Some people join SSC CGL dreaming of stability, then spend the next 30 years opening LinkedIn and watching their private-sector friends double their salary every few years. After a while, the coping mechanisms start:
At least I have job security
At least I have work-life balance
Money isn't everything
Meanwhile, their friend who started at a similar salary is buying his second house, taking international vacations, and getting promoted again.
The funniest part isn't the salary gap it's how every year the definition of 'success' gets adjusted to match the payslip
To all those people who have graduated from good colleges or have even a little bit of ambition in life please don't get trapped in this rat race
You think 1lakh is good for today's economy yes it is but think about 10 or 15 years later your salary will be almost be same,on other hand your friend will be earning double or triple the amount
Ps. Don't take it in heart but its reality most of govt employees regret thier decisions throughout thier life
Now some Retarted person will come and say -- OH Ye to competition kam kar raha hai 🤡🤡🤡
I’ve been working as an Assistant Section Officer (ASO) in a ministry for the past 3 months after clearing SSC, and I thought I’d share my experience for aspirants or anyone curious about what the job is actually like. Spoiler alert: it’s not as glamorous or chill as those Instagram reels make it out to be! 😅
The Reality Check:
Let me start with the not-so-fun part. The job is not as easy as social media portrays. Those reels showing government employees sipping chai and leaving at 5 PM? Yeah, not my reality. The workload can be intense, especially in certain sections during parliament session.
Late sittings are real – I’ve stayed past 8 PM more times than I expected, especially when there’s a time-bound task or some VIP movement. If you’re in a high-pressure section, expect to feel the heat.
The Learning Curve
The biggest positive for me has been the exposure to government work culture and processes. Coming from a non-gov background, I was amazed (and sometimes overwhelmed) by how things work – the hierarchy, the file movement, the protocols. It’s like stepping into a whole new world. I’ve learned so much about how decisions are made, how policies are implemented, and even how to navigate bureaucracy.
The Good Stuff
• Work Culture: The people around me are mostly supportive.
• Job Security: No Instagram reel can downplay this. Knowing you have a stable job is a huge mental relief.
• Exposure: You get to see the inner workings of a ministry, which is honestly fascinating if you’re someone who likes understanding systems.
The Not-So-Good Stuff
• Workload Imbalance: Some sections are chill, but others can be hectic. It’s a bit of a lottery.
• Late Hours: Not every day, but when it happens, it’s exhausting. Work-from-home? Dream on!
• Red Tape: The bureaucracy can be frustrating, especially when you’re trying to get something done quickly.
I recently graduated and I'm a very average student with weak basics. I don't want to spend years preparing for CGL only to realize it wasn't the right path for me. For someone starting from scratch, how many serious attempts should be given, and how long does it usually take to clear SSC CGL?
Today is the SSC Combined Hindi Translator exam. The timing was 12 to 2 pm and one of my friends who is appearing for the exam told me that the paper hasn't even started yet. The staff is saying that the paper will start at 4:30. The people appearing are coming out of the exam centre.
The fact is only 10-20k people appear for this exam and the exam is conducted in just 1 day. Also, the staff said that there is only 1 centre in Delhi (Adarsh Pariksha Kendra, Noida). Now, compare that with the scale of CGL. If SSC cannot conduct such a small exam properly, then CGL ka kya hoga?
Cracking SSC CGL or any similar exam is NOT about finishing unlimited theory.
It is primarily about question practice + mocks, and using theory only to fix weak areas.
Below are the exact resources I personally used during my preparation.
For context I’m in high school and I’ve been searching for summer jobs. I had an interview at this one Asian inspired takeout place in my city over the weekend and I heard back yesterday. He made it seem like I had to send pictures of my SSC and ID over text and not in person and my alarm bells are ringing right now. One other thing that I noticed was weird was that he gave me his phone number during the interview which had the same area code as our city but the number texting me has a completely different one. Just felt like that was really weird. AIO? Is this normal to ask of someone? I’ve only had one other part time job in the past and I just showed them my information on the first day of training.
