📚 In software development—and in almost any profession—proper documentation is essential. Without notes, records, or documentation, people can forget important details within days or weeks.
⚠️ The same challenge exists in education. If you study a topic for one project this week and move to a different task next week, much of that knowledge can fade unless it is regularly practiced and documented.
🏫 During my school and college years, I also worked to help support my family. My earnings were very small, and most of that money went toward food and daily expenses.
👨👩👦 My father had a permanent job and worked hard to pay for school fees, housing loans, food expenses, and other family responsibilities. However, financial pressures remained high due to housing loans, education expenses, and other debts.
👩 My mother worked as a teacher and conducted tuition classes, earning small amounts such as ₹100, ₹200, ₹300, and ₹500. Until 2016, my younger brother and I also helped with those tuition classes.
🎓 During my college years, I stopped teaching tuition and focused on my studies, while my mother and younger brother continued the work.
🤔 Looking back, I realized that I was never taught effective learning methods. The Memorization-Centric Education System around me mainly emphasized memorizing answers for 2-mark, 5-mark, 10-mark, and 16-mark questions.
📝 As a result, I focused on memorization to pass exams rather than deeply understanding concepts.
🚀 With the rise of AI tools, I finally gained access to explanations that helped me understand topics more clearly and connect ideas instead of simply memorizing them.
🌱 Today, I believe true learning comes from understanding, curiosity, practice, documentation, and continuous revision—not just memorization for examinations.
Short version:
📚 Learn → 📝 Document → 🔄 Revise → 💡 Understand → 🚀 Grow
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title "Career Income Journey"
x-axis ["2016","2017","2018","Gap","2021","2022","2023","2024","2025","NoJob"]
y-axis "Monthly Salary (INR)" 0 --> 45000
line [5000,9000,6000,0,15000,25000,35000,40000,42000,0]
| 📅 Period | 💼 Job | 🧪 Interview Process | 🛠️ Framework / Task | 💰 Monthly Pay | ⚠️ Notes / Red Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🎓 After College (2016–2017) | Teleport Engineer | ❌ No interview – I got this job through a referral from my father’s relatives | — | ₹5k → ₹9k | 💸 Low pay; 🏥 health issues forced me to quit |
| ⏳ 1-Year Gap | — | — | — | — | — |
| 📘 DevOps (6-month course) | — | — | 🌐 Project on Spring Boot and Web | — | 📚 Learning phase |
| 🚪 Software Company (Start) (2018, 3 months) | Software Developer | 🧪 Attended 25+ interviews – failed in 24; selected in only one company | 💻 Software Development (Spring Boot, Web) | ₹6k | ⚠️ Fired; very low pay; possibly exploitative (I did not like personal conversations with unknown people after work hours, so I was fired) |
| ⏳ 3-Year Gap (2019–2021) | — | — | — | — | — |
| 🔁 2021–2022 | Software Developer | ⚙️ No formal interview – asked to build a CRUD application. I learned Django (Python) and completed it. Got this job through a referral from a person known to my mother (she asked me to visit a temple for 9 weeks for this opportunity). | 📱 Dart (Flutter), ☕ Java (Android) | ₹15k | 🕒 5 days + Saturday; long hours; 📌 scope creep; ❌ no BDD |
| 📈 2022–2023 | Software Developer | — | 📱 Flutter, ☕ Android | ₹25k | 📊 Slight increase; same issues |
| 📈 2023–2024 | Software Developer | — | 📱 Flutter, ☕ Android | ₹35k | ⚠️ Better pay, but still unprofessional |
| 📈 2024–2025 | Software Developer | — | 📱 Flutter, ☕ Android | ₹40k | 🔄 Improving gradually |
| ⚠️ 2025–2026 (till June) | Software Developer | — | 📱 Flutter, ☕ Android | ₹42k | 🏥 Health issues again; quit in June 2026 |
Checked Date = 10-Jun-2026 - You can add four extra salary columns (USD, EUR, CNY, JPY).
Using approximate exchange rates (June 2026):
| 📅 Period | 💰 Salary (INR) | 🇺🇸 USD | 🇪🇺 EUR | 🇨🇳 CNY | 🇯🇵 JPY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🎓 2016–2017 (Start) | ₹5,000 | $59 | €52 | ¥424 | ¥8,475 |
| 🎓 2016–2017 (Later) | ₹9,000 | $106 | €93 | ¥763 | ¥15,254 |
| 🚪 2018 (3 months) | ₹6,000 | $71 | €62 | ¥508 | ¥10,169 |
| 🔁 2021–2022 | ₹15,000 | $176 | €155 | ¥1,271 | ¥25,424 |
| 📈 2022–2023 | ₹25,000 | $294 | €258 | ¥2,119 | ¥42,373 |
| 📈 2023–2024 | ₹35,000 | $412 | €361 | ¥2,966 | ¥59,322 |
| 📈 2024–2025 | ₹40,000 | $471 | €412 | ¥3,390 | ¥67,797 |
| ⚠️ 2025–2026 | ₹42,000 | $494 | €433 | ¥3,559 | ¥71,186 |
🤔 Career & Salary Question
I often wonder why there is such a large salary difference in the software industry.
🛠️ Some developers mainly work on bug fixes, maintenance, or SaaS product development and earn very high salaries, sometimes reaching ₹65 LPA or more.
🧠 At the same time, there are people who spend years learning the deeper technical foundations of AI, software engineering, and computer science, yet may earn significantly less.
🤖 Today, AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini can assist with many coding and debugging tasks. This raises an interesting question:
❓ If AI can help automate parts of software development, why do some software roles still command very high salaries?
📊 I would like to understand: • What factors create these salary differences? • How do company size, location, product impact, and business value affect compensation? • What responsibilities and risks justify higher pay? • What challenges or pressures do highly paid software engineers face?
⚠️ Possible challenges in high-paying software roles: • High responsibility for critical systems • Tight deadlines and delivery pressure • Large-scale production incidents • Security and privacy risks • On-call support and emergency fixes • Business and customer impact from mistakes • Continuous learning requirements
🔍 I am interested in understanding the economic and professional reasons behind these salary differences in the technology industry.