know why i've done it but for me it may be a little bit different than most so i've always wanted to work for myself if i never discovered youtube i'd probably be freelancing so for me it wasn't always about what i was doing as long as i could do something that i enjoyed and work for myself many of these individuals probably shared the same sentiment after all they did start a youtube channel for a reason that reason could be because they thought it was fun because they wanted to help people out or because they saw it leading to their financial freedom whatever it may be they saw this as being part of their future but also because if they truly enjoyed coding this was a way for them to make it living but also be able to work on their own projects which brings me to one of the biggest points of this video which i feel like people never talk about that is working as a professional software engineer is working for someone else's company working on someone else's idea you may love the idea you may love working on that app but you never have the final say on what features are implemented or even exactly how it looks or the overall growth of the company and where that app will be in five years for lack of a better term you're very much a code monkey being told what to do and how to do it with very little creative freedom some creative freedom but very little i personally can't work that way but for some people that may be their cup of tea you need that direction you need that structure so this may be perfect for you i know people who thrive on not completing the overall idea or worrying about the overall app but solving the task at hand each individual task is like a new challenge for them and that is what gets them going in the morning they know that they get to work on this task that task and that task they don't have to worry about the growth of the company or the growth of the app or the user interface they are a backend developer and all they have to worry about are these tasks today and that's basically it there really is a luxury in that if you are wired that way but if you are someone who got into development because you wanted to create your own apps you wanted to make your ideas a reality then it gets a little bit dicey there but to sum it all up many people get into coding to make their ideas a reality it starts off as a hobby but it becomes a job once you make it your job the old adage says do what you enjoy and you never work a day in your life but making something your job that you do enjoy will often times take the enjoyment out of it so what is an actual day in the life of a software engineer well this will vary from company to company team to team person to person but the overall structure is typically the same you have stand up about every day this is when you get together with your team you talk about what you did since the last stand up any roadblocks that you're facing and what you plan to do next now when you accomplish everything that you set out to do the day before your confidence is through the roof you're a genius programmer and you just want to tell everyone what you did in that stand up and you love it however there's a flip side to this coin if you spent the entire previous day working on a two-hour task and still maybe haven't even figured it out well then you just feel bad bad no bad doesn't
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