How you guys are handling..

[jaathiratnalu2]

On 2/16/2025 at 12:21 PM, Undilaemanchikalam said:

Na friend circle lo most of them came to US 15+ years ago. None of them received green card and all of them has 2014-2016 priority dates. As time progressed most of us progressed including me to senior manager to senior director roles. E last 5 years lo most of them bought good single family homes and some 1-3 investment homes too, some got appreciated and some got depreciated.

Some were able to get good returns in stock market and some lost almost $100 to 200k. Everyone took it maturely and handled losses or gains equally and we never had concerns about finding new roles due to technical and leadership skills. Idhi kakapothe inkoti annatu unde.. But in the last 3 months I am noticing this. 
 

1. anxiety for everyone is increased.

2. Every one including me has become low energy, impatient and health being impacted 

3. fear of loosing job is increasing due to the instability. Evarni adigina oka 3 months okay, 6 months okay antunaru kani nobody is saying we are okay for this year or next year. Full time has become more like contracting 

4. concern about can we get a new role in 60 days since all of them are in leadership roles and getting jobs in leadership roles is time taking and most of them do not offer h1 transfer. Finding contract roles is difficult because of the leadership roles experience in last 5 years.

5. fear about losses or difficulties in selling primary home and investment homes if we have to go back

6. thinking about kids future

living in India or US is a personal Personal choice but the problem here is 60 days rule is making everyone anxious and stressed. LinkedIn open cheyali antae bayam veysthundhi, too many people in market and since we are in leadership roles we get atleast 2-3 requests each week asking for any open roles. Every weekend idhae discussion from past 10 to 12 weeks. Everyone is tired, and stressed, coz it took long to built this career and thought this is the place where we can raise our kids, we expand our careers, we made good friends and relationships but day by day it’s getting worst reading social media or news about how unstable place US has become. Just wondering how are you handling it?

First of all, I want to commend you! At least you are surrounded by a good circle of people, and you’re all helping each other. That’s very important in everyone’s life, regardless of visa status. This status is just a passing phase and will occur in everyone’s life at some point. Just stay strong.

[Undilaemanchikalam]

20 hours ago, dreamchaser said:

There is something called karma.just imagine how many innocent subordinates you managers and directors would have screwed to grow in your career.Now it is your time to suffer

Evaru chepparu bro.. andharu ikkada masters cheysaru, we know how difficult it is to get a job and we helped many. I will give couple examples.

1. Naku reporting oka contractor ma friend work cheysae company lo second job cheysthunadu. Nenu or na friend eypudu finger pettaledu, bcoz he was showing results, and we never micromanaged. Moreover the reason he was doing two jobs is because he has to spend money on his kids health which is not covered by insurance and we showed empathy.

2. I mentored a student for 3 years in past role and supported him throughout his career, he is now grown as a chief technical officer. Till date, he has profound respect on what I did to his career. I never felt jealous of this and instead took pride in mentoring and will continue to do so..

yes, we had to let go contractors due to budget or performance issues after multiple warnings. Even we were laid off multiple times in our career, issue here is we were not scared or worried until now but the unknown fear has increased in the past 3 months. 

my intention of posting this was after staying 16 years in US and there is no light of getting a permanent residence, kids future in questions, investments are in question, career in question. 

just imagine yourself if these two things happened how peaceful it would be.

1. Immigration free

2. mortgage and car loan free.

[terminator_desi]

1 hour ago, Undilaemanchikalam said:

Evaru chepparu bro.. andharu ikkada masters cheysaru, we know how difficult it is to get a job and we helped many. I will give couple examples.

1. Naku reporting oka contractor ma friend work cheysae company lo second job cheysthunadu. Nenu or na friend eypudu finger pettaledu, bcoz he was showing results, and we never micromanaged. Moreover the reason he was doing two jobs is because he has to spend money on his kids health which is not covered by insurance and we showed empathy.

2. I mentored a student for 3 years in past role and supported him throughout his career, he is now grown as a chief technical officer. Till date, he has profound respect on what I did to his career. I never felt jealous of this and instead took pride in mentoring and will continue to do so..

yes, we had to let go contractors due to budget or performance issues after multiple warnings. Even we were laid off multiple times in our career, issue here is we were not scared or worried until now but the unknown fear has increased in the past 3 months. 

my intention of posting this was after staying 16 years in US and there is no light of getting a permanent residence, kids future in questions, investments are in question, career in question. 

just imagine yourself if these two things happened how peaceful it would be.

