But, it is lol. Everything is difficult brother Nothing is easy. Just take it and move it and it can be done...

I hope you did discourage people. Less competition for meeeeee lol

Learn to code. Find a good company. Make money. Repeat as necessary.

I will still give it a shot and build up my own ideas. No harm in trying

Fwiw, I'm actually En-couraged by your thoughts. I've been writing code for a few years now and I just like that I'm not alone in that "ugh, office toxicity sucks!" thought. I seem to manage to stay tangential to the "deadlines" (thus far) but on the flip side, when "the dishes are done, man!" happens, I still have to report a weekly "something" to the customer. Been basically making my own work for a bit, now. There is a blogger named Erik Dietrich (I think is the spelling). He speaks to freelancing as well. He echo's your thoughts, saying "All those layers of management you don't like? They're also what is responsible for all the things you don't have to worry about as an employee (marketing, taxes, payroll, etc) but have to do all yourself as a freelancer." To that end, awesome, eye-opening clip on the reality of writing code (or any job, really). That said, if one CAN get past that initial "find the customers" grind, I think it could be rewarding! And I think I'd still take that grind over the "spreadsheets, powerpoints and meetings" one any day!

Dan Lok taught me this a long time ago. This guy kept on pumping these how to make money videos, and courses too. Of course something was always off about him to me and I never really invested much in him. Then I asked myself a question and it clicked : “where is Dan getting his money from?”

You should mention teaching software development as well. Some people make serious cash by teaching.

I also subscribed because of that truth...

@@Darth_Bateman because theres a sucker born every minute.

@@fillipusshivute t's not a truth. It's a possible outcome, and highly depends on the person' encouragement, others in their life, luck of the draw (but that can only hold you back for just so long). The truth is, you get out what you put in. The last few generations have become more and more "entitled" which means they feel they do not have to put much into their life's path because someone will give them what they think they deserve.

thanks for the reply Steve :)

wow two Steves

I think its because a lot of new frameworks and technology keep coming out and you have to continuously learn

Whoa Steve! Hatsoff.

Yup, you have to learn how to learn. And master Googling. And have a strong foundation in Computer Science. It is a VERY hard job.

this comment is so underrated.

well he was a the Innocent Johnny Sins

He's also a doctor

thanks for sharing your exp

I totally agree with that, keep what you love a hobby, if it's not possible to do at work. Work is not as fulfilling as one may belief first.

I worked at a MSP for 2 years, gained a ton of experience in exchange for my loss of interest in the field. Got burnt out in 2020 with all of the work from home clients. Quit my job and took a break for an entire year.

This concept is what they call Ikigae in Japanese...

@@rayrobinsongonzaga6297 thank you for sharing that concept! I wasn't aware it exists. I belief people would do better in worklife when they would know about this concept.

The thought of retirement has given me the opportunity to sort out another source of earning

I started paying more attention to stock and learning more about online trades

Trading became interesting when I met Shanita online and she gradually exposed me to the whole trade market and how to earn massively from it

Meeting with someone genuinely good at the financial market was a break through for me

I was introduced to forex with the guidance of Mrs Creswell and there isn’t a single trade I have loosed

Yeah. It’s not you’ll ever have a deadline or do work you don’t like. Find clients is so easy. All need is 6 months and your financial stress will go away😏

Amen to that.

Life sucks

The easiest path is being fine with not earning as much money and take a regular job that doesn't pay as much.

I think the best thing possible is finding something that makes you fulfilled even if it doesnt generate much money

Can't agree

This is really motivating.

I hope your mother is doing well and getting healthier.❤️ can you tell us how we can get success in this domain without any certificate degree or diploma..??

Please 🙏

What luck are you talking about? That’s something you can’t gloss over

Which company is it

wow, i love this response!

@@91dgross Yeah me too.

@@mgasukihanwa841 good luck on your journey brother, we got thiss!

@@91dgross we got this mate

Great answer. Some questions: 1.) Which stack do you handle at your job? 2.) How much years of experience do you have to feeling that comfortable? 3.) Did you pass through a technical interview to get the job? 4.) Did you have a portfolio back then to show? If you had, what were your projects? 5.) Back then, they were hiring trainees or juniors?

good on ya man :) how many years until you felt confident to make that choice of who to work for? im just starting out myself but im 29! Hoping to one day make a difference as well.

