Category: Career & Work
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124/365 On our deathbed we will not feel we could have spent more time in office
Talking about death is not considered the best thing in most cultures.. but there are many cultures where death is discussed… As mortals I think we all need to think about ourselves in deathbed and imagine how the world around us should be at that time. How we should feel… and how others would feel……
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123/365 It is not enough to be on the right track, if you don’t move you will be run over
There are times when I question myself…. if I am on the right track…. What we navigate in life is not always black and white and there are so many grey areas. The question is if we are on the right track and it repeats itself. And we need to answer.. but it is not…
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117/365 My Remote Work Chronology
Pandemic was a time when many people who had not done remote work started doing it. I was someone who had experienced remote work for several years in my career. But that did not matter because it was different now. I started remote working immediately after college when I started out on my own assembling…
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114/365 Corporate Handicap
I started working for the first time in a large corporation 5 months shy of my 40th birthday. Spending 17 years in the Tech field working in small companies and unsuccessfully running my own ventures. Finally there comes a first day at work kind of experience after 17 years of working. The place I got…
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113/365 A tale in Career Recovery
In 2010 I was at a crossroad with a mounting debt, no clear idea of a possible career even after spending 17 years in an Industry that has been booming all the while. In short I did not know what skill of mine can be sold or projected as being employable. On a September day…
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112/365 Decisions that might have cost me my career
There are decisions we take in our life that can cost us either immediately or in the long run. I have experimented a lot with my career and also made decisions and if I look back it has had its impact. I think it would be nice to reflect back. There is a price…. The…
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111/365 When I failed to blend Passion & Work
Find a way to get paid for your passion and you will not work for another day. That is what I have heard over and over again. You must have too… And magically your Passion and work becomes one and the same. How beautiful is that. Definitely worth trying. I have tried and failed.. not…
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110/365 Why do we work?
Work is the biggest part of our waking hour. For some folks the sleeping hour is so minuscule that work is all they have in their life. So Why do we work? Next few days I want to share with you some personal thoughts about work every day. I sometimes feel an alternative to work…
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109/365 My Failures from Lack of Motivation
One should learn from failures they say… true but my problem is choosing from all those failures in life. But even more my problem is I have kept on repeating a few things with out any attempt of learning anything. Why would that be? I often wonder… why would someone be doing that. You know…
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106/365 The Confessions of Quitter
The first time heard about the sunk cost fallacy, I felt like quitting every crap I was doing then. To be honest it felt like I was in this never ending journey and the things that I dread repeating itself. But that was a few years ago.. And Yes I quit what I was doing…
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