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Wanted to share some thoughts on the topic of work life balance that @Kishoreciyer1 brought up and on which @wataboutery so eloquently expounded.

Early in my career I was lucky enough to work in roles I loved and under nurturing managers who were my mentors. (Contd)

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I worked hard and long. But I always returned home not contended with that day’s work and hungry for more. That satisfaction at work made my home life enjoyable. I found time to play badminton and volleyball. Work and life were perfectly balanced.
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I couldn’t wait to go to work. Great team and good manager.

But as I got married and responsibilities increased demands on my time grew, especially as just married man helping my wife acclimatize with US.

I sought work - life balance because ..everyone seeks, right?
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As luck would have it 9/11 happens, economy goes for a tail spin, and my company files for bankruptcy. So time to buckle up.

This is when I realized work life balance isn’t what I sought. I wanted a satisfying work that did not require me to compromise key personal goals
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Working hard to keep up the morale in a company in bankruptcy isn’t easy. But that gave my career a mission.

When you are passionate about your work and committed to it, and have a good manager you can find ways to be effective without compromising your personal life
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Then I decided to do my part time MBA which took the balancing act to whole another level. With a newborn baby, heavy work load and part time Masters!

Those 30 months I was put through the fire but it taught me what I could do and who I was.
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Doing part time masters (not sponsored by employer) still requires one to make sure to deliver at work what one must/ could.

I however learnt that the mistake people make is they want everything- not balance. I realized that I had unreal expectations of career growth.
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I realized that balancing of commitments at work, family and community meant one must know what one wants from each.

This set me free to be honest with myself. It allowed me to find a job where I had accountability, very little supervisory role so i could focus on things
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I stopped chasing promotions, sought positions that had solid impact on the company.

With two kids now I wanted to be there with them growing up not slogging away 70+ hour weeks chasing promotions (yes once I spent 18 months working 60-75 hrs on avg).
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I found brands I liked, believed they play a role in society that I was proud of, took up only roles with managers that I looked up to and felt they genuinely cared about cust & emp.

Once I set clear expectations on what was important to me, choice of companies clear
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Full circle back to jobs that allowed fulfilling professional life and keeping up commitments to personal life.

Some simple take aways
1. There is no free lunch
2. Can’t have everything so figure out what’s important
3. Be professional and honest on what’s possible/ not
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4. There will be peaks when work will take up more of your time and energy. Find a way to work but not drop the ball at home.
5. There will be times when life will demand more but ensure work never suffers. Work with manager and colleagues.
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6. The test of your professional network will be how you can smartly get things done while juggling so much and leverage every resource you have there.

7. Same thing at home. Become efficient. Use tech, outsource what can be outsourced to maximize time with family.
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8. Be content with the rewards of a balanced set up. Promotions or titles aren’t everything.

9. Seek meaningful roles at work that allow you to be a good parent/ spouse/ child while earning enough to meet your needs and some wants

Thanks for reading the rambling stream
Tagging @wataboutery for her eloquence making me ramble on about my experiences (you can blame her for it 😂)

@Kishoreciyer1 - a clear eyed realist and saying it like it is.

@GunduHuDuGa who is a good example of how to balance career and personal / Dharmic responsibilities

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1. They hate those who defend the country
2. They’ll never defend the country
3. They’ll cheer those who slander country

Apply this criteria and recent reactions by people to celebrities standing up for India.

You know who they are

Opponents one can understand and handle. Traitors are like termites that destroy a structure from within.

Many of these traitors earn their livelihood on your support. They are actors, sportspersons and businessmen and what not. They may even be brands or your local stores

What can a common man do? A lot.

1. Use your money to support only those whose loyalties lie with the country

2. Pull support from others.

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With Margazhi month upon us I’m going to try and post some verses from Thiruppavai with English translation. Apologizing ahead if there are any errors.

Thank you @GunduHuDuGa dor reminding us about Margazhi


Here are some resources to both get the verses and read in detail the translation and the more detailed treatment of the meaning of the devotional verses.

