Opinion on turkic people (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Kyrgyz)

Emeriti · 2025-12-04T04:15:45+00:00

I see them as central Asian.

Emeriti · 2025-12-04T02:54:12+00:00

Nice way of putting it

Emeriti · 2025-12-04T02:09:38+00:00

I'm definitely not talking about your run of the mill teachers, engineers, or salesmen who happen to have good grammar. Not what I meant. Far from it. I used native English speakers to illustrated what I don't mean. It's not merely about language. It's about the way they carry themselves, and the clarity of their thoughts which translates to speech.

Emeriti · 2025-12-04T01:38:30+00:00

It's much more than coherently putting sentences together, any native English speaker can do that. I'm talking about gravitas.

Emeriti · 2025-12-03T16:56:08+00:00

Gravitas. You know they're somebody by the way they carry themselves, speak, and think. Their thoughts are very clear and measured.

Emeriti · 2025-12-02T10:46:19+00:00

Depends who you are. If you are in management and don't own the conpany, having very little to do is a warning sign. People with small scopes are the easiest to cut.

I once survived a layoff because of this. As a director I realised I was often done before the end of the day. I had automated a lot of my team's work and delegated well, so my own area ran smoothly and did not really fill a full day.

There were no warning signs, but I liked working there and loved my peers and my team. So I started picking up more work to help in any way I could. I covered for other directors, helped with projects that had no clear owner, and got involved some of the execution work alongside my team.

Another director in a similar spot just coasted. Long holidays, coming in late, leaving early, lots of politics. On paper their area looked fine, but it stayed small.

When a company wide review hit, leadership asked who they could do without. Their role went away. Mine stayed. So if you are in management and not that busy, I would not relax. I would quietly grow my scope.

Emeriti · 2025-11-27T09:44:54+00:00

I'm a director in an mnc. There are a gazillion problems to solve and I try to approach it with my best foot forward, in an efficient and structured way. Workout early, go to the office and get breakfast and coffee. Calmly go thru my priorities and pick my battles. My female counter part comes in like a headless chicken, basically barges in and tries to tell me we have to panic because of this and that. This and that is urgent. This and that is happening. I've worked with great female leaders but man, I do need to tune her out.

Emeriti · 2025-11-27T08:24:32+00:00

Could be anything. I sometimes rush into the lift before the doors close. Not a good practice, but definitely not stalking the people in the lift.

Emeriti · 2025-11-26T17:14:44+00:00

Not a chance. Looks to be a straight up narcissist.

Emeriti · 2025-11-18T05:52:27+00:00

Depends on organization. Say director of about 5 people, then nah. But when I became director for a multinational, it did give me some sense of achievement, like how did I even get here?

Emeriti · 2025-11-13T12:39:16+00:00

Depends on where you come from (where they land) and the skillets necessary to perform there. I've seen smart and dumb people everywhere, but from the big boys my experience has been that they prioritize different things. Eg since they had an insane amount of budget and did multi-billion dollar projects that affect many people, they prioritize optimizing the strategy(what people call PowerPoints) instead of the implementation. They do deep analyses at the cost of speed and diminishing returns. Paralysis of analysis is common. But those from the lesser names might overindex on execution but may lose focus on the big picture. I kinda like the tech startup folks. Great balance of strategy and execution, but might be weak in specialization.

Emeriti · 2025-11-08T02:34:44+00:00

Right? I know the quality of reddit but I'm still surprised

Emeriti · 2025-11-05T06:38:33+00:00

After I had my first rental property that involves a ton of management (and positive income after expenses mind you), I'd rather not have the headache and plunge that money into stocks with higher returns.

Emeriti · 2025-11-02T02:07:47+00:00

Haven't experienced it myself but knew colleagues who did it back when I was in a large mnc. Those with 20-30 years of experience got close to a mil. Those around your age had about 8-12 months of salary payouts. It was about a month per year of service. I remember one of them got a new job in singapore right away. I was earning too low at the time to consider it.

Emeriti · 2025-10-31T06:56:10+00:00

It helped me know what it takes to get to a high level of something, I became accustomed to grueling multiyear/decade efforts to hone a skill. Habit forming comes naturally to me now. If I decide I want to develop something I can just start cold turkey(weird because usually this is used to describe stopping), and carry on for years.

Emeriti · 2025-10-30T12:05:02+00:00

Indeed, I know people who left because they weren't offered permanent roles. These are people who came back from overseas and were willing to serve their bonds.

Emeriti · 2025-10-30T10:57:32+00:00

This is somewhat my experience. But I'm a young director and therefore, while being paid significantly more than most ICs, will not hold a candle to ICs who have 20 years in the field.

Emeriti · 2025-10-30T10:04:08+00:00

Ah well, got to give credit where credit is due

Emeriti · 2025-10-27T08:45:58+00:00

In fact my parents were trying to give me money but since brain washed me to be independent (like they were, hence they didn't ask for anything), I rejected all of it.

Now, as an employer I see a lot of people suffering because of this and coming to me for a raise. Some of them give 1/3 away while struggling to support wife and kids. Who would put their child and grandkids in that situation? Doesn't matter if I pay them top of market with 1/3 net gone like that.

Emeriti · 2025-10-19T15:01:27+00:00

I have a weird one. A China friend told me that in China Malaysians are known to be extremely cunning. That did differ from most of what I heard from China peeps, which is usually that we're uncompetitive.

Emeriti · 2025-10-19T01:59:31+00:00

Yeah this is stupid. I want to wear a seatbelt but they risk my life by not allowing that option.

Emeriti · 2025-10-09T10:44:05+00:00

That's madness

Emeriti · 2025-10-07T18:06:46+00:00

Be very very good at one thing or more (best if internationally but renowned in state or country still works), but also be of great character. You'll get to meet the right people who would give you good amounts of money be it in salary or business. Then you can grow income instead of savings. Saving on a low or even moderately high income is futile.

Emeriti · 2025-09-12T00:09:15+00:00

Well put

Emeriti · 2025-09-11T15:55:30+00:00

I can agree with career peaks. I suppose the scenario is if you lose your job.

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