@@tman695695 About 5 years, and I was only slightly younger than you at 27 when I started. You got this.

Whoa 😮 you are my motivation.. thank you for sharing your wonderful story.. as someone who is learning to become a software developer people like yourself keep me motivated. Every job I’ve ever had I was the hardest worker and eventually became one of the best. I may not be naturally gifted but I simply refused to be out worked. I will take this attitude into all my endeavors. I am not afraid of hard work. is the software developer/programming field dreadful as portrayed in this video? I understand earning 6 figure salary is not easy but that’s literally true in ALL fields. No one is going to pay you 6 figures to chill. The work is not frightening to me, I only care about available opportunity to find steady work. I live in California by the way if that helps. Thanks so much for response sir

@@theword3917 Dreadful?? No. Hard?? Yes. I quite literally worked my way from a janitor, first cleaning restaurant and then a deck seaman in the Navy, to a senior analyst at a fortune 100. Like you, I always worked hard and earned the respect of whoever I worked for. With that I was given the freedom to make my own way. Even now, in a very large company, I am given the freedom to chart my own course. I worked at an auto plant as an electrician after getting out of the Navy. While most of my peers did as little as possible, I learned as much as I could...enough to become a controls engineer designing factory automation systems. There's so much more, but in short...find a problem wherever you work and solve it with an application....Don't ask, just do it. Now you have an app that solved a real business problem that is an elevator to the next job. There are a TON of jobs outside of the tech industry. Companies in all sectors need 'small' internal apps that can provide you not only a steady income, but a very rewarding career. You can do this!

My man talks about real truth here. Exactly.

Programming takes a while to learn and not everyone may get it. That's pretty much the only con this video got right. The salary numbers are way off at least for silicon valley, if you're counting bonuses and stocks (which you can immediately sell for cash) instead of just base salary. The culture is not toxic in most places because in tech the manager is required to avoid micromanaging people. And the workload totally depends on your luck and what team you end up in; you could be swamped or on the other hand you could have a really light workload and slack off (or alternating between the two sometimes).

Programming *is* indeed hard. But I can do it, 100%. That's not an issue. The issue is do I even *want* to? I'm slowly finding out that as a career, no I don't. Im a creative person, I need the freedom to create, and this sounds like the opposite of that.

@@MiketheNerdRanger ​ It depends entirely on what you want to create, but in general what you said is just wrong; it is literally one of the most diverse ways to be creative in the modern day possible. Make your own app, game, etc could be done as a side project even if you have a day job.

new skills to learn are usually only a potent job for the next 2 to 10 years. meanwhile use what you already have with you, if you don't have any at all, be diligent to learn one which can take at least a year and semi-mastered.

@@DG-wr6cl IIUC this is a concern at a day job where you have a set task, but the skill itself (of programming) is extremely useful for being creative general. With my music skills I can create music, but with my programming skills I can create literally anything I can imagine. Imagine the ultimate game you want to play with all the best features; or an app that solves some inconvenience that's been frustrating you; you can create almost anything under the sky. For example, I recently made a game called AI Roguelite available on Steam, featuring my music. But it's apples to oranges and I often enjoy making music more than I enjoy programming, which is why it depends heavily on what one wants to create

what are you working on?

@@darianmorat actually I'm working on an nft collection for a very talented musician. As a side project, as a hobby, not for money.

I want to start freelancing can you help me

@@kizzayusuf4098 no not really sorry

@@kizzayusuf4098 learn yourself on the internet

Lol 😆

I worked for a game dev brokering company and the same can be said for things like game testers. We had 3 in-house and that was it. That was for 200+ games, thousands of skins and sound effects, and dozens of producers. Of course, this was also when flash games and flash portals were big. Things have shifted a bit since then, but not really. It’s just mobile casual games now. 🤷‍♀️ My main point being: gamer passion projects are great to do in your spare time and game testing jobs aren’t very numerous so demand is low. Have a dream and keep with it, but “don’t quit your day job!”

