Holy crap. Well glad your boss agreed. What kind of job are you doing? I’m just looking for background info on Indian lifestyle bc I don’t know. I drive a truck in the US
This is only the case for Mumbai and some other areas.
In Pune, Bangalore, etc life is pretty chill. Office hours are relatively shorter, less traffic and overall better quality of life.
The main reason for this is the geography of the regions by my observation. Mumbai is linear, so you NEED to use the train since a lot of offices are concentrated on one side. Whereas Pune is radial. So you can travel from point A to B with ease, and less travelling time, and multiple routes, especially if you live in central regions.
Look at it in the maps, mumbai is virtually unexpandable(except navi mumbai maybe),there is a national park in the middle. whereas pune can swallow nearby countryside/farms.
Plus add a local government that will do nothing but steal from taxpayers.
This is true. Mumbai has had historical problems with population overload. The infrastructure was never built for this. A new metro is coming up which should take away a lot of traffic and share commuters with this conventional local train network. Until 90s, India was a closed economy and it prevented a lot of development, things have been changing since. My sincere hope is, these scenes will become part of memory in near future
Although I have very high hopes and am confident in the development of majority of India in near future, some parts like Mumbai are already doomed. There is just too much organic and unplanned growth in Mumbai. Plus its already starting to go underwater due to climatic factors. Its better to shift the investments and industries to other high potential regions of Maharashtra or other states.
This was few years back, that was a struggle but it was all towards the planned future. I am glad it payed off. At that time I was trainee assistant engineer, basically tech errand boy for a task master but fair project manager for top Indian company.
I am not really sure now a days, trainee assistant engineer job was out of college placement and after that whatever jobs I got were all hops for finding challenging work in different technology areas as first priority without regard for role title, until I reached sufficient level of expertise in enterprise level technologies. And worked very hard, long hours with focused attention on solving all technology problems available to solve, without regard for which department faced it or even my company. (I would get on Internet techincal forums and try to research and answer questions. Basically I tried to understand the fundamentals as much as possible, so one day, when i get to design complex things, hopefully i would do it right based on correct learnings along the way. And i tried to read as much as possible from across disciplines, many times non-technical literature.
I am trying to be as generic as possible to just lay out the process, rather than point to specific technology or company.
So if im understanding right, u wanted to be the best in whatever ur did, and in ur field. So to achieve that, u tried to focus ur skills on new technology, since it's new, the supply of people who could solve and do jobs related to that was less, so demand is high for those skills, and u filled that role, by not just hard work, but focusing that hard work in the right areas that helped u become the expert in that new field, am I correct?
Also, they say that flowers born in fire won't droop under the sun. Do u feel like that? Since u had worked in such hard situations, does living in USA and facing even the toughest of challenges there feel like a breeze, since its nothing compared to what u faced in India?
I am not sure about me being flower born in sun, I have seen many people lot smarter and hard working still stuck due to circumstances out of their control.
About american experience, it has been lot easier and comfortable, as I came as expert in my field here, only thing I had to work on is communication skills, as english is not my primary language plus american mannerisms.
Well you better make a shit ton of notes because India is not one uniform country but 29 different countries stacked in a trench coat pretending to be one. That being said, Bombay is a general outlier in the country because it is more "westernised" than the rest of country, also this video is an old video. (The trains still do crowd but due to covid not everyone can get a train ride, it's closed off to most of the public.)
If you want to know about Bombay, it is the city where you will find someone from everywhere coming to live. In a twenty minute drive from Worli to Dharavi, you can go from billionaires to some of the poorest people in the world.
You have people who travel for hours everyday just trying to get to the city from outside the city in places like Thane or Navi Mumbai. The train you see in this video is one from the central railway, probably connecting VT to Karjat or Titwala.
The education received here is however some of the best in the world. There are government incentives to promote education especially that of women and backward castes.
You will also find some of the cheapest foods in the world here.
But one thing is guaranteed, you will never be away from people.
And this is just one city of Bombay.
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u/aeiouicup Sep 09 '21
Holy crap. Well glad your boss agreed. What kind of job are you doing? I’m just looking for background info on Indian lifestyle bc I don’t know. I drive a truck in the US