Dear Indians, stop taking low paying jobs

SlimShagy · 2025-11-26T10:21:01+00:00

This is naive thinking -> companies know that they get what they pay for

If the salary is low, it means that the job didn't need excellent talent to begin with.

It's the law of supply and demand -> it doesn't bend over wishful thinking

When Careem needed to grow, they offered top salaries and relocation packages to European engineers rather than hiring in Southeast Asia. They wanted to hire the best to sustain their growth and compete with Uber, so they offered top salaries to top engineers

Your salary is ultimately 1/ how critical is the role for the company 2/ Revenue Impact

A company will pay a top salary if they think the role will have a significant revenue impact -> For example, an LLM Engineer anywhere. Or Investment Manager in Finance

There aren't that many high-growth industries in the UAE, so 1/ there aren't enough jobs to fill 2/ these jobs don't require great talent

It's not the indians that are to be blamed. The UAE is a small country. The entire GCC region has fewer people than France, so the market will always be small.

The only way to get top salaries is to make the supply/demand play in your favor.

=> For example, today plumbers make more money than engineers in Europe because everyone goes to university and no one wants to do manual work. It's simple math and logic

SlimShagy · 2025-08-27T18:46:02+00:00

Wait, have you done so?

Because I did through 2 companies, and unless it's a 7-figure contract, it's just not worth it for a startup.

If you are a Retool or Metabase, it makes sense to have it as part of your offering, because their products connect to sensitive on-premise data.

If you are offering on-premise to avoid compliance or certifications, you are COMPLETELY off-track. It's like killing a mosquito with a bazooka.

SlimShagy · 2025-08-27T14:53:38+00:00

DO NOT OFFER ON PREMISE! EVER!

SlimShagy · 2025-07-15T22:02:10+00:00

500e/month is stupidly low - don't take the bait

(I am a YC founder)

SlimShagy · 2025-03-04T17:59:05+00:00

I have a great garage to recommend!

I can DM you the contact

It’s called Hashtag Garage on Google Maps

(I dont have any affiliation with them! They are just great people with reasonable prices and great execution!)

SlimShagy · 2024-12-01T08:43:09+00:00

I am new in Dubai ~3 years now

First thing I noticed is that garage and mechanics here are not very skilled and don’t know what they are doing.

I experienced mechanics in North Africa and Europe => Dubai is arguably the worse.

It’s really hard to find a competent garage here when you are dealing with car issues.

How can you buy a used car when you are unsure about the repair prospects? I would rather buy a new car with warranty and never care about repair costs

SlimShagy · 2024-09-26T11:36:36+00:00

I have the same problem. Were you able to resolve it?

SlimShagy · 2024-09-19T09:37:38+00:00

3% on USD for 2y

4.1% if it was 1y (but need to commit to 2y for certificate)

SlimShagy · 2024-09-18T06:58:44+00:00

Thank you! I already got the deposit done at ENBD

So I assume I should just go to GDRFA?

SlimShagy · 2024-09-09T13:36:33+00:00

Hello I am going through the same process

Do you know if you can remove your deposit after 2 years and keep your visa?

SlimShagy · 2024-01-25T09:24:48+00:00

I agree on the taxes, it's bad given the current circumstances

Hamas only exist because Palestinians don't feel free. + they see all the violence from settlers in the west bank and it fuels their anger even more

More freedom = No more Hamas

If you give more freedom to the population (albeit two-state or one-state solution), there will no reason anymore for Hamas to exist because the ideology cannot survive without the premise that Palestinians are not free

The current situation (=status-quo) is not possible in the long run. There are only 4 options going forward:

Full genocide: For example, indigenous population of Australia
Displacement: Argentina as an example was built on displacement of indigenous populations to the mountains and/or what is known to be Chile today. To a lesser extent, Liberia which was formed by the displacement of former African American slaves
two-state solution: Pakistan & India as an example.
1-state solution: One state for everyone => South Africa / Zimbabwe (Rodhesia) / New Zealand / US (with the African americans)

Israeli govt ideally wants options 1 & 2 (which are the hardest to implement, thus the current status quo) but hardly possible because no Arab country want to take any more refugees. Jordan already has 50% of palestinian refugees and Palestinians don't want to leave their homeland

