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

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

Questioning life choices currently. I think I gave taken the wrong path for myself. I don't really know what would suit me.

I know that it's alright to f around and figure out stuff early career but I'm worried about my salary and career trajectory. As in, I do not want to be stuck in entry level roles forever.

What do you think? Any anecdotes?

Would changing fields+jobs frequently affect your career/salary trajectory?

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What would you do differently in your life?

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If you had enough money in your life so that you don't have to work for money, would you still do the same job you are doing?

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Hi All,
I am 2019 pass out IT engineer, have always been good with studies. Good at job also. I got married in 2021 during covid and after that I started looking more for a stable job and stayed with SAP. It’s been 4 years there, my learning is good, work life is good, people is good, money is not good.

What should I do? What should I prefer? Work life or money?

What am I doing wrong?

Software Developer

What are the career options that also pay decent?

So, here's more context-
Let's say you are in mid 20s, earning decent amount. But you haven't explored different jobs/work. Haven't been through much situations, etc.
Now, given a choice between staying always at this high paying job that you are good at vs exploring your life, what would you do?

Or would you be in the high paying job, work your ass off while at the same time part time work on other things and see what makes sense to you?

What will you choose?

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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?

Product Manager

> Got hired as an SDE with a good package.
> Came to the company expecting an SDE job
> Forced another role with little to no coding and in a field which I have no experience.
> Feels like college once again, studying something which you don't like
> Thought I would escape it if I join a company.
> These AHoles Fked it up for me.
> HR will reply 'business requirements', probably
> Pay is really good. 
> Dintech UnICron starts with R
> Should I consider quitting? 
> Is there an option to change teams within org?

Need Advice - SDE with No Coding Job

Investor

What should I am for?
- A well named startup or company at slightly lower pay?

- A high payed salary from the startup or a company that no one ever heared of...

Example:
Currently I am making 12 LPA as a marketer.
But I am worried about my future as I am finding it tougher to get hired for salary anything above than this. 

How about working at a fancy startup? (meesho, sugar, CRED, etc.) at a lower pay like 10 LPA - will it secure my future? As people prefer to hire ex-employee from these fancy startups. 

Or should I be searching for a 15 LPA or 20 LPA job but from a company or startup that no one ever heard about, adding no value to my CV while working there

What should I choose?

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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

Your opinion matters, I want you(Yes, You!) to tell us about your view.

Would you choose to work at the top companies for the rest of your life in the same domain and continue to climb up the ranks? Maybe, you switch every 3-4 years to other top companies and have the perfect resume.

It looks something like: 
Google ➡️ Meta ➡️ Amazon ➡️ Microsoft ➡️ Uber ➡️ Netflix etc.

Or,

Do you go for the unconventional path which shows a life well lived and an interesting story?

Maybe, you worked for a few years as an SDE and then  joined a smaller company as an MLE. 

Then, maybe a few years down the line you decided to start your own company in the AI/ML space. You fail but it’s okay.

You decide to use this experience to become a consultant at a BigCo. to gather capital. Then, you exit and go run an entire vertical at a Series B+ Tech Company.

It may look something like this, but can have any variation: 
Niche#1(big co.) ➡️ Niche#1(small co.) ➡️ Experimental Bet(running a co.) ➡️ Leverage Experimental bet(if fails) ➡️ Senior Leadership

Here’s my question to you, the reader:
What do you think? 
Which approach would you prefer?
Do you think it sounds good here but real life is different?

What would you choose for your career: The Perfect Resume👩🏻‍💻 or An Amazing Story🚀?

my_qualification: B.Tech IT from tier-3 college. 70%
I am 24 years old. I graduated in 2021 and had total 13 backlogs during UG and it took me 5 years to complete my degree. I am unemployed since my graduation and have been wasting my time on learning random things or multiple technologies at a same time. 2 months ago I decided to go to Canada for masters and my family supported me, my friend suggested me MS Data Science because he is Data Scientist in Canada. So, I gave IELTS in March and scored 7 band. Recently I had a talk with an Agency named Canam. And they suggested me to get Experience Letter + offer letter + LOR from employer + last 6 months payslip also Backlog Certificate from college but I don't have any of these things. What should I do in this situation? How should I move forward? How can I get my life on track? I'm just confused and not sure what should I do.

