Worst Parts About Being A Software Engineer
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2022
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Comparison is the thief of joy .
Exactly!
fuel of succses......
"jeff who"
Amen
This phrase is the thief of joy. Imagine thinking you're wise for acting like people can or even should just start ignoring the world around them. Literally all of the reasons we advanced as a species make this next to impossible not to do We're social, have great pattern recognition (overactive even), and posses the ability to think about thinks as more than ephemeral thoughts.
@@BeefIngotyou’re wrong
Number 3 is the fact that you used to be software engineer?
At google
ex-Google = ultimate flex
😂😂
Lol
@@sxlx 🤣
Still waiting for Number 3. Have watched this 23 times already. Hopefully it’ll come up soon.
It's being in a loop forever.
int i = 3;
while(
He forgot the break; or it’s probably while(true)
It's recursion, it's the worst!
He wants you to be addicted so he can be successful
Number three "My salary is only 300,000 tc. I kinda feel bad about myself because there's this principal engineer who makes 2 million."
yes
when his peer makes a million TC, 300k TC is not enough
I make close to 2500 $ per month
the fuck is TC, tiger cash?
@@fizzinsoda total compensation
My man is software engineer at Google and still consider him self unsuccessful if that so than I'm straight loser 💀
Stfu bro is asian 😭…(ps:understand sarcasm for God’s sake)
@@jediracoon5453 I can't relate, (ps: I don't give shit)
I don't even know skills what should I consider myself 💀💀
All that intelligence and he still needs to work for someone else. They’re depressed that they only know how to execute on stuff they’re told to do. They have fallen into a slave mindset. Even with all hag intelligence. They’re essentially addicted to a paycheck and are ashamed of it.
I mean he is an Asian and the standards where he grew up were probably way higher than ours so it kind of makes sense, but yah if I was a software engineer at google, which is harder to get in that Harvard, which also pays a ton, I think I’d be pretty damn proud of myself for making it that far.
Don’t ever compare yourself to other people. Everyone will succeed at different times in their life . Just be in competition with yourself. Just be a better you .
You’re thinking too hard homie. Just work to live. Remember they can replace you with a sneeze so make sure you take the skills you learned and apply it to the next. Don’t overthink it. Use them don’t be used. Work to live.
Exactly
Let me ease your mind about number 2. Writing code isn’t going to make you a billionaire company builder. You’ll need to learn to talk to customers, understand their problems, how to price, and then get people to pay for what you made. Then you need to build distribution channels, a team, credibility. It’s a ton of work and you’re still not guaranteed to succeed. It’s very competitive and stressful. If you think staying up to date with frameworks is too stressful try learning all these skills and becoming real good at them while getting no pay.
For every 20 year old billionaire software founder there are 100s and maybe 1000s who have failed. You don’t hear about those because failing is the norm in startups.
Are you willing to let go of your $200,000 a year comfortable salary so you can spend 5-10 years of your life without pay to build a product that might not make you any money?
You make a choice to not take that risk and be comfortable by taking a high salary job. Nothing wrong with that.
Thanks man, I also needed to hear that
that's everything in life.
I am glad you said this. We tend to over hype the super successful and forget about the just as talented but not as successful people.
Right? Focus these energies to do your other hobbies apart from coding
Doomer
I got rid of number 2 before even getting into software engineering.
someone else’s success and skills have nothing to do with your path. plus you don’t know their struggle. they might not necessarily be happy either
but knowing that someone still has less skills than you..makes you worried..thats what he says
Learns how to code..
Everyone in your family: so when you're gonna build the next Facebook?
Give me a small loan of $1'000'000 and I'll think of building an Amazon. Until then, fuck off.
💀💀💀
Essentially the worst part is your ego getting a little bruise
it’s hard tho, I’m like 22 and I already feel really pressured to build the next big thing eventho I’m somewhat above average skillwise for a college student on my position
Not only that though the fact that you have to keep learning in and outside of work hours does not sit well with a lot of people. I would not be able to do this if I didn’t like the part of software engineering I’m in rn
@@fjmorales6823 you are as pressured to build the next big thing as a business major is to make the next Amazon. It is all self imposed, and if that is not what you’re interested in, you do not need to do so. Success is measured in many metrics, and money isn’t necessarily the primary factor
yeah 'mental health' my ass, you just lazy
This is very humbling. Thank you for sharing.
Never ever compare yourself :) enjoy your journey. Enjoy new learning consider it as your next PR.
Same goes to visual designers. I got a lot of competitors and it makes me feel worthless for not being consistent to build my portfolio. It burns me out that I feel like I should go to pilot school instead.
flight school seems really stressing but fun as well. excluding that part where it's just auto pilot
What do you mean alot less competitors
@@celestialarmor695 not less competitor. Read the comment again will ya lol.
