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I am from India living in a country where meat is eaten three times a day by almost everyone. Not even fish. Red meat.

I was brought up vegetarian. If fact in many parts of India, vegetarian is still a way of life. I started eating meating when I went to college. When I first moved here , I actually bought into the whole protein and cavemen thing. Avoided red meat but still ate of a lot of poultry. And it is probably true that you need meat for muscle building. Can be done using vegetarian food but its hard.

However, a few things happened. I got sick. Not any disease really but I started getting severe panic attacks for which I could not get any help from the doctors. I did not want to take hard addictive pills.

This forced my to take a hard look at my lifestyle. I started making changes to find out what works. Cut caffeine. Stopped smoking. Almost stopped drinking. Ate 3 times on time. All this worked but not much. Finally I decided to stop eating meat. I stopped red meat, poultry, fish, eggs etc. These are the things I noticed. 1) I stopped getting any cravings for smoke

2) Panic attacks and dizziness gradually stopped. Took some time but it did

3). No chest pain due to gas anymore.

4) I slept better. I mean I had not had deep sleep in a long time before that

5) I felt better generally. Felt happier I guess.

6) I like looking at all the vegetables and fruits. At this point, I don't even go near the meat aisle.

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For general day to day stuff we all write, yes I agree. Hate reading emails and articles with a lot of unnecessary jargon. However, Writing- as in writing fiction,poetry,drama etc is an art. Just like a great painting, it is complex and it gives people an idea of the great mind of the author and what he thought of the book from his perspective.

Imagine war and peace written in spoken language.:(

I just want to say this is an excellent comment and puts into words what I was thinking.

I am going to get a lot of flak for this. This is my personal experience.

For older people, who have experience building stuff,e.g-software developers who have done some development in their life- they are worth their weight in gold. BUT most older people I work or have worked with, they are not all developers. People like sysadmins,IT people, sharepoint admins, automation managers,DBAs,Managers some system architects etc- I have seen some common traits- 1) They have no enthusiasm for work. Work is not even secondary for them. Its the last thing

2) They either think they are doing hard work or act like they work hard. Exaggerate all issues or whatever work they did even if its just an installation

3) No passion for technology 4) Do not want to learn anything new 5) Don't care about above, because its time for their retirement and so they don't care what others think

Given this, if I were building a team, I would lean towards the younger crowd. Unless the older person has experience building stuff.

Sorry, if this kind of post is frowned upon but if you or anyone you know can do something, it will be great for these poor people.

You are right about the salary. but what is your opinion on job security and employability. the way I see it, in a tech role, as long as your are flexible and open to learning whatever technology is thrown at you, you will always be employable. But in management,especially in junior management and especially in very large organisation, managers are in most cases dead weight. they don't do much.Don't they feel the insecurity?

Country's missile man and ex-president late APJ Kalam's funeral today. Whole country mourns his death. He was a muslim.

Diversity is a strength. Yes people take advantage of it but India has always come out stronger as a nation after each tragedy.

Ah it just means one of those huge outsourcing companies. Infosys,Wipro,TCS.

relative to inflation, hasn't increased much. also, fine if you are single but once you have a family with kids, you feel the pinch even if you are with one of the big ones. The biggest issue for me is the time. Do politics, become PM and then chill all you want. As a techie, you will not have much time for family. Also, as a techie you still hit the ceiling very soon. If you are happy with the job abroad, stay there. Its not as rosy in India as the media somehow shows you.

This I can certainly relate to. In India wherever you go in the IT industry you are expected to forget about your life,family and just focus on minting money for your employer and for Shitty pay.

I have 10 years experience in the industry and I have worked for bodyshops,niche hip companies and for awesome startup(s). In all of them,shamelessly expecting you to work extra hours, sometime 15+ is a norm. And when it comes to paying you for it, you are handed a nice package of politics and bullshit. I kind of admire people who somehow manage to use politics or whatever to actually chill and not work at all. At least they are less stressed. Not good programmers in India. yeah right. Pay them well. care about their life and create a reputation for your company to do that and see how they come to you.

Its not just the employer's fault really. I am now in a different country and nobody expects anyone to work after 6. because nobody will do that. We Indians accept it ourselves. A lot of them actually take pride in having no life and spending all the time in office. I hate them from the bottom of my heart.

I have done it all and my experience as well as of people I know:

we have done all the price comparison and we have found that deals,coupons etc are not worth the time. I just want a site that I can go to and be somewhat sure that I am getting a good price.

Flipkart is fantastic for that. I have never ever found a product on flipkart that is cheaper elsewhere and I can also see my other options for similar products on the same site.

If I am being adventurous, I browse ebay where I get good deals.

click-bait article really. Its like saying Google doesn't have the programmers in US it needs. my points: 1) Snapdeal is in Delhi- Not really a hub of software engineers. Most of them are in south of India and very few people really want to move to Delhi. Also, people from south India almost never like to move to Delhi. Even people from North like to stay in Bangalore because it offers many career opportunities.

2) Snapdeal is really no big deal in India- With flipkart,google,microsoft and a bunch of awesome new startups in south, and Snapdeal having no presence in bangalore/Chennai/hyderabad etc- Programmers have a lot of options.

3) I know very very few people who use snapdeal. with amazon,flipkart and ebay i don't see why snapdeal is relevant. Why would a good programmer move to join this company? its not one of the big ones. Its not a cool startup and equity will be low.

And your comment is doing what exactly? India is a huge country with a huge population. It is also very VERY diverse. With a billion+ people, yes some bad things do happen. But so do a lot of good things. Not every Indian man is so insecure that he forces wife to quit jobs if they earn more. And forced to stay home and cook? How many Indian women have you see doing that. We are a family oriented society and most women chose to do that and I am very proud of those Indian women. I can discuss this on and on but obviously you are inside your own bubble where USA is the greatest and "going out of the house and working for a company" is the greatest feat anyone can achieve and that's the only mark of liberation of women. And public transport? Hey read about Indian railways. It carried millions and millions of women around everyday and they are doing just fine.

I am fat. Does it count as "well rounded"?

sorry I just had to :)

Story about a large enterprise: I have worked for a startup and I can honestly say that working from home can be very productive.

However, I work for a large enterprise now. The problem is most of the team doesn't really have much to do most of the time. To show off, people either

    1) spend minimum 8 hours or more in office or 
    2) Blabber all the time about how challenging and demanding their work is. I am looking at you, the sysadmin, who takes 3 weeks to create a server.

If I work from home, or use my free time in office for working out/ my own learning, they get frustrated. They pass passive aggressive comments like showing me the clock when I come in or go out.

The only criteria for them to show their work is the hours, and they never lose a chance to make sure that they remind me and the manager about that- like how they had to do something on weekends or how they have a meeting after 6 p.m. I tried to ignore all this. but it's hard. Those kind of people are the majority. So here is what I did:

Since I don't get to utilize my time properly, I decided to make sure that I at least piss them off more: I have always been an early morning person. I now come to work before anyone else. At least I enjoy the look on their faces. They have nothing to bitch about now :)