I am on the same boat as you. I won't saybim struggling with loneliness but I'm really missing out on networking, and work related discussions that usually happen in offices. Where you get those lateral ideas from. Being a local from here I'm not wholly open to the idea of moving to Gurgaon for work either except from quarterly visits (which honestly doesn't help with visibility that much)
I tried Coffee Mug, and cold networking with relevant folks on LinkedIn within Bangalore. Didn't find Coffee Mug that useful tbh, the networking on LinkedIn stopped but people don't really have time to meet a rando without an agenda. So stopped that now as well.
Last year I changed my approach and thought instead of socializing professionally with am agenda, let me just focus on getting out of home and meet people. So I took up volunteering, social dancing and board games events. Again, at this point I'm unable to tell how much this is/ or will help me in my career. But I feel moderately better, and not that I am an un-social persons, a lot of people skills were refreshed from doing these activities. Oh, and took 2 separate month long solo vacations as well.
On the career part I built a annual long learning plan, to keep myself skilled. Alas, I'm not a tech guy either so going to Meetups wasn't really helpful either.
Looking to see if anyone has anything to share on this here.