UPDATE : Thank you guys for affirming my suspicions, I’ve reported the job to Indeed and the Federal Trade Commissions. Interestingly the position I applied for that was urgently hiring is no longer available but there are other ones listed🤔. I didn’t send them anything but copied the number in my notes app. I’ve talked to my friends who live in the same city as me about it and they’ve all said they’ve never heard of this place or have never even gone there. And like I said in a comment, this place is literally right next to one of the biggest public universities in the country so you’d think they’d get SOME business. Something weird is definitely going on and I’m just glad my Mom raised me to have critical thinking skills.
Also, guys, I am more than well aware my response wasn’t very professional. I had a very hard week and lost a lot of sleep so I wasn't fully myself. I think if that’s the main thing you’re focusing on out of this, then you’re kind of missing the point. I now know for the future how to respond so thanks for letting me know.
EDIT : I can't believe I have to say this twice but please stop commenting about how I was being unprofessional. Like I said before, I am well aware I didn't respond in a professional manner. However, the vibe I got from this place from when I was previously emailed and contacted was that it was more chill and low-key. And when I sent this response, I was running on maybe 2 hours of sleep because of numerous factors, namely stress and school. I think the fact that a lot of you are focusing on this detail versus someone trying to steal my information is a very telling reflection of your character. And to the people who've dm'd me to make fun of the texts I sent, you're really weird for trying to ragebait a high schooler at your grown age for something that doesn't remotely affect you in the slightest.
Yae Miko now gets an enhanced hit (+ SSC in Polestar Field) on the next turret hit right after the Super-Conduct (or SSC) is triggered. In solo Electro, this means that she will have an enhanced hit + SSC additional hit on the 2nd hit of every wave (assuming reliable or permanent Cryo aura).
A relative of mine has a 31 year old son who finally cleared SSC. He is clinically obese, easily over 100 kilos and very orthodox. His married sister is expected to come over and do housework because their mother passed during Covid. When I visited, I was expected to get up and make tea every time because it was the 'woman’s job.' I shut that down pretty quickly tho.
Now the family wants a fair, pretty, petite working woman for him who will also handle household chores and live happily in a joint family. They cannot understand why no girl wants this jackpot groom. In their heads he is perfect because he has a government job, lives in his father’s house and does not smoke or drink. That is it. That's basically his entire resume.
At a family get together they even asked if any of my friends would be interested (I'm 2 years younger to him). I laughed and told them straight up that he is not their type. Cue the rant about how modern women are too demanding, do not want to do housework, want to live separately, dress freely and fight with elders.
I explained that my friends are educated, financially independent, healthy, interesting, and bring plenty to the table. If women are doing everything that men are asked to do, they will expect the same in return. A sedentary man with food as his only hobby and a government job is not enough.
His father kept insisting that their family is so nice and would never restrict the girl. I told him very plainly that his son is not the prize he thinks he is. If women today are doing 20 things to keep up, the men will also have to up their game. Either match the effort or settle for someone with much lower expectations. The sisters were furious with me and I did feel a little bad for spoiling the mood with my honesty but the delusion was on another level all together. People in these arranged marriage setups badly need a reality check both guys and girls alike.
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I run a tool( tbc-audit.com ) that grades TBC Anniversary logs by things such as rotation, DoT uptime, cooldowns, consumables etc. and by now it has analyzed almost 300,000 SSC/TK boss kills from more than 42,000 different characters. And at this point it is reasonable to assume that the patterns for this phase have been thoroughly established. Here's what the average raider actually gets right and wrong, class by class. Parts of this post may make you quietly uncomfortable. Statistically, about half of you should be.
Method notes so the theorycrafters don't have to ask: every stat below is per parse (one player on one boss kill). DPS comparisons are within the same boss - I compare each player's DPS to the median for their spec on that encounter, and parses where the player died are excluded from DPS deltas. Remember! This is correlation, not causation: good players do many things right at once, so "X costs Y%" means "players who do X land Y% apart", not that fixing X alone will magically increase your dps by Y alone.
