I was so close to quitting my job because of a really bad work culture/commute but then we all went lockdown remote in late March and have been loving it ever since, the moment they ask us to go back I'm outties
A lot of expected unpaid overtime and always sudden deadlines, now that everyone is remote nobody seems to check we’re online late and a lot of our old deadlines were extended from lockdown so the work pace has been easier!
i really appreciate that you were honest about your initial feelings towards your jobs. I feel like a lot of us in this industry (or any industry) struggle with comparing ourselves to other people. It seems like everyone else knows exactly what they're doing it. Nice to know someone with the experience you have faces the same struggles
As a highschool senior, I could not comment much on my work experience. However, I love the transition from career decisions to bakery and back! It made the video more interesting than just talking about career decisions.
You hit the nail on the head with this one, Mayuko. I appreciate the deeper dive into the role of a manager in your career after one of your previous Muko's Corner videos. Having been a manager myself, I sometimes feel that the "People leave managers, not companies" mantra is a little overstated. Yes, employees do and should leave bad managers who only look out for themselves. But people also leave jobs for a whole variety of reasons. No one stays in a job forever. As a manager, my goal was always to help my team members find the next thing that will let them achieve their ultimate goals.
おいしそー I started a software engineer job in Japan this summer after graduating from an university in the states. I’m wasn’t able to work on the area I wanted so I’m feeling unfulfilled. It’s 4 month right now so I’ll try until April and if I still don’t enjoy it I’ll go talk to my boss. I prefer doing something I enjoy since I’m using most of my day at work. Thank you again!
Great video as always! I landed my first SE Internship a few months after starting watching your videos last year and started working fulltime for that same company in January. This is a question that I've had even before getting any offer and I'm satisfied with the answer I got from this video. Sidenote: Thanks for dropping the link for the recipe you used 😊
I left my job this year to have more leadership over the projects I build. The roles and leadership at the last company wasn't structured for me; no set path on how to move up in seniority. Plus I was putting in a lot of hours to get the same paycheck. Now I work less, getting more and the work is fulfilling. Great video, awesome points you touch on!
Thanks for this. Ive been at this job for 4 years and at first we were coding. Now I'm managing this legacy software only coding off hours on my own. Trying to leave, but feel stuck because I haven't done "modern" development.
“What do you want from your job?” MONEYYYYYYY 💵💸💰😂 In all seriousness, great advice. Definitely agree with evaluating the “value” of your job. I think it’s especially difficult leaving a company who provides stability, great perks, and good work culture because it’s scary to leave a good job for a GREAT job. That risk was the scariest for me when I changed my job the first time. Personally I joined a company now that would give me the most opportunity with great internal mobility because I want to move soon, and also because I don’t like doing the same role for more than a year or two lol (I love new challenges and learning) Wishing you all the success in being your own boss ;)
Hey fam! Hope y'all are doing well and cozy-ing up for winter (or getting ready for summer, for your southern hemisphere folks). Don't forget that the first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership! skl.sh/mayuko11201
I just left my job yesterday, this couldn't have come at a better time to help me feel positive about this change. Thank you for doing these awesome videos!!
You are my career doppelganger. "...trying to give it the opportunity to open minded to what I could learn.." but at the end of the year, I didn't want my boss's job as career guidance blogs say. The job I wanted at the company wasn't created yet, I don't know how to get my big organization company to sign off on it. It would be a tech project related to corporate social responsibility. So I say that to say I am thinking about taking a 6-month sabbatical starting January but now it is hard because I want to see if there will be a smooth transition from the current administration to the current elected. I don't now if that will affect employment search. Anyhoo, thanks for this video. I feels good that someone else had the same feelings.
Psychiatrist: "What do you see in this Rorschach card?" Mayuko: "Ah easy, that's a PUFFER FISH MATING RITUAL SAND THING" Psychiatrist, scribbling furiously: "...interesting."
omg the rice paddle LOL. I'm seriously impressed by your multitasking ability, how you're able to be so eloquent while not burning the house down 😂 anywayyyy really great video and I'm glad you talked about compensation, learning, skills, culture, opportunities, etc! and how this can change over time. I actually recently left my old job and moved into a new one and it took a lot of self-reflection to decide to do it.
