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.

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.

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.

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.