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How to stay motivated learning javascript_ Coding failures_ Q & A
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Feb 6, 2024
"How to Stay Motivated Learning JavaScript: Coding Failures Q&A" is an engaging and informative video that addresses common challenges faced by individuals learning JavaScript and provides strategies for staying motivated. The video likely features a Q&A format where the creator responds to questions from viewers about overcoming coding failures, maintaining enthusiasm during the learning process, and managing frustration. It may also offer practical tips, encouragement, and insights based on personal experiences or anecdotes. Additionally, the video might explore topics such as learning resources, study techniques, and the importance of perseverance and self-belief in mastering JavaScript. By sharing advice and engaging with viewers' inquiries, the video aims to inspire and support aspiring JavaScript learners on their coding journey.
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Thanks to everyone who submitted questions and assumptions about me
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And as a thank you, I'm going to be given away some stuff a little bit later. So stick around. But let's get right into it
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And this is going to be somewhat informal. Now, Augustin asked, what programming job slash area would you recommend to someone who wants to make a living in Mexico and work remote
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$50,000 a year is enough. Would be nice to work less than 40 hours if possible, but retain U.S. health insurance
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All right, off the bat, something that I think might be a little bit of a problem there is maintaining the
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U.S. health insurance. And one of the reasons for that is that often that's actually handled
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on a state-by-state basis. So if your company is already set up to do insurance in a particular
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state, then they could probably work out for you. But I don't actually know how that would
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work out across like international borders. Now, for being able to work part time and in Mexico
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I'd say develop your skills. And one of the things you might consider doing is actually looking into doing freelance work because that would let you end up being able to have more of a
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flexible schedule if you wanted to work less than 40 hours. In general, I think most of us are
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going to be working at least 40 hours a week if we're going to be getting any kind of salary
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All right. Now, David, how did you handle the emotional side of your career change in your 30s
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I always compare myself to others, friends, influencers, and feel behind, even though I'm only 25 and
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still trying to figure out life. You know, I think it's super easy to always compare
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compare ourselves. I mean, some of the people that I knew from college have actually gone on and actually
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started startups and have made a ton more money than I have made. But you just can't look back
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too much. If you're going to be successful, one of the things you just got to do is start looking
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forward and focus on the future because there's nothing you can do to change the past. And there's
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no point in comparing yourself to each other because all of our journeys are different. We learn at
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different paces. We have different experiences. What matters is what you can do right now. And so
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focus on the now and set some clear goals for yourself. and work towards that and stop comparing
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Mavo Gaming. Where are you currently working that wants to know what company I'm at
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And can I get an intern on web design, any possibility of that
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All right. So I am working at Adobe. And I do know that Adobe does a lot of internships
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I'm not directly involved with any of those internships. And I haven't actually had an intern working on my team
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So I'm not sure how you actually go about getting the internships. But I do know that it is a very friendly company when it comes to internships
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so you should definitely look into it. Eduardo Tejeda, you used to work construction. What was the shitty's job you had to do
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All right. So the type of construction that I was involved with was actually underwater construction
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So I wasn't like building houses or buildings or roads or things like that
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But we had commercial divers who would actually go underwater and do their work
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And a lot of what I did was helping run things topside and I'd also help get the divers in and out of the water or
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help you know kind of make sure that everything's good for them hold them in place in a lot of
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situations so one of the jobs that literally matches your question there is that I actually had to
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work at a sewer treatment plant for three days straight and I was holding the diver in place
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looking straight down into like all the sewer water and everything that's flowing through there
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and then I'd have to help the diver out and help clean off his equipment before we could actually
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take it off of him similarly we've had the divers have to go down and we've had to
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work inside of the wastewater that comes off of the slaughterhouses for cattle, where all that's left
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is just in these big, huge ponds of muck that's just rotting in everything, and I'd have to
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clean them out. And then where it is a company that was run by one of my relatives, I actually
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grew up at a very young age working in this company and stuff during the summertime. So when I was
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about 12 years old, I was exposed to having to pull humans out of plane wreckage that had crashed
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in a lake. And that was kind of disturbing. Abdul-Jabbar, how you motivate yourself when you're tired and don't
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feel energetic when learning JavaScript. Now, this is something that actually still happens for me
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time to time, even as a professional software engineer who's been in the industry a while
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There are some days where it is just really hard to get into it. And you just have to, like
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suck it up and set some goals, even if it means like, okay, I'm going to work really hard on the code for the next 30 minutes
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And then I'm going to get up and go take like a 10 minute walk just to kind of shake things off and switch things up and then come back in and try and set like a routine for how much stuff that you're going to do