How can I get my life on track? What should I do in this situation?

Frontend Engineer

I would certainly be a music composer.

Also, would have an amazing restaurant outlet. 
It would also have an open air cafe which would serve various kinds of coffee and it would also have a cute live pianist. Wooden flooring, bamboo walls, itialian stone roofing and vanilla aroma. 


Agar koi mere muh pe 10cr maare toh abhi ke abhi chalu kar du yeh sab, lekin kya kare, gotta pick high-paying jobs order to build a financial assurance.

If money wouldnt matter, what creative profession would you choose?

Data engineer

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.

Software Engineer

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Reality of market value for people in 40s and 50s: most people find themselves replaceable, their market value drops and difficult to switch career. Thoughts/comments?

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I am a python Developer having experience of 7.3 years. In this span I have worked as a Data Engineer with Geospatial data, RestFul API Developer, Away API gateway Integration and development Engineer. Right now since last 1.6 years working as ML engineer (80% software development+ 20% Data science exposure to me, There is Data scientist team for model development). Now I want to switch but confused that should I learn Deep learning in deep and practice in my current project before switch or I should master DSA and UI (React JS) and switch as SDE or Lead position. 
Adding to my tech stack, I have good knowledge to work with AWS, and Azure and using python SDKs for both. Beginner/Good experience with Docker kubernetes as well.

Please suggest me so that I can make a choice to switch my company and get place in a Good org with good payment and work culture.


Thanks in advance.

Career Option to stick On ??

Hey! A bit background about me, 2023 grad, cs @ tier 1 university, currently at SDE role earning ~1.5L. I do have a decent network, good communication skills (sab to bolte hai), good drive ig. I’m also good at CS and probably can get good offers and good growth (high rating on codeforces). I was always aligned with entrepreneurship and I definitely don’t see myself working at a job after ~7-8yrs 

My father wants me to join the family business in the next year, I can prolly make 10x within months and will be having full ownership later, might be able to grow much more later.

Simply it seems like joining is the obvious choice, but that means sacrificing my whole career that could have been different, smart friend group, and other pros.
Honestly passion is not an issue, I think earning money is my only life goal :p

Family business vs Job

Analyst

This is mostly for people who have spent 10+ years in the industry. I’m sure we all can agree that the hiring and salary boom that we witnessed in 2021-22 is mostly over now. Now it’s more about surviving the job market rather than printing asymmetrical amount of money

But how has it turned out for people who’ve been in the game for too long. I know some people who switched jobs too quickly and are at a higher package but still not content. At the same time, I know a few seniors who’re still in my first company and are happier than ever with the work.

I understand that in Tier-1 cities, the expense itself is more and you’re sometimes forced to switch just to stay afloat. But what would you recommend new joiners based on your experience? Does chasing money in early years help later or only focusing on skills?

Chasing money or skills? What paid off at the end?

Should alter the choice during switches. 
  
 If a switch is taken for money then next switch should be for skill or promotion and so on

Which is a better option to increase salary/package ?

 switching roles in between different sectors like banking,audit,financial markets.

Or

To build a career in a specific area/sector.

Need career advice from experienced folks

External Audit

Hey folks , 
I've been in software was almost 5 years with 4 years experience in React Native (was a lead react native dev in previous job) , around 10 months native Android (Java). I've also worked on the backend (mostly nodejs, postgres stuff, integrating with payment gateways, queues - worked as a fullstack dev in fintech mostly in the FASTag space for a big private sector bank)  with basic exposure to AWS (ec2 , Lambada etc) 
I am now done with JS and have taken a career break to explore new technologies , get better at DSA and become a better programmer. I am thinking of learning Swift for iOS as I love working on mobile apps and also started learning golang as I always wanted to learn a more versatile programming language that allows me to do low level stuff and seems like golang is a good stepping stone in that direction. 

Coming to the point and the main question:
Does changing stacks eg from react native to Swift for iOS or starting as Golang dev lead to a decrease in salary? Keeping in mind I don't have prior experience in golang at all . But I am guessing if I had to switch to native iOS in Swift there wouldn't be much of a salary drop?

Also I would appreciate if you'll had any tips for navigating salary negotiation in such a case . Should I settle for a lower salary and build my experience? Or demand a higher salary then my previous job ?

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