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This normal way of living life is 75 hard challenge now.

This normal way of living life is 75 hard challenge now.- Grapevine

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

I have an open question guys!

Is working 9-5 really living? No, the process of working itself is life. I want to write a lot of things, but whenever I start to express my thoughts in text, I get stuck. It's the same with my life—I want to do many things, but I'm not able to. Have I become lazy? When will I get tired of spending so much time watching web series and movies? Will they be worth anything in the end? No! So why am I not doing anything productive?

An open Question...

Customer Service

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

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.

Rural Life Experience 2.

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Thought's on this statement?

Yes, we should all work 70 hours a week so shareholders can make 70 millions a week and then at the first sign of trouble they can lay off 700 employees a week 😂

Sales

To be very honest I feel very frustrated looking at the situation right now. Companies are laying off without worrying about the employees. It's just corporate profits everywhere.

I am scared to death that my career won't last long than 20 years because the moment these folks think you are becoming a financial burden on them, they'll lay you off.

I don't want to live my life in a constant war mode. The Indian education system has bruised my personality for a long time. I want to relax but looking at this battlefield I can never.

My weekends are spent worrying about planning for finances in case I get laid off. I am worried I won't be able to buy a house.

This shit is depressing me very much. Other folks please tell me how are you navigating this mess?

Soulless Corporations

Mandatory : keep on up skilling 
 Optional :  go outside India or move to operational roles(as it doesn't need creativity bone)  
  
 In your 30's you shouldn't explore stuff, stick with one domain(example : digital marketer) be the SME. In 40s you'll have 10+ years experience of a domain, and you're part of that domains evolution  
  
 No one wil have the know how you gained in 10 years

Program Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Coming from Middle class family, I have hardly seen any investment strategy or advice from my parents. But to all youngsters, please start investing early in your career, rather than pushing for new home & expensive cars, iPhones. Don’t need to invest in stocks & trading but start a step-up SIP with 500₹ Small Cap MF, that will support you in long term.

Invest early

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Been in corporate for 18+ years. It's been a good run by God's grace. 

Situation currently is I have been WFH for last 3 years and office is requesting return to head office in a metro for at least 2d a week for senior folks. 

Unfortunately as you can understand, I am 40 and got an ailing parent with me being primary caregiver. Moving is not practical. 

Anyone else in same boat? What did you do?

Difficult Life Situation

Life’s toughest battle!

Consultant

hey guys, I'm interviewing at a startup currently and they are asking me if I can work 6 days a week for a couple of months initially till the Product goes live. 
how do I respond to this? I want to take the offer but the 6 day work week is what pulling me back from accepting the offer.

6 day work week normal at Startups?

It’ll never be for a couple of months only :)

Private Equity

Senior Associate

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

By what age did you achieve this? And how did you manage to do it? Did life change for you post that?

Have you made your 1st crore yet?

Executive Coach

5 days of periods every month, then you may fall ill sometimes, then you are plain lazy (coz humans)
Just so difficult to keep at it every. single. day.

Not saying women have it difficult (we do), but how do you push yourself everyday to keep fit

I personally try to not keep skip 2 days in a row, unless aforementioned reasons

Why is it so difficult to continue fitness routine

Founder

In 2016, my tech journey began in Bangalore as a Java developer intern at a small startup. Learning and gaining industry experience were my main goals, and the internship was unpaid. After six months, I was offered a permanent position. Although I never got the promised salary of 2LPA, I was happy to have more opportunities to learn and upskill myself. I learned front-end development, built an Android app, and deepened my backend expertise. It was a phenomenal learning experience. 

In 2018, I transitioned to a full-stack developer role at a Fintech company. Initially, the growth in learning and earning was decent. However, things took a turn. Upfront, I admit I wasn't overly concerned about income due to a comfortable family situation. Now things have changed drastically. Until now, I was not regretting the career choices I made but now I don't know exactly how to feel. Despite management's promises of a decent raise for the past two years, there has been no progress(Current - 8 LPA). Currently, I'm actively upskilling java and exploring new opportunities as a backend developer.
Your guidance on aligning my salary expectations with market standards would be invaluable. Thanks in advance.

A Coder's Journey to Redefine His Value

How would you live your life if you don't have any family/social responsibilities?

by Immigrating to a new country and starting a new life. Sick of this scarcity, struggle for every single fucking thing from getting a entry in local train, then slogging at work like donkey and then realising some MBA asshole will dictate your careers, then you think of becoming that asshole by getting masters but again fucking competition there, then wondering why the fuck am I paying taxes on your commute back to home in packed local train like a cockroaches, then struggle to get quality food, quality water and quality air, then again struggle to go to sleep and the Final struggle to wake up 
  
 But being the only child of my family and being their retirement fund is binding me here.  
  
 Sure other developed countries also have a competition but not to the extent of India.

Supply Chain Manager

Senior Software Engineer

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

Life

Software Developer

I was learning to code when i was in my second year of BTech. I understood coding is not for all. It is a way of thinking. Some people naturally can code and some people work hard to get that way of thinking. Ultimately coding is about problem solving. Now one thing i understood is, my thinking and way of talking everything has got changed because of learning to code. Im making real life relations so complex. I have seen people who never think about how they think, who never go deep into why and what in day to day life, who just live their life without any stress but still earn good. What i am trying to ask is, is this normal for everyone. The more work you do, the more problems you solve, the more complex thinking your mind will start doing and this will affect your day to day life to think too much about ifs and elses in relationships.

Problem solving vs Relationships ( Not just love )

Data Analyst

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I AM NOT TALKING MONEYYY. 

I understand most of you who have switched is either for financial reasons or maybe change in role or work or even bad boss. 

I am talking about an angle from where your work is good, team is good so is culture. And most importantly you are being respected and have amazing peace of mind, stress free life.Yes salary might be low, but again there never will be a limit where some should stop and not ask for more money.

I am at this point, where pay is decent and genuinely don’t feel to switch. But it’s just that people everywhere are talking about switching, and comparing that this guy earns more than you. People are like you should switch and earn more money etc. 

But haven’t found anyone who feels the same as i do. In good place where I am. What do you think?

Does swtiching really help?

Software Test - QA

Heya... 
New to this app... 
Experiencing a hard life like others (in this era mostly are struggling) been in a serious relationship it's been 5 years all things are going good but family is not convinced for marriage my side family is good with it but other end family is problematic it's like if this marriage happens they all will die n blah blah this is basically drowning me mentally apart from this complicated job not have good terms with my manager somehow he is trying me leave this job by myself..... So my question after stucking in so much things how to live life

Stuck in relationship and job issues

Finance Operations

This is a serious question. Sometimes I read comments from people saying how they have been unemployed for "x" years. How do they pay rent? Buy groceries? How is it possible to be unemployed for years and not be homeless? Maybe I'm naive from asking this question.

How do people survive while unemployed for years?

I have been recently feeling very lost and confused in life. I do have a loving family and a stressful job and somehow i feel I am not at all happy from within. My job is shit and gives immense pressure. I have just entered my 30s and due to this sedentary lifestyle I have developed health issues such as pollen allergy, have gained weight :(  the way i used to look like probably 2 years back, i dont look like that now. Want to use this space to start a thread with people dealing with same situation and ways to cope up the stress and get this to a better track.

This normal way of living life is 75 hard challenge now.

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