naikas

Re:Ask HN: Should I Ask for Promotion? on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:35AM (#21268266)

Yes. But whenever I try to build a case, my mental model tells me that its not the right time. I think of all counter arguments (company revenue is down, my product is still in infancy,etc.), and I tend to postpone it. Why can't it be discussed as a process (e.g. regular review session likes hey, I see you are very close to be promoted to senior manager, let us discuss it in details the next meeting). I mean that my manager should be as aware of it, as I am.

Re:Ask HN: Should I Ask for Promotion? on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:52AM (#21267748)

I am working on that, too ;)

Re:Ask HN: Should I Ask for Promotion? on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:55AM (#21267450)

Great piece of advice. I like the "don't ask, tell". The reason I got a little disappointed in "asking" is that in previous 2 attempts the promotion got delayed because of stupid reorgs, the managers changed. I took it upon me to build the case again. That took time (at lease a year), and eventually I thought maybe it makes no sense, rather just wait till someone realizes. But I get your point. Thank you :)

Ask HN: Should I Ask for Promotion?

Posted by naikas on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:10AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am happy and fully charged to work for my current employer. As a PM, I am tasked to create new products/services and responsible for their growth. I feel I am working more than my title prescribes. So, do I ask my manager to promote me? Or do I keep working with the same energy and let the performance "speak"?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019? on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:04PM (#20794461)

AWS and how to deploy a complete web app with the service bundles (EC2, Elastic storage S3, etc.) It is an amazingly fulfilling experience as a product manager.

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:27AM (#20440128)

I think that the comments have covered pretty much everything to break the problem into fundamentals. I would just like to add that: - professional envy is futile - use the opportunity to step aside for a while, and think of a another route to get ahead of the person you are jealous of

This way you would not just stop wasting time in constant comparison, but also likely to find a constructive mechanism to beat your competition.

In my little career, whenever I found myself being jealous of others, I thought harder to differentiate myself, isolate from comparison/competition, and always learnt something new to get ahead.

In the end, I don't know if my own narrative of professional journey would reach my milestones, but I am 100% sure that I wouldn't be too jealous.

Re:Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browse... on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:27AM (#19777661)

I am looking for this exact feature. Identifying duplicates from multiple back-ups. Is there a cool way?

Ask HN: What is missing personal money management services?

Posted by naikas on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Personal money management has been tremendously helpful for me. I have been doing it for past decade, storing daily income and outcome and tagging them with categories of spend, etc. Every year I set goals to set some money aside, and use software to help me achieve it my monitoring and analyzing.Apart from Mint/Quicken, banks have rolled out this kind of service too. But it is still missing...

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