THIS IS NOT REAL - 'A dAy iN THe LiFe oF a SoFtWaRe EnGiNeEr' 1st Edition |

[@JoshuaFluke1]

BRAND NEW 2ND EDITION - Keeping it Wholesome - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e33VgqyLfraen7s I personally prefer Eatware Engineering. Software? Pass.

[@TechEngineerSchool]

Hahahaha. I prefer "data eating science" hahahahahaha

[@michaelsteinberg205]

Feedback: your prelude prior to criticizing these people is too long, and you ended up repeating yourself. This can be said more concisely. I love that you're covering this topic because I'm looking to change careers to get a tech job. Keep making these videos.

[@MilanDrazic]

Joshua, you're thinking like a real socialist 😊👌. 8 works 8 hours of free time and 8 hours of sleep so it used to be in our country in eastern Europe now that it is cruel capitalism. My boss tells me you are not a worker if you only work 8 hours. haha

[@JoshuaFluke1]

For this vid specifically, it has to be that way or people will just think I am roasting them, so I have to setup a very realistic approach

[@JoshuaFluke1]

I mean, I don't know about that, but thats just a balanced day. Work is still work, and hours in a chair don't mean anything

[@piotrjasielski]

If I don't see a dude browsing stackoverflow and banging the head on the table it ain't real.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

👏

[@ThePeter232]

Sooo true, you summed up the programming grind.

[@rickvian]

lol i just did that

[@catgurl26]

Piotr Jasielski THISSSS DUDE I LIVE ON STACK OVERFLOW

[@ZilverDx]

Man! give this man a cape right now! 👏

[@Weaver_Games]

Give a man a program, you frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, you frustrate him for a lifetime.

[@Uriel.47AC]

Underrated

[@arvind31459]

Awesome

[@jtinkerton2547]

@Super Mugs and shirts when?

[@ne9835]

Yup!!!!!

[@Binkpang34]

When you accept that the normal behaviour of the code is to fail everything becomes easier :D

[@ThePorschefan]

Maybe I'm just an introvert but why on earth people want to hang out with their co-workers after work? Like, I see you at least 40 hours a week, last thing I want to do in my free time is to see you again

[@MikeRees]

I really enjoy spending time with my colleagues outside of work. I don't spend 40 hours a week with 95% of them, and they're good people. Maybe you are just an introvert. But then so am I. So maybe it's something else.

[@Sir21Goals]

Mike Rees why don’t you spend that time with ur loved ones like mom n dad n if they r not in the same city at least zoom them?

[@MikeRees]

@@Sir21Goals it's not like it's a dichotomy. I spend time with loved ones as well. Did you miss the part where I said I enjoy spending time with my colleagues outside of work?

[@opus53waldstein70]

I have a rule to never hangouts with coworkers after work, at least I don't bring external problems to work.. I have my own social life with other people

[@thewatermelon3831]

i don't mind spending time with colleagues outside of the working context to bitch ABOUT work and bosses 🤣

[@timmy7201]

*Company advertisement vs reality...* Company advertisement: - Socializing - Free coffee - Free food - dogs - more free food - more dogs - more Socializing - We care about you! Reality: - We need you to finish this project before yesterday - Now that you have an impossible deadline we need you in these 22 meetings for no good reason! - Is it done already? - We want you to add these 666 (and counting) stupid and utterly useless features to the project, Immediately! - Is it done already? - We need you in this meeting! - What do you mean with 'changing project requirements will delay the deadline' ??? Get your work done, or be fired! - We need you in this meeting! - Can you fix the office printer? NOW! - Is it done already? - Why is the alpha version of our software so buggy? Fix it! Also add these 999 features and remove half of those previously added features. Deadline stays the same! - You will get a free cookie after finishing the project! - We need you in this meeting! - We need you in this meeting! - We need you in this meeting! - We need you in this meeting! - Is it done already? - Please do these changes on a previous project, while continue your work at the current project, while being in the next meeting for a future project. NO DELAYS! - Is it done already? - Is it done already? - Is it done already? - Why is our projects deadline overdue? - What do you mean 'beta testing'? SHIP IT! - Why is our customer having a panic attack on the phone, telling me that their company database keeps crashing when someone opens our software? FIX IT! - Our company will merge with another company, management get's a 7 to 8 figure bonus and a free yacht, all you code monkeys are fired, here is your promised cookie!

[@j.guadarrama8456]

Damn son 😔

[@ctb1977]

I served as a private contractor before where I got paid for output only, no salary or hourly rate. And those pointless meetings do my head in, just leave me the fuck alone and let me do my job. In those meetings everyone listening has a mutual unspoken understanding of "let's work together, everyone just nod and shut up and we can get out asses out of here asap" Everyone except that one guy that asks a pointless question, just as everyone is getting ready to leave, which adds another 20 minutes of bullshit listening.

[@timmy7201]

@@ctb1977 I wrote the previous comment based on my experiences from full-time jobs. I didn't expect it to be similar when you work as private contractor. Isn't it theoretically possible to set up a project contract describing an maximum amount of included hours spend on meetings each week? In that case, when a company wants to hold more meetings you bill those meetings by the hour, for some ludicrous rate. I know someone who also had different hourly rates when working from home vs working on site. He also wrote in his contract that his hours starts when leaving his house, not when he arrives at the company. This means that the company had to pay him the default hourly rate while he was commuting and stuck in traffic... So they approved of him working from home at the lower rate, and rehired him for future contracts because he is extremely good in his expertise.

[@timmy7201]

@Crestfire ​ Those meetings are a mental requirement for most -managers- alpha office baboons. This way they can boast their ego and power to the rest of the herd. Lack of meetings and micromanagement causes them to feel unnecessary.

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

- you're fired

[@BoundMusic]

Unpopular opinion:: Here's my life as a software engineer: 1. I used to be *really* passionate about coding. Like really really into it. I learned by myself, I used to make pizzas for a living and in my spare time I forced myself to learn to code. I forced myself and forced myself until I found it fascinating. I used to sleep 4 hours a day just so I could have time to learn. I skipped clubbing and going out just to learn and after some time I could create things from nothing. Everything I wanted the program to do, it did. Every mistake and any success was because I made it happen. Fast forward I get hired to some small companies (2 or 3) then I move on to a couple of multinational ones. 2. After two years and a half I've lost all my passion for coding, I no longer have the curiosity I once had, I'm stuck in meetings that are pointless time-wasters and I'm surrounded by managers who think they know best. You've never written a line of code in your life and you're going to tell me how to manage my project? Really? Tell me more friend. It's like cab drivers telling astronauts how to pilot their spaceship. 3. Here's a typical day in my life: Get to work at 9(and I'm *never* fkin late bitches), do daily stand-up until 9:30-40ish, get in the next meeting from 10 to 11 with the client explaining wtf is going on. 11:00-11:10 break. 11:10-12 Read emails. 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch. 13:00-14:00 Another meeting with the client and SMEs of the process. Break + actual code until 15:00 when we need to have another meeting with devs from other teams explaining their bs written and rushed documentation that makes no sense to anyone. 16:00 - 17:30 Break + reading docs + coding. Leaving at 17:30 4. That's most days for me. It sucks, it takes a loooong time to get anything done, you need approvals from X who needs it from Y who in turn needs some docs who have to be gotten from some dude and it takes ages. Companies are highly inefficient in today's fast paced world. 5. Sorry for the long post. If you are passionate about coding, find it fascinating and if writing anything and then seeing it work makes you feel like a God then please please don't join corporations. Work for yourself. Write something and sell it, freelance, hustle, whatever. Just don't go working for these soul crushing motherfuckers. It's no one's fault really but the concept of a company and the way they handle things is outdated and wrong. It's slow, filled with people who enforce their opinions on you, hipsters, idiots, etc. I haven't learned a God damn thing in all these years working for corporations. They suck everything out of you and when you have nothing left they throw you away like the empty carcass you have become. Yeah and Joshua is right. All those people on Insta and FB posting about how cool their free food is and how they get to play and etc. Do those people look like they get anything done? Lol. If I'm staying 11 hours at work and I'm only actually working 2 hours a day, I'll be one pissed off dude at the end of the day. Because I've just wasted 9 hours of my life doing useless shit with people that I really have no interest in. Because they're snakes licking up to management. Don't even get me started on those. Jesus Christ