1. Immigration free

2. mortgage and car loan free.

Sorry bro 

[akkum_bakkum]

On 2/16/2025 at 11:32 AM, Vancouver_June24 said:

With more students graduating, next gen ABCDs, native students and citizens with tech knowledge increasing and no. of jobs decreasing every year it is only going to become more harder.

Better to have flexible mind(to settle here or India) unless you have a GC and stop thinking about things which are out of your hands and focus on your skillset/money generating things. I am in the same boat came to US in 2007 and PD 2015 ending No hopes of GC 

 

Thumb rule - Never have a mindset of settling down here unless you have a GC(better to prepare kids accordingly)

accordingly, pls do the needful antav! nice!!

[Khali_ista]

evraina telisina mployers unte pm me plss .. already in grace period 1 month done btw inka ntha unnatu naku also April mid varaku visa undhi evraina mployer transfer ki dorkithe parallel ga extension kuda ayipothada  r is there a separate application needed for an extension as well

 

ipdu GC under compelling condition apply cheyyocha r else Canada work visa undhi inko 1 1/2 yr ki atu manna considrrr cheyalaa m ardam kavatle situation thanks

[akkum_bakkum]

On 2/16/2025 at 11:21 AM, Undilaemanchikalam said:

Na friend circle lo most of them came to US 15+ years ago. None of them received green card and all of them has 2014-2016 priority dates. As time progressed most of us progressed including me to senior manager to senior director roles. E last 5 years lo most of them bought good single family homes and some 1-3 investment homes too, some got appreciated and some got depreciated.

Some were able to get good returns in stock market and some lost almost $100 to 200k. Everyone took it maturely and handled losses or gains equally and we never had concerns about finding new roles due to technical and leadership skills. Idhi kakapothe inkoti annatu unde.. But in the last 3 months I am noticing this. 
 

1. anxiety for everyone is increased.

2. Every one including me has become low energy, impatient and health being impacted 

3. fear of loosing job is increasing due to the instability. Evarni adigina oka 3 months okay, 6 months okay antunaru kani nobody is saying we are okay for this year or next year. Full time has become more like contracting 

4. concern about can we get a new role in 60 days since all of them are in leadership roles and getting jobs in leadership roles is time taking and most of them do not offer h1 transfer. Finding contract roles is difficult because of the leadership roles experience in last 5 years.

5. fear about losses or difficulties in selling primary home and investment homes if we have to go back

6. thinking about kids future

living in India or US is a personal Personal choice but the problem here is 60 days rule is making everyone anxious and stressed. LinkedIn open cheyali antae bayam veysthundhi, too many people in market and since we are in leadership roles we get atleast 2-3 requests each week asking for any open roles. Every weekend idhae discussion from past 10 to 12 weeks. Everyone is tired, and stressed, coz it took long to built this career and thought this is the place where we can raise our kids, we expand our careers, we made good friends and relationships but day by day it’s getting worst reading social media or news about how unstable place US has become. Just wondering how are you handling it?

Imagine the same situation with no time or 10 day buffer time....as it was before 2015 rule change.

[kted]

From my experience since 2006 in this country, GC dates move in batches. Do not expect the dates to move consistently every year. The last 3 cycles were 2007, 2012 and 2020/21. The dates might move again in next 3 to 5 years( probably to 2016) if they do some GC recapture or some major event happens. I do not see much scope beyond that unless some legislation passes.

[Coconut]

On 2/16/2025 at 8:33 PM, Pahelwan4 said:

AI AI antaru em tech nerchukovalo cheppandi guys. Malla mathematics statistics nerchukovala endi. Koncham cheppandi vayyas. 

 

[tokkalogola]

On 2/16/2025 at 1:56 PM, Moon_Walker said:

Same boat stuck to IC/Architect despite getting Director or People Manager role

Same with me and I have GC ..

[tokkalogola]

On 2/16/2025 at 11:00 PM, pakeer_saab said:

UMass Amherst is top university ra ulfa, aaka paak universities lo chesina vaadiki anni alaage untayani assumptions vastaayi

Yes , Amherst is top for AI and Data science 

[Konebhar6]

1 hour ago, tokkalogola said:

Yes , Amherst is top for AI and Data science 

Berkeley anukunna bhayya ... esp for Data Science