Software developer jobs are underpaid these days with lot of people are available to work for low wages , the salaries are stagnant and deflating . Functional consultants are the highest paid like in SAP . I left my software engineer job but it’s too late to switch to sap after being in java for more than a decade. If a job underpays there is no point in doing it while easy jobs like sap cloud professionals are making a hell lot of money than us . I quit my job in software engineering and never going back to programming role. Not worth the effort being underpaid . New subscriber from Nebraska 😭
I’ve been working in Desktop Support IT for the last 7 years and I feel stuck. I don’t really feel that IT work suits my personality anymore, even though I am skilled at what I do and people at my company like me, but it isn’t enough. I’m insanely bored and tired of the same routine... moving forward, I’ll place greater importance on following my natural interests instead of the money flow
I'm in completely different situation, I am a welder and hate it now. Want to get into IT or Drafting such as AutoCad , Solidworks, Revit .Even learn web design. Was IT support hard when you first started, what you liked / disliked about it ?
ive been a support also in our company hub application. but it get me stagnant in because of the same routine almost everyday. i ask my manager to pursue my dev career and i turns out it made me happy. sometimes you have to decide and choose best options for your career and most of all your life.
I may sound negative but in my observation you can never get back things equal to efforts you put in because all of the tech companies or corporations always take more from you than it gives you back in the form of satisfaction and monetary compensation. You will not believe but even swe from Faang companies are underpaid relative to the work they put in with fewer exceptions.
Allow me to be opinionated. I don't still get the idea to "graduate from a work" or 仕事を卒業する shigoto wo sotsugyo suru in Japanese (which is quite commonly used these days among Japanese young workers); you can't really get rid of what you've learned or experienced. Of course, you can leave and refocus on something new, but you need to expand yourself further from what you've got learned anyway. So I've never used the term being graduated or 卒業した sotsugyou shita from a job/workplace/team. Actually, quite often you might rejoin the team/workplace in the future! Most if not all reasons which made me decide to leave my previous jobs are about the fundamental differences of the values I saw and the other people in the workplace saw, especially about the work ethics, and the organizational culture. (It's one of the reasons I finally went freelance; you can't really choose your manager when you're *hired*.) OTOH, it's simply the expiration of the contract period (usually 5 years (or shorter) in Japan), or the lack of budget to justify your hiring, which you have to leave the job even if you still want to be there. So one thing for sure is that you've always got to be prepared for when you leave or quit the organization/team/company you belong to - the termination day might come earlier than you think. BTW les choux à la créme looked very nice and yummy! :) And thanks for the video as always! :)
Sometimes one aspect of "compensation" or "value" might outweigh the another one. And then it becomes tricky to balance and figure out whether e.g. losing in pay but gaining fulfilment would worth it in the long run.
You know I like that you give professional talk about software engineering. I think you should not wait for people to evaluate you. Giving talk about software engineering would improve your skills if not improve self esteem
Thank you for sharing your experience. Honestly I dont know why I, as a new-grad sales person, am going to sell the web product which my colleagues have made. I will figure out what I want from my current job. Basically I want more “fulfillment”. But…how can we rightly identify where our “fulfillment” comes out of? Before this job, personally, I studied political philosophy and history in my college and wanted to try my ability in a IT-business world. This simply doesn’t make sense for anybody. But to some extent I (really..?) wanted something out of “IT-business world”. If this is true, I shoul be able to find out what it is. It could be how to set up nice working environment with the latest technology or else. I will detect what I want from my current job, and communicate with my manager. Thanks.
Mayuko, I really want to know your opinion of what happened on Terrace House, I know it didn't ended up well but it could be a good opportunity of talk about the now a days Internet problems.
