hey friends welcome back to my channel as you can see i am not in my typical setup i am at my
parents house this weekend visiting them and i have a really fun vlog for you planned which is
week in the life of a software developer as you know and we are going through
a really cool interactive art exhibit this week which i'm really excited to take you on
what else are we doing this week we are oh i'm really excited i'm going to sit down
with you actually shortly here and answer a ton of different questions you asked me related to coding
and career and all of the above so make sure to stay tuned lots of good things coming up
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comments questions feedback you know all the above you all are amazing okay come on let's go
okay i am just on my way to meet carol um that's paul's mom uh for those of you who don't know
we're going to have some lunch at the fairmont royal york which is a famous hotel here in toronto
and then we are going to go to this really cool art exhibit and i'm really excited to take you
along with it with me on it it's um by monet the art is by monet and it's just interactive kind of
exhibit so you're like in the art where the art is living it sounds really cool i'm really excited so
i'll take you along there too um to see the exhibit oh and i wanted to show you look at this
top i got okay so you know i love vintage kind of tease eat sleep compute it's kind of nerdy but i
really like it i think it's kind of cute anyways okay let's go okay so i just got to the royal york
to have some lunch we can dine inside now finally in canada so i will show you where we're eating
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okay so now i am back at the airport and flying to saskatchewan back to home um
going home for thanksgiving thanksgiving in canada is in october not november so
we're gonna go home for a few days okay so i just made it to regina it was about a three
hour flight it was a really small plane so i feel like sorry there's so much sun coming in
um it was like i'm just happy to be on the ground let's just say that
um i got my rental vehicle which i got upgraded so that's kind of nice so i still have because i live
in a smaller city i like i grew up i don't live now but i grew up in a city of sixteen thousand so
maybe for some of you that's really small for some of you that's probably not that small
but um growing up it felt really small and uh yeah so there's no airport there so i have to drive
two and a half hours now to get home to see my family for thanksgiving so it is kind of a
really long day of driving and flying but it'll be nice to be there for three nights and just kind of
relax and do that although i do miss paul and the dogs already but anyways okay let's get driving
okay so i just got home a while ago and um i'm going to take a night to the evening pretty
relaxed okay gonna hang out with my parents um some dinner and watch a movie kind of not very
exciting but i'm kind of tired from the drive so looking forward to just kind of unwinding for a
bit okay so i made it home um as you know and i'm just sitting down with some coffee um and i want
to come and kind of answer kind of get personal with you and answer some questions you asked me
on my instagram um earlier today that i didn't get answering and there's some really amazing
questions so i put them on my computer here and we're going to go through them first question
in my first year studying cs in college okay sorry let me rephrase that in my first year
studying cs in college but i don't know if it's right for me how did you know this is a great
question how do you know if computer science is right for you or if you are in the right industry
well i think there's a few things first of all the biggest piece of advice is
when you're in school or in your first year of university it's going to feel very overwhelming
so it might not be the best representation of if you like computer science or not
so i think the best thing you can do if possible is especially if you are in university is take
this time to intern do as much internships as possible because for me that was the best
way to find out and discover what i liked and didn't like and i think it's a great way as
well to network and meet people and even if you do an internship in something that ends
up not being what you are passionate about that's still really valuable experience that you can use
okay next question what is next question here
what do you do when you don't feel productive oh my gosh i feel i don't feel productive like
so much but there's this thing what is it i'll put up on the screen here but there's this new
thing that they're saying about motivation that motivation doesn't really exist or all the time
it's kind of a myth and it's more that you just have to be disciplined and i really think there's
so much truth to that there's going to be so many days or moments where you don't want to be
productive or feel motivated but you know you need to accomplish something and that's really when the
discipline comes in for me getting discipline and finding that discipline i should say is by looking
at the future tip like how is this going to help future tiff out whether it be taking this course
or um learning this new skill it's not about how i feel now but how will this benefit
the future tip and when i think about her and the future it really makes me it kind of brings back
that motivation and makes me want to work harder that being said though i think it's
really important to not burn out so if you're feeling really unproductive maybe it's a sign
to take some time off take a step back maybe take a day to yourself it's you know you don't want to
push yourself uh and bring yourself completely out oh this is a great question i get asked this
question so much is it too late to start a career as a front-end developer at 39 with
no previous experience in it this is a great question i get asked so much am i too old to
start out in my tech career is there ageism in tech all the above and i can only speak from my
personal experience and as someone i'm 29 by the way um and i joined i got into tech when i was
oh gosh 23 24 i think um i can't remember exactly but a few years ago and uh and i know that's so
really young but it was still it felt like a weird transition because you know my first manager was
younger than me um and it's weird but it is it's it's kind of normal in tech because so many people
are breaking it at all ages so first of all you are not too old to break into tech whether you are
39 49 anything of course there are different struggles that come with breaking at different
ages such as maybe you can't you know maybe have a family you have to take care
of maybe you have other responsibilities so it's not as easy to break into it but
it's totally possible and honestly it's you know i think with ageism i'm curious to know your
everyone else's thoughts on this but for me i don't really think age ageism is a thing in tech
but that's just my experience and the companies that i've worked for and coming from someone young
but i think more than anything just having an open mind and so many people in tech are very open and
just happy that others are breaking in that uh you just need to go for it so to answer your question
go for it break in we need so many more people in tech and nit that um there's never an age limit
okay this is a great question any idea how i can include myself better in a team i just started as
a software dev apprentice and i feel lost first of all i've been there when you feel lost and you're
starting out and just like you don't really fit into the team it kind of sucks and it's you feel
very alone and it's just not a good feeling so my advice to you is if you are in person if the team
is in person try doing things like going out for coffee with them or going for lunch or different
things like that just to build a rapport i know some people just want to go to work and not build
a relationship but building even just like a basic level relationship with your colleagues
can be super beneficial as to building that level of trust and also to um it really helps i find
okay sorry my camera cut me off but building that level of trust and it makes it easier to i
find when i'm going to ask questions or need help um that i have that level of trust with them so
if possible just try and build those relationships slowly over time but i promise you those feelings
you are having will go away with time it's just always so scary when you first started out in a
new position but congrats on it okay i know i only answered four questions but i feel like i wanted
to answer them very in-depth so if you have more questions leave them down in the comments as i
mentioned and i will do my best to answer them in this video like in the comments and if you want a
second part to this video where i just answer more of your questions let me know um yeah okay i need
to go help my mom cook thanksgiving dinner now cause it's thanksgiving this weekend in canada
i know in the states it's november but this is the weekend thank you okay thank you for watching this
video i hope you really enjoyed it and especially q a i hope you found it useful and helpful i love
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