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What's the most valuable skill you've learned in your career that wasn't taught in school?

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What are the most valuable skills you believe are not taught in formal education?

What's the most valuable thing you've learned from a younger colleague?
How has it impacted your work or perspective?

I recently learned how to cook properly at 35, and it's been a game-changer. I'm saving money, eating healthier, and actually enjoying my meals. It got me thinking about other skills I wish I'd picked up sooner. 

What's a skill you wish you had learned earlier in life? Something that's made a significant difference in your day-to-day living or overall happiness?

What life-changing skill do you wish you'd learned earlier?

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I have 7 years of experience in IT with Mobile technology especially iOS. But now I can see there is not a big, long run and easy adaptive market in future to stick with technology. People with 3-4 years of experience can do the same what I am doing now. Although I have Team build and project management skills also but those are another level of headache. I have some experience with back end Tecnologies also and I love technical work and problem solving things. So I want to know want to know what I need to start learning next which is in high demand and high in pay and what are the various steps to learn those things.
Some suggest AI, ML things some suggest Cloud Computing etc but nobody know what’s it way to grow with it. 

So I need your help with some brief short guidance  for what I need to learn next. I am open for It.

What’s next I need to learn ?

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What's one skill you wish you had developed earlier in your career?
How do you think it would have changed your career path?

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What’s the most important career advice you’ve ever received? It could be anything, an advice from your colleague, a lesson you learnt the hard way, or a piece of wisdom that changed your perspective! 🌟🌟

Share Your Most Valuable Career Advice🚀

1. Work hard in your job. Don't complain and waste time. We know everyone is replaceable, but work so damn hard that if at all you decide to resign and switch sometime, it should come as a shell shocker to them.  
 Build a program/product/team from scratch, own it end to end so much that they'll never find anyone close to you who can work with the same efficiency. 
 You'll obviously take your learnings and apply them later on in your next job, but 
 You'll also earn the respect of all your colleagues which might be needed in your future corporate journey. 
 2. Don't chase money early on in your career unless you actually**need** it. Focus on building relationships, knowledge, learning to code (it helps) and earning respect of your colleagues wherever you go. 
 3. Don't get into smoking due to peer pressure. AVOID IT.

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something you would be able to use to earn a living without a formal job as well, maybe by starting something of your own

for me it's my ability to seamlessly work with tech, product and business teams

What are you really good/skilled at ?

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It could be monitoring competitors products regularly or personal branding. Would love some insighs.

What is that one career skill which is very important yet highly underated?

Travelling over the next few hours. Thought of doing an AMA. 
First job out of college, 8+ year experience. TC :1.8cr

L6 staff at google- AMA

I was laid off last year, the CTC was reasonably high there (110k USD base, not practical in India ik... Maybe that's why they had to cut us off). That of course was quite a down time but I was happy that I had a lot of side projects in hand, and was up to date with the tech stack. It's something I learned, "A company is a company, nothing less or more than that.

Curious to know, what are your lessons from these times? That one thing you wish you told/reminded yourself before these lay offs?

To me, it would be:

1. Stay humble. Your salary or your company shouldn't define your attitude.
2. Keep learning. Find time for your personal growth.
3. Stay active in the community, be aware of what's happening. Be it good or bad, it can come to you as well.
4. Save while you can! Savings have helped me a lot.

P.S: I mentioned my base pay from prev salary not to boast about it, there is nothing to boast about tbh
... It's just to mention more context.

Lessons from the layoffs?

What's the most valuable soft skill for a product manager?

Do you agree?

The storm is not AI.  
 It's the uncountable number of fresh graduates standing behind you to do the same job.  
 But due to AI and online resources the gap between you and them is very small. 
  
 And companies have realised that they can always cull the herd and still an infinite number of near qualified people are ready to step in. 
  
 And it will slowly spiral to the bottom.

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What would be the one professional lesson that you wished had learnt early in in your career ?

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The number of times I've heard people say shit like 'traveling makes you grow as a person'. Someone please specify what this growth looks like because I've never experienced it.

I don't think traveling is life-changing. I think most people have a romanticized, cinema-like idea of traveling that has been exaggerated even more because of social media. 

It definitely is fun to go on a vacation. But in most cases, that's all it is -- a source of entertainment. Maybe an ice-breaker the next time you go to some pretentious party. 

Am I missing something?

Is travelling overrated?

It depends how & where u travel.  
  
 I will put a quick example - Someone close to me always assumed ki roads usually breakdown in monsoons because it is normal in india. Once they traveled abroad and to a tropical island where rains are very common. After seeing the roads there, first comment was - “Roads don’t break always due to rains”. So, this was a life long learning for that human, broke the mirage of road quality and execution in India.  
  
 Similarly, once I went to a 3-days long trek with a friend to inner jungles of SEAsia. We had to carry drinking water with us & took bath in flowing river. If you have seen “Iss jungle se mujhe bachao” (desi version of fear factor) was shot there. This friend of mine after landing back made a statement “yaar jisne bhi shower invent kiya hai, it’s a big gift”. Takeaway from this travel was - He was able to appreciate the simplest thing which we take for granted.  
  
 Many people learn new things about culture, practices of a new place. My personal surprise was when I traveled to Bali and saw similarities between theirs n ours practices. Helped me to go back n read about various things of empires.  
  
 Multiple such stories, so yeah, it depends!

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Suppose you could be very good, like, REALLY good at something that very few people could do, what do you imagine being?

It's okay for it to be unrealistic or unrelated to what you currently do.

For example, being an international snooker player 🤷🏻‍♂️ or mastery in woodwork specific to making storage/usable compartment based "russian dolls".

What's the wildest or absurdly normal thing can you think of?

If you could choose a mastery, what would it be?

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Haven't come across one fruitful contribution of the MBA to the human race. 

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