I'm still figuring this youtube thing out so
it's gonna be very messy i am very messy actually alexa turn on beast mode okay alexa turn on music
all right so i just finished the workout i can't really feel my arms right now i don't know how
i'm even holding this camera it was hard it was only 30 minutes but it was hard and i'm so glad
i got it done and got it out of the way i did only 30 minutes today but normally i try to do an hour
but i have a packed day today on top of it i'm shooting so
i'm gonna try to save 30 minutes and quickly go make a protein shake for myself
do my skincare routine and um take a quick shower before doing the skincare routine all
right i can't really hold the camera anymore i'll see you in a little bit
as i said i'm still figuring it out okay i am ready just gonna grab my water bottle
my hands literally have so many things right now i don't know how people do this seriously
so i'm gonna go my office is in the basement so let's go work the first thing we're gonna
do everything i'm gonna clean up my desk so let me do that real quick
looks slightly better i don't know ignore the wires so right now it's 8 23 am and i have been
up from 6am uh so far i have worked out took a shower had my protein shake and got ready for work
my getting ready is waist up this is like work from home edition i'm literally wearing sweatpants
underneath and i just change my shirt so i'm gonna the first thing i do when i log into work in the
morning i look at my calendar and try to see what are the meetings that i have today and that
way i can prepare for my day and i like to color code i don't know if i can show you but i'll see
if i can show one side of it so i like to color code my meetings so that way i know
how many meetings where i am doing hands-on work and how many meetings am i presenting in or
talking in and then i insert break blocks which is also color coded and i try to do that like a few
a week or two in advance because the calendar gets packed if i don't do that and that's the
current way i've been like kind of like making myself disciplined to take breaks i actually have
a workout the workout that i did this morning it was also on my calendar so that's how i stay
disciplined i put everything on my calendar and try to follow it to the tea as much as possible so
now i'm gonna log into work so let me go to my calendar so yeah it looks like i have a big
meeting one big meeting where i'm presenting at 9 00 a.m and then i have a break 30 minute break
where i'm gonna eat breakfast and get coffee there are two main things on my agenda one is obviously
get through the meetings the second one is uh there are two tests one has already been happen
an experiment the other one we need to kick off and the team is actually waiting for me to run
the power calculation um and give recommendation in terms of whether the what are what are the
sample units that we want to use for the upcoming experiments that we're running and then the other
project that i need to kind of wrap up is also an experiment a lot of experiments going on recently
is i need to write a paper and document what we found in the test and give recommendation
to the team in terms of this is what your launch decision should be i love experimentation work
so the days that i have to do like some um a b testing analysis or i have to run a test like i
love those days those are like my favorite days so today is going to be great although i don't have
a lot of time to do hands-on work i do have like from three to four p.m allocated beer i'm gonna do
where i'm going to do the hands-on work which i don't know about how much energy i'm gonna have
later in the day and um i don't know if i've mentioned this already but i work at google and
my work primarily focuses on google search engine domain which is like
one of the coolest place to be because i get to see a lot of like cool things
okay so right now i'm just going to follow up on the on the power analysis
so i don't try to open my emails in the morning when i open my emails in the morning
um one thing it's very easy to me get lost for me to get lost in the emails
so i try to stay away from my emails as much as i can and really want to finish the task that i
have that is like pending or time sensitive so i can get through it and then like use rest of
the time if i have free time on emails and i have this uh communicated i have communicated with my
team like if you need something urgent you can send me a chat message but on email like my eta
for response is not within 20 minutes so i'm gonna take my time and use go through my email box when
i have free time during the day so that email that i was just i was just smiling at my screen because
i said like i don't open emails but i did end up opening my email today and i just saw a note
from my manager i did a panel discussion last week where i talked about my journey of being a first
generation immigrant and then there were a bunch of other googlers who joined the panel as well
so there were about five of us who were talking about our journey and then my manager couldn't
attend that but he just saw that recording today and he just sent a note saying that like great
job doing that so it always feels great because i do a lot of these speaking engagements and things
like that and it feels great to have to have that acknowledgement and recognition for the
work that i do that is not really part of my core responsibility but like beyond that so
it feels great because i love doing this stuff nelson hey sorry i was just talking to myself
okay so i finished my 9 a.m meeting which was one hour long
it went very very well so basically this meeting was with my managers manager and the entire team
