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Hi All,
A suggestion required on the following companies. My personal details are YOE: 10+, Tech stack: React, Node, Express, Mongo, Jenkins, AWS(basics)
Offers in Hand:
Caterpillar Inc. : 37(32 Fixed)
@GE Healthcare : 44(38 Fixed)
How is work culture in Caterpillar & GE Healthcare?
Caterpillar: Don't know much about the project details, manager is friendly
GE Healthcare: Manager is like stretching work hours, weekend working etc.
Please help choose a company
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You can spend every second at work AND choose to not talk about it outside of work.
I try to:
Ask ask ask: Focus on asking others questions, to train myself not to talk about work.
Talk about ideas and life plans or wishes, instead of relaying boring office talk or business growth
Carve out time to sit down and think about what does a dream life look like for me? What do you want to experience in life, beyond work? And then dedicate even 30 mins per week towards bringing that to life.
Work is not a full life. And, you’re seeing, people find it boring to hear about. People want to hear about the human you inside. Not what you do.
This is all valid - thank you for taking the time to respond here, I appreciate it!
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Yes and I am only allowed 1 work related comment each day during the week and nada on the weekends.
Just a recommendation please don’t let work consume your life. We are only here for a short time and if you are in corporate no one really cares and we are all replaceable. Try to seek some balance in life, you will thank me later!
You are right for sure, I have been wondering though if the only way out to find balance is a career path adjustment
What are they wanting you to do instead?
I mentally shut my brain off in terms of work outside of work hours.
I focus my time on cleaning, working out, meal plans/food, kids/family, TV lol
Agree with RC1 -- you may just need to diversify your friend group. Sometimes relationships naturally ebb and flow or we grow into different phases before others.
Unfortunately, culture has shifted to a place that higher up’s preach “work-life balance”, but also view employees as at their mercy and disposal 24/7. This just isn’t conducive to anyone’s life. Personally, I have one really good friend in a different health system that we “talk shop” and all the crazy things that happen. We also have little girls 3 weeks apart in age. We tend to do things with the kids like have our weekly standing play dates and we workout after work 1 day a week. Something that stays with me my parents have always told me “you work to live not live to work”-by no means am I lazy I grew up on a 39 acre farm. There is always a line somewhere you just have to find it. I hope this was helpful.
Also, when you’ve got that feedback, are people saying you’re boring them, or that you’re boastful.
If it’s the latter, it’s a great opportunity to dig deep and figure out why you’re trying to impress people. Are you seeking external validation that you’re smart? Industrious? Wealthy?
Other people can’t make you feel whole.
And the act of trying to get that external validation can be very repellent.
It’s the former, they’re bored of it or it’s stressful to hear about - and that I get too into the details of my work/research that they understandably don’t have context (or care) about because they’re not getting paid to care like I am 😅
My husband and I have a rule- we can for sure talk about work, but we are both happily allowed to tell the other person if we’re not interested, bored or not in the mood to listen to the other person talk about work.
Then- I have a group chat with work friends for us to talk work crap whenever we fancy.
Works well! Haha