Hi Mayuko! What happened to poor Kono? The photobombs suggest somehow that spots have grown. Now wait a minute, at about a little after 10 mins, was that a real Kono butt shot? Is there a Kono Jr now also? Awesome whipping skills to go with your cream puffs ... did you make a "real" hot fudge sauce to go with the cream puff and the true New York Vanilla ice cream? Words for today include avoid black cats and dont walk under ladders! Great video! -Bob...
do you have advice on how to get a software engineering job in the US for people leaving overseas? Could you do a video with someone that is a foreign worker in the US to tell us his stories maybe or advice.... Thank you!
Cooking and recording a video for your youtube at the same time. Maybe, the world was correct from the beginning that females are goooood with multitasking. One best, multitask that i can do is to eat my dinner and watch this amazing, funny and informative video of yours. Take care! さようなら. going to code now 👨🏻💻👍
Four jobs in six years? How do you get anything done? That's only 15 months per job. As a young worker I guess that might make sense but all my best jobs lasted around 5 years. Less than two years doesn't seem like enough time to really get very good at any particular job
any engineer here is interested in working on a startup together with me? notice this is not a job offer, i'm looking for a technical cofounder. i understand it's hard to leave your job especially in this year, so maybe consider working on a side project? :)
:) Since you mentioned Uncle roger and British Bake offs, here he made another video yesterday making fun of that ua-cam.com/video/lf_OPDvX7Jk/v-deo.html
Mayuko is the elder sister none of us asked for, but the one all of us need. Thank you, Mayuko!
pfft speak for yourself kiddo. She would be the baby sister, or even the daughter, that I needed.
@@juliosoto9471 bruh why
@@juliosoto9471 wish i could down vote you
Love her 💗💗💗
How to know when to leave your software engineer job:
Step 1: get a software engineer job
wholesome Mayuko always with the wholesome advice during these crazy times.
I was so close to quitting my job because of a really bad work culture/commute but then we all went lockdown remote in late March and have been loving it ever since, the moment they ask us to go back I'm outties
sir can you describe the bad worn culture in your workplace? im curious
yeah I'm curious too. Can you elaborate plez?
A lot of expected unpaid overtime and always sudden deadlines, now that everyone is remote nobody seems to check we’re online late and a lot of our old deadlines were extended from lockdown so the work pace has been easier!
Maybe you can use this lockdown time to prepare and switch, instead of waiting till post covid-19.
i really appreciate that you were honest about your initial feelings towards your jobs. I feel like a lot of us in this industry (or any industry) struggle with comparing ourselves to other people. It seems like everyone else knows exactly what they're doing it. Nice to know someone with the experience you have faces the same struggles
As a highschool senior, I could not comment much on my work experience. However, I love the transition from career decisions to bakery and back! It made the video more interesting than just talking about career decisions.
11 minutes in: Finally realized you weren't saying "shoe cream" but "choux cream"
Thank you so much for this Mayuko. You are the ' Colleague Big Sister' I always wanted at work. Love you tons.
honestly I've never felt my life desicions so affirmed as I do after watching this ❤️
I feel like it's hard to get helpful, unbiased, and nuanced career advice, but this is one of the rare corners of the internet where it happens!
I study code by myself. You give me the motivation to continue. Thanks
I love the vibe of the video. Exactly what I needed right now, something cozy and chilled
You hit the nail on the head with this one, Mayuko. I appreciate the deeper dive into the role of a manager in your career after one of your previous Muko's Corner videos. Having been a manager myself, I sometimes feel that the "People leave managers, not companies" mantra is a little overstated. Yes, employees do and should leave bad managers who only look out for themselves. But people also leave jobs for a whole variety of reasons. No one stays in a job forever. As a manager, my goal was always to help my team members find the next thing that will let them achieve their ultimate goals.
I’m learning English from Mayuko’s videos☺️
Great monologue. Perspective is everything.
おいしそー
I started a software engineer job in Japan this summer after graduating from an university in the states.
I’m wasn’t able to work on the area I wanted so I’m feeling unfulfilled.
It’s 4 month right now so I’ll try until April and if I still don’t enjoy it I’ll go talk to my boss.