[@robertoa.tarazona2708]

Fuc.... thanks man for sharing what really happens and not sugar-coating the work

[@QuiiKSyyntax]

I didn’t expect anything else from getting employed. By that i mean any Job in this goddamn world (exceptions prove the rule). I hope you will get out of this gold coated hamster wheel and or already work for yourself again. After i finished school i made the decision to just learn the fuck out of coding until i‘m able to do only 10% of my time for client work and use the rest for passion. The goal would be to completely eradicate the 10% and let the money work completely by itself and focus 100% on passion. Not there yet and even in 20 years time i would be happy to just scratch the surface because i would have lived free. Please forgive my english it may read really foreignish at some parts 😂

[@markoknezevic7614]

So you're actually also doing only 2 hours of coding? If so, who writes the code in the end?

[@opterimuor1165]

Finally someone did same some real stuff thats why i got back on freelancing i got really depressed to the point i just wanted to quite

[@Caphalem]

The truth has been spoken. Luckily, we have some management open minded enough and realize that they Don't actually know best and understand that developer time is precious and we want to get shit done. I'm grateful for that because I know how it is in most corporations. It's word by word like you describe. Some of the bs you described is still present however which is why reading your post was actually funny in a very unfortunately relatable sort of way lol

[@hellboy6507]

4 hours of stack overflow, 2 hours of staring blankly at the screen. 1 hour of pointlessly examining trello. 45 minutes of trying to get git to cooperate, 15 minutes of coding. Next day: 8 hours of unit testing

[@RedJackWZ]

True

[@alexdevcamp]

This actually made me laugh out loud

[@adamgodra9144]

Not one sentence ever summed up better my programming experience

[@user-sw1wq8lh2w]

1 hour of mental problem solving, 30 minutes of getting coffee, 2 and code, 3 and headaches solved.

[@valkhorn]

Do your UTing at the same time. You'll still spend the exact same time writing the unit tests but at least it'll be spread out.

[@praisekek5298]

As an introvert, this is honestly how I'd imagine my personal hell

[@Skyloftt]

Oh goodness, same!

[@SL2797]

Agreed

[@zmyslowy27]

same here. I would love to work at dark empty basement instead.

[@lolsa123]

@@amblyn8254 sewer worker i guess you could be alone in there as long as you want. and a normal response to "didn't ask to be born", your parents didn't pick what kind of person you would become either, they fed you and provided for you and your thank you is complaints as long as you don't get your way? it's your choice to keep on going. mind you if you were to decide to end it you will never reach the spot you wanted.

[@benjaminwallis4548]

This is exactly why I chose the written word as my creative medium and CS as my cognitive medium. Both require little to know interaction with other humans.

[@The-Athenian]

You're like the Edward Snowden of corporate life.

[@erebosifavour3760]

Yeah.... this dude is so fucking real!

[@siddhantkulkarni7499]

@@erebosifavour3760 is that a '/s' ?

[@nagihangot6133]

Ed Snowden is an crypto-actor.

[@deusxyz]

100%

[@echelon1014]

@@nagihangot6133 whatchu mean m8

[@TraversyMedia]

Jesus, must be nice to get paid to eat free food, pet dogs and play chess. My days were spent plastered in front of a screen, exhausting my brain until I felt nauseous. I know you mentioned 11 hour days but it seems they do maybe 2 hours of work lol

[@JoshuaFluke1]

11 hours on a campus for what? To prove to everyone else that you're 'more dedicated' than other people? So that when that raise comes around you are first in line? Selling the best years of their lives for a 6% raise that is also negated by the rate of housing inflation because of where they have to live.

[@moshiurhowlader9564]

My favorite two Software Engineering KZbinrs!!! BTW how do these people get work done while they eat and go to meetings all day?

[@JoshuaFluke1]

@@moshiurhowlader9564 they dont.

[@moshiurhowlader9564]

@@JoshuaFluke1 why they don't get fired?

[@JoshuaFluke1]

@@moshiurhowlader9564 managers too busy petting puppies to notice the others are not working

[@glummy909]

Wait, do all Software Engineering jobs have lofi hip hop playing 24/7?

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Only in silicon valley

[@rachelnicole434]

And we work buildings

[@SirRob05]

i do lol

[@thalesludwig]

I always do in my headphones. :)

[@mikevillarreal8291]

only on the headphones of the devs hahah

[@jackjohnson40]

The last thing I wanna do is chess with my co workers lmao

[@Sartheris]

If I am going to relax in any way while I am at work, it's going to be with the most mindless and stupid activity. Chess? Using my brain? Hell fuckin no. I use it just enough while I am doing my actual job

[@WariorOfNexus]

Our only sport with coworkers is going to pub after work lol

[@stonecat676]

modafinil and chill baby

[@Omegeddon]

I'm always down to dust some chess scrubs

[@kineticuncertainty]

we play board games and its fun.

[@cfisher2447]

Really hit the jackpot with my job. Full remote, no set hours. CEO asks us to log at least 30 hours a week. Been there seven months and still feels too good to be true.

[@Diyoza781]

Good job, that is my goal once I get into tech. Sorry, but I can't stand to be around people.

[@SomeBotOfficial]

whats the company

[@tek1645]

@@Diyoza781 also with technology like Starlink, you can work for a remote job in the middle of nowhere

[@jamesrussell2936]

nice to hear, man.

[@GX2re]

Enjoy

[@ephraimmulilo7098]

JOB REQUIREMENTS -Candidate should have at least 3+ years experience eating free food -A MacBook with stickers on the back -Candidate must be comfortable making $100k+ a year doing nothing

[@imamalox]

DayWalker[MM] Forgot: Candicate must know 13 different JavaScript Frameworks

[@JohnDoe-df8bj]

😂😂😂

[@royalmellon6811]

Sounds like marketing

[@christianjamesguevarra6257]

@Future Society Of Gentlemen Biggest reason why i hate working at startups. Aside from their incompetence and unprofessionalism, they dont respect employees'personal time

[@Mrbrainiac]

100k doing nothing sounds AMAZING to me , as of now I make 20k a year and I'm an engineer working 10+ hours a day waking up everyday at 6:30 in a remote site with no car , away from my wife and family... Y'all should be thankful for that...

[@169mayan]

"I don't care how many puppies you have at work . After my 8hrs I am out." LOL 😂😂

[@billsomen7953]

He's so funny and honest. I like it.

[@noname-vl6vy]

same here, after 8 hours i am out

[@davidharrison5246]

yeah man, last thing i wanna do after 10-12hrs sitting in the room with the same people, is continue being around them after work.

[@honeyhey6383]

😭😭😭

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

8 hours make me sick. A work day should not be more than 6 hours. Those idiots who think they have to work more ruin it for everybody else. And it's not like they are getting more out of it. Even if they end up making more money, all that leads to is that housing prices become more and more expensive, which makes others have to work even more jobs to barely survive.

[@ultraegovegeta5401]

The google model: we have everything, including doctors, in house. Do not go home ....

[@Panda0nxtc]

Legal firms have been doing this forever. It's shiet

[@BigTylt]

@@Panda0nxtc Lol, there are legit people living in mobile homes right outside of the California Googleplex.