@@illuminateunity2382 I hate it when solo game devs go on youtube to say they quit their job while they are not even half way done with the game

It took me over a decade to get into the game industry professionally in a real job. When I got started I could _not_ get an entry-level job to save my life. I had to just get so good at programming that no one could refuse me anymore ... good enough to trip up interviewers with my responses and counter-questions. In the end, I bypassed entry-level game development jobs and went straight to senior-level roles and quickly started taking lead positions. And with that comes a hell of a lot more stress and sleepless nights. I can't complain though because I'm making a lot of money now and even have consulting work and extra income on the side. When they say "making a ton of money and living the dream life" it's really more like "making a ton of money and having no life", lol. I don't go anywhere or do anything, I just work, work, work ... but I have a goal in mind: I want to secure my own financial future with good investments and eventually start my own company. All of this work I'm doing now, I'm just learning how to be a project manager and team leader, not only from the engineering side but from the corporate side. It's just my real-world training for what I want to do some day, and I'm getting paid damn good learning it ... most people would have given up long ago, but I refused to ever let go of this dream. My advice to aspiring game developers is start off as a programmer in a regular software job and gain real-world programming experience. You can't bypass the programming knowledge and experience, there are no substitutes. And yes, indy/solo game dev is harder than an industry job. When you do get into the industry, be careful where you decide to accept a job. Find out about the company and how they treat their devs and operate. A game dev job can be hell or it can be great. But be prepared to spend a long, long time on the outside looking in. The only way you'll ever get in is by creating a lot of stuff on your own, sharing it and showing people what you can do. Forget about creating an MMO or a major commercial title on your own, just make small games, interesting prototypes of systems for larger games, game assets, etc and work on some other people's indy projects that have some following and attention online to get your name out there. Add it all to your portfolio. As an outsider trying to get into the industry for the first time, you need to be _better_ at programming than your competition. You need to be so good (and able to show it) that a company is willing to gamble on you as a no-name programmer who never shipped a commercial game. If you're only _as good_ as the competition they'll just hire people who are already established in the industry, or people with connections to the industry like graduates whose uncle works at some big studio and gets his nephew a job. It's just how the business works. It's very exclusive and wary of outsiders. The sooner you accept that and understand what you have to overcome the sooner you may be able to actually achieve your goal.

oof yeah rip to game devs. they need unions or something, their conditions are sad :/

what one have you settled with?

@@Kaxon Who says I did? 😀 Anyways currently in a more corporate environment and quite happy in general. But nothing's set in stone.

Things he said about game dev is terrifying for beginner game devs like me, being passionate and creative doesn't pay off in the end? How fucked up is that, people making money off of NFTs, most of these new trending stuff doesn't even make sense, feels like making money becoming more and more easier but I am missing something. Could you please as a game dev, share your experience and invested time in it here? Thank you.

@@dennisdzeko3916 Game dev is quite a cut throat environment. Yeah, on one hand you have the big companies focusing on making their investors happy, and devs just being numbers. Since the game devs are usually quite passionate about their craft and art the big companies found ways to exploit that. Crunch, low pay and high demands are quite common. Then there are the indies. Some are doing quite well, but most are always on the brink of bankruptcy because it is really hard to sell your games and past successes will not guarantee sales in the future. Also the dev cycles are really long - it takes years to be able to ship even a smaller game and you'd have to pay your staff during all this time. Oh, and then there are the - probably millions - of one-man shows (or really small dev studios with maybe 3 to 5 people) trying to make a dent... usually working somewhere else to make a living and just hoping a game will sell well enough to pay enough to make it a fulltime job. For many this never happens. I never worked in a big company, but I have friends who did and do, but I was working for smaller to middle sized indies and money is always an issue. BUT, the passion and craftsmanship in game development is really something special. If you can tip your toes into it I really encourage you to do it. But don't expect to be paid too well, or to have a 'simple life' while doing it.

@@RedOchsenbein Thank you so much for the detailed answer and all the tips. I actually wish to make money off of it but don't look at it as "easy money". Thinking if you do what you love and your work represents the passion, the effort you put into it, money comes like a bonus. I will keep your words in mind!

Couldn’t someone from a foreign country or American who knows how to program work remotely with you guys

HAHA doing *anything* I America is super stressful. Now there's no house for less than half a million dollars, so we have to work twice as much now.

@@karlybyrd1551 depends on the state you're in, there's houses starting at 130-150k on the low end and they're decent too

@@toxicleaguex5546irst of all we in europe have our devs ourselves which are pretty good, second we have the DSGVO and especially in germany the BDSG which are kind of strict laws of security of people data and stuff, which often requires a special job in between to dont break that laws which can be insanely expensive, so basically the code must fit in this…not every country and continent have the same dev culture, too. Remote or move in another country is a thing for sure, but its easier to say than find a job and acually move…

What type of development do you do?

