u/Odd_Struggle_874

35M, married, 2 kids, living in a tier 3 city in India. Around ₹75L in savings, no loans or liabilities, but still constantly stressed about finances.

I work in IT, and honestly the biggest issue is that the industry never feels stable. Layoffs, AI, restructuring, constant upskilling pressure… it always feels like your income could disappear faster than you expect.

On paper, I think we are doing okay. Especially for a tier 3 city. But mentally it never does.

I’m constantly thinking about:

• kids’ future education costs
• medical emergencies
• aging parents
• losing my job at the wrong time
• inflation eating away savings
• whether one income is too risky

I’ve become extremely cautious with spending. Even regular purchases sometimes feel stressful because my brain immediately jumps to “what if I’m unemployed next year?”

The weird thing is I thought hitting a decent savings number would finally make me feel secure. Instead the target just keeps moving.

Anyone else in IT with a family feel this constant low-level financial anxiety even when things may be okay?

Airtel Broadband has been down in my area for more than 72 hours now, and honestly the whole experience has been terrible.

At this point, all those Airtel Black satire/parody posts don’t even feel exaggerated anymore. The generic support replies, no proper updates, no ETA, and just endlessly hearing “our team is working on it” — it genuinely starts feeling like the real Airtel customer experience.

People depend on broadband for work, meetings, studies, and business. A multi-day outage from a company that markets itself as a premium ISP is pretty ridiculous.

The most frustrating part is the lack of communication and accountability. If there’s a major issue, just be transparent about it instead of making customers chase support for days.

Has anyone else faced outages this bad with Airtel Fiber recently?

Airtel Broadband has been down in my area for more than 72 hours now, and honestly the whole experience has been terrible.

At this point, all those Airtel Black satire/parody site don’t even feel exaggerated anymore. The generic support replies, no proper updates, no ETA, and just endlessly hearing “our team is working on it” — it genuinely starts feeling like the real Airtel customer experience.

People depend on broadband for work, meetings, studies, and business. A multi-day outage from a company that markets itself as a premium ISP is pretty ridiculous.

The most frustrating part is the lack of communication and accountability. If there’s a major issue, just be transparent about it instead of making customers chase support for days.

Has anyone else faced outages this bad with Airtel Fiber recently?

Currently on a Vi family postpaid plan with 2 numbers and thinking of switching both to prepaid since we don’t really use the extra postpaid perks.

For anyone who’s done this:

• What’s the smoothest way to convert both lines?
• Can it be done directly, vi postpaid to vi prepaid or is porting easier?
• Any issues with the secondary family member line?
• Better to stay on Vi prepaid or switch to Airtel/Jio while doing it?

Just looking for the simplest and least painful way to cut monthly costs.