How to survive among folks who are career obsessed ?
Personally I work and have a career just to pay my bills and get freedom to do things I really want to do in life. But corporate is filled with people for whom their identity is their career or company. Such people make it difficult for people like me because these people will work weekends or holidays to increase shareholder value and their own career desires. How to work with such people and keep boundary when it comes to my own time/weekend/holiday ? It’s more trouble when such people are in hustle mode.
Why other people's hustle is bothering you? If you don't care and just working for paying bills??
Basically, OP is not bothering at all. It's the other person who is setting this benchmark that why can't others work the same way and stay competent. It's basically us, the Indian mindset, we always compare ourselves with others.
They are imposing the hustle onto me. I might become as culturally unfit if I don’t keep up.
I'm not married, don't have gf either, don't plan on getting one soon either. It's just gym, work, sleep. Maybe I'll find the right woman again, and life will change, but until then..
Same place lol
Ha ha In the same boat. Guess we are god's lonely men
Why do u think it's called a rat "race"
I'm a workaholic. I really don't have anything else going on in my life so I just concentrate and think only about work. People like us exist because of the environment we're in. Would appreciate a little less judgement.
Not judging such folks. Its when such ppl in position of power make others below them work with same expectation
Go office, do your work by giving your 💯, get paid, go home...that's it...you don't need to maintain friendship/relations there...just have a formal relation with them that's it... because work is Not life...there is a life outside work..we have family, friends, our hobbies and so many other things..
💯 sadly to keep up, I would need to spend time outside work hours. But I don’t really want to do that. It’s like in work hours most of the time goes into talking, discussing and then later you can get to your work
Nothing to worry if you see your co worker is obsessed with career just destroy them ,Put allegation, office rumours for 4-6 months they will leave job… create atmosphere in team that everyone hates them , no help nothing just isolate them from every where.
😅 kinda dark but they can do that to me as they have more tribe.
You work in navi , which is filled with over achievers ( IIT , IIM )
Seriously this career obsessed guys are setting so much expectations to peers like us, and managers mindset will always be in terms of comparison to others no matter how much you improved from last quarter/year to this year. This is all a cycle. The system is bent and ultimate goal is to create sophistication to wide set of people by sacrificing the lives of subset of people 😏
Exactly. Managers and some of those people have more skin in this game i.e. they’ve been in the company long enough to not think about anything else and they get equity/esops too. So it makes sense for those people but for rest it makes no sense and they should be able to contribute at that level
Unpopular opinion - But if you think about the so called high performers in your team, they must be thinking that people like you (Someone who is their peer who gets the same pay and is assumed to take up a similar level of responsibility if not additional) pull them back. Everyone has things to crib about. If you don't want to contribute, please don't. But don't make the mistake of thinking that it doesn't come with repercussions. You have to make peace with not being appreciated and compared. Corporate, and in fact life is cynical this way. People who are overworking must have sacrificed something to be where they are. Choose your battles and try to co-exist with things that come as the result of your choices (or aren't under your control). Focus on things that can make your life better. If work isn't that aspect that satisfies you, so be it.
I get what you mean and I am fine with that. But these people insinuate that I’ll be out of job if I don’t match them.
That's definitely wrong on their end. And I don't think they are capable of doing that as long as you are doing your part. You can try establishing clear boundaries or maybe consider switching teams/organizations.
Will you complain if hustlers get 2x/3x the increment than you ?
Nope
