[Thread] What's something that didn't workout and NOW you are glad it didn't
StingyMob
Stealth
7 months ago
Looking back I am glad that the plan of stopping with a single child didn’t workout as expected. I didn’t know that it would just double the happiness, both for us and our elder child.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Ah yes! My brother has been the best gift my parents ever gave. It is a blessing to have siblings
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BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
So many will relate 😆
Gohan_goku
Stealth
7 months ago
Epic answer
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SpeckOfCode
Stealth
7 months ago
Didn’t get through the job interviews at a bunch of companies during the 2021 boom..
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
I didn't either
But don't see how it worked out. Did it for you?
SpeckOfCode
Stealth
7 months ago
Those cos were among the first ones doing major layoffs in 2022. So, I feel I could have gotten easily laid off had I converted and joined.
At one point I wanted to quit engineering and join journalism. Damn glad I didn't go through with that idea
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
This is interesting. How journalism? What caught you eye there?
I was reading too much of Hemingway and Hunter S Thompson those days. Great writers, average journalists - not the best role models to inspire anyone thinking to go into journalism
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Relationship with my ex. She cheated on me behind my back, and I idiot didn’t realise this (I had doubts, but gave her the benefit of the doubt), and after we broke, eventually I got to know everything.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Shitty shitty place to be. Glad it didn't
My ex. Our relationship lasted for almost 10yrs, she didn’t cheat on me but when I was going through a tough time, she left me and found someone else.
I’m glad this happened as I was so focused on her that I neglected my career. Now I’m doing better every day. It’s been 4 years now and I haven’t dated anyone or even thought about it bcs I have trust issues and don’t want anyone else to be above me, my family or my career.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Can I ask a personal question though - why 10 years? Weren't you dating to marry?
It began in 9th class in school. Yea we used to dream about our wedding when we were nibba nibbi, mostly till college. But then, as I was preparing for some exams and she was working so you know, people become practical.
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BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
I'll go first
I was studying to be a doctor. Multiple factors
Glad it didn't work out, I wouldn’t have lived this long if I had got into it,
Had interviewed at a company, messed up the final behavioural round. Didn’t know how to handle rejection then and was sad for quite a few days.(Yes! That was my 2019 WC semifinal Dhoni dismissal moment.) I used to overthink of how differently I could have answered those questions.
Cut to 6 months later, I had joined a new company. The company which rejected me did a round of layoff where I learnt that the new hires were impacted.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
This feeling! Initially it breaks us, but glad we could swim across
D0nkey05
Stealth
7 months ago
One sided love :)
Frostygig5
Stealth
7 months ago
Hard relate. But I don't see how it worked out ?
Not me but WhatsApp founder was rejected from Facebook few year later they bought WhatsApp fro $19B
GrapeGodfather
Stealth
7 months ago
My first job.
GrapeGodfather
Stealth
7 months ago
It was shit.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Haha first jobs have their own charm (and trauma 😂)
Well last year had been really tough for me, went through a breakup, had a couple of accidents, lost my college friends and lost my job as well. It is after all these events that I realised how ungrateful and thankless I was about my life.
Today, I have a great stable job, a great group of very close and small friends and a healthy body. Best of all, I'm no more depressed and am really grateful and thankful for the life that I have today. Also, everyday I wake up I actually look forward to the day. Have a lot of things planned for this year, so powered to achieve them all!!!
Had a crush on a girl at Nibba Nibbi age. She too knew that but fell for a student who was richer than me and pampered her a lot. Glad it didnt work out, I realised how temporary things are in life and how people care about your money and success only. Hard pill but got to know that World runs on money and other materialistic stuff but not on love.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Zumbala I thought you were a girl yourself 🙊 Grapevine can be so unpredictable
Dont worry madam, I aint that lucky GenZ rich girl 🤣 who gets to choose whatever she wants in life 🤣🤣
Waddup
Student
7 months ago
Wanted to be a cricketer but I'm glad it didn't workout. Engineering degree saved me.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Do you still play though? Like weekends?
Waddup
Student
7 months ago
I have left cricket at the age 18 (6yrs played at district level) after I realised there is future for me in cricket as my father don't have much influence. Now I just enjoy watching cricket on tv with my baba.
I tried rock hard for Paytm. I cleared all technical rounds but was rejected in last round. I was upset and even asked HR multiple times to reconsider. Glad that I didn’t get into that organisation
My previous workplace. I wasn't mentally prepared to leave it myself. So glad I got the chance to be out of that toxic place.
Got my dream job in 2018, planned to retire from there. Realised within 6 months that’s it’s a horrible place to work. Put in my papers by the 9th month. Took a pay cut and joined the first company I could. Got to know of an opening at a client’s place so changed my profile and it has worked out so very well for me since then
WorldHello
Stealth
7 months ago
Failed a client interview for a really good project, still waiting for the good thing to happen, new internal project uses Nest.js, that's a good thing ig
Node
Stealth
7 months ago
Nothing. Cos nothing every works out for me.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
I guess that's the whole point :)
I honestly wanted to give an answer. I thought for a full day about it. I have no moments where something ever worked out remotely close to what I wanted. Wow. Suddenly life feels depressing. Thanks for making me hate biryani even more ತ_ತ
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
7 months ago
Hey Napolean, Maybe that's how great life is, you didn’t have to go through down moments to feel happier.
How could you hate biryani fr 😭😭