was presenting the things that they are proud of that they recently did so i presented my when
it felt great it's like human nature to focus on things that didn't go well like specifically
for like from company perspective but i love that we have a dedicated meeting every quarter
where everybody in the team gets to talk about what are some things that they're really proud of
so it went really well i'm really proud of how i presented oh one thing one thing i think i
have been watching two mystic talks one thing my uh manager's manager said toward the end he said
we are into the thick of it so keep up the great work and the first thing i thought off
okay that's a sign i've been watching too much tick tock so anyways so now i have a 30 minute
break on my calendar let me just double check i still need to finish that power analysis so
i think i'm gonna drink some water and then get to work and finish that power analysis and send
that email okay so as i told you today is packed so i don't know why i picked the busiest day
of the week to record this shooting but i think this is also best because then you get to see then
you get to have like the fuller picture of what is like a day in my life so a quick check-in here
it's 11 23 a.m i have been working on that power analysis still i'm honestly working in data the
hardest part is finding where the data is and that hasn't changed and i've been in the industry for
almost 10 years like finding where the data lives is half of the work literally and then figuring
out how to source it and then do things with it so 11 24 i have a 101 in about six minutes so and
i've been trying to since i've been sitting on my desk all day what i'm gonna do now is i'm gonna go
outside and turn this one on into walking meeting so this one one is one of my with one of my peers
and i love one of ones because like we can have like very casual open conversations without
any agenda just to like check in how things are going what they have been working on so i'm gonna
go outside take a walk and then talk on the phone with my video camera off i'm also gonna go so i i
my office is in the basement so i'm gonna also gonna go up and check if my kids are up this is
around the time when they start waking up so i'm gonna check uh check up on them and how things are
what are they doing if they have eaten anything after that i think i have a lunch break so i have
a 30 minute break and then i have some more work to do so i will see you maybe around lunchtime
so what i'm doing right now it's 12 14
it's lunch time but before going for the walk i actually ran a script which was gonna take a
long time but hopefully since i've been gone for like about 45 minutes i'm really hoping that it's
done so i'm gonna quickly check on the script and if it's not done then i'm gonna re-kick it
and if it's done then that's perfect and then i'm gonna go okay it's done perfect so let me save it
and then i'm gonna go make lunch and i'll take you all along
so maybe what i'll do i'll take the meeting in 15 minutes eat something quickly take that meeting
for 30 minutes and then i have a 30 minute break so let's do that as i said my days are packed
and i have to be very mindful of how much time i spend on what that's why i try to stay away from
instagram or instagram sex vegan so i try to stay away from instagram many other social media
and having my days scheduled out like i know at what hour i'm gonna do what
really really helps whether that is me taking a break eating lunch or going out for a walk or
working on something specific writing some code or attending a meeting or writing a document
so i'm really good about my work day weekday schedule where i know what exactly i'm doing from
nine to five it really helps also on that topic i wanted to show you what my calendar looks like i
hid everything that i needed to hide work stuff so i can just show you like about the color coding
that i was talking about like how i color code my uh calendar to see to kind of highlight and get
a visible view like a quick glance view of like what my day looks like when what i'm going to
be working on so this is basically what i'm talking about the color coding here so the
purple is basically where i have breaks so there's a break here there's a break here the blue is when
i have a meeting when i'm actually talking to people that includes 101 as well the yellow is
hands-on work which is i'm either writing a code or writing a paper or doing something else
then blue again a meeting then purple is a break and then this is a big meeting that is happening
and then rest of the day i'm taking a break after this meeting and then then the rest of
the day i'm doing some hands-on work and then the black one is basically um i have a do not
disturb dns so basically i don't want anybody to schedule time on here so this is from 4 p.m to
5 p.m and then after that it's basically the rest of the day is mine so hopefully you get
some idea of what i mean when i say the color coding and like i pack out my day and stuff so
it's 3 p.m right now and no more meetings thank god i do not like meetings today was just a very
meeting happy day had a lot of discussions on things that we want to do and things we want
to focus on and then the projects that we want to prioritize or de-prioritize
so as you can tell from my from my face that i'm literally born out but
i grabbed some yogurt got some water i've been working on very like very with a lot of focus
for the last one hour and i'm gonna finish a couple more things uh currently struggling with r
trying to download this package but it's just not working so i've been googling the error and