[@arwahsapi]

They even have priests and undertakers

[@isaiahgooden9125]

I worked at google here in Seattle. Put in way too many long hours. I couldn’t even be out for a week after my wife gave birth to our son. Needless to say I quit about a month after that.

[@SilentAttackTV]

Google feudalism

[@OctoberStorm16]

"I don't care how many puppies you have at work. After my 8 hours, I'm out." As someone who works with animals, this is so relatable

[@claucemicro1080]

😄

[@barrydworak]

I'm a total dog person. But I know when I'm being conned, too.😁

[@grownupgaming]

lol the company can find plenty of people who will stay more than eight hours, they don’t need you

[@carlcarlington7317]

this woman was later fired for taking three launch break and 2 puppy breaks a day

[@CbarMiiXaaS]

Is this true or are you guessing

[@carlcarlington7317]

@@CbarMiiXaaS this is indeed just a joke I know nothing of this woman's personal life.

[@TerexJ]

Then she sued the company for gender discrimination.

[@user-kx2zv7tg3u]

@@carlcarlington7317 I know it's a joke but come on dude, just don't.

[@montyi8]

@@TerexJ Really 'she', Please don't assume gender pronouns

[@Sashique86]

Young tech workers don't seem to realise that these "benefits" are usually there to accommodate for the toxic work culture or grueling projects with tight deadlines. If you ever see a project manager come to your desk with pizza, RUN! Because they are trying to convince you to work overtime for no compensation. Whatever you do, it may sound strange but never go the extra mile for your company because they don't care about you, they are exploiting you. I've been working as a developer for 6 years now and when a recruiter tells me "They have free snacks, fruit, a ping pong table and a beer on Fridays!" and I think to myself "Who do you think I am? A child?!"

[@theMadZakuPilot]

Vizune thank you for the tip

[@matthewevans4296]

Pro tip - take the pizza, THEN run. :)

[@Mangaluvr247]

Hahaha omg sorry but this is hilarious. It seems they are trying to breed a type of man-child.

[@Filler382]

Same rule applies to bosses. If they're too nice or too likable, then they're bad news.

[@Adanmacreates]

I'll take all that but just not work overtime lol

[@GyasiLinje]

Not trying to be biased but I totally see why the last guy's video is the best representation for a DaY iN tHe LiFe oF a SoFtWaRe EnGiNeER

[@JoshuaFluke1]

You're the man. Thanks for being the real MVP

[@GyasiLinje]

@@JoshuaFluke1 Thanks homie!

[@oscarzhang4734]

Didn't get it. What is uppercase those character for? Some special meaning?

[@Snezeist]

@@oscarzhang4734 dIDnT gEt iT. wHaT iS UpPeRCaSe cHaRaCTeR FOr? sOmE SpEcIAl mEanINg?

[@khajiit5556]

@@oscarzhang4734 Its sarcasm

[@gianfrancodagostino3938]

They have to code at night cuz they were eating food the whole day. Lmaooo

[@Ravenex2]

Yeah every time you go to eat you lose about 15 - 20 minutes. If I played games at work I'd be there FOREVER. lol

[@ScarletMadness]

while True: Morning: why this code doesnt work Night: why this code doesnt work

[@Lexender]

Else: Why this code works

[@nathanhedglin931]

More like why doesn’t the client or managers know what they’re doing and sitting in meetings all day.

[@user-sw1wq8lh2w]

Next day: it works... But why...

[@狼闇-z2q]

@@user-sw1wq8lh2w Lol xD

[@Tijan1]

@@user-sw1wq8lh2w error in line 933 my code : 255 lines

[@claytonmarshall1308]

The 80/20 rule really comes into play at companies that treat their employees like this - 80% of the people do 20% of the work and 20% of the people do the other 80% of work

[@victorsegoviapalacios4710]

Pareto Rule, Rules; my friend.

[@bayroncastillo7653]

pareto law

[@victorsegoviapalacios4710]

@@bayroncastillo7653 It is valid to call it a rule; also, the purpose was it to rhyme.

[@bayroncastillo7653]

@@victorsegoviapalacios4710 oh dont worry bro i can get it the fact is that here in Ecuador we called " la ley de pareto" which means pareto law thats all

[@stonecat676]

a.k.a front end - backend

[@iruthl3ss916]

About to be a college graduate in CS. Joshua, thank you. KZbin is literally filled with this garbage nonsense and honestly I just want to see things for how they really are. You’ve opened my eyes on what to really expect, and I’m grateful. This is the realest CS channel ever 🙏🏼

[@Weaver_Games]

Despite a lot of negativity in the comments, even from myself, I still love Software Development as a career and have been doing it for about 10 years now. I still think it's a great career choice.

[@ookie218]

@@Weaver_Games That's encouraging, I literally JUST graduated like 3 weeks ago and I saw this video like... damn haha

[@ducksoop.x]

@@Weaver_Games No ones knocking the career, we're just tired of the instagram highlights, Software is no doubts better than working at retail or fast food, but it's also a job like any other.

[@ColeTrainPhenomenalcrew]

xJustChillx yeah I agree this video was a reality check I appreciate him for opening my eyes

[@kineticuncertainty]

not every job is the same. I write java code for mostly 7 to 8 hours. Unless, its a new product then i can have tons of meetings in a day but that doesnt last long. We do play board games sometimes. We do go to the park during the sumem r to ;play ping pong but as long as i get my work done i am not required to akme that time up. Dont get into start ups, if you dont want that mentality.

[@thehumbledeveloper4427]

The boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on the companies time, a motto to live by people.

[@Rajkumar-sm6bi]

@Abishek Raju yeah fax

[@duckhuntergaming4713]

Ever thought why that is?

[@TahtahmesDiary]

@@duckhuntergaming4713 Thats literally what Capitalism is. An upper managerial class and a lower working class. Both have varying levels and its easier to get up in the system if you know someone with an in.

[@duckhuntergaming4713]

@@TahtahmesDiary My point is I think people don't get paid for nothing, no free money as far as I can tell. "Pooping" on companies time, what an honest way of making a living. You're not likely to improve either. That's just me though.

[@alexjulius69]

That's completely fair. If you've got an issue with that, become the boss. If you can that is.

[@johndoyle3816]

Those people have balls of steel posting videos of them doing two hours of work a day.

[@nyx9875]

I know, right? If I filmed my entire day, I'd work my @$$ off, not show the world (and all future employers) that I am an over-paid professional slacker.

[@jdre1976]

Yeah you know what's even crazier.. those are probably the same butthurt jr dev cry babies larping as managers roasting him on Reddit...

[@Cons-Cat]

@@jdre1976 It's not really LARPing if it's on Reddit. That's just regular role playing.

[@drtij_dzienz]

2h of real work plus 6-10h of fake work is typical for many engineering jobs. Read the article Bullshit Jobs

[@NonameWriter]

Right, lol.

[@isodoubIet]

I cannot imagine a deeper level of hell than a job that's just meetings all the time.

[@mranderson3277]

Yeah I feel ya.

[@KaesOner]

A job with no meetings at all whatsoever, where you dont get a break or enough time to stop to eat, where when you arent crawling in turd shit under houses or through rat shit in the roof spaces, you are getting abused by the customer or the service coordinator asking you why you arent at your 19th job for the day and then at the end of it all make less than half of what these people who have 10x meal and puppy breaks a day get... I dont think having meetings all day would be that bad...

[@mrkleenupguy5781]

And then they wonder why you aren't done with your work

[@isodoubIet]

@@mrkleenupguy5781 No wonder everyone has to stay in like 12 hours every day.

