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Honestly, not trying to boast. While it may look like an achievement in reality I don't feel it's worth it.

I think would easily fall under top 10% talent in the country maybe even let's assume 20% atleast.

I still couldn't afford to buy a house. I came from a family with 0 asset to backup. No land, house nothing.

It is so upsetting that I still couldn't afford to buy a decent house after all this and I'm from tier 2 city in India.

This makes me wonder. What is the point of all this hardwork. In paper it sounds good and all. But inflation is catching up.

I'm almost 30 now, with some money in the bank and some basic investments.

I've told my father that he made lot of poor choices by buying lic policies everytime he gets money and keeps in Pooja room and prays to God. Basically yeah, questioned all his decisions. He did manage to pay for 70% of the house and other 30% my brother had to put a loan and took the whole house for himself(brother).

Okay, now I'm this genius, who did everything right and stuck in the same situation. I wonder what questions my kid is going to ask when I grow up. I don't have guys to say this to my dad but if I could. I'll apologize to him for questioning his decisions. "Sorry for questioning your decisions. I can understand you did what you thought was right"

Life is hard. Being an IT guy sounds cool, maybe. But I don't think it's worth it. After some years, your tech talent is not very important. Your ability towards diplomacy/politics is what will help your survive in this country. After a point it was difficult to navigate back stabbing***, because I wasn't good in diplomacy/politics.

If I could go back in time. I would rather try entrepreneurship at a small level, whatever works. I could be making more money.

Sorry for the rant. But feeling clueless about life.

If at all some fresher is reading this. Comment any questions you have and learn from my failures.

Hi everyone 👋

First of all, I want to thank you all for your support throughout my journey learning Rust and working on my Rust embedded vector database, . Really appreciate the feedback, suggestions, and most importantly contributions that this community give me.

Since about 1 month ago, I was starting to feel the burnout doing just open-source because my savings is running out and stress from life in general. I love doing open-source and supporting people using OasysDB but without a full-time job to support myself, its not maintainable in the long-term.

Also, hearing the story about xz and stuff, I'm glad that people in OasysDB community is very patient and supportive.

So, long story short, someone opened an issue on OasysDB and suggested me to integrate OasysDB with his platform, , an open-source infrastracture for real-time data extraction and processing for gen AI apps.

We connected via LinkedIn and he noticed that I have my #OpenToWork badge on and asked me about it. I told him that if he's hiring, I'd love to be in his team. And he was!

We chat for the following day and the day after discussing the projects, the motivation behind them, and stuff.

The whole process went by really fast. He made the decision to onboard me the same day we last had a chat, Friday last week. We discuss the detail of the job and compensation over the weekend and just like that, I got my first Rust-oriented job.

I hear somewhere that to get lucky, you need to spread the area where you can receive luck. For me, my open-source project, OasysDB, is one such area.

If you are still trying to find a job, don’t give up and consider different channels other than applying via job boards.

Anyway, If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and if you have similar story, I'd love to hear them too 😁