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Tata Consultancy Tech Mahindra Currently i am working with Tata consultancy and serving last month of notice period, about to join Tech Mahindra next month as a Project Manager (P1)
I don't know why i am getting 2nd thought and doubt to leave TCS and join TechM.
Can anyone please help and clarify my doubts. Is it a good decision to leave TCS and Join TechM at this moment.
Job security is main concern 😟
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Currentl Salary- 28 lacs
Future Salary- 40 lacs
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I can relate. Interactions at business school can be pretty superficial sometimes. It’s easy to make a lot of hi-bye friends but not so easy to build deeper connections because it’s hard to be vulnerable at bschool. I’m more of an introvert, so I prefer smaller groups and one-on-ones to really get to know people. Travelling with people is also great for bonding
This is just about life. Friendship requires real time. You have the most at school. Then at college. After then, it’s way harder to make friends. Many make them at work, at church, at sports, at kids schools - the places people spend time. Bschool is a great place to make friends. But don’t kid yourself that it’s as easy as college or HS to make deep friends. But you can, if that’s what you want.
Yeah me. My old friends will describe me as a social animal but in the MBA I just didn’t click with anyone. All relationships were superficial. My tips are:
- find a small group of folks and hang out with them most of the time. You can choose to do that based on interests, sports, ethnic clubs or other clubs.
- Dont worry about getting to know everyone in your class, find people who want to live in the same city as you post MBA. Those friends carry on for longer.
- Drink and party. I didn’t and I feel that it limited by chances to make bonds, but it wasnt something I was going to compromise on so no regrets.
When I had my Columbia interview, the guy (alumnus) was probably in his 40s and I asked him if he kept in touch with people. He gave me a long winded polite no, even living in NYC. After attending (a different bschool) I do think it’s the nature of the program that people are more transactional at this point in their lives, and you don’t tend to stay in touch for long unless you end up working in similar industries or same company, but even then it’s more of a transactional networking thing as opposed to real deep friendship.
That said I do know many people who met their spouses at BSchool. It may even be a reason/perk for some people to go in the first place.
Thanks guys—I’m definitely feeling that I haven’t developed friendships the way I wanted to/thought I would and now that I’ve landed my internship, it’s something I want to focus on. This is helpful.
In my experience, it is difficult in general to make true friends—not acquaintances, not colleagues you never see outside of the office, etc.—after undergrad. However, it’s not impossible. In my experience, I found that going to any activity with the sole purpose of meeting an interesting person or interesting people tends to be disappointing at best. I got an ex-husband out of doing that.
Just do things that you would be doing anyway (classes, organizations, etc.) or better yet, things you enjoy (in my case, barre class, volunteering, yoga, etc.) and let things happen organically! Other than friends I have known from college and before, that’s how I met some of my favorite people, developed a rather large network in a city where people aren’t exactly known for being friendly, and met my boyfriend.
Enjoy!!! 🥰