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Hi Folks,
Hope you all are doing well.
I have multiple offers in hand from the below-mentioned companies.
Need your inputs and suggestion regarding which company would be better to join in terms of career growth and opportunities in Data Engineer role.
ITC Infotech
Telstra
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Bosch
All companies are giving offers around 18-20(Fixed +Variable).
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Always take a break. It's your time. I get that some deadlines need to be met but surely that's not all the time. You're basically giving the company free work. Don't feel guilty (I know, easier said than done) but breaks are important. Do others stay at their desk? If so, maybe be the one to break the norm of sitting through and getting away from your desk. Others might follow and that will help with your guilt
Sometimes the only way to do a thing is to do the thing. So go... take your lunch away from your desk. Watch a YouTube video or a TV show. It'll help.
Even though you have good intentions by wanting to work as hard as possible your boss will probably think you’re a weirdo or slow at your work because you need to sit at your desk during lunch. They won’t say it but they’ll secretly put you at the top of the list of people they’ll get rid of if they need to because you aren’t a “team player” even if you are the best performing person in the team.
Always take a break. Make it a priority. The work will still be there and working through lunch doesn’t actually mean that you will get more done. It could actually be counterproductive. And ditch the guilt.
You keep staying at your desk, they'll get used to it and start hitting you up for work in your lunch break. I take time out at lunch and sit in an old lounge chair in the office parking area. Bugger sitting at your desk. You need to take time out and hit the reset button.
Our Admin would eat lunch at her desk. Never understood it. I needed to go home to let my dog out, I only lived 10 minutes away, however ;you will be taken advantage of.
Do some Renegotiations, if you work through lunch have break later or combine smoko & lunch enjoy a 45minute spell. Just because the herd heads to the trough might not be enough room to drink. Too many cattle tend to knock the troughs over, stagger your times, beat the stampede. imagine having 20 people wait for 2L kettle to boil. The last person wasted their time.