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If you're really struggling to keep up the motivation, then maybe, you know, switch up the aspect of the coding that you're working on or the thing that you're learning and and try, you know, learning about, you know, some other piece of it
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or, you know, watch some tutorials on best practices or something just to kind of shake it up
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Neil Shaw, you are working really hard behind the scenes and making it look easy on camera
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All right so that going to be one of the assumptions And yes you are absolutely correct I can tell you how nerve and awkward it is to talk into a camera and to just like stare down the camera
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Because if I'm like looking off to the side, then it looks all weird and everything
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So you have to teach yourself to kind of look straight down the lens
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So it's like you're making eye contact and it's completely unnatural. Not to mention the fact that I often mess up
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So there's lots of editing that has to go into making the videos flow a lot faster because
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sometimes I just have to repeat myself. I might have to repeat myself like three, four times
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before I feel like, okay, that conveyed what I wanted to convey in the way that I wanted to convey
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it. So yes, that makes me look a lot more confident on camera, but there's a mistake as we speak. My train
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of thought just totally cut off right there. Sebastian Willemann. Sorry if I said that wrong
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What are your failures that you cherish most? Failures that I cherish most
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I think probably one of the funniest stories that I have is that at my very first enterprise level software development company, the first couple of tickets I got were actually some really hard tickets that no one had been able to solve for a couple of months
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And I remember just failing and failing at trying to figure this out
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And I'm just really beating myself up like, okay, what is going on? I can't do anything to even like reproduce this
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They're going to think I'm a total fraud. And I was working on hybrid mobile application
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and I remember I just took the iPad and set it on the table and I'm just thinking and I just start
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tapping my fingers kind of about that pace on it as I was just thinking and all the sudden
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and I reproduced it. It turned out that if you were to do three taps in a row at just the right
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time interval, it would put it into this weird state. And so I ended up completely solving this
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on accident and figuring out what the problem was after having failed at this for like several
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days. Brian Smith, new follower, so I have nothing at the moment. Well, welcome to the community
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Jai or J, your story is quite an inspirational one. Continue to inspire. I'll do my best. Thank you
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Austin, favorite part of software development. I think that when it comes to software development
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the things that I really like about it is that it's very mentally stimulating and having to do
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like the problem solving as well as building things. And I also like that because things do change with
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the technology that it's something that lets me kind of change, you know, every year or two
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you know, something's coming out, something new to learn that just kind of shakes things up
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for me a bit. Alan, you're very good at programming and have at least five to ten years experience
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Yes, I have about eight years of full-time experience. A little bit more than that, if you count
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the nine months or so that I spent actually learning to code. And then there was a period of time
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where I was kind of creating my own position at the company. So I started working, but more
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part-time and it grew into more full-time. So it is over the years, but generally speaking, I just, to keep it simple, I say that I've
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been doing this for about eight years. And that I am very good at programming
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I'd say, I mean, that's very subjective when we compare ourselves to each other because there's going to be some people who are better, some people are worse
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And I found that the more experience you have, and especially if you start moving into
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companies that are solving harder and harder problems, what can happen is you, early on
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you feel like you're not doing that great. then you end up feeling like you're doing really good at the company and then all of a sudden
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you move to one of these other big companies and now you're just kind of like middle of the
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pack and everything because you're surrounded by more and more of the really bright software engineer
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So one thing I can say is I feel confident in my ability to solve problems
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And I think I do a good job at what I'm doing. But what I classify myself is like, you know, one of like the 10x rock star programmers that I probably wouldn't
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All right. So Ria Ranka, or I think that's like I said
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How did you get your first freelance work and also your first job
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Okay, so I kind of touched on that on that in just a second ago, where I was actually working at a construction company, and during some downtime, I started in the process of learning how to code
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And so I started looking for ways to actually do things to help the company. So one of the things that I did is I started building out smaller marketing websites
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and then I learned about search engine optimization and some online marketing stuff
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so that I could then pay for ads and drive visitors to these marketing sites to dry
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and generate more business for the company. And as that started getting some good traction, they started letting me do more and more
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of that stuff until eventually I was working on like application stuff. And I was doing a web development work almost full time
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I still have some more questions. But first, let's celebrate hitting 1,000 subscribers. And I want to say thank you all for being a part of this community
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You ask great questions. You share amazing stories with me, and you give each other amazing and awesome suggestions
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So thank you. I really appreciate it. And as a special thanks to one of you in particular, for being one of my earliest subscribers
