Happy New Year fellow Blinders! I wish you the highest TC, inner peace and good health going in 2023. Just wanted to share my Year in Review for 2022 below. Not really looking for any advice or validation but will put a poll to see how the kind folks of Blind think I did and because polls get a lot of visibility. Feel free to share yours in the comments or just read and smile as you piss your New Year's Eve drink. Cheers! TC: $357k | Potentially new TC: ~710k YOE: 8 Age: 31 These were my goals for 2022: - Change jobs to FAANG or Tier 1 and not a start-up (target management jobs) - GREEN - Improve respiratory health - YELLOW - Massage (1/two-weeks) - GREEN - Find places to volunteer - RED - Finish work at work, no excuses - YELLOW - Discipled approach to overall life - RED - No social media except for match days - GREEN - Write your blog on weekends (atleast once per month) - RED - No Fortnite - replace with games like FarCry, Chess and Golf - YELLOW - Meet friends for drinks on weekends/Fridays - go to nearby bar for drinks - YELLOW - Plan out long weekend trips - GREEN - Have 2-3 mentors by the end of this year - RED The Ws: - Quit all social media with no apps on phone for the entire year. Briefly use Blind only when necessary. - Landed a M1 EM dream job at Meta. Prepared 40hrs/week everyday for 8months. Some Ls because of this below. - Had sex 100+ times with the awesome wifey. - Got promoted EOY with 12% raise. Low stress at work and good WLB. - Got to 17% body fat. Lost ~15 pounds with a couple of months of healthy eating and 4x/week workout. - Hosted my Dad's first US visit after Mom passed away ~2 years back. - Travelled to 3 national parks, 17 cities and 9 states including one international trip to India. The Ls: - Struggled to quit smoking. Remained steady at 5-6/day. - Put a lot of pressure on the marriage when I was working + preparing with no time for the wife. - Current company delayed i140 filing by ~8months. - Got Covid and post Covid breathing troubles that wiped away ~1 month. - Don't know how to fall asleep without using the phone. - Couldn't join Meta due to hiring freeze and my stupid visa situation. (hope to join in 2023) - Currently losing ~$20k in the stock market at an investment of ~$100k. Only have a meagre savings of $300k which remained flat YoY. - Don't know how to cope with the loss of Mom that I was very very close with. I'm a guy so nobody cares. - Still not sure about kid and house. #NewYear #techcareer #faang #meta
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Love it. Congrats to you!
You did good job brah…! Happy new year..!🤗
Mphasis pays $357K?
Lol not with them. Using a friend's old blind account
TLDR. Massage in goals stopped reading 🤔
You got this my friend, keep going! 2023 will be a great year! You'll see
Thanks for posting this. It’s a great example of how we all can create goals and measure our progress towards them at the end of the year.