[@BoundMusic]

You said it bro

[@vgamedude12]

8 hour days are even too long. In the modern first world we should have moved to 6 hour days at most ages ago

[@iM7SnaKe]

There are already countries were you work 6 hours because some CEO finally understood that people usually can concentrate for 4 hours and then they will start to get distracted. So now at those 6hours you actually do those straight 3-4 of intense work and 2 hours for emails and meetings. And it works

[@dogelife7901]

I get my work done in 4 hours and do mindless shit that makes me look busy the other 4,

[@skepticmoderate5790]

@@iM7SnaKe That sounds like heaven. What country do I move to?

[@maryanne2025]

@@skepticmoderate5790 right?

[@tymondabrowski12]

@@skepticmoderate5790 don't quote me on that but possibly Netherlands?

[@devjeff3192]

6.30 AM: Wake Up | 8.30 AM: Head out | 9.00 AM: Get to the Office | 9.10 AM - 4.30 PM: Stack overflow| 4.30 PM - 5.00 PM: Coding| 5.10 PM: Head out of Office|

[@TheSuperColonel]

Haha made my day.

[@yaboiyaboy9980]

That actually sounds like a dream come true. My last job in real estate went like this: 9:05 am: Get to the Office. 9:15 am: Make the arrears report that needs to be done by 12pm (unable to do so the night before because the accountant is an idiot and forgot to send me the info) 10:00 am: My boss asks me to make a condensed arrears report as well, even though the client specifically asked us not to do that 10: 30 am: Scrambling to make the arrears report, the condensed arrears report, and the updated building issues report that all need to be sent to this client at 12:00 pm. Not panicking yet, all can be done as long as nobody else interrupts me for something stupid. 10:45 am: Called into the COO assistant office. They ask me if I am having trouble comminuting to work, and explain that if I am late again they will tell the COO 11:00 am: Boss asks me if am finished with the weekly updates and if he can see the condensed arrears report. We scramble to make all 3 and call into the meeting with our client at 12:30 pm because my boss was really finicky with that condensed arrears report that literally no one asked for. He blames me for the fact that we are calling in late. 3:00 pm: After being yelled at for (not exaggerating) 2 and half hours straight by the client, we hang up and my boss tells me to go get lunch 5:50 pm: My boss asks me if I can send out the bills to all our properties on the west side, despite the fact that it's not my job and there is no reason why we can't do it the next day. 6: 40 pm: I leave the office, and punch the air on my way home to my shoebox that I live in because I'm an underpaid Admin Assistant in NY Yea, I'm going to a bootcamp and I will absolutely kill for one of those IT jobs.

[@sebastiancarvajal3855]

I laughed so hard at this, so true.

[@keiarash5058]

Takes 2 hours for you to get ready before you head out? I need 1 hour max lol

[@devjeff3192]

@@keiarash5058 I didn't mean myself by this ! It is just an example ! 30 mins is enough for me

[@Frosty301289]

Maybe it's not as common as i think it is, but i am a Developer, and i am quite introvert, so having these "Team eatings" every day would stress me out more than it would make me happy just because i can't stand being around a lot of people i don't know very well. I am much more happy working my 8:30 and going straight home because i also have shit to do at home and still want to have some hours to relax in order to recoup for the next workday.

[@mrjakkiebah]

Yeah and not socializing won't won't help you getting to know those people either and so the cycle continues...

[@KidJV]

its common..got a lot of workmates like you..people just value socializing because it is beneficial for them..makes their company look good and appealing to applicants and clients

[@thebepis712]

Get to know them, break out of your comfort zone. Communication skills are king in the work place. Take a class or two in communications. Practice practice practice. It get's easier and it has benefits. I'm an introvert too, and need decompression time after work and classes. But being a shut in does not fly in most work environments

[@josuevinagreirofazani7525]

Use headphones (not in important meetings obviously), use headphones constantly, people never come to talk with you, works for me

[@Bunndog]

People do not understand the recouping yourself for next workday until it hits them straight on and they quit after a month. Work can be great if you enjoy your job, but it ain’t your whole life and so many people are just blind to it until they get a job.

[@Trazynn]

There's a massive scarcity of high skilled software developers so Big Tech has an incentive to romanticise the job, get young people inspired to develop the skillset required to be turned into little stressed out desk monkeys.

[@ThePC007]

If you portray the life of a software developer as "hey let's pet some puppies all day", then you won't get any high skilled software developers to come your way. You'll get people who are interested in petting puppies.

[@anitaschafer567]

But also ask a junior developer to have 2 years job experience 😂

[@Frozander]

This was what I thought as well but, now I think that software development is not for everybody. Especially writing quality code

[@Skaxarrat]

I see this as a wave of "Work is fun, so stay 60-80 hours a week in your workplace" mindset, specially paired with this shitty motivational speeches of "If you can dream it, you can achieve it" and all that crap. If you enjoy your work, is less a chore but more a thing is funny to do. And if you enjoy it, why ask for a raise? Why not work 9, 10, 12 hours?

[@АзаматСулейменов-ш4р]

The fact that employers often require years of experience for an entry position might indicate that there is no shortage. It's possible that giant software companies just want to inflate labor pool to drive down the wages. Plus romanticizing an occupation will increase moral causing workers to work harder and longer for lesser compensation. Moral degradation is the killer of corporations.

[@Varnathin]

This reminds me of my old job. Basically I was supposed to be a software dev, but I was stuck working as an online sales rep in this warehouse and the boss had all these great and amazing ideas and on and on and on. As far as the warehouse went, we pretty much exclusively worked upstairs. The downstairs area had a few vehicle bays that we used for the company van, and that's where the boss's (frequently vacant) office was. He liked working from home, but he had a pretty swanky office at the warehouse. Why? Good question. One day he decides that there's a pretty big area of the warehouse that just... isn't being used. And he's right, we just stored a bunch of junk computer parts there and I sold them. Roughly 3,500 lbs of junk being moved up the rickety wooden steps and about a week later, he bought a few exercise mats... weights... aaaand a ping pong table. My manager (who was friends with the CEO to begin with) asked him "Why the fuck did you buy this, dude?" And they laughed about it at first, but he basically said "We just need to have more fun, and it can make us more productive." I was there for 7 months. The ping pong table was there for 6 months. I never played ping pong. Not that I didn't want to - I wasn't allowed. The only person that ever used any of that stuff was the CEO, and whoever he happened to be having a meeting with. He would brag about how much it boosts productivity, but literally no one was allowed to use it. He basically setup a personal gym for himself, and we weren't allowed to touch it "in case we damaged it," or in my case because "you're productivity is low enough - you can't afford anymore distractions." I hated that fucking job.

[@AlgaeNymph]

I'll just note this down for when I remodel Hell; Dante's symbolism is just too abstract for modern sensibilities.

[@RP944]

My dream would be to become a nice boss and inspire others to give their best and making them proud of the experience. I think the best boss is the one who wouldn't mind working as an intern if It was necessary, and would always be glad to learn anything, even if It comes from his employees.

[@Simboiss]

This is the kind of story that shows it's time to make a system where employees are allowed to replace bosses, not just the other way around.

[@simsdiver5201]

@Manny D Well Apple, Google and to extremely minimum varying degrees: Tw@tter, Fakebook Lyft & Uber. Seems the more billions in resources the IT enterprise has, the more golden handcuffs and chains they can afford to bind their software -slaves- dev employees to the digital production line. Google & M$ started the whole "lets keep the Snowflakes happy so they never want to leave work" workforce hyper norm in Silicon Valley. How fast ppl forget that fact. If I remember correctly, Google had heated toilet seats (great for the carbon footprint) up to time when Larry Paige basically grew some balls & took control of his company. This was a few years back. But Google still leads the industry with the golden handcuffs. From their super inflated stock options, free $100K per year culinary chef food available 24/7 around the clock, gym membership, fun Fridays where employees are required to do OTHER things besides code i.e play games, side jobs on social media etc etc. As a dev, you only need work for a AAA IT leviathan the likes of Google for 4-6 yrs tops. Then you can retire independently wealthy.