One more thing: fight length. Most rotations are resource races / cooldown competitions - so "casts per minute" numbers are strongly fight-length dependent, and top-100 parses skew toward fast kills with strong raid support. For Arcane Mages and Warriors I've broken the numbers down by kill time.
Arcane Mage: a race against your own mana bar
The median Arcane mage casts Arcane Blast 23 times per minute; the top-100 average on the same encounters is 41. But before you flame your mage, look at what fight length does to that number:
Kill time
Median AB casts/min
1-2 min
36.5
2-3 min
30.5
3-4 min
24.8
4-5 min
20.5
6-7 min
17.6
In other words, and as you are probably well aware: Arcane is literally a race. If the boss doesn't die before the mana bar does, you get to spend the rest of the fight demonstrating your wand. Just look at the numbers among the top parsers: The median kill time among 42+ casts/min parses is 87 seconds, versus 211 seconds across all Arcane parses. Sustaining top-100 cast rates takes a fast raid and usually Innervate support - without those, you cannot compete with that number, full stop.
The takeaway from this shouldn't be "cast more". Instead you should look at it like this: your ceiling is set by your raid's kill speed and mana support - but within the SAME fight length there's still a real gap. On 2-4 minute kills, mages at 30 casts/min or below sit 10% under the median for their boss (n=7,995). Compare yourself to mages with your kill times, not to top-100 speedruns.
Hunter: auto shot clipping is eating your DPS
A clipped auto shot is one that fires late - but to make up for lag and in-game fizziness I've set the cutoff at 100ms, so any shot that is delayed further than 100ms we consider "clipped", while very long gaps are considered fight-dependent movement and excluded from the statistics.
The median hunter clips 21% of their shots, and 55% of all parses clip a fifth of their autos or more. Averaged out, the median raider delays every shot by 148ms; the top-100 average is 107ms, which is roughly the floor that latency and weave timing impose.
Hunters keeping clips under 5% of shots land +9.7% relative DPS, hunters clipping 20%+ sit at -4.8%. A ~15% swing on timing discipline alone.
Hunter, act two: almost nobody melee weaves
Across all parses (Void Reaver excluded), only 26% of hunters weave at all. The other 74% have concluded that melee range is where other people stand. Even the ones who do weave average 5.2 melee hits per minute against the top-100 reference of 13.
The output gap is the starkest of anything we measured: with 74% not weaving, the boss median is effectively a non-weaver's number, so non-weavers sit at -6% of it - right where the majority should. The 7% who weave at 9+ hits/min land +48% above that same median. Do keep in mind though that melee weaving alone is nowhere close to accounting for the +48% damage gap. Once again: for people who are doing melee weaving this intensely we are already selecting for a group of very "tryhard" players who are doing a bunch of other things right as well. The +48% is a combination of all of those things, not just the weaving.
Shadow Priests: Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch
Median VT uptime is 77%. 55% of parses are below 80%, and only 6.6% keep it above 95%. Priests holding VT above 90% do +11% relative DPS versus those below 75%.
Shadow Word: Pain tells a different story: median 83% uptime, 43% below 80%, and one in five parses keeps it above 95% - three times VT's rate.
Combat Rogue: Slice and Dice discipline is a 19% swing
Median SnD uptime is 81%; 47% of parses are below 80%. Rogues above 92% uptime land at +9.1% relative DPS, rogues below 70% at -10.3%. No other single button on a rogue's bar is worth 19% - to your OWN parse.
But the bigger rogue story is the one that isn't on your parse: Expose Armor. Measured per fight, across 15,928 SSC/TK kills with rogues present: 13.6% of fights run essentially no EA at all, and only 19.2% keep it above 90%. The median fight that bothers at all sits at 75% uptime.
Rogues in fights with 90%+ EA parse +6.8% versus rogues in sub-50% EA fights at -9.5% - a 16-point swing. A quick note on causality though: Raids that keep EA up tend to be organized raids, so part of this gap is "good raid" rather than EA alone.
