How did your personal life affect your professional life ? Share your positive/ negative experiences.
A lot.
Sister suffers severe psychological ssues.
Has been known since 4 years. Can't leave her alone. Trying to get her up on her feet has been a challenge since such people are not that socially acceptable.
We've had to juggle cities just so that someone is there to tend to her.
It drains the life out of your life.
Such things definitely affect professional life as you can't give 100% to your work when your mentally stuck at your home.
Gossipking
Stealth
8 months ago
Man , salute to you. Hope you had great sleep everyday without any negative thoughts.
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Casuallycrying
Stealth
8 months ago
My father's been sick for the past 5 years and I had to start working right after it to support my family. Haven't been able to take a single break because of that. Pretty drained out at this point.
Born and brought up in Delhi, and don't want to leave delhi and from the last 1-2 years rejected a lot of good companies bcz they are in bgl/Hyderabad.
noncorporate
Stealth
8 months ago
Bc isme kya struggle hai? Its a choice you are exercising. Bc kal ko kahega o2 lene ke loye co2 chodna pdta hai isme bhi struggle hai. Chutiya
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Very high. Ups and downs in personal life definitely changes the mood and affects professional life, and vice versa is also true. Difficult to have a switch that can be turned on / off so easily.
I have been on both sides of this impact. For a long period of time, I tried isolating my personal & professional life but it doesn’t work at all.
If things are good in your personal life, it will impact the professional life & vice versa. Then I started accepting it and actively trying to manage it.
Marriage is a very big factor, it’s a make or break decision in anyone’s life. I feel bad that people don’t take it seriously. It is THE most important project of your life and you start working on it the time you become an adult, a good 4-5 years of effort is needed to land a successful marriage. Even if you want to do an arranged marriage, working on your own before that helps a lot, your goals, lifestyle, fitness, savings everything.
And at the risk of being utterly obvious, the best thing you can do to yourself is cut ties with people who don’t make you feel good. Living alone is much better than being with negative people.
Want to echo that Marriage is really a make or break. Has a lot of impact. Totally agree 💯
Had a pretty bad time in my last job. Was in another fintech firm, and started liking a girl.
We then started dating, and things were great.
Ultimately, she wanted to move to marriage, and I wasn’t ready to commit. Things got tense, and we ultimately had to break up.
We had the same group of work friends, and it was just weird being in office afterwards. Nothing toxic, just weird.
It led to me wanting to switch out, ultimately
grapevibe
Student
8 months ago
Used to get frustrated at how certain people at work go about doing their job ( being casual and play it safe to save their job). With time, trying to settle down in my own thought as I can't change people. Learned not to take work emotionally
Negative here, but don't have regrets!
Parent diagnosed with a terminal illness meant I left a cushy job abroad and relocated to India
As his health deteriorated it became difficult to manage work and personal life from different cities, leading me to finally quitting work and taking care of him full time for a year.
Suffered multiple personal losses( partner leaving me) losing another job on the way, getting sick due to extreme stress.
Personal Opinion - Made me realise success and money means nothing unless your family is left to fend for themselves.
Your last line is so true and I can strongly relate to it. Your career doesn't depend solely on you and your performance. Your family situation also affects your trajectory. The biggest support a family can provide is to take care of themselves without our help. Its a blessing in disguise if you have such family
Personal life changed perspective on work life. Boyfriend is really supportive and gave great advice. Used to get very affected with work, not trying to be too emotionally invested at work anymore.
To be honest, I consider myself very lucky in this context. Was luckily usually mentally healthy. Parents never troubled me either when I was a student or when I became a working professional.
Haven't married yet, so none of that yet.
I think a lot of why I've had a breezy journey so far in corporate has to do with not having personal issues. And I always recognize that may not be the case for the person sitting next to me.
VagueElbow
Stealth
8 months ago
Dad got heart attack in between acquisition, got multiple health issues due to stress in the first startup. Psoriasis and white hair and liver issues. Weight gain. Suffered severe depression and still get random anxiety attacks.
Sometimes I do wonder whether it's all worth it? Would a govt job be better with respect to health? What is the definition of success?
HealthyTrack
Stealth
8 months ago
My partner left me after a three-year relationship, right on the anniversary day; without a word. My sister ran away outta nowhere one fine evening, with a guy she liked from college. My grandmother passed away. All in the span of 3-6 months.
Only thing I could focus on was my work. Which I did. But the company messed up and that's when I realised, I gotta hit the therapy sessions. But it was a long way back, towards healing. Don't know yet, whether I'm still there. But I'm trying...
I was at top of chain in my Bangalore office. Post marriage, domestic issues creeped up in my life. Which shucked the soul out of my life. I got dragged away from work. At the same time, someone whom I had got into the company, saw the opportunity and grabbed it. Now he is the manager leading the team. Fml
Personal and professional lives are always intertwined. The more you think they both affect each other the more you will continue to face problems.
Live and own both of them ;)
AllMonkey5Saviour
Stealth
8 months ago
Fuck I hate corporate world i bring depression in life Bill Gates 3 days work is Right
AllMonkey5Saviour
Stealth
8 months ago
It YouTube is better
+1, 3 days work week would be great. Does it actually happen in any company or country?
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Have to stay at home as a parent suffers severe mental health issues.
So it involved doing crappy job in my home city.
Corona opened up things for me. But fcking mncs now trying to change that.
Negative Impact on work, social and relationship.
But given the same situation would make the same choices.
noncorporate
Stealth
8 months ago
Love stories soy boys please stay away. People have bigger problems than you nobita shizuka love stories.
My mom is a cancer patient, i need to take her to hospital every week for chemo and checkup to hospital. Initially my team was supportive, later on my lead started making issues- started taunting about my leaves , other members started doing politics , lot of micromanagement. When I reach out to my manager with this concern: he confirmed this will not get repeated. But no change in the work environment. It started affecting me big time . At the end I had to resign from this toxic place even without a job offer 😞
noncorporate
Stealth
8 months ago
You are the Laxman. Stand with strength. Good bless
Working in Infosys Pune.Had to shift from Mumbai as I was fed up doing wfh since 3-4yrs.Here in Pune office also the same situation.No one from my team is coming to office. I just come , fix bugs , pack my bag and go back to my rented flat. No interaction in office. Feel bad everyday to see other people enjoying their company in campus. But thing is I don't know how I can get involved with them.
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