[@dogelife7901]

I thought you were just trolling and episode of the Office.

[@aravartomian1]

Anytime someone is giving free food you should be asking yourself: what is the catch?

[@biteme8822]

people MUST take this lesson to heart.

[@sengv1987]

I guess they never read hansel and gretel

[@amynguy]

Probably Tilapia

[@snterp]

Umm, why? There's free food all over the place in this country.

[@acidset]

@@snterp because they're buying you with ultimately meaningless quirky perks and benefits, only so that you don't notice how long you've been working or to distract you from low pay or substandard working environments plus it costs them less than outright paying you and all these gimmicks can interrupt or overwhelm your workflow

[@Maturas]

These corporations are doing what they can in replacing whole lifes of their employees. Soon you'll have team sleepovers and team weekends, you'll basically be in the office 24/7. In my opinion: - I want to work for these 8 hours and then leave the office - 90% of meetings are a waste of developer's time - Don't replace your life with job

[@BigTylt]

Before you know it, we'll be back to company towns and feudalism all over again.

[@1compaqedr8]

Mateusz Zawistowski 1 week work like a hackathon then 1 week off! Haha imagine that schedule.

[@blasttrash]

@@1compaqedr8 wow you are quite generous. We have 1 week 24x7 hackathon and then 1 day off. And cycle repeats. just kidding

[@livelovely4681]

A colleague of mine has a workplace that has personal hygiene items and nap rooms.

[@jellybelly111]

is there team bathroom breaks where you all go to the bathroom together like a pack of girls?

[@hakol1156]

( I don't care how many puppies you have at work, after my 8hours I'm out) 👍🏼 golden. Much respect to you ma man

[@jKomwa02]

lol I love the how genuine Josh Fluke is. Alot of people just doing it because the cameras are around.

[@hakol1156]

@@jKomwa02 I agree

[@JoshuaFluke1]

[@RandomShowerThoughts]

Lol that was so real

[@MadaraUchiha-bz4ts]

Damn true man. I left a job for which I had to devote 13 hours a day for which I was paid bare minimum wages. Too bad I'm unemployed now :P

[@Error0601]

For some reason the idea of looking at stack overflow for 6h and banging my head against my desk seems more appealing then most of the things in this video

[@stevenwilt4450]

Yeah why get paid to eat and pet puppys and play games with friends, you're definitely not waaaaay exaggerating or anything

[@anthonyfenner1063]

I’m a 35 year old married python developer. You nailed it on the head.

[@dogelife7901]

is that the key to coding, just marry a developer? Time to get me a wife and support their skills.

[@anthonyfenner1063]

@Johannes Terzis I think it is actually dangerous to get in the friendship at work lifestyle... that's how people get burned... everyone is friends, then a promotion comes up, and guess who's back stabbing... everyone. So really the culture is more dangerous than anything else and the only one who gets the benefit is the big corp.

[@user-bn5xg6wu1p]

how did you manage to keep your job at your age ?

[@mrosskne]

how do you deal with all the shedding?

[@carlinhos10002]

@@user-bn5xg6wu1p lol 35 yo is not like he's going to nursing home next week

[@klutchboi3266]

11:56 "Please don't work 13 hours a day" What do you mean bro, it should be like "please don't eat 13 hours a day"

[@nyx9875]

Indeed. Watching them eat non-stop, while sitting down all day, makes me want to see the "One-year later" video, ya know?

[@luizscheuer670]

Dude I love how you are so down to earth and deliver red pills like its christmas in the matrix. Keep it up.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

I should show the hate mail

[@theblackhundreds7124]

@@JoshuaFluke1 um yes, please

[@johnnygarces2216]

loved this comment!

[@DenisG631]

@@JoshuaFluke1 please show the email lmao

[@killerheadphones728]

Josh, how dare you be realistic on social media...Im calling the internet on you.

[@queenobitv4984]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SamProgramiz]

💥😅🤣

[@gwappo4852]

This man Is like the content cop of software Engineers 😂

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

You can’t believe the crap that goes on in these companies today.

[@jomakaze]

Sigh, I didn't make it to this video :(

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Oh interesting. Let's make a 2nd Edition? Plenty to sort through.

[@jomakaze]

@@JoshuaFluke1 Hell yeaa! Roast my day in a life please

[@JoshuaFluke1]

​@@jomakaze You and I both know my channel would be canceled after that. You, Tech lead, Mayuko, Jarvis, are untouchables. The only way this happens is if you are in the video with me. Otherwise I look like a jelly hater. The fans wanna see a collab anyway. Check your email a year ago -> imgur.com/0VZfbaS

[@JoshuaFluke1]

We can roast mine too.

[@mmanuel6874]

Two legends one chat

[@CoryTheSimmons]

This kind of Team Chai Time and Team Puppy Time shit exists, but yeah, no one actually does any work except a few poor bastards who everything falls upon. So basically you have your pretty people who are just like props (not React props, but like... movie props) who the company sets up to make it look like everyone is happy and content and stable. But then you have the guys like me who have to pull all-nighters 3-4 times a week so the thing actually gets launched... Better software, with happier workers, would get developed if there were more -workers- working for less time (as in not all-nighters). These "Day in the Life of Software Engineer teehee Here's My Insta teehee" videos are straight up propaganda.

[@gamergrill9629]

This is so true, I wish more people could see it this way. These day in a life videos honestly make me feel sick knowing that's not at all what the "actual" job is like. Propaganda is a good way of putting it

[@terellmao]

Anyone that feels like they're pulling all the weight with no assistance is not leveraging their position correctly. If you aren't the team lead start acting like one. Delegate tasks to your coworkers, offer assistance, and make note of when things don't get done. Make sure you're tracking commits and how many story points each team member is completing so everyone is aware of how much work each person is doing. Most importantly COMMUNICATE that you feel like you're pulling a lot of weight and that your coworkers could be doing more. No one knows you're unhappy if you don't say anything. No one knows that your coworker hasn't done jack shit in 4 weeks if you aren't tracking it and telling people about it. Anyone can implement a system like this and it instantly makes people more accountable for the team's projects. On a somewhat related note, I'd like to talk about an underrepresented skill among developers & engineers, and that's relationship management. So many people put up with stuff they shouldn't have to because they're afraid to speak up. They've developed an inferiority complex, they watch a lot of Joshua Fluke videos (which is fine, but it can also be demoralizing), and they feel like its not their place to offer criticism and critiques. If you don't like something, speak up. If you don't want to go to the office chai tea mocha latte yearly dog meeting planning party, then fucking skip it and get real work done. Communicate your weekly work plan with your manager so they know the progress you're making. If you run into blockers communicate with your team and get other people involved. If you see someone has idle time, ask if they want to work with you, they could do similar jobs for you in the future while you work on other things. Even if you aren't the best programmer or the smartest person, if you can get teams to work well together you can become an indispensable part of any company. You don't have to be some ultra likable guy or corporate shill to be a leader. Joe Schmoe doesn't do shit at work but still has a job because someone is doing his work. Nobody cares, and nobody will care, how the job gets done, they only care about the end result. Become a facilitator towards results by managing the people around you. Don't work harder than you have to and document the shit you do so others can't take credit for your labor. Quit, do it again for higher pay, save a shit ton, retire early and do whatever the fuck you want to do.

[@DocBree13]

Jonathan Neufeld 😂

[@chloem.872]

How much do those people make to sit around, eat, and look happy? Asking for a friend...