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and regularly participating in the comments for over a year, I like to give you a choice between something awesome and something practical And this is going to go to you John Doggett Option one is a new Pyrillowlet Magic Trick from Illusionist so that you can impress your friends
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when you end up going to pull out a business card and it lights on fire. Or else, I will send you a new MX Keys mini keyboard
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And I'll leave a link in the description for more info on that magic trick. So congrats to John and thanks for your support
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And let me know which of those you want in the comments below. Also, I'd like to give a shout out to Link and to Bruinus 82 for also participating a lot in this community
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You really rock. So do the rest of you who have been actively sharing comments and sharing your stories
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Now for some more questions before our next giveaway. Ben Lafon, do you have any things you do or strategy you use in terms of routine to keep yourself as productive as possible for long days of coding, learning
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I'm just, I'm adjusting to full-time studying code and freelancing and I'm playing around with different routines and would love to hear
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what works for you. Really, it comes down to setting a schedule and also making sure to take time
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to take breaks because you'll find that if you try and just constantly write code and push through it
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for like hours and hours of time without giving yourself breaks, you're going to burn out and you're
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also going to become less effective. And the same thing goes forward. That's why we don't work like 10
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12 hours a day. And I would never want to work at a company that's working 10 hours a day because
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there's no way you could maintain that level of focus on writing code. And our days usually get kind of
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split up with meetings and other things that we have to do related to work. So try and find a
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balance and also try and find a way to not get distracted because whenever you're switching and
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contact switching between a couple different things and coming back to code, it can take 10, 15
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minutes to get back into it where you're at. And so if you can avoid distractions, that's
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really important. So especially when I was learning to code, one of the things I'd try to do is
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I'd have a set schedule that I had talked about with my wife and that that was time, that was
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focused time for me to just really learn. And then I'd have other times. set aside for spending time with horror and with my kids and that has really helped cool for seeing you
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mentioned in one of your videos that you had to study and learn web dev after your construction job
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what was your daily schedule looking like how many hours were you putting in on a daily weekly
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basis to land that first job thank you brother love the content well thank you appreciate you
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watching all right so when I was studying and really heavily focusing on learning it took me about
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nine months and during that time I was trying to spend as much time in the evening as I could
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So I was usually spending between two and three hours. Now, it wasn't every day a week
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It was probably closer to like four days a week, sometimes five days
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because I did have a wife and a couple of kids and I needed to not completely neglect them
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But it was definitely a sacrifice on their part, and it meant that I'd go to work, I'd get home, I'd start studying, and really work hard and try to stay focused on what I was
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doing to make the most of it because it definitely was a sacrifice for my family and it definitely
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was hard. and I was very much motivated to try and get there as soon as I could
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Looks like we got another one from Abdul Jabar. From construction job to becoming software developer, it's not easy
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It's almost impossible. And you also feed your family also. So I want to know about your consistency and patience, how you make mission impossible to possible
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and what you do when you feel demotivated or bored while learning to go
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So that's very similar to a lot of the other stuff questions that I had
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and yes, it is not easy. It's going to be really, really hard
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And if you want to make this transition and you want to do it quickly and you want to do it effectively and stand the best chance of getting a job
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you're going to have to put in a lot of work and that time has to come from somewhere
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And sometimes you just have to develop a lot of grit and a lot of persistence
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And even on those days when you just feel like not doing it, you just got to slap yourself in the face and be like
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get to work, James, like got to get moving on. You know you got to do this
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and you just got to keep going forward. Jeffrey and Tech, what was the moment you decided to pursue being a developer
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rather than sticking to construction? Well, there are a couple of reasons
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One, I didn't enjoy all the time that I was spending in the middle of wintertime
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freezing out of the lake. One of the lakes we have around here is the Great Salt Lake
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and it's salty, and so it doesn't actually freeze. And what ends up happening is when companies want you to do work
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or the cities and the counties want you to do to work on the lake
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They usually want to do it not when it's really peak season for people boating on the lakes and things like that
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And so often we get busier when the weather is like horrible and so it was like rough conditions
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That was kind of wearing on me as well as the construction environment was pretty toxic and it was taking a toll on me emotionally
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I had actually tried learning to code once and then I kind of gave up because I didn't want to repeat the same mistake of like I did with college where I had gotten history degree and I had a plan figured out
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and then things changed and I had invested all that time. And so I was really nervous and kind of scared to make the commitment to code
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And it wasn't until actually some things got rough enough for me
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And there's just like bringing me down emotionally to the point that's like, I have to change this
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I have to get out. I don't want to be stuck in this industry forever
