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Career Advice Needed-AI Scientist

Hi all, I'm an AI Scientist at a startup in Bangalore with 3 years of experience. I’ve worked across tech and business—building full-stack Python apps (Flask, FastAPI, DB), including a RAG-based NLP tool, and deploying them end-to-end. While I’m a jack of many trades, I lack deep specialization, especially in AI. I’m passionate about NLP but haven’t had the chance to explore it deeply. Lately, growth feels stagnant. I’ve been applying for jobs but haven’t had much success in interviews. I'm now considering Data Engineering courses to expand my skillset but unsure if that’s the right move. My goal is to switch to a better role with a good package by year-end. Would love advice on whether to focus on NLP depth, pivot to data engineering, or any other path worth exploring. Thanks in advance!

Leaving job with having job

I'm feeling really uncertain about my career right now. I don't feel motivated to work here or even search for another job, even though I've started updating my resume. I'm not sure if leaving without having another opportunity lined up is the right move, but I also don't know if I want to continue on the same career path. Lately, I've been questioning everything, and it’s been weighing on me heavily—sometimes I even wonder if I might be dealing with something deeper, like depression. I feel so lost and unsure about what to do.

Am I getting arrogant or thinking right?

So after building my venture for over six years, in January,22 I decided to move on and in Sept,22 I joined an early stage startup led by ex-CXO of a small vertical of Indian IT giant. i joined as early employee to lead product, but over time I have been moved across multiple things without my consent, but I continued doing in and out across as pre-sales, customer success and blah blah. Over the last 1 and half year, the company just got few clients with around total revenue of 15 Lakhs annual. On the sides, I started building my venture as well and built a small team of 4 people, launcjed the product and is doing good in terms of revenue. With the limited time I am able to give after spending 10+ hours doing nothing at my job, at my startup we have scaled well and are doong decent enough monthly revenue of around 6.5 Lakhs and are growing as well. Now, at the place where I work, few people including founder come and give me some gyaan but I don’t like it. Not because I don’t want to learns but because I feel these gyaans are one-sides and comes with limited view. IRL, I have executed better than what they are doing with a better capital efficiency and with very small team. I don’t like what they say. Am I getting arrigant or am I being selective to who do I want to learn from and what? I don’t want to turn arrogant and someone who miss staying grounded. In my venture I listen to my team, my people, my users and stay as much humble as possible, but when it come to my job place, I don’t like them. PS: I am not leaving the job because for the next 2-3 months, I don’t want to burden my company with my salary expense and also my marriage is scheduled so don’t want to eat my savings.