I prefer doing something I enjoy since I’m using most of my day at work.
Thank you again!
Mayuko is my role model :) I’m a senior in high school and I’m set on becoming a software engineer.
Great video as always! I landed my first SE Internship a few months after starting watching your videos last year and started working fulltime for that same company in January. This is a question that I've had even before getting any offer and I'm satisfied with the answer I got from this video.
Sidenote: Thanks for dropping the link for the recipe you used 😊
Love these videos, very informative from someone senior! Thanks Mayuko!
Very beneficial and quite interesting, thanks for sharing and congrats for keeping such a long vid so interesting..
I left my job this year to have more leadership over the projects I build. The roles and leadership at the last company wasn't structured for me; no set path on how to move up in seniority. Plus I was putting in a lot of hours to get the same paycheck. Now I work less, getting more and the work is fulfilling. Great video, awesome points you touch on!
Thanks for this. Ive been at this job for 4 years and at first we were coding. Now I'm managing this legacy software only coding off hours on my own. Trying to leave, but feel stuck because I haven't done "modern" development.
i needed this
That was educational and entertaining at the same time. I love シュークリーム 🤤
“What do you want from your job?”
MONEYYYYYYY 💵💸💰😂
In all seriousness, great advice. Definitely agree with evaluating the “value” of your job. I think it’s especially difficult leaving a company who provides stability, great perks, and good work culture because it’s scary to leave a good job for a GREAT job. That risk was the scariest for me when I changed my job the first time.
Personally I joined a company now that would give me the most opportunity with great internal mobility because I want to move soon, and also because I don’t like doing the same role for more than a year or two lol (I love new challenges and learning)
Wishing you all the success in being your own boss ;)
I love your videos thank you for being a rolemodel
thx for this vid mayuko! love the honesty and advice 🙂
Hey fam! Hope y'all are doing well and cozy-ing up for winter (or getting ready for summer, for your southern hemisphere folks). Don't forget that the first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership! skl.sh/mayuko11201
Love this channel. Please keep making great content!
I feel like youtube knows things... currently trying to leave my job in an it company to somewhere else and this confirms my reasons why
I just left my job yesterday, this couldn't have come at a better time to help me feel positive about this change.
Thank you for doing these awesome videos!!
You are my career doppelganger. "...trying to give it the opportunity to open minded to what I could learn.." but at the end of the year, I didn't want my boss's job as career guidance blogs say. The job I wanted at the company wasn't created yet, I don't know how to get my big organization company to sign off on it. It would be a tech project related to corporate social responsibility. So I say that to say I am thinking about taking a 6-month sabbatical starting January but now it is hard because I want to see if there will be a smooth transition from the current administration to the current elected. I don't now if that will affect employment search. Anyhoo, thanks for this video. I feels good that someone else had the same feelings.
it’s soothing watch people making food (i.e. Mayuko making chaud cream puffs in this case). 🤤😋
Psychiatrist: "What do you see in this Rorschach card?"
Mayuko: "Ah easy, that's a PUFFER FISH MATING RITUAL SAND THING"
Psychiatrist, scribbling furiously: "...interesting."
gap 😂😂😂
omg the rice paddle LOL. I'm seriously impressed by your multitasking ability, how you're able to be so eloquent while not burning the house down 😂 anywayyyy really great video and I'm glad you talked about compensation, learning, skills, culture, opportunities, etc! and how this can change over time. I actually recently left my old job and moved into a new one and it took a lot of self-reflection to decide to do it.
also I'm in my first month and I am RIDING THE WAVE SO HARD AHHHHHH
thank you mayuko! nice video!
Nice video. Now that I think about it, it appears you have successfully transcended yappy status. Keep up the great work homie!
Software developer jobs are underpaid these days with lot of people are available to work for low wages , the salaries are stagnant and deflating . Functional consultants are the highest paid like in SAP . I left my software engineer job but it’s too late to switch to sap after being in java for more than a decade. If a job underpays there is no point in doing it while easy jobs like sap cloud professionals are making a hell lot of money than us . I quit my job in software engineering and never going back to programming role. Not worth the effort being underpaid . New subscriber from Nebraska 😭
Great video thanks for the perspective.
