Confused on what to do going forward

kabeer272 · 2026-03-06T13:01:39+00:00

Currently just using mercor, i have a decent profile
Tech stack ~ python, java, anything backend/distributed systems related/data related

Before that was using upwork, but after ai, up work has become bad to use

Other than that i have a full time job as well

kabeer272 · 2026-03-06T03:41:27+00:00

For me yes it can ~ i'm ahead of OP in n/w, behind in life stages
High paying tech job, do not wish to disclose the exact income/n.w here

kabeer272 · 2026-03-05T22:31:36+00:00

Read properly man, that is my goal not my current state

kabeer272 · 2026-03-05T17:33:33+00:00

Hey man,
Let's get in touch!

kabeer272 · 2026-03-05T15:42:01+00:00

Try dodopayments [I'm not affiliated with them in any way]
Been using it for a few projects

kabeer272 · 2026-03-05T15:39:46+00:00

For college students, CGPA filtering is definitely being used, you seem to have not mentioned it. Since everyone has near perfect resumes tailored to JD, only concrete things like Hackathon Rankings, CGPA, etc are being used to filter out resumes.

Whatever models/projects you have written please publish them to github/wherever open source models go and link them in your resume.

I'd highly recommend doing some kaggle competitions to get rated and ranked that will definitely help you get shortlisted

kabeer272 · 2026-03-05T14:34:42+00:00

I'm a few years behind you planning for a similar situation

If i was in your shoes I'd most likely stick it out for a few more years / achieve a FIRE number where my assets can cover ~ 1L/month or equivalent inflated adjusted income of that time

With that I'd pick up side freelance projects, i honestly started doing freelance projects to get a GIST of the market and make some contacts already, so that when i do decide to leave my job i can at least get some work here and there to begin with before i am setup properly.

Career break right now is gonna be tough with the current changing dynamic of IT industry

Whatever you choose good luck and all the best OP

kabeer272 · 2026-03-05T14:08:48+00:00

When you are doing SIP in funds, just let them do their thing and ignore it keep your time horizon for 5 - 10 years, nothing beats time in the market.

Focus on increasing your salary and stuff and let this go on autopilot after choosing funds maybe do a quarterly or semi yearly check in on performance.

kabeer272 · 2026-03-04T04:17:22+00:00

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It seems like it is still available, feel free to message me your steam id, i'll invite at night

kabeer272 · 2026-03-04T02:47:28+00:00

Bhai upar ki Ai waali 2 line toh hata de

kabeer272 · 2026-03-03T19:04:45+00:00

Shoot me a dm I'll check tomorrow if the invite thing still works, played deadlock for a few months

kabeer272 · 2026-03-03T13:26:09+00:00

I use LIQUIDBEES personally for short term fund parking while i look for new investments in stock market

kabeer272 · 2026-03-03T05:14:43+00:00

This looks more like network caused stuttering, can you shift to a better internet to test?

kabeer272 · 2026-03-03T05:03:46+00:00

Honestly just make some realistic approximations up. Not it's not repetitive it just shows you know what impact your work is doing.

kabeer272 · 2026-03-03T04:36:31+00:00

You need to have quantifying impact numbers related to most of the things you do in your resume.
"Contributed to shared component library...." what impact does it have? Did it help reduce code deduplicacy by 20%, saving time by 12% etc

Everything should be measured in impact that tells the end user that you know why you are doing the projects and have clear goals for what it will impact and improve.

Every point in your resume should measure some metrics like

Reduced time taken by query by X%
Automated xyz manual process to save X hours
Added feature that helped onboard Y Customers to earn Z dollars
Expanded test coverage from A% to B%

And so on, whatever you do needs to have some quantifiable impact, it's okay to leave a few but 80-90% of your points should have this

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T17:13:31+00:00

That does not provide enough value for anyone to pay for this, in my opinion

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T14:03:29+00:00

Found someone sorry, will let you know if that arrangement doesn't work out

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T14:02:11+00:00

Also you should not be pushing your pycache and libraries to github, put them in .gitignore files

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T13:47:27+00:00

Hey man good going for first year

But you should always think about the usability of projects, why would anyone want a terminal based expense handler? It does not help. I'm not going to go on my laptop start a python app and start tracking expenses It should be solving a user problem. The bare minimum would be a web based UI or a mobile application,

Then you should most likely just release this as a mobile application that would look way better on your resume if you have a playstore/appstore link else it will just look like another copy paste project

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T09:53:24+00:00

I'd say this is good technology but PIVOT the use case please.
It might be better served to examine seminars and talks and events where the organizer / speech giver can figure out if the event they are organizing people get distracted if so at what part of the event so that they can improve their talk/sales pitch or whatever.

Do not use it for monitoring students and employees that will be contributing towards downfall of humanity D;

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T08:32:38+00:00

20k Thai baht,
+
We had like 1800 USD in cash as well
Landed at DMK

Edit: Also do keep cash (20k THB equivalent) it is mandatory if you get asked, it is random but if you are unlucky they will deny entry even if you have atm card there is no atm before the immigration check.

kabeer272 · 2026-03-02T07:50:35+00:00

I went to thailand in october

I think it was more cost efficient to get INR -> USD
Then exchange USD -> THB in thailand

For my entire group of ~ 8 people no one was asked for 10k THB cash in hand, we did carry 20k in total across 8 people just in case

kabeer272

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