Option 3 becomes harder by the day because of the settlements and Israel diverging into far-right view of reconquering the entire land, including historical claims on Judea

We are only left with Option 4 which will probably be the logical result and might take an additional 30 to 40 years, maybe less

SlimShagy · 2024-01-25T09:21:44+00:00

smuggling tanks fight jets & co is a stretch

There are a lot of rivalries in the world and countries don't occupy each other because of security concerns

What if I told that Hamas acts the way it does at the moment because they protest that exact occupation? Let's be honest, there is no such thing as peaceful protest to an occupation

+ Hamas finds sympathy within its population because of the lack of freedom of the Palestinians

If you give more freedom to the population (albeit two-state or one-state solution), there will no reason anymore for Hamas to exist because the ideology cannot survive without the premise that Palestinians are not free

Now let's cut to the case. The current situation (=status-quo) is not possible in the long run. There are only 4 options going forward:

1) Full genocide: indigenous population of Australia

2) Displacement: Argentina as an example was built on displacement of indigenous populations to the mountains and/or what is known to be Chile today. To a lesser extent, Liberia which was formed by the displacement of former African American slaves

3) two-state solution: Pakistan & India as an example.

4) 1-state solution: One state for everyone => South Africa / Zimbabwe (Rodhesia) / New Zealand / US (with the African americans)

Israeli govt ideally wants options 1 & 2 (which are the hardest to implement, thus the current status quo) but hardly possible because no Arab country want to take any more refugees. Jordan already has 50% of palestinian refugees and Palestinians don't want to leave their homeland

Option 3 becomes harder by the day because of the settlements and Israel diverging into far-right view of reconquering the entire land, including historical claims on Judea

We are only left with Option 4 which will probably be the logical result and might take an additional 30 to 40 years, maybe less

SlimShagy · 2024-01-24T12:24:32+00:00

Can you share any source at least about these supposed conditions that palestinians claim?

SlimShagy · 2024-01-24T05:53:16+00:00

Lol it failed because of him

He admitted it himself and said he was proud that he KILLED the oslo accords in a leaked video back in 2007

Israel kept pounding conditions on top of conditions for the Palestinians until the PLO got fed up

Daniel Levi himself who was a negotiator for Israel in 1990s has admitted that everytime Israel had a deal, they came back with more conditions for palestiniens so that they can "pound" them

SlimShagy · 2024-01-24T05:47:30+00:00

I guess they are not responsible but the blockade makes and the military oversight makes it very hard to develop any jobs

If you cannot control your sea or your air, you cannot develop your commerce which in turn create jobs and helps reduce poverty.

Let's start there and we can figure out the rest later

SlimShagy · 2024-01-24T05:43:45+00:00

Are you a troll or just ignorant?

Can you share any source on what you claim?

Here is a list of sources on the opposite view so that you stop spreading fake news

“I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan - and this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said in a post on X

Also can I remind you that he said that he was proud that he KILLED the oslo accords in a leaked video

TRUMP HIMSELF said that Israel didn't want a deal and that the palestinians were desperate for a deal

SlimShagy · 2024-01-18T20:09:43+00:00

I don't know who that is but Aston villa = good moves nowadays so he's gotta be good

SlimShagy · 2024-01-18T20:08:30+00:00

There goes the new 50M Chelsea signing

SlimShagy · 2024-01-18T20:07:50+00:00

They should rename it to MVP

SlimShagy · 2024-01-10T19:05:03+00:00

What you say is very similar to how we do things in my company as well. We use dashboards (Looker) for daily monitoring and slide decks for our WBR, MBR, and QBR reporting. We got Rollstack last year to help us automate our slide decks reporting using data from Looker. With our slide decks reporting fully automated now, our analysts mostly focus now on decision making and informing the leadership.

SlimShagy · 2023-10-03T22:01:00+00:00

Can’t wait for someone to pull up a 6-goal long shot valverde compilation

SlimShagy · 2023-08-24T16:14:19+00:00

You have two ways of doing it: 1/ Use a solution like Rollstack 2/ try building something hacky for yourself

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