I love this!
Thank you for sharing your advice on this :)
I’ve been working in Desktop Support IT for the last 7 years and I feel stuck. I don’t really feel that IT work suits my personality anymore, even though I am skilled at what I do and people at my company like me, but it isn’t enough. I’m insanely bored and tired of the same routine... moving forward, I’ll place greater importance on following my natural interests instead of the money flow
I'm in completely different situation, I am a welder and hate it now. Want to get into IT or Drafting such as AutoCad , Solidworks, Revit .Even learn web design.
Was IT support hard when you first started, what you liked / disliked about it ?
ive been a support also in our company hub application. but it get me stagnant in because of the same routine almost everyday. i ask my manager to pursue my dev career and i turns out it made me happy. sometimes you have to decide and choose best options for your career and most of all your life.
Do you think IT is a gonna be there in the next 5-10 years as someone who has been in the industry for a while .
Mayuko is a daughter you never knew that you needed but lighten up your life.
I’m single by the way, and don’t have a kid.
love your channel!
I hope we can have fun while trying different things.
Still, it looks delicious!
いつも美味しそうな料理で素敵です！
まゆこさんがお店を開いたら、きっとマメに買いに行くと思います笑
Thanks, very interesting topic.
I think working corporate isn’t so bad with the autonomy we are given working from home and lack of commute
Thank you! This is very helpful
Definitely applies to most, if not, all IT jobs as well!
I may sound negative but in my observation you can never get back things equal to efforts you put in because all of the tech companies or corporations always take more from you than it gives you back in the form of satisfaction and monetary compensation.
You will not believe but even swe from Faang companies are underpaid relative to the work they put in with fewer exceptions.
Thanks muyuko.. you read my mind.
Allow me to be opinionated. I don't still get the idea to "graduate from a work" or 仕事を卒業する shigoto wo sotsugyo suru in Japanese (which is quite commonly used these days among Japanese young workers); you can't really get rid of what you've learned or experienced. Of course, you can leave and refocus on something new, but you need to expand yourself further from what you've got learned anyway. So I've never used the term being graduated or 卒業した sotsugyou shita from a job/workplace/team. Actually, quite often you might rejoin the team/workplace in the future!
Most if not all reasons which made me decide to leave my previous jobs are about the fundamental differences of the values I saw and the other people in the workplace saw, especially about the work ethics, and the organizational culture. (It's one of the reasons I finally went freelance; you can't really choose your manager when you're *hired*.)
OTOH, it's simply the expiration of the contract period (usually 5 years (or shorter) in Japan), or the lack of budget to justify your hiring, which you have to leave the job even if you still want to be there. So one thing for sure is that you've always got to be prepared for when you leave or quit the organization/team/company you belong to - the termination day might come earlier than you think.
BTW les choux à la créme looked very nice and yummy! :) And thanks for the video as always! :)
I definitely was trigger (not really) by "re org" lmao I have heard that word at my current job more times then I would like lmao 😂
Sometimes one aspect of "compensation" or "value" might outweigh the another one. And then it becomes tricky to balance and figure out whether e.g. losing in pay but gaining fulfilment would worth it in the long run.
I saved downloaded, shared and liked
You know I like that you give professional talk about software engineering. I think you should not wait for people to evaluate you. Giving talk about software engineering would improve your skills if not improve self esteem
ピカピカの冷蔵庫の後光効果がすごい！神のお告げみたい
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Honestly I dont know why I, as a new-grad sales person, am going to sell the web product which my colleagues have made. I will figure out what I want from my current job. Basically I want more “fulfillment”.
But…how can we rightly identify where our “fulfillment” comes out of?
Before this job, personally, I studied political philosophy and history in my college and wanted to try my ability in a IT-business world.
This simply doesn’t make sense for anybody. But to some extent I (really..?) wanted something out of “IT-business world”. If this is true, I shoul be able to find out what it is. It could be how to set up nice working environment with the latest technology or else.
