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Hi Fishes, need your guidance. I am having below offers. Please help me to decide.
Publicis Sapient - 16LPA + PWFH
Valuelabs - 18LPA + PWFH
I want to know in terms of Brand value, WLB, career growth, learning opportunity & job security.
*Also is it safe to join service based company with such a high package in respect to my YOE?
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YOE - 2.3Yrs
CCTC - 7.25LPA
Techstack - Frontend Development (React) College - Tier-3
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Hi All,
Please guide do Joining Cognizant on Contractual role is worthy or not?
Current Situation - due to bgv not completing as one of my company as per CTS is black listed so they changed my hiring from permanent to contractual role.
Please guide as I have no knowledge of contractual roles. 🙏
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Have you considered AA? Everything you are writing is just how I felt when I chose to get sober. My program now is about letting go of the resentments and understanding I can’t control everything — what other people do especially. I used to numb myself every evening with drinks. It made me a worse everything — husband, dad, boss, employee. Now I have a solution. There’s still rough days, but I’m not flailing about and angry or disappointed or afraid all the time. Hit me up message me if you wanna talk.
The toughest thing is not to drink that first day/night. I have been through the same and thought I was going to drink everyday for the rest of my working life. It felt like I deserve a drink after work. It was my reward for “dealing”. You’re only making it harder on yourself. Try not to drink for one night. You’ll feel better the next day. Then, that next day, try not to drink again. After three days you’ll get a rush from achieving this. Believe me, it’s not easy but you can get there. AA never worked for me. And always felt like a religious cult. The strength to change this is in you, not anyone else. And only you can help yourself. Wish you luck
I lived like that for years and AA changed my life. Highly recommend it. Happier now than ever and it keeps getting better.
I had a very similar relation to stress and how it fueled my drinking. For me, developing a solid dedicated meditation practice has really helped pull me out of the muck. For me the practice is not about “relaxing” although that is a side effect. Rather it’s about creating a healthy relationship to my thoughts/somatic feelings, seeing them as transient, not taking them as personally as “truth” and spinning them into a bigger (usually false) overwhelming story. A year plus and it’s really provided me a 180 in my perspective. This is supported by attending Refuge Recovery meetings where meditation is one of the primary practices. Happy to chat if it would be helpful
I recommend trying a meeting a day for 30 days, it sounds like a lot, but I was able to go to a bar everyday for much longer. You don't have to say a word, simply show up and listen. I HATED AA! For almost a year, but I was stubborn to prove it did not work. So I listened and did what they said so they can't say I didn't try when it didn't work. I now have 10+ years sober and I'm going to show them it doesn't work. Lol. I hate asking for help, but I couldn't fix my thoughts with my own thoughts. That saying really stuck with me. Hope this helps a little
AA provides a forum for identification. When you hear other people share their struggles who have time sober sometimes hear your own story and that gives you hope that you can do it too. It really works if you have the ability to keep an open mind and not look for the differences.
Read Naked Mind by Annie Grace. Changed my life!!