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I need to be doing something else that will be good for my own mental health and also for the welfare of my family And at that point I hit a point where it like okay the only way that I see out of this logically that I can do this quickly with some certainty and be able to make enough money to provide for my family is through code
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So whether I really like this path or not, that's what I'm going to do
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And fortunately, once I made that commitment and really, really started working hard is probably about a month later that all of a sudden, you know, as I started working
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through things and getting some more confidence that things started clicking for me. I'm like, oh, wow, I actually really, really enjoy this
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And then it started getting more exciting. And I started getting more kind of emotional momentum going on
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And so that's why I encourage people, even if you aren't sure if you like it, don't necessarily jump straight to a boot camp
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But try and like learn to code and put in enough time to see if it is something that's interesting
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to you that would excite you because it could be life changing for you
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But for me, the passion did not start until after I had already made that commitment
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Nick Bennett, what are some hobbies you like to do outside of work
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Well, I'd say I'm the type of personality. I have, like, interests in lots of things
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So, I mean, I've tried, like, landscape painting for a while back in college
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I was doing, like, bonsai, t and stuff like that. But some of my hobbies that I've had that I really, really like
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I just wish I could have more time to do and that their places closer to do would be, like, going gold panning
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That's something that's just, like, really cool and fun to do. I also like making these videos, and I've tried wood carving
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bunch of different things. Sayo, Tiao, Mura, you like metal. Actually, I'm not really into metal music
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I do like using some of the electronic music as you see in some of my videos and stuff. When I really want something that's upbeat
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I really like that feel. I also like lofi. But generally speaking, when I'm actually coding
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I don't listen to music because for me, it just ends up kind of distracting
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and it's harder for me to focus, whereas I know there's a lot of other people that it actually helps them focus
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So usually when I'm listening to music, That's if I'm like driving and commuting when I'm not listening to like an audio book and in those
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situations, I actually usually listen to either like Christian or I'll listen to some pop
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Occasionally I'll listen to some country, but I'm really kind of particular because I'm not someone who likes an entire genre
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Like I like maybe like one artist here and there and only someone what they do across like a wide variety of things
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Now if I'm just going to be like playing some music in the background while I am working on something, I'm actually like inclined to listen to something that's class
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Upheel. Do you still study? Yes, but it's going to be a little bit different from when I started
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out. You see, when I first started out, I was spending so much time studying. And even after my first
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couple of jobs, I would spend a lot of times during the week learning and studying new technologies
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and trying to really refine my skills and to develop the areas that are in demand so that I
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could become competitive, preparing for that time when I would eventually make a step to another
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company. And keeping up that kind of pace and momentum is going to get really, really difficult
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over time. So there comes a point where that can just start burning you out because there's just
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too much to learn. And a lot of that stuff that you're studying might not be things that you're
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even able to actually implement. And so what then ended up happening was probably, you know
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two, three years ago, I decided to shift more towards just in time learning where for a lot of
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things I wait until I actually have a need to learn it and then I will spend that time like
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if I'm working on a future to really learn how to do something well, that particular type of task
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and then I'll execute on it. That way I'm developing skills as I need them. And then I will still
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study, but it's more for the things that just interests me and not as much on just trying to
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keep up with the latest and greatest. If there's some aspect of the technology, I'm like, hey, I just think it'd be really cool to learn this. I'm doing more and more of that. I still try to keep up
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on what's happening in the industry, just not at the same level of intensity as I did before
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All right, Akiva says, just want to say I love your videos and get a ton of inspiration from them
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I'm a junior electrical engineer working in the power engineering field, and I'm not feeling
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that challenge and excitement that I want to have as an engineer. Seriously looking into computer engineering field, because I'm looking for that spark and
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excitement, the everyday learning, a new skill. Keep on your good work, and I hope you are able to help many others
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I nearly comment on YouTube, but this was a good opportunity. Okay, not really a subject, but thank you
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I appreciate the feedback, and I definitely wish you well on the journey
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It's definitely a great industry and career choice. It's one of the best decisions that I have made
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All right, it's time for another gift. And as a way to say thank you to those who responded to my request for help
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with making this video either through the form or through the community post
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one of you is going to receive an MXmaster 3 mouse. So let's dig in here
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All right. And the lucky person is Austin. You're the lucky winner of an MX3 mouse
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so let's get in touch. And if you haven't seen my recent video on how to interview for software developer jobs
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and actually get job offers, then you should check this video out here. Thank you, everyone, for participating
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