Hello folks,
I'm from raxaul; a border town between Nepal and India.
I remember only I guy from our colony had a pc back then I used to play road rash and project IGI their,from then on I wanted to be a computer engineer so that I could build games like this.
After my 10th I along with some of my friends went to kota as that was the only option left for small towner. I joined Allen for jee.
I dreaded everyday in kota. All these gloomy classes and endless test sheets. Just before jee my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and I had to travel back to my hometown to take care of the family.
Wasn't able to focus in my exams and the results were terrible. I was suggested by a friend to give wbjee. Didn't score that well and also I couldn't drop a year so I joined a tier 3 college in Kolkata, fortunately got CSE. College life was a bit ok. 4 years passed not a single company came for campusing and I was almost jobless till I cracked TCS.
I joined this Industry in 2018.
TCS put me in a support project where I basically had to solve service now tickets. Same work everyday all day. Unable to learn anything and change the project I decided to quit . I only had an offer from cognizant so I joined them, big mistake. In cognizant during interview I was told that this was a java development project.
I believed them,
Boy was I wrong.
I was put in a manual testing project where I basically had to make excel sheet comparing values from db and APIs. Finally after much struggle I changed my project where I'm currently working, it's somewhat of an automation project (10% auto rest manual).
Mainly I run different batch process,check api health , prepare test cases and work on existing automation framework.
Worst part is there is no wlb no time to learn.
For the last 7 months I'm working 6days a week. 10 to 9pm.
Office will open next month and I'll relocate to Bangalore.
I had always thought I'll be somewhere now but I'm nowhere near where I had thought I would be.
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Don't where I'll be next year hoping it will be somewhere better.
A lot my friends left this and went to US, Europe for masters.
I won't be able to leave my family here as I'm the sole earner so I'm stuck here.
Working on a dead end job. It's almost feels impossible to be able to escape now.
Don't what will happen, someday I just wish to die.
Nowadays even playing games seems like a humongous task. Can't take this anymore. Don't remember the last time I was happy.
Seems like that industry sucked the soul out of myself. Sorry for the long post, here's something I made long back.
TC 6.5 LPA
YOE 3.8
comments
People does have their own problem and that's what life is all about.
We fall and we get up. Be the man and prep hard.
Back in 2015 I dogged Mphasis (2.5Lpa package) and joined a mid size startup at (4Lpa)
But kept grinding geeksForGeeks without complaining for a good 3 years. Then Landed in FAANG and recently moved to MS.
So bottom line is now there are bunch of resources, community and free support. Stop crying and get up do LC hard and nail every other interview mate.
You got this.
Trust me this is very easy just needs consistency.
PS :
I am from Bettiah not so better place than yours!
I was in similar situation a while back, was working in another consulting company.
I started reaching office two hours early, those two hours were reserved for preparation. Then I didn't care how my day went, since I already achieved my interview preparation target for day.
Doing it consistently for 3 months, I was able to switch to a great product based companies, which brought positive change, and then there was never looking back.