Thanks!

Yep I’m on h1b.

I don’t think/know of a software engineers union and wouldn’t k ow where to start, also as mentioned I’m on visa not sure if that affects anything.

Yep, high taxation rate is a concern but not more than my sanity. And yea English came naturally and lucratively US seemed the best option in my 20s, harder to pick up a language I was never exposed to will be a challenge but should be doable I think.

Yep agreed, I am brown and exiting the US seems the best route.

That makes sense I think I’ll try and take a look at Europe again but I am also intimidated by my age I’m 33 and another uproot and resettlement seems very scary.

Isn’t that a good thing though? I would rather be around people that accept my fucked brain than people putting their hand on my knee to stop me from shaking my legs a la restless leg.

Though I do agree that a variation in opinion would be nice.

Yep agreed and that why I want to exit the industry as even th3 end goal of a smaller company is to sell out to some investors or to get bought out by a larger company.

I dont see any new tech company that genuinely cares and will not sell out but everyone has a price and that why I need to exit capitalism.

While I agree with you, I can’t really do that as any form of push back could eventually lead to.my dismissal, I’m on visa and as such I’m very expendable there’s thousands to take my place if I slip up.

Thanks for your reply, but I’m on visa not even green card and as such can’t work for the government right now as they require you to either be a citizen or a green card holder with certain government clearances.

Right, and in that case it would be best for me to move back home but the situation back home is quite dire, I have pressures from my parents to get married I’m 33 M from India and I’m hurdling towards my expiration date as it were in society, and the general situation in India insnt that great with religion and sex being the biggest points politicians exploit for a vote bank.

I dont think what I asked was a sensitive question it was about environment strategy and avoiding teams working in silos, so I don’t think it was something I needed to talk about / ask about in private, I do appreciate your perspective though.

Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate you taking the time and your analysis, I’m not sure if its relavant but by th3 end of the 1 on 1 the director apologized to me when they realized that what i had asked actually furthered the conversation and that they were hurt that I would make that statement at the time and in that group as they felt I was just digging up old corpses, when they were explained my thought process and what I meant and what I asked and that the point of that statement was to ensure we dont fall into the same pitfalls again, I was calm and kind in the meeting. I do agree I think i have been burned out for a bit and this whole situation felt bad, and I do agree that this is an industry/employement thing that I can’t really escape from.

And the other thing is I dont want to have to influence people to do my job, I dont want to have to walk on eggshells if i need to get someyhig done I’m an engineer my job is to give you the logic and the solution, they are th3 managers/directors and they need to facilitate my job, not tell me that me asking about our environment strategy and avoiding teams in silos is something they should feel offended by.

I was looking into immigrating to Germany but the thing that a few people told me and caused me hesitation was the 55%(?) taxation rate that seemed high, and the language barrier I remembered back when I was in undergrad that Germany required you to learn the language and I found that intimidating at the time.

Yep I shall look into non profits and try my luck to see if I can land a job there.

Yep, I used to work for mid sized company and it was amazing, problem is no small(?) to mid size company seem to want to sponsor visas.

Thanks so much for your reply, sorry for the delay I got distracted and was watching a yms video, the issue is the visa a lot of places I would love to apply yo but th3y can’t/won’t sponsor a visa.

Though a non profit does sound like a better option for me I will try and look into open positions that would sponsor a visa.

Goddamit squirrel I’m trying, ive got years of lurker conditioning to break.