Turning 23 soon, Am I doing okay? Or do I need to get more disciplined?

I am soon going to be 23 and complete my first year of being employed (1 YOE).

I am currently working as a backend engineer earning 22k CTC, 18.3k in hand after EPF and deductions

I got employed on Sep 29, 2025. Earned 12k/month until Feb and in Feb got a fulltime offer with 18k.

The problem that in this whole year I only managed to save around:

5.3k in savings acc (1k in SIP)
10k in EPF

That's it. Despite not having any rental expense.

Expenditure:
Food, traveling, and medicines. I did spend on myself after getting employed mainly on Foods, games and getting something for my family

I am concerned that my spending habit is unhealthy and I don't track my expenses (Although I have overall idea where I spent category wise but not every minute detail) . During this time period I also had health issues so one can take that into account.

I want some validation, that's it and if not then need a reality check.

Thank you for reading and your advice would be appreciated.

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u/No-Total-504 — 5 days ago

Monitor with good text quality for development.

https://preview.redd.it/dm9rrr5xk2ah1.png?width=1725&format=png&auto=webp&s=d705a7b398abeff3f3b73ee03b366a2d28703f68

My laptop display is quite mediocre and washed so I was looking to buy a monitor, I don't like low ppi and text quality. I want something with good PPI and sharp texts. Please suggest as I am looking for development only.

People who have 24'' FHD or qhd, do you see pixel grid? Is the text quality crisp and good?

My eyes have tasted retina MBP through company. I can't afford something like that personally, Budget is around 10-15k.

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u/No-Total-504 — 9 days ago

Edge 50 neo - App lock isn't working as it should!!

I open the app for the first time, the app lock works but in the subsequent attempts the app lock is completely absent.

u/No-Total-504 — 10 days ago

What are we doing for our uyghur brethren? Why are we so silent?

Assalmualaikum,

Why are we so silent? Why is no one talking about them? They're getting raped, tortured and what not behind the closed doors and we are just sitting here? IT is not even a talk inside muslim community to what is happening over there, how can we let this happen? Today is friday, let's keem them in our duas.

Also use this thread to drop any donations or link to organizations that are working for uyghur cause.

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u/No-Total-504 — 11 days ago
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What are we doing for our uyghur brethren? Why are we so silent?

Assalmualaikum,

Why are we so silent? Why is no one talking about them? They're getting raped, tortured and what not behind the closed doors and we are just sitting here? IT is not even a talk inside muslim community to what is happening over there, how can we let this happen?

Also use this thread to drop any donations or link to organizations that are working for uyghur cause.

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u/No-Total-504 — 11 days ago

Hello UI 2.0 when?

Look I am a person who doesn't require lot of change to keep things exciting but really every other os has so much of stuff going on like depth effects, battery styles (even pixel has it with A16) and so many other stuff. Why can't moto focus on these aspects of phones?

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u/No-Total-504 — 18 days ago
▲ 1.1k r/HindutvaFiles+2 crossposts

They're publicly calling for preying on Indian Muslim women! May Allah save us all!

u/No-Total-504 — 22 days ago

What should I read as a hobby?

I always was very much interested in space, aeronautics and everything but I couldn't pursue in those fields because of various reasons.

At this point I've a good soft engg job and I just want to read physics out of geniune curiousity and interest not because I want to switch careers meaning there is absolutely no pursuit of goal or anything as such - just read and get into it slowly and fall in love ig? (sorry if it sounds cringe) .

Since school I haven't picked up physics so you can say Im faily new but I know math. I am looking to start with feynman's lectures - starting with volume 1.

If you've read till now, really appreciate and would be looking for your perspective.

Thank you!

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u/No-Total-504 — 26 days ago

Got my first ever session of therapy today!! Can you guys share how therapy helped you guys and for what issues and how did it overall improve your life?

It was a 40 minute session where I discussed the stuff about my dysfunctional family, my parents broken marriage and my issues and lot of them. After that they made me fill some few forms and let me write down 5 goals for therapy.

Tbh it didn't feel any big maybe because I was just ranting about the vulnerable stuff about my life to a stranger for the first time and I did felt a bit used? after the session ended idk why.

Right now I am just not worrying much about the results and not expecting much. Just looking forward to the next session.

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u/No-Total-504 — 2 months ago