working as a developer in a unicorn startup with good salary for my age. But from college time I was interested in entrepreneurship trying different thing and later after completing college I joined this unicorn and worked hard, shifted to their new stealth startup and worked there with for 1yr, tried to work in every possible opportunity that I got with design team, product managers and learnt how to build a startup from scratch, but later due to creative issues in top level management and less revenue than the competitors the startup was shutdown and I was moved back to the unicorn and again started working as an developer. Tried different things from then 

1. Tried joining top B schools but couldn’t afford
2. Tired pitching ideas to friends, seems like no one interested in taking risk leaving the life they have now
3. Tried starting few things on my own but always end up failing with no support 
4. Tried attending conferences but that too never led me anywhere

Now don’t have as many friends interested in entrepreneurship or mentors to guide me. Just passing the days doing the same work again and again

please suggest me what to do next or give me any kind of advice

Need advice - please help 🥲

Software Developer

Although I'm early in career(~4 Yoe) but I feel distinterested in it.

As far as I remember I was always interested in computers and programming(even before I knew it pays well), it's probably the only hobby I ever had.

It felt good in beginning but lately it feels like I'm dragging myself to work. I thought maybe I'm just distinterested in working for the employer but I don't feel like coding for fun either.
Doesn't feel like burnout because I haven't felt too much pressure from work in a while.

I thought this would be transient but I can't remember when it was fun last time. Has anyone else felt like this? Does it get better or is this just my life going forward?

Do you ever feel disillusioned with work

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Hi all,

I almost mid 30s and been in Bangalore for 2.5 years. I believe I must build a steady second income in the next 6/7 years. Dont get me wrong , i like working - and intend to do that for as long as I can , but my new employment choices may decrease with time.
Yet , have no idea what I want to do.

I like technical work but am not insanely intelligent - just average.

Would want some feedback on how to motivate myself.

I have some self diagnosed weaknesses

* I am not unpleasant to talk to - but dont make or interested in making a lot of friends and interacting with people (still have not made any new friends here)

Lazy definitely :)

Motivate oneself to start second income

Test engineer

Sharing a note from the day I resigned. Well, alot happened from then and I am just grateful for how things have turned out. 

Also, happy festives guys🥳🥳

Just Grateful 😇

Generalist

I have a remote job with 250k USD/2CR base salary and get to travel for free internationally 6 times a year to beautiful places in Europe. My manager is a saint and I don’t think I will ever find someone as good as him. I am considering leaving this job to startup.
I would love to hear everyone’s unfiltered thoughts on this please 🙏🏼 

Firstly, this is not a fake post - Luckily I have been one of the few people who were early in AI to train very large LMs, so I have an edge and get paid crazy money for it.

Why am I leaving?
Over the last one month I had time off from work to build a new AI capability for coding assistants. It’s a technological breakthrough and my AI is 10X cheaper and has 100% codebase coverage for automatic feature development, bug fixing and automating 3rd party integrations into your very large codebases. Others are working on it as well, but I have achieved higher results on public coding assistants benchmarks(SWE-bench).
I believe in this breakthrough and technology, and this is the absolute right time to build it, not 6 months ago, not 6 months later - too early and too late. 
This could potentially be my next moonshot or I could also fail, but learn a lot in the process and not have regrets 5 years down the line in not pursuing a breakthrough in AI that someone down the line is going to monopolise.

My financial situation is good and bad - 
I have NW of 3.2 Cr, but they are tied in 2 real estate properties - I am aware that this is stupid to not have anything liquid.
I have a running home loan of 1Cr to the bank and 30 lakhs to be paid to my Dad, these two are my biggest mental blockers. 

My wife(married early this year) earns really well as well and I have some ~20L liquid, so day to day runway is of easily 1 year.

Finally, I don’t believe that it I leave my current job, I will ever get another international offer that pays this well in cash and has remote work given how to market has changed recently. I am trying to disassociate from a greed mindset and looking into a potentially very high exponential growth/learnings.

Please provide your suggestions frens, I am planning to speaking to my manager on Monday 🌻🌻

Insanity check on leaving 2Cr at 26

AI Engineer

To all people who have switched from conventional corporate careers like consulting, banking etc. to a founder's office role

How has your experience been?
What worked/ didn't work?
What do you think is a long term play here?
What should one consider before switching?

Do mention the stage and industry. TIA!

Your founder's office role experience

Business analyst

I am 3 years into my career and I have deep passion for Software engineering. I genuinely like it. I want to become a better engineer by going deep. But since the time of my internships in college, I have always been fascinated by startups and want to have one of my own. Now I have an idea(again very passionate about) and I’m working on it but my dilemma is that if I run a startup, it’s going to take me away from my other interest of engineering. Any thoughts?

Biggest dilemma of my life

Hey folks!

I work in analytics, it's been about 5 years working

I had a very good learning time at Zomato, learnt a lot of things and then moved to an early stage startup

I'm kind of feeling very dissatisfied at work, this time I have a really good idea worth working.

I joined a new company and have built a lot of things ground up here, but am i being too hasty in leaving my job?

Should I be prepared to be jobless for a long time if I ever consider corporate again? Because after my first job, i have mostly just worked for a year at every company.

And along with my notice period it will be 2 months at my current organisation

Looking to startup but also feeling that I'm too impulsive

Founder

It's been 3 years ever since I got to know about all the things that I could've done other than choosing engineering. Surely I didn't have balls back then and I told myself that I would explore all the possible domains be it tech/des/marketing/finance/operations. It's been two years in uni now and I really don't know what I can count on. I know a bunch of things but don't know a thing enough to make something out of it.

I moved to blr thinking that I would get the city exposure but I am usually caught up in uni things(it's an excuse, I am barely studying). Days are just passing by and everyday this thought bugs me at the back of my mind that even though I am capable enough of doing it, why haven't I done it yet? It's not that I'm chilling or partying, I am just caught up in this vicious cycle where I want to get started working on something fulfilling yet haven't found a way yet to do so. 

I can go on with the usual engineering path and sit for placements and get that avg or little more than that package but I think that CTC doesn't move me, rather doing something fulfilling and meaningful does. I wish that I could really mean it when I say that I want to do something where I enjoy the process, the daily-to-do-tasks and not the end goal/ paycheck. 

I've had this idea of working at startups and exploring different domains/departments and figuring out what is the right thing for me; a domain where I bring the best out of me and feel fulfilled as well. Now I certainly cannot do this by signing up for courses that I will never complete, I would rather prefer to work under someone and learn things as I do them.
Haven't mailed/reached out any founders yet. Help me in navigating a bit and I will forever be indebted to you. 

Have summer break next month, July-Aug. Lmk if you've got anything to say or to direct so that I do something about what has been bothering me in the next month. 

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Conventional vs Non-conventional

Hey Everyone,

I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO at Inc42. We are India’s #1 startup media & intelligence platform that informs, educates and empowers startup leaders & operators through our incisive reporting and industry-leading executive programs like FounderX.

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Inc42, why we’ve built FounderX and more!

Ask Me Anything :)
I’ll be back at 5PM and answer all your questions!

I'm Vaibhav Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO of Inc42. Ask me anything!

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