@@newjeansluvr it is fun, instead of sitting in front of computer stressing a danger called clients revision, being a pilot you'll face real danger and that's the thrill of it. You learned to plan ahead, brief with your PM or PF, read checklists and apply CRM. In design school nobody knows or teaches CRM which is needed for managing the team no matter what your profession is.
BROOOO STAY POSITIVE!!! You are really good at it…. The reason why you didn’t start your startup doesn’t mean that you are not good enough. Just stay positive and you will achieve it. And also BE HAPPY and enjoy coding that is the main key “to enjoy “😊😊😊
How developers think they can make a million/billion dollars start up:
1- technical skills
2- idea!
When you get a lot more experience as a developer (especially Full-Stack), then you realize that you can make almost anything into reality.
@@liam1902 I'm sorry but it's not that only. It's about connections, knowing your product well.
Like to me knowing how to do UX/UI is way way more beneficial than development when founding a start up.
It's never easy to anybody and I'm saying it from experience!
@@yyydollars8456 I didn't say that's the reason why developers are able to make a successful startup, I just stated that it's cool when you're a developer and end up learning/knowing a lot because then you could have a vision and create a startup. And I agree, connections are obviously very important since you need different types of co-workers (devs, product, etc) and also VCs to help fund your startup.
@@liam1902 is full stack something a beginner can get into with proper prep? Or is the traditional route recommended (html, css, js+). Or can we start on the backend? How to get to full stack?
@@yyydollars8456 My brother I Christ, do you think that
A. The type of person to know full stack development won't understand ux or ui
B. That someone who only knows ux or ui can magically learn software development and
C. That second person will magically have the funds to pay for someone else to do the legwork for their idea?
Ideas are cheap. Implementing them and selling them are expensive and hard.
This is pretty accurate. I relate. It's a real pressure to know all the latest. Just have to take it in stride and be patient.
I’m a senior software developer and I can relate to everything you said in this video, the pressure to keep up and most importantly trying to escape the 9-5 hours by building a business and always struggling with time and energy. You are not alone man!
You got it! Don’t give up ! Everyone has there time to shine
This is how I feel right now. After going through a fellow woman’s LinkedIn profile. She’s so successful she’s even in London. And she graduated like four years ago?
I feel u bro I want to be very successful but it’s all in due time if u put in the work
copium
You have to be happy with the success you have achieved, and stop stop stop comparing yourself to others. If you are not happy with your present situation, make yourself a list of how you can get to wear you want to be. Start on that list, one step at a time and pat yourself on the back every time you complete a step.
I appreciate you being honest with us and yourself
God be with you bro
Because im not
Everything you said I’m already worried about and I haven’t even learned all the basics yet, like I’m struggling just to learn the CSS portion.
I so needed to hear the second one😢
Legitimately the first point is so true because I know other engineering Fields where you really don't have to learn new things that often unless your company directly tells you but with software engineering you really have to always be researching new things
Dude you touch my heart and solve my issues
“ comparison is the thief of joy”
Thank you for this video. I know we all struggle with feeling successful enough.
Put in the work boy
Your content is amazing!
Bro got stuck on number 2 for a hot second you can tell it really bothers him. Just go for it dude! At the end of the day you still have great skills to get another job if the startup doesn’t work out.
Another point is that even if you become a software engineer you wont get a really good project/role to showcase your talent. Work becomes mundane when you repeat same thing again and again
Probably I will be stuck for entire life thinking that I don’t know enough to get my first job😔😔😔
help i’m stuck in the looping and will never know reason number 3 😭
My point is why should one feel bad about themselves comparing with some other random person's success? Not everyone is same and hence not everyone's current situation is same. Have a nice day😊
Thx mister. I'm at University in a software engineering program and I started completely green a year ago with 0 knowledge. I've been improving but I really have slowly been trying to get a better understanding of working conditions, often only the positives are discussed so I appreciate some honesty
What's NUMBER 3?!??!
Worst part: something always breaks at the worst time. Like right before your vacation/hoilday, right before code breeze, at 5:59Pm, right before a demo, when upper management have their eyes on it. And you are always on call as if you are a doctor but the frustrating thing is about 90% of the time you dont know wtf is wrong.
Everytime you deploy into production you are holding your breath and praying to the dev Gods because eventho everything works find in staging and passed all the test, 50% of the time it will always fail in prod.
I am in the same boat and I agree with you a 100%. It’s really sad.
I am a junior developer and what you said is soooo true!
Thanks man. Totally can relate lol
I would agree with your first talk
I see what you did with that #3 🤣🤣🤣
You’re saying this like it’s too late to make a startup. You said you feel pressured to code in your free time, you can knock out two birds with one stone!
