Guys, I recently switched to a startup that is operating fully remotely, where I am working as a software engineer. This is something that I consciously chose as I personally liked working from home. I have 2 years of experience in this field. In my earlier job, I was working from the office in mumbai, so I have lived in the suburbs of mumbai for around 1.5 years. I am turned 25 just a few months back.
I come from a small town in Rajasthan. I do have a bsnl fibre connectivity at home, which gives good enough internet connectivity as well. Living in a small town and with parents is great. I save almost all of my salary.
Now, here comes the confusion - being early in my career, i feel like I should live in the city, like bangalore, explore more things, but since I already lived in mumbai, to be very honest I didn't liked it to that extent as I am not the party guy, and too many people make it more worse, traffic I am not even considering.
I am kind of very simple. Home to office and office to home, on weekends maybe go to temples and explore some places around. I also have food choices, which makes it more difficult to survive. Like I am pure vegetarian and don't even eat onion/garlic, nobody in the home actually eats it.
No offence to anyone, but I feel extremely uncomfortable when i am asked to eat at restaurants where non-veg is surved during company offsites and all.
Now, just for the context, it's not that I never lived away from family. Actually, I am staying away from my family from very early school days, like 8th/9th standard. And somehow, I managed it all during all those years.
That is one of the reasons that makes me feel as if I should spend more time with my parents.
What would be your advice for me so that I don't leave behind in my career and at the same time live a balanced and happy life.
Also, considering my context, which city would you recommend me to relocate to? Or should I not even think about it?
As someone else said, set your base at your hometown, work from there for the majority of the month.
Since you are saving enough money, travel when you want to. Maybe 1 week a month you can work from a different location.
Or maybe you can do a few international trips through the year. Only when you feel like a change of location is needed and feel like exploring.
You’re right. Spend time with your parents as much as possible since you have a good relationship with them.
Don’t move to the crowded, polluted, noisy city. You are not missing out on anything, except networking and meeting new people - but I am assuming that is not a major goal for you
Exactly. And networking can happen while having workations too as plenty of people do it. Join an online group that organises work trips like this perhaps.
A city has nothing to offer you except for the people you live there with. If the city doesn't have the people you want to be with, leave the city. Your remote job offers you that luxury.
You will meet people on your worktrips so don't worry about networking either
People have given good advice, but another aspect you need to think about is marriage. Assuming you are a guy, and would get married in 2-5 years span of time. Finding a partner who would be happy to stay with you in small town is tough.
Go to meetups if u feel like u r doing disservice to ur career - mind u, u are not. Wfh don’t think would stay that long or in many orgs. So ur next switch is surely in hybrid or in-office setting. People have FOMO for everything nowadays and u r pretty much in same boat. No big city will beat what u have right now. Your career is a still a long road ahead so I wouldn’t be worried
Go back home and do workation from different places around India
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