[@skepticmoderate5790]

@@chloem.872 $200k

[@bradchellingworth5973]

Honestly, Id rather work in a cold damp dark cell then work in that place. It looks so forced/fake happiness. I work in a small office, we have a very chill atmosphere, people wear whatever they like, you can bring your dog in, if its well behaved, and you can listen to music etc. We get fruit provided on Monday that usually last till about wed/thu and every once in a while we have a team evening out. Apart from that you sit at a desk and you code or design or whatever you role is. Which personally I love. I'm not there to make friends or to play ping pong, I'm there to earn my money and do what I enjoy doing which is coding, then at 5pm I want to go home and see my wife and my dog and enjoy my personal time! Life is too short to work 11/12 hour days constantly. Fuck that!

[@mabeSc]

I agree , personal space and life is important , no matter how nice you want to make that office look.

[@therealg4197]

thank you!!!

[@Jadexoxos]

What time do you usually start?

[@lewis6590]

I mean, the crazy thing is your job is EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE WANT. At least that's what I want. I don't want to work at a place where I fuck around in a bounce house for 4 hours a day while I lose sleep at night thinking about all the work I didn't have time to do, and all the 21 year olds gunning for my job, and how I'm ever going to learn any skills to move up in the company or get a better job, and how my life is passing me by because I spend literally half of it at work thinking about when to start coding... ugh!

[@AdrianDucao]

yup

[@minoo1984]

Lmaooo me on my internship last summer. I worked my 8 hours then dipped😭

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Imagine feeling bad about just doing your job

[@janhiness]

This, and I don’t feel bad I like that you mentioned the dad that has kids and a wife to get home to. I think people think I use my family as an excuse but I don’t get to see them all day. When 4 hits I’m out! I see y’all more than my family geez

[@ChristaGeek]

Your realness is so refreshing. I wish everyone who talks about their jobs didn't try and sell it and just stated how things are. Thank you! I'm glad I found your channel.

[@noa2613]

Where's the "oh, I got 5 tickets for a different project, so I have to spend the rest of my day setting up the environment, while the Docker crashes 7 times because the project is 6 years old, and then not have any documentation for any of the code"

[@bunderbah]

no documentation for the code? does that actually happen?😖

[@priyanshudas568]

@@bunderbah A lot

[@BlazingMagpie]

@@bunderbah At least sometimes code is readable.

[@JamesSmith-cm7sg]

@@bunderbah Does it happen? Only like 90% of the time.

[@Soitisisit]

@@bunderbah I don't even work in this field ( yet ) and yes. Open source tends to be better maintained and documented and the documentation is still terrible. Taking time to document is a sure-fire way to get fired tbh.

[@companymen42]

You’re not an engineer unless you’re stressed, exhausted and high on caffeine.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Hah but puppy time

[@krithikkumar959]

"I don't care how many puppies you have, after 8 hours I am out". I thought exactly same

[@MrPDTaylor]

This video is needed because too many companies, not just software companies, take advantage of employees.

[@TheCivildecay]

With this pampering they actually try to make you feel guilty as soon as they start demanding things in return.. "Why can't you work 60 hours this week? remember when we gave you 10 hours of puppy petting hours a week?"

[@jmlmsev]

This channel is the cure for impostor's syndrome lol!

[@LaniakeaLeathercrafts]

I left a job that had 12-hour shifts. They pitched it as "work 4 days for 12 hours then you get 3 days off every single week!" Which seemed nice on the surface. But it ended up turning into working 5, 6, or even 7 days a week. On the rare occurrence I had 3 days off, they were never connected. While the money was decent, that's no way to live your life. You need to take care of yourself!

[@CharityDiary]

Same, and even when the 3 days off were connected, one of them was entirely spent making up for lost sleep, one was spent being depressed that I had a shit job and I had no free time except for one day per week, and the last one was spent preparing for work the next day. In the end I quit because there were just too many depression-related deaths and I didn't really wanna die there.

[@tom2268]

Let me Guess. Telsa? I recently turned down an offer from them after my internship with them. 4 day work week is bullshit.

[@hleet]

Burnout is a real thing and it take at least 1 year to recover from it. Taking care of ourself is a good advice in this case :)

[@Makrillz]

sounds really stupid in terms of efficiency also, especially if it's a software engineering type of job. Who the can even work 12 hours efficiently in one day? I could probably shorten my day from 8h to 6h and still achieve 90% of the work, with 12 hours it'd get alot worse

[@Kannon_BR]

That´s what a general said to easy company in WW2: "gimme 3 days and 3 nights of hard fighting and you ´ll be relieved..." this bullshit never gets old.

[@mosesnandi]

Head on! Normal work hours should be 8 hours...and in my opinion even less! There is more to life for God's sake!

[@Zaimk]

For real why aren't we trying to fight for shorter days ffs. 8 hours is a compromise we should be utilizing all this tech to have more time to pursue actual interests outside of making money for our employer.

[@Max_Janszen]

Or 4 10 hour days per week

[@errrzarrr]

@@Max_Janszen no, 10 is too exhausting

[@Nacalal]

So according to these, day of work is: -Wake up at around 7AM -Go to work -Do some work(?) for 2 hours -Get coffee with your team -Eat -Drink more coffee -Eat more -Drink alcohol -Pet dogs -Eat more -Go home -Eat dogs -Pet more -Sleep

[@PeculiarKatreen]

"Eat dogs"

[@savageholycow9545]

-Eat dogs -Pet more

[@rdi7371]

Nacalal fuc... you made my day I was laughing all the day long 😂

[@gibran6190]

I like how you’re eating the dogs before you pet them.

[@marcoshalberstadt7646]

@@gibran6190 he didn't specifically say he was petting the dogs there.

[@krazymantoast]

I really appreciate your open and honest expressions. I had a job at a business that outsourced software QA to bigger clients and they tried very hard to play the game like the big dogs; free soda, tons of free candy, free coffee, company lunches, ping pong, foosball, a Wii U. Myself and a close co-worker worked for the most difficult client in the company and nobody wanted to work with them, we handled all their projects like bosses and we started liking to play ping pong on our breaks and lunches... that ended soon because other people complained we were too loud or quote "having too much fun". We quickly realized all these fun things they offer are just a rouse, a way of making the company seem attractive to newbs but you aren't actually supposed to be using them or having fun.

[@dogelife7901]

Having fun at work is the devil

[@clauseland9005]

Got 2 kids, I'm the hell out of there after 8 hours no matter how much the boss and coworkers look at me.

[@kineticuncertainty]

I have no kids except my dog and im out after 8 hours

[@Ryyza7]

i got no kids and no dogs and im out after 8 hours too

[@keyzer380]

I have not 8 hours but I'm out too

[@MrBeast1901]

@@incognitojon902 Your mother is throwing her life away and missing her kids grow up. You don't have experience in the work force so you wouldn't understand

[@GinjouArmy]

@@keyzer380 .....

[@JDoeX]

From when I was working for Google in it's Dublin office: 7am: Turn off the alarm clock repeatedly because you are dead tired from staying up most of the night.. 7:40: Finally wake up because you know you're gonna be late af to your 8am job... 7:50: Finishing up the last morning rush and calling an Uber and thinking to yourself damn, what a waste of money again 8:10: Arrive to work, apologize to team leader for being late again... 8:20: Get a lot of coffee, work, work, work, think about lunch break 12pm: Lunch break, see your few work buddies if they wanna go to McDonalds, eat their own stuff or go to downstairs restaurant. 12:30: Back to work, more coffee 1:30: Bored... Tired... Start doing side stuff 3pm: Completely immersed into doing something completely irrelevant to your job description - probably reading through ideas for character build in the game you play... 5pm: Fuck yea, finally I'm outta here and go finish levelling up my mage! 5:30: Home sweet home, HOPING that noone calls you for some extra tasks Rinse and Repeat!

