Take more (calculated) risks anon
Starting from scratch isn't always bad
Western advice does not work here. They don't have to worry about school fees or emergency medical expenses.
My team member, a white american worked as english teacher in Germany. After 8 yrs of exp he came back to states and joined my company as a financial analyst.
In India, work as a QA testing role for 3 years, no one will hire for an SDE role. This is where we stand.
Have a gap of 3 years in resume, the rangoli idiots will ask you to take 50% cut in salary if lucky. Most of the time an interview call will not happen.
When we take big risk and fail, we will starve and probably go homeless in our country.
Ser my first job was a librarian. My last job was at a funded series A startup managing social media and digital strategy.
Indians also hire outside domains but it might come at a paycut or some other compromise. How many risk takers do you know who went homeless and are starving?
Course bechne valo se kabhi gyan nai lete
He runs acquire.com no? Must be making decent money anyways, not very operationally heavy platform either.
