Honest review of my company cafeteria: the filter coffee is a genuine 9/10 and single-handedly holding my productivity together. The poha though — Pune, we can do better, this is an insult to my ancestors.

Fresher CTC sounds fat on paper till you subtract PF, tax, and a Hinjewadi flat deposit that costs like a small kidney. Still telling relatives 'package changla aahe' with a completely straight face.

Finally hit Diamond in Valorant at 2am and immediately regretted it because standup is at 9:30. My aim peaks exactly when my career needs me to be asleep. Priorities ekdum solid.

Funny how I stressed through four years of engineering exams to land a job where nobody has ever once asked me about pointers. All that mugging for a viva, and here I am googling 'how to center a div' at 30k a month.

Day 40 of my first job and I've written more Jira comments than actual code. My 'software engineer' title mostly means restarting the server and looking concerned in meetings. Bhari career, truly.