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I'm Sarthak Misal, Currently a student who's about to finish his degree in Business Administration with Specialization in Finance.
Previously I've worked as a Partnership Associate and I've also got little experience in CRM, Business Development, Monitoring Industry Trends, Project management, Operations management.
Currently trying to secure a job before college ends, would be grateful for all the help :)
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Dear fishes, After working in Autosar(CAN/FR/OS) configuration for 4 years, I wanted to switch domain to device drivers. So I bought a STM board. Joined some udemy courses. Learnt SPI/I2C/NVIC/exception handling and FREERTOS/OS. Now I want to apply to companies like Nvidia Texas Instruments Qualcomm NXP Without any prior experience I am a bit nervous as people say the interviews would be very difficult in these.
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Enthusiast
I was laid off in April, and while at the time it was terrifying, I’m realizing I’m ALOT happier. Before this I was increasingly miserable for the same reasons you mentioned - although for me it was happening in the year or so before covid as my role changed on the engagements and we took on different clients in my market.
I still have no job today and I haven’t figured out what I want to do - especially since the job titles and descriptions haven’t stopped changing since this all started! But it’s the first time in years I’ve had a clear enough mind to think through it. It’s weird but I’m ok with things now, and losing my job has given me the time to redefine myself. I’m working on several passion projects that were previously side hustles that (fingers crossed!) I could one day turn into businesses so I don’t have to be an employee feeling this way again.
There is hope out there, friend. Sending you hugs while you work through things!
I know how you feel. WFH has made me realise that the actual work I do is not for me at all.
The only part of the job I actually enjoyed was meeting all the different clients, travelling to client businesses and working with the team.
Being stuck in my house disconnected from all of that has really changed my perspective but what I would say is this is really unprecedented times with lockdown and nothing like this has ever happened in recent years.
If the new normal of working shifts to a working from home focus then I completely agree with you that long term I don't think I can continue but I'm hoping that we return to some form of normality by the end of the year.
I've also been considering leaving my job to do something else however you should think back to before COVID. Were you content with your job then?
Is it fair to judge your current role when it isn't the full picture?
Enthusiast
Didn’t enjoy my work too much prior to covid, however my team is great and I loved traveling with them/meeting clients every week. With covid, my firm is also extremely active on new pursuits and I don’t think there’s been a day where I have logged off before 8pm or otherwise had to work later at night (working eastern time so start the day at 7:30am)
Following in the hopes of a good reply being posted. I've struggled with this for a long time
You probably have free therapy with PWC through your EAP program, I cannot recommend it enough!
Enthusiast
Yes, I’m not worried about the cost. But the fact that I feel the need to go to therapy just because of the work I’m doing is telling
Rising Star
I’m struggling right now too with no depositions, no in person meetings, trials, etc. I can do the in-office grind, but not every day for months on end. The out-of-office events are what drives me and keeps my adrenaline up. I am usually in overdrive but now I can’t get in that groove. But I have found a couple things have helped recently (things I surprisingly never really did before):
1) once you hit a certain number of hours worked, just do a hard stop, draw the line and push work totally out of mind and focus on doing something you enjoy. Go outside, ride a bike, cut the lawn, talk to neighbors over social distances beers, etc. And don’t beat yourself up right now for not getting enough shit done... we become miserable when we keep carrying work around in our heads all night after we are done. I know this sounds simple but it’s been almost impossible for me for my entire career. I’m just now learning to do it.
2) just sleep - As much as your body needs (not wants but needs). When I start to flounder, I stop forcing myself to rigidly adhere to my morning schedule of getting up before 6 am to attack the work day like a savage. Sometimes I don’t want to and need to cut myself some slack. I am not saying be a pile and sleep all day, but when you feel dead and out of focus, just let yourself sleep in and don’t worry about the late start. Sometimes we need to feel like we have some more control.
Rising Star
Nope, still very busy - it’s just all the background stuff people don’t realize is going on before the trials happen - and a lot of plaintiffs lawyers are putting cases in suit now. Covid is also generating litigation and that will probably continue.
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Love what I do — but struggling with the loss of person to person interaction.
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