@@drdunkan15 I have done flash, javascript, php, front end, database etc. If you have been to a McDonalds in Canada, or ever played with a webkinz toy, you may have seen some parts of my work.

Are you a freelance developer??

I did some contact for a while. After the birth of my daughter, I shifted away from that to concentrate on family. The overtime that is so common in our field is not helpful when raising kids.

Which one you think is easier to learn web developer or cybersecurity for a person with not IT experience? I understand you’re a software developer, but since you’ve been around for 20 years in IT, I thought you would have an idea. I’ll appreciate your opinion? Thanks!!!

Man I've been poking on firmware development for a long time, yet I'm here staying still being backend engineer. I've been prodding to change lane for a while, might try to pursure this role.

@@averagehololiveenjoyer8496 yeah and with the chip shortages, the firmware/embedded job becomes even more important as company struggling to finding whatever available chip and have to re-write the drivers for it. Dealing directly with RAM and ROM can be seen as intimidating, but it's actually quite simple.

@@milky3ay566 any resources to learn ROM programming?

might be due to the higher cost of entry to embedded. unless you have a makerspace nearby, the upfront cost for equipment is definitely way more than a laptop and internet connection which you'd need for software and web. i really do wish there were cheaper and easier avenues for beginners. and, as dumb as it sounds, beginners roadmaps (which I find a little unrealistic when I'm further along the journey because they're way too set in stone and learning for a project is often fluid and combines plenty sub-specializations) can actually be helpful for beginners to get an overview of a field and all the sub-specializations in it... and just in general to get more knowledgeable and accustomed to a field. and there weren't many of those beginner roadmaps to be found when I was starting out. I was just going in blind with 200+ quid worth of kit that I'd managed to fleece my dad into buying lol

What would you recommend someone learn to become a firmware engineer? Can be anything doesn't have to be programming languages.

There was 0 agression in the video.

@@TrueNeutralEvGenius The dictionary would disagree

@@xOmniCloudx Broken semantics in your brain? Tell linguist about that.

I can kinda imagine that software dev is one of the more realistic jobs for me, but it is stil pretty bad, cause it kills my brain and my psyche. And I need a pretty good working environment with the possibility to also work out. I have something similat to social anxiety and depression and I can not even imagine to work for hours, especially with people.

be the next Elon Musk,...)

hello, I hope you reply to me but Im a fresh MIS graduate trying to get a job as a software engineer, if you have any tips for me I would srsly appreciate it

This comment will forever be seared into my inner most brain…. Thank you sir.

I did my BE mechanical and, I have 5 years of experience in production, planning and control engineering can a go for data science in Canada

5 Things to Never Do in Rush: 1) Giving away your trust 2) Making big desicions 3) Judging someone's character 4) Falling in love 5) Eating your food subscribe# SAYED#...

yeah this one guy (not gonna name lol) was in my recommended about a video on c++ employability, so i clicked through to read comments, ended up watching the vid, checking out his other stuff and then didn't watch a vid of his in a while until he got recommended again and he was calling coding the "golden ticket", like really preying on people who were probably in bad financial situations, and saying that you could get hired in 4 months using his course lmfao.

I know what you mean in that it is enviable that they have a guide that can help them get to “success” faster and easier. But that also comes with extreme expectations. It’s easy for us to sit back and be like if I had this or that advantage then I would be at point X. The richest and most successful people in human history came from nothing. Having that Rocky Balboa hunger cannot be bought and you aren’t born with it. One must have that drive In oneself. Only we as individuals can make ourselves do the things we need to do.

There's a possibility these people are just following those career paths because their parents or family are projecting their own dreams and aspirations on said people. It's not a good way of doing things. Just because everyone in your family is something, doesn't mean you have to be that something.

nothing is easy in life specifically beginning is always the hardest part we shouldn't be giving up just assuming maybe someone out there is doing better so let's not do this 🤷

@Mcloud30 Thank you for this comment, I know the intention of this vid isn't to deter people but I was seriously having doubts about my future as I'm quick to worry, I think things will be okay just gotta take it day by day.