[@victornyamu2547]

Hey bro what was your GPA to get into google?

[@roastedchicken7254]

Nice video mate. Accurate.

[@manishrana3596]

And how you got into Google, tell us about your journey

[@opus53waldstein70]

After reading your "program" you execute each day, I would worry about your health, too much coffee and lack of sleep? Be careful about a cardiovascular desease..

[@JDoeX]

@@opus53waldstein70 you may be right. I've been getting a lot of pains in the legs etc lately as I continue with this..

[@xrystal89]

"everyone's posting the best parts of their jobs...", pretty much. I worked part-time at a school as an administrative assistant. If I recorded my days where I attended the office pizza party, the office bake-off, the birthday bashes, got to leave early, played my co-workers new Switch in front of my boss and she didn't care because she was too busy trading jokes with him and the days where I brought my lap-top to work to play 7 Days to Die all day while still getting paid hourly for just being present, it would probably excite people. However, if I showed them the more common days where I had to sit for 3+ hours doing nothing because the full-time people were at lunch/meetings and I had to wait there for them to get back to give me work or clearance info. or when I had to come in on days where everyone was gone for vacation or when I had to do the jobs of three other people for months but not get their pay or I had huuuuundreds of students files every single week to read, edit, approve, data entry, audit, file, and so on before the deadline that was already behind, all day long, I doubt people would be as excited. Do you know what your eyes start to do when you've been trying to read student handwriting for 7 hours straight? After the 203rd sheet of the day....shite gets weird....

[@valkhorn]

If endless meetings are the 'best part of their jobs' then I start to wonder what neurotoxin they are pumping into the office HVAC.

[@opus53waldstein70]

after all what you call s**** you should be thankful, because if you were a school administrative here in my country, you would probably manage all the school by yourself no assistants no other employees, specially in the rural schools, and most of the time you write reports and other paper stuff with your pen and hands..

[@Potenti4lz]

5:37 "I don't care how many puppies you have, after 8 hours I'm out" LOL 😂👌

[@LennoxHaynes21]

Anjunakitchen that caught me off guard 🤣🤣🤣

[@rowanburns4841]

This looks like a luxury resort. Puppies, video games, free food, chess.. etc. Damn

[@robinn9951]

they fail to point out the fact that their parents are major share holders in the company; always read the fine print people!

[@vaaal88]

That's the life: play food, eat dogs and pet chess

[@bryan7300]

I think the videos are actually pretty legit, and this is coming from someone who worked at a software company in the midwest, and in the SF Bay Area. When I switched jobs to work in the SF Bay Area, I noticed the work culture is insanely different! Most people there are young, have no family, are pretty friendly and the work culture is super chill. That said, the interview process for companies in SF, are the toughest in the nation. Also most of the people there are from CMU, UCB, Stanford, UIUC etc.

[@turkey748596]

I think this video comb out who really don't want to be a developer. If you want to be a developer for playing XBOX or free foods, probably you are in wrong way. Thanks for this realistic video.

[@tuvu8394]

lol those “software engineers” look more like instagram influencers rather than someone with actual technical capability. Especially the first girl. Maybe shes just trying to make her video more interesting. But if thats what u do during your hours, ur probably pretty shitty at work.

[@turkey748596]

Kelvin Klopper I just don’t want to talk like precise about people life. maybe they wanna be programmer for xbox or free foods but who knows maybe they’ll be success at programming.

[@Chrosam]

At my internship I woke up everyday at 6, coded all working hours, went back home coding on the way back, coded all my free time at home, 4 months later I got a job offer and the knowledge I was after. Now I code during my working hours comeback home and never touch code, maybe thinking about the problems I have to solve, but never doing work at home.

[@cryingbball]

Sam agree. fuck working at home

[@Chrosam]

@MainWinner Tactics well I'm a refugee living in the Netherlands, living alone and have no close friends here, so basically I have nothing to do but coding. Just know that you can achieve anything, and don't listen to the downers, have an image of what you want to become and trust that the dots will connect. You got this 👍

[@Harker911]

@@Chrosam Actually really good advice -- trusting the dots will connect and also visualizing. Visualizing something is important just purely because you have a clear sight of what you want. Everything else -- the negativity, the doubts, the stresses -- they are all noise. You can hear them, and even feel them (the more you let yourself feel them, the less they affect you each time). But know that it will pass (you don't have to listen to all your thoughts, you know?), and that all you have to do to reach whatever goal is to keep up the habit. Just show up and keep plugging away, and the odds of success dramatically increase. Also, I think a lot of people underestimate their innate ability to adapt to less-than-ideal situations and be successful. People are done-in a lot of the times by their thoughts and not exactly has happened or what is reality. Just wanted to add that to anyone willing to listen. :)

[@izildopimentel6853]

Where do you live? I'm from the Netherlands, Rotterdam.

[@IamRenzx]

Same i work for 5 hrs then go home. I always complete my task on schedule so i can do whatever the i want. I seldomly code at home because i'm already burned out.

[@dorcohen3522]

You hit the nail on the head with this one, never had a Job which was even remotely social. This is a lonely job.

[@jonathan-3008]

I would love a lonely job

[@allessandro989]

I really like that you often mention people who have childs. I'm such a person and I also worked (some months) for a Start Up with perks and team events and so on.. and like you said.. I DIDN'T CARE ... I have to get home to my family to be able to spent some time with them and that my wife doesn't have to do all the kid's time alone (because it's besides it is nice, it's also exhausting). Important for me are working time flexibility a good compensation and just a "normal" positive environment (and a good boss, which I currently have) :).

[@MrCmon113]

It's almost as if different jobs are good for different people...

[@kairoswave]

This video in on point! I have had 4-5 Developer jobs, They are definitely not how the "The day in a life" videos portrays them to be.

[@dionysus3774]

What's your best advice for getting a job similar to yours?

[@TehGettinq]

Cuz ur trash m8

[@onee]

Unfortunately it isn't 8 hours work, 8 hours free time, and 8 hours sleep. It is actually more like this: -preparing for work and eating breakfast in the morning ~1 hour. -8 hours of work -30 minutes-1 hour break -2 hours of traffic (for some people even more). I assumed that you live away 1 hour from your job. You drive that 2 times a day. -Eating dinner

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Yeah..

[@mlynskey2]

Very true. I'm a frontend dev for a bank and I find a lot of the job is Google searching, looking up GitHub issues, Stackoverflow, Medium articles, CSS tricks - the list goes on! We would maybe have one day each couple of months like those "day in the life" videos - usually a Friday when there's a company-wide event on in the afternoon - we will often schedule meetings on these days as we know not much is going to get done anyway, and go for a team lunch for a burger and a beer.

[@SimplyVanis]

If they can study after work, they have not done anything productive... Like after nice day of work, sometimes I dont want to even play video games if im mentally tired.

[@trilfy]

I'm tired of video games. It feels good if you had a physically demanding job and come home to unwind on video games. But software dev? Nah, if video gaming is your hobby you're looking at sitting on your ass for long time.

[@MrCmon113]

Yes... or perhaps there is people more competent in the world than you. That is a possibility you have not thought about. Another one is that others might not put themselves into situations where they are completely overchallenged.

[@getwokegobroke2154]

Yes yes yes, finally someone talk about these bullsh*t videos. Finally a dev from real life. +1

[@gibdopaminepls]

"I highly doubt you're coding and eating" \*looks at the sandwich on my desk\* yeah nah

[@lolsa123]

well to be frank, a sandwich isn't as messy as what she ate

[@hamsteroncoffee]

Ahahah! I usually multi-task like that too. Eat & code 😂 Code some more, eat & code again. Then repeat all over again. But yeah, that is not the healthiest thing to do 🙈

[@bassagent97]

same lol. I'm so used to eating while doing something (on pc) that it's so awkward for me not to anymore.