spending time on stack overflow well that's my i think that's uh i think you all can relate
yeah so how about like you tell me in comments what percentage of your time you spend like
googling things or on stack overflow because for me it's a lifesaver so i'm gonna do that
for the next few hours not not to like google next few hours i mean like hopefully this error
is resolved soon so i'll finish whatever i've been wanting to finish and then i'm gonna go through my
end of the day i'm gonna go through my email box because i haven't done that all day
and uh there is a pile of emails that need my attention i'm not planning to work on those
emails i'm just planning to go through them and mark them if they are they are something
important that i should read up on later or if there's some action that is needed from me so
just kind of like going to go through my inbox and organize it so i am hoping that i'll be done by
five and then i'm thinking that i might go to my parents house because they came over during lunch
time and i could not spend any time with them and i feel bad because i was chewing food and doing my
dad's stuff and then also running to work because i had a meeting at one o'clock and i think that's
like the thing that once you get become senior in your role there are more and more people who would
want to talk to you more and for people who would want to want guidance from you so i think like
that dynamic of your workload changes depending on like what level or where you are in your expertise
on a certain thing so as you can tell i'm actually really tired i could use a nap but i'm not gonna
take a nap i'm gonna push through i'm gonna finish this because tomorrow is a much better day from
meeting standpoint i don't have a lot of meetings there's like less than two hours of meeting and
those are like mostly one-on-ones which i love doing one-on-ones doing networking with
somebody from a different organization and then a couple of other one-on-ones with my teammates and
other people that i regularly work with but then tomorrow a lot of my time is going to be writing
documents i have to write my performance review i have to write some additional analysis that i've
been working on and i do work on that and then i need to send those out because i am taking off
next week and i really want to wrap things up pretty much everything that i'm working on
right now time sensitive i'm gonna wrap it up by friday so when i'm out of office next week it's
not back of my mind that i should have done this or i should have done this so that's my
priority this week so hopefully i am able to finish everything so if i don't see any of you
for rest of the day today as you can tell like i'm really tired i don't think i'm going to do
more recording because i just want to finish the work that i have here and then i'm probably going
to take a nap and then probably going to go to my parents house then i'm going to come back and make
food for dinner and then now i just remember that the laundry that i put up this morning put in this
morning it's still sitting in the washer and i need to go take care of that so hopefully you all
enjoyed that realistic perspective into my work day let me know if i should do more of this or i
should do less of this or if i should do something different next time um i'm obviously open to
more ideas this is something new to me i have not been doing youtube well okay i have been doing
youtube for some time but like not consistently i think it's only about a month ago where i have
actually started to take my youtube channel more seriously and that's why i invested in a camera
so hopefully you got to see good quality videos today and let me know in comments if you like the
video quality hopefully you all liked it alright thank you so much for watching subscribe to my
channel like and let me know in the comments what you thought about the work from home life
or realistic work from home life and exactly i don't even know what i'm saying now that's my sign
that i gotta turn off and finish the work and then maybe go take a nap real quick
all right i'll talk to you later as i said like earlier i do not i try to stay away from
social media during the day although it's really hard while working from home because like
i'm not actively engaged on social media but during the day by like after work
or before work i would try to like respond to comments so that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna
go through my youtube as well as my instagram and try to respond to as many comments as i can
one of the piece of um advice that i got early on when i got to social media
uh was like do not respond to comments that that just makes you look uncool it just makes you look
like you have a lot of time on your hands and you're not like cool i think that's a bs advice
like that's completely [ __ ] if somebody is taking the time out to comment on your content
why can't you take the time out and respond back i'm glad i did not follow that advice but
i really appreciate all the comments and all the engagements that people spend because as
a busy person i know like how important my time is and i really respect other people's time too
because you took the time out of your busy days to watch the content and as well as like engage with
it because you can easily could have like just watched it and moved on but you decided to comment
and engage which really really i'm super thankful for because that really does help in algorithm
i know i say it all the time but as a data science person like i'll tell you like that
does boost the youtube or instagram algorithm um so it i'm really grateful for all of
the engagement that you do on my various social media platforms so thank you so much