"I would suggest to try to work as a dispatcher or a planner at a big company with 150+ trucks, with 1200+ daily incoming emails, never ending problems, changes, switches, breakdowns, etc." I think I might enjoy that as it has a kind of rhythm. I previously worked as a corporate stooge where the only value I provided was coming up with ideas, normally for irrational people.

Right. He's just stating facts of life not just for programming.

Easier said than done

@@eleh1337 Nothing is easy, my friend. If you are on your way to do this, I wish you best of luck.

@@theplaymakerno1 🤣🤣 good luck though

@@eleh1337 good luck to you, my good man. Stay focused and you will achieve whatever you want.

Big tech companies in silicon valley are paying about $200k starting salary if you include the stocks and bonus (not just base salary), and the vast majority of those places are not toxic, quite the opposite actually. Smaller companies might pay lower but not by too much or else they won't keep up with the competition. I hope people don't take this video so seriously that they think toxicity is normal. In tech, managers aren't even supposed to keep an eye on you or anything; they just ask you once in a while what you've done. And your coworkers will tend to be very kind as well since everyone wants a good performance review.

@@MaxLohMusic there's office politics everywhere. Moreover, not everyone can get into the big silicon valley companies.

@@dipanjanghosal1662 Depending on how performance reviews are structured, the office politics could be the opposite of toxic; in my case my manager advocates so hard for me that he overstates my accomplishments and abilities (in a good way) during performance review. The ridiculous salaries of the big companies force the small companies to also pay higher salaries so even if they're lower it won't be too much lower. Getting accepted into a big tech company is easier than most people realize. I failed my first interview miserably because all the questions were hard, and passed the 2nd one easily because my interviewers were inexperienced and didn't realize their questions were too easy. It's a game of luck so you just have to keep interviewing as many times as possible and try again as soon as the company policy allows you (usually 6 months between interviews, but you can try multiple companies at once)

@Nikola B. I was talking about lack of micromanagement. The manager should still check in with you frequently to see if there's anything they can do for you, get your preferences on what you enjoy or don't enjoy working on etc. There's literally no conceivable way it could get any more wholesome and less toxic than that; if you still think that's toxic you think everything is. Propping people up when they don't deserve it is only "toxic" from the company and shareholders' point of view. There's no reason for an employee to be unhappy with a system that unfairly benefits them.

​@Nikola B. I meant it in the sense that the managers don't micromanage or pressure you. They check in to make sure you're happy with what you're working on and see progress across time. And you are completely exaggerating what happens during performance reviews. All I said was people are incentivized to be nice to you because they don't want a bad review. That does NOT mean that anyone who's nice automatically gets a good review even if they do literally nothing. Also, most people are just nice people at heart; you don't need the incentive of a good review just to be nice to others. They try to weed out the toxic people during the interview stage as much as possible. p.s. you can't "give a good review to a colleague because you want one back". You don't see each others' results until afterward.

Type error. It should be appreciate your honesty and vision!

Good for you. Also don't believe what he says about freelancing sites as "a race to the bottom". I used to think so until I tried simply setting a higher rate, and now I am getting work at exactly the hourly rate I want. Turns out many people in USA want someone who they can communicate with better, even if it costs more.

Also for side projects and app ideas, the business and idea aspect is way more important than coding. There are plenty of people who can build an MVP for your for very little. The real challenge is in validating a business idea and getting your first users, neither of which have anything to do with your coding skills. So if you're looking to build your own app or saas, focus on getting the business skills, not the coding skills.

​@@michael.knightHe is right 5 Things to Never Do in Rush: 1) Giving away your trust 2) Making big desicions 3) Judging someone's character 4) Falling in love 5) Eating your food subscribe# SAYED#...

Wouldn't it be best to set a goal to freelance after having a 'regular' dev job while gaining experience? Full-time freelance to me seems like a dream so that would be the reward no?

hello, I hope you reply to me but Im a fresh MIS graduate trying to get a job as a software engineer, if you have any tips for me I would srsly appreciate it

Hi, I'm 18 and have very similar feelings about the industry. I am in search of profession which is including creativity, communication and some engeniering. Something more serious than 2D illustrator but not so hardcore as backend developer. UX/UI sounds as a good option.

Five years is too long - if you can get working on something while your studies continue.