[@murimimuchina855]

i can do it >:O

[@carlosgarza31]

Eating at my desk was very common. Like I have a hard time remembering when I was actually be able to go to lunch.

[@angieartness123]

A lot of (young) people don't realize these "look at this great life" videos are meant to be "dissociate for a few minutes and live vicariously thru this fantasy I made up" videos. It's basically escapism like reading a YA fantasy novel. Which is fine if you realize that's what ur doing. But when (mostly young) ppl start believing it's real, that's when we gotta pump the breaks a bit. So thank you for the pumping the breaks 👍

[@angieartness123]

And ofc if the creator is actually legit advertising it as "real life" that's f*cked up, don't do that

[@swallowedinthesea11]

I used to feel bad watching videos like that, but then smartened up after learning more about web development and working on projects. It's like this almost everywhere here of people uploading 'A Day in the Life of a Web Developer' video. 90% eating salads, sushi, pho, hamburgers, spaghetti, lasagna, hot wings, BBQ, ribs, pizza, tacos, lamb, kimbap, and drinking Starbucks. 10% coding. If I see food immediately in a video, I stop watching.

[@CsTrGaming]

The beating your meat part cracked me up 😂😂😂😂

[@JoshuaFluke1]

only 1% of the viewers notice, 99% do it.

[@rattle_]

@@JoshuaFluke1 99.9%

[@Dalik1000]

@@JoshuaFluke1 ​ 100% probably, the 1% just don't admit it.

[@dutchman55]

Same lmao

[@thedavenaugler]

Oh my gosh I loved that part! Cracked me up!

[@anbui3147]

Pretty true in alot of jobs, but especially jobs where you work on a computer, people think its so nice working with your coworkers but imagine if you actually had a social life, wakeing up at 6-7,commuting an hour, getting to work at 8, having to stay til atleast 4:30 because of lunch, and then leaving to get home for another hour, not accounting for doing chores, cooking, you rarely have any time throughout the weekday to really do anything and thats just not whats being told/shown to people because its not "sexy" to see

[@Quonchon]

My day : - Clock in at 9am - Do my tasks (code, meeting, anything else) until noon with one coffee break - Eat outside with coworkers - Same as the morning - Out of office at 5:30pm - Never do anything work related after that That's how it is for most people, in most companies, most of the time.

[@yallknowwhoiam7036]

Sounds boring

[@MrCharly780]

@@yallknowwhoiam7036 yeah no shit, its work not a luxury spa.

[@Quonchon]

@@yallknowwhoiam7036 Welcome to any office job fam. Software is no different.

[@daven9536]

​@@yallknowwhoiam7036 Your job is boring if the actual work you're doing is boring. No amount of fancy company culture will ever change that. Software development can be interesting and exciting though - i have a 9 - 5 (for me more like 7-3) job and it is anything but boring although sitting 8 hours in front of a screen everyday may sound like it is.

[@xPussySlayerx69420]

yallknow whoiam that’s reality, but like you said it’s boring so there’s no reason why highlight that in a video, so then you have videos like the one this video creator is bashing

[@johnsmithee6660]

If there isn't a guy banging his head on the table, or another guy feeling like jumping off the building's rooftop, then I won't believe it as real

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Bingo. Most of these jobs turn into 24 hour time sinks and scrambles to get a working product out. No real engineers goof off like this. Unless its a fake kindergarten startup that goes out of business.

[@osoh]

This is soooo funny. 04:41 "An hour and ten minutes for a meeting. Another team meeting where you have 'team chai time'. So you go from a meeting to another meeting. Again no real work is being done here. Ok 3:28. So we went to a 'team meeting' to a 'puppy time meeting'. Ok."

[@collinsinfosec]

This is so true Josh. I have a little "day in the life video of my own" which is popular. I tried to make it as realistic as possible. Many of the initial comments on this video were all about how my life sucks or how the video misrepresents "cybersecurity" - the topic of my video. But in all reality this is REALITY, I prefer to be genuine like you are.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

All you have to say is 'i have an NDA i cant show my work so heres the other stuff'

[@Atameow]

Real talk

[@kishanpatel7125]

Let them bark. Keep doing great and inspiring work.

[@rachelnicole434]

Same here i have one for my QA Engineer job

[@zachbaird2851]

I saw yours, and it was certainly the most realistic. Work work work!

Coffee - Meeting - Eat - Meeting - Puppy time - Meeting - Snack - Chess - Sleep - Eat - Meeting - Go Home - Gym = Die in a week!

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Eatware engineering best engineering.

[@gensaikuroki1793]

This post made me laugh so hard. 😂

[@peaceout4132]

I want to work 8 hours a day and have some less incentives like free food, instead working 13 hours with free food, your job is not your life

[@TheRenzo1337]

Day in a life of a software engineer* *In a 1st world country :v

[@MsJavaWolf]

Only in SV. I worked in a firm in Germany, it's not bad but it's basically: code code code, lunch break, code code code, go home.

[@leisiyox]

@@MsJavaWolf USA is spoiled compared to other countries imo

[@fightyournegatives]

@@MsJavaWolf Working in Belarus, but team from Canada, it's code review, code, meeting meeting meeting, frustrate, code

[@christopherrensor4780]

@@MsJavaWolf That is dependend on the field and company you're working in / for. As an example there are conservative companies still doing the waterfall or v-model project management style in Software Engineering and there it is exactly like you say. In companies where they (try to) do Scrum, it is like this: 1 week is about coding & designing (with teammates) and one week is 3/4th about just talking about the sprint (retrospective and such things). Of course, if you haven't got a decentral team and do everything via Voice over IP, you also do that while drinking coffee or eating snacks.

[@yan-fz8pl]

@@MsJavaWolf so, basically... a job?

[@davisdesigns1153]

goes to work in morning *stays for the rest of her life*

[@thelogster]

Day in life (work from home): 6:45 wake up 7:30 make sure kids are eating breakfast 8:30 take kids to school 9:00 get coffee 9:05 admin/code reviews 10:00 team meeting 10:15 Code 12:00 Lunch 12:30 Code 3:00 get kids 3:30 code 6:00 make dinner 7:30 kid 2 in bed 7:35 tidy 9:00 kid 1 in bed 11:00-11:30 bed

[@wingedpanther73]

As a developer and an introvert, meetings are the BANE of my existence. I like having a short team meeting in the morning, great. If I'm having 3 meetings a day, things are getting annoying. Anything beyond that, and I don't want to talk with my wife after work, much less chill with the team.

[@khaorix2667]

I currently work at Mc Donald's in France. I do closing shifts. Sometimes we don't finish in time and we do some overtime to finish cleaning and stuff. Or sometimes the noon rush is too intense and the managers don't make you leave on time. Two caveats with that: 1: If you're supposed to finish at, say, 3PM, and you approach the manager at 3PM and tell them "Hey I gotta go" they'll let you go. And 2: you're paid for that overtime. I'll gladly stay 15-20-30 minutes to help my team *because I know I'm being paid for this time*. I wouldn't do it for free. Neither should you. Here we have a saying, "All work deserves a salary". I'm gonna hold my boss to that.

[@underdogglory2530]

DUDE!! I'm so glad you did this video! I ended up hating these fluffy videos of no work, dialogue or significant info. Just wack elevator music.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

exactly

[@sent4dc]

oh wait, so the life of the software engineer is not all about eating kale the whole day and patting her doggy?

[@uqashagedik1361]

As a fresh graduate