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so I worked at Google in Montreux as a
full-time software developer for about a
year I like to work in there but then I
decided to leave the company to focus on
my YouTube channel instead when I told
my friends about it some of them were
like wow you're following your passion
that's awesome
but really that's not what I was doing I
liked making YouTube videos for sure but
I didn't quit my job just so that I
could follow my passion if passion was
what I was falling I would probably be
pursuing stand-up comedy right now what
I love comedy but when I left Google
that's not what I started doing instead
I was following this gap in the market I
found so a little bit before I started
working at Google I started my youtube
channel called CS dojo which was mainly
about software engineer job interviews
it started growing fast and I got more
than 100 thousand views and five
thousand subscribers when I had only
like 10 videos on the channel around the
same time I also started coaching people
on how to get through software
engineering job interviews and they
actually started paying me for it what I
realized through this experience is that
I was starting to feel the difference
between what people wanted and what they
were getting it was sort of like this
gap in the market people wanted to see
high-quality videos about software
engineer interviews but they couldn't
find them anywhere else that's why I was
able to get that many views and
subscribers some people also wanted
someone to teach them how to get through
software engineer interviews 101 but
they couldn't find anyone else to do
that easily and that's why they found me
to help them because I was starting to
feel this gap between what people wanted
and what they were getting I was able to
grow my YouTube channel really quickly
and through my channel I was able to
help thousands of people being able to
help so many people actually just felt
awesome and then I thought maybe if I
focus on this full-time maybe I'll be
able to help a lot more people a lot
faster and that's why I left Google
actually I'm making a lot less money now
but it's just a
amazing to be able to directly see the
impact that I'm making on people's lives
this was actually something that was
sort of lacking in my engineering job
even though working at Google was
amazing
so I'm not really sure how my channel is
gonna go from here but I think there is
still a lot more potential here and
there's still a lot more people I can
help out there somewhere you know I
actually just feel really lucky to be
able to directly touch so many people's
lives and so I promise you I'm gonna
keep doing this
as long as possible so that I can help
even more people okay I hope you enjoyed
this video and hopefully I'll see you in
the next one - Cheers
and high-five
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