I will detect what I want from my current job, and communicate with my manager. Thanks.
The jokes on you, you don't need to leave a job when you don't have one
She's the frd everyone needs during this Illness.
Hii Mayuko.. may all your day full of happiness.. 🙂
Mayuko, you are a very talented woman
Iloveyou mayuko♥️
Imagine getting a mentorship with Ms Mayuko :)
This is exactly what I needed to hear today. Been struggling with this for months now - thank you! On a side-note, who's the new doggo? :D
Haha got a vlog coming out real soon about her 😊
@@hellomayuko just watched it :) Ellie is adorable! Her ears are soo floppy :3
Will keep that in mind
You are awsome! Ty
Thanks for sharing.
happy diwali everyone
happy diwali mayuko
love from india❤️
Happy Diwali Mayuko
Mayuko, I really want to know your opinion of what happened on Terrace House, I know it didn't ended up well but it could be a good opportunity of talk about the now a days Internet problems.
Hi Mayuko! What happened to poor Kono? The photobombs suggest somehow that spots have grown. Now wait a minute, at about a little after 10 mins, was that a real Kono butt shot? Is there a Kono Jr now also? Awesome whipping skills to go with your cream puffs ... did you make a "real" hot fudge sauce to go with the cream puff and the true New York Vanilla ice cream? Words for today include avoid black cats and dont walk under ladders! Great video! -Bob...
do you have advice on how to get a software engineering job in the US for people leaving overseas? Could you do a video with someone that is a foreign worker in the US to tell us his stories maybe or advice.... Thank you!
Already got one! ua-cam.com/video/zUfboMAPfeg/v-deo.html
Thank you Mayuko!
I just caught a Japanese phrase from your mouth, and am somewhat startled!
i want to be a software engineer but the fact that you all eventually make youtube videos kinda scares me ngl
how are you so good at multitasking !!
Claire Saffitz shrank. It takes a lot of practice to think and talk and dispense advice and cook all at once. Thanks.
Cooking and recording a video for your youtube at the same time. Maybe, the world was correct from the beginning that females are goooood with multitasking. One best, multitask that i can do is to eat my dinner and watch this amazing, funny and informative video of yours. Take care! さようなら. going to code now 👨🏻💻👍
my LOVE from Somalia
Yes
Nice video
Love ya
If u start the cooking shows, that’s when u know it’s time to leave software engineer job😂
Yes XD
How do you have the actual conversation that you're leaving? Can I drop some hints prior so its not so sudden?
That 仕事を卒業するって感じ？？ out of nowhere hahaha
I also need to be my own boss. I'm trying to build a straightforward consumer facing webapp. Hope it works. I'm not pretty enough for youtube!
Software Engineering is a fast changing job, you won't be able to keep up in less than a year after you quit
Four jobs in six years? How do you get anything done? That's only 15 months per job. As a young worker I guess that might make sense but all my best jobs lasted around 5 years. Less than two years doesn't seem like enough time to really get very good at any particular job
Graduating from your job like graduating from a Japanese music group?
any engineer here is interested in working on a startup together with me? notice this is not a job offer, i'm looking for a technical cofounder. i understand it's hard to leave your job especially in this year, so maybe consider working on a side project? :)
Graduate like in terrace house. Lol love it
So what if my manager doesn't want to assign me to a different project because there is no one to replace me on the current project?
It's the manager's problem? Anybody can leave a company at any time, so if there is only one person who knows a system, that's a big risk.
:) Since you mentioned Uncle roger and British Bake offs, here he made another video yesterday making fun of that ua-cam.com/video/lf_OPDvX7Jk/v-deo.html
I love my it job but some people at work😓
muko
when you watch this and realize u gotta get the f out of your job
please do a Japanese-speaking only vid, pleeeeeeeeease
Rice paddles FTW
You really seem to enjoy cooking. Have you ever thought about becoming a chef?
Great video!
I emailed you a while back but you never responded 😐
I really relate to your content because I am a developer myself