Ok clever loop idea ill give ya that
It doesn't feel like worst parts
Bro don't struggling, we studied a lot, we are bery prepared, everyday i have the same feeling, but we have a power that the mojority doesnt have! I follow you from a while and is like we live the same life!!! Hang on my buddy❤
Those are my top two as well
I mean if you want to create a startup I’m working on a hardware software product and we’ll need a website and app so I need a developer for it. The product is revolutionary
Man.. the second one is a hard one.. wish you luck to always get something better though . 👍
we have the same boat bro! cheers
Sounds like the aerospace industry to me
I feel the same, man
Thanks!
Anytime 🙂
What job did you transition into after you stopped being a software engineer?
Your good bro
Number 3 is that Idk what's that green thing outside my basement
Doing startup business is entirely different topic altogether. That 20 year old has created a business model. Even if you know all the programs and frameworks that's only one part of the whole business process. You have to learn "business". The marketing, sales, research and development, building networks and partnerships, learning some government laws, taxes, etc
Felt confident teaching juniors only to find myself watching UA-cam videos and learning very basic things I should have known but are not used in my company so I had never seen it before and therefore getting imposter syndrome.
My comfort to myself is to remember that I’m good at the problems I’ve met with before and can possibly get good at problems I’ve never met. People who are good at the problems I’ve never seen before may not be good at the problems I’ve seen.
Studied software for 2 years and realized this is a field I'd never stop studying for so I quit. Not saying it's terrible but software engineering was never my passion and saw it as a way out of poverty, but seeing that all I did for almost 12 hours a day every day and still fell behind everyone else, I saw no light at the end of the tunnel. I decided to spend my time and energy studying engineering instead. Math rarely changes and science is pretty much linear, I won't have to worry about a new scientific method popping up that I would have to learn or risk being left behind in the industry. Stressful stuff...
How did u make the switch I’m in a similar position now and questioning it all but I do like engineering and science
@@The_Warden44 I just stopped one day and really thought about it. If software engineering is something I'd be happy doing for the rest of my life, and that's when I realized that it wasn't. I went back to college and focused what I liked which is engineering. It still makes makes good money, maybe not as much as a software engineer but at least I'll be happy.
You got this
I agree with the second part
Don't be so hard on yourself and keep up the work of course
Loop is perfect xD
Woooowwwwww...thanks 🙏 for opening my eyes up ...stuff I would never think about
number 3 👀
Dont compare yourself to others. It is a sin. He also just compared himself to a record setter so he is setting the bar a little high.
The worst thing in being a software engineer is that your career path trajectory never approaches the top management. There is a glass ceiling....
I thought I was alone. Thanks
ex-Google >>> Google
The goto mindset in tech
Number 3 is the friends we made along the way
Same thing is with highschool or other jobs
I can relate bro I feel like that.
Imposter syndrome is why it's good to have hobies besides coding. You not only get a sense of refreshment but also freedom from a programmer's mindset
I relate to number one but not number two
i actually like coding just because it's fun and I love coding in my free time so in my opinion its the best part of the job because I love coding
Thanks for being honest
Do not Guage your success with money.
Imposter syndrome hits every IT person I see
I can relate to it even without being a software engineer
Bro youre doing way better than me. I have what I have and worked hard for it but the truth is, even if you're really good at something if its a low leverage skill you will never get paid as much. I meet mediocre people all the time that make 2x or 3x what I make just because they have a higher leverage skill. Im now learning skills that I was never interested in before so I can get more leverage when the abilities I have now should be enough to fking exist 😆
I am on the same situation
The first one is a perfect way to burndown.
Bro don't worry let's build the startup.
Well i do brutally hard work for $100 a day for 9 hours no break, my body hurts but im literally stuck there so cheer up bro
I feel you
Feel the same bro
It takes a lot more to build a startup than just the hard skills.
As a developer, we all need to be updated everyday
It's really normal to spend your free time learning more about tech.
Unless you work for the state. I was chastised about recommending to the help desk that they learn more about the products they were supporting.
Ahhh im not alone who has this feeling. Though settled as SDE in one of MAANG companies, I always feel unsuccessful & compare myself with others .
man this is exactly how i feel
Currently working on my startup with 2 apps, no idea what I'm doing, only made 5 bucks so far
Number 3: Feel insecure when i look at others clean code 😂😂
Imposter syndrome is a real thing. Comparison is the thief of joy
Was in the same boat, felt useless for working for someone else, so I Started my own start up. Not at all successful. So don't worry about feeling worthless. You are doing just fine.
Same thoughts here sadly
On the other hand the fact that I have never worked in google makes me feel worthless.
Number 4 is you can be kicked out anytime...
Why?