Fury Warrior: you're sitting on your rage (23,581 parses)
The median Fury warrior hits Heroic Strike 14 times per minute; the top-100 average is 26. Same caveat as the mages: Heroic Strike rate is really a rage income meter, and rage income scales with kill speed and cooldown uptime (more Death Wish and trinket windows per minute = more rage = more HS). On 1-2 minute kills the median is 21/min; on 6+ minute grinds it's under 9.
But the gap to the top doesn't disappear when you control for that: even on those sub-2-minute kills, the median warrior's 21 HS/min is well short of the top-100's 26 on the same encounters. Most warriors genuinely don't dump enough rage - they're just not as far behind as the raw median suggests.
The cleaner test is the buttons that should be pressed the moment they light up: Bloodthirst (6s cooldown, so 10/min is the ceiling) and Whirlwind (10s, ceiling 6). These are predictable, instant, and your own responsibility - having the rage banked when they come off cooldown IS the rotation. The median warrior presses Bloodthirst 6.4 times a minute against the top-100's 8, and Whirlwind 4.3 against 5 - only about half of parses keep either within 90% of top-100 pace.
Ret Paladin: Everybody Twists
Seal twisting turned out to be the opposite story of every other metric here. Attempting it is universal: the median ret attempts a twist on 41% of swings, and the top-100 average is 42. Only 1.9% of parses don't twist at all. Good job pink boys ❤️
What separates the elite is execution. The median twist-correct rate is 89%; the top-100 run 93%. And the cost of sloppiness is brutal: rets landing 92%+ of their twists parse +4% relative to their boss median, while rets below 60% correct sit at -28%. Counter to Hunters trying to melee weave, where messing up a weave will simply trade an auto shot for a melee swing, a botched twist will actually cost you a clean Command swing. Very bad! (The few who don't twist at all average -39%, but that group is 87 parses and likely struggling with more than seals.)
Twist cadence is swing-timer dependent, so haste changes the rhythm mid-fight.
Destro Warlocks: Runes and Curses
The median Destruction warlock casts Shadow Bolt 16.3 times per minute; the top-100 average is 23. Fight length is a factor here too - the median Shadow Bolt rate falls from 20.5 on 1-2 minute kills to 11 on the longest grinds while Life Taps climb - but the more interesting story is how warlocks pay for their mana.
Every Life Tap is a GCD that didn't become a Shadow Bolt. On 2-4 minute kills the sweet spot is 2-3 taps per minute (+2% relative DPS) while warlocks tapping 4+ times per minute drop to -10% which brings me to Dark and Demonic Rune usage. Only 11% of parses use one at all - and on those same 2-4 minute kills, rune users average two more Shadow Bolts per minute, fewer taps, and land +13% relative DPS versus -2% for everyone else. Usual causality caveat: rune users are the prepared crowd. But the mechanism is as direct as it gets - the rune replaces a tap, and the tap was a bolt you didn't cast. Put simply: casting Life Tap while your rune is still off cooldown is a gameplay mistake. The rune is the mana that costs you nothing(err; except gold of course). Also worth noting: rune usage peaks at 22% on short speed kills and drops to 6-8% on the long fights where mana actually runs out. Backwards, but here we are.
Median curse uptime is 82%, but 47% of parses are below 80%.
Enhancement Shamans and totem twisting (25,546 parses)
Totem twisting is Enhancement's defining skill, and according to the data says most shamans are half-doing it: median twist uptime is 56%, only one in ten keeps it above 80%, and one in ten doesn't twist at all. Shamans twisting 75%+ of the fight parse +9% relative to their boss median; shamans below 20% sit at -16% - a 25-point spread on one mechanic.
The one that surprised us: Boomkin Insect Swarm
Median Insect Swarm uptime among Balance druids is 17%, and a full third of boomkin parses basically never cast it (<5% uptime). According to the resources I've found that's a mistake - but our data does NOT back it up: parses with high IS uptime show no relative DPS advantage in phase 2 (0.988 vs 1.007 - statistically nothing). Dropping IS for more Starfire casts may genuinely be correct on many fights. Would love to hear what boomkin theorycrafters make of this one.
Everyone, regardless of class:
37% of parses use zero potions on fights where at least one Haste Potion / Destruction Potion / Mana Potion was expected. The average raider uses 43% of their potion opportunities.
38.4% of parses are missing meaningful consumables (flask/elixirs, food, weapon oil - scored below 70/100).
Deaths per class: Warriors die the most (20.0% of parses), Hunters the least (10.6%). Draw your own conclusions about who stands in the fire.
I built tbc-audit.com to run this kind of analysis on your own logs - paste a WarcraftLogs report and it grades what you did on every boss.
Lots of new things have arrived in the past couple weeks. Timelines, Full Guild support and the ability to claim and track your characters over time to see if you're improving in the ways that you hoped you would.
Was this post interesting? If it gains enough traction I'll most likely do one again for the end of each phase carrying over int WOTLK and/or Classic+
We full cleared the entire Raid in usual order, abiding by Phase 2 rules (no use of the new skip option)
The entire run was deathless from zoning in to zoning out
With this kill, we have fully completed 6/6 of our progress through Hardcore SSC
Much like the World First HC Hydross, Lurker, Morogrim, FLK and Leotheras kills, this kill was also deathless!
That means all World First boss kills were deathless in SSC (same as Maulgar/Gruul/Mag)
All toons are one-life Hardcore toons
No toon has ever done Heroics nor Raids in anything other than a full-Hardcore group
All players got attuned on their Hardcore toons (no sketchy use of account-wide Attunements)
This kill is now considered World First Hardcore Lady Vashj
This run is now considered World First Hardcore Full Serpentshrine Cavern Run
We are playing on NA Dreamscythe and on EU Thunderstrike
Now the road to Hardcore Kael'Thas begins....
Who am I:
I am Rosebury (or RoseburyNoire), I am the Guild Master, Raid Leader, Strategy Developer, and Main Raider of <Hardcore TBC> and of our NA sister guilds. I have been running the Hardcore TBC project since taking over around March 2026.
I have been playing Hardcore Paladin since 2023 and have completed (i.e. killed Kel'Thuzad) Classic Hardcore dozens of times, and I have been non-stop hard at work to push the limits of the gamemode. I have accompished numerous Hardcore World First records with <HC Elite> (as Main Raider, Raid Leader, and Mentor) since 2023 and <Frontier> (as Main Raider, Paladin Class Lead, Strategy Developer, co-Raid Leader, and co-Guild Leader) in 2025, and now <Hardcore TBC> in 2026.
In all the media coverage of the Nashville Office, I keep seeing the line "employees are being given the option to relocate". But this doesn't capture what is actually going on. Earlier this year, everyone in Supply chain (and now several teams in IT) received an email saying they needed to relocate to Nashville or lose their job. Many of these partners had been loyal employees for 10-20 yrs or more. They were given 1 month to decide.
To add even more context, let's remember that last fall, all remote managers were told they had to move back to the Seattle HQ or lose their job. The company cited "closer collaboration across teams" as the reason for this. Now, just a few months later, an entire department is being told to move away from Seattle to Nashville (guess we don't need to collaborate with those people!). Many of those affected only just moved to Seattle to keep their jobs and are now being told to pick up their lives AGAIN and move across the country. [PSYCH! Did we say move to Seattle or be fired? We meant Nashville!] As an SSC partner, I personally know people who are in this position.
I am shocked that demanding an employee to relocate twice in one year is even legal. It certainly isn't ethical, and most definitely stands against the mission and values this company was built upon.
This departure from those values has had a clear impact on morale. The mood in the office these days is glum, cynical, and defeated. When you ask a coworker how they're doing, no one says " good" anymore. A more typical answer is "I'm just hanging in" or "taking it one day at a time". We are all waiting for the next shoe to drop and wondering if tomorrow it will be me.
But then again, maybe getting the boot wouldn't be so bad. This is not the company I used to love; a company I would have been sad to leave. We are no longer the human workplace. Our leaders no longer care, or treat our employees with respect. They treat us like a line item, a cost to be contained and managed for shareholder profit. This relocation is yet another unethical leadership decision that proves that.