#Thiruppavai

Andal is Devi’s amsavatharam, Sri Devi incarnated in the form of Seethā performed upadeshak to the people of the earth. It is said that she even did Upadesham to Ravana who did not heed her but in his next birth as Sisupālan redeemed himself.

Through her #Thiruppavai prabhandham she is showing us the way to reach Bhagavan’s feet.

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Paasuram (Verse) 1 of Thiruppavai

மார்கழித் திங்கள் மதி நிறைந்த நன்னாளால்

On the auspicious full moon day of the Margazhi month

நீராடப் போதுவீர் போதுமினோ நேரிழையீர்

Well ornamented maidens, those desirous of taking bath in the holy River please come on
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One religion focuses on living a good, decent life, doing one’s dharma while being cognizant of impact of one’s actions over many births.

Other focuses only on after life, advocates even hurting others in its name.

Under which system can they coexist - serious answers pls

I’m not looking for partition should have been thorough type answers. That doesn’t help

Even other countries face this challenge but there, it is between liberal society founded on Abrahamic principles and this religion.

India is unique because of the nature of Sanatana Dharma

What sort of a person would even kill another just to get to heaven.

1. values his own existence so poorly that life has no meaning for him

2. Or brainwashed to believe that some lives aren't even lives so they can be taken

3. or rewards of some mythical heaven worth killing

In any society the ones with no hope for their life are most dangerous.

So I can understand why Modi Ji is working to bring them into mainstream and give them hope in life away from those who have kept them in ghettos.

That takes care of the 1st group.

What abt the other 2?

Even if the 1st group reforms we have some hope.

But the second and third - those that don’t value non-believers’ life is worth it or those that think promise of heaven is more important. How does one handle them.

Hoping for internal reformation hasn’t worked out.

What now?
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Earlier today I saw someone, who didn’t like the name of Patanjali and changed his name to some random word, tweet about moral authority and drivel to that effect.

So just sharing some thoughts after having observed so-called liberals and what they consider democracy.

2/n Just for record those I/ we call liberals aren’t Liberals. So let’s get that out of the way. I will use lowercase ‘l’ to refer to them.

They are usually moneyed, kids of well to do or at least well connected persons. And they have a weird sense of democracy.

3/n They are usually elitists and class conscious but their snobbish attitude is suppressed typically.

They claim to speak for the people and fight for the people but they don’t understand the people.

They want masses to pay tax, vote for whom they point and thank the Masters

4/n By the way while at it they want the masses to have no pride in their roots or have the gall to even dream that they can have aspirations of self reliance.

This is not just in India. In US we saw liberals basically de-platform 72M voters because they voted for other guy

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Anyway. While their favorite INC was ruling they pushed their agenda. As the country grew tired and replaced them with Modi ji, liberals have been apoplectic.

How dare the commoners think they know what’s good for the country was the cry that went up.
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#NoPropagandaHoli

I don’t care if you are a real Hindu, Hindu in name only, Abrahamic or atheist.

Hindu festivals ARE NOT an opportunity for your propaganda.

We won’t take it lightly anymore and give back.

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You want a waterless holi, we will demand a bloodless Eid.

You want a green Deepāvali, we will demand a green tree-less Christmas.

And worse, HINOs, if you want to use our festivals to make your secular mark and curry favor with the left be warned. You will be exposed.

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Don’t care if you can hit or throw or catch a ball better than billion people.

Don’t care if you can run around trees like a monkey with heroines for two and a half hours.

Don’t give a dang if you are an industrialist.

Hindu Civilization is bigger than all of you.

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If you think your professional success or financial success gives you a perch to lecture to Hindus how we should celebrate our festivals you are mistaken.

You life is not even worth one billionth of a grain of a sand in the whole world compared to our civilization

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If you don’t want to celebrate, fine. Don’t.

But don’t lecture us how we should. Hindu wallets and hard earned money built your careers. We can take it down.

Ask Padukone what happened to Chhappak. That is the result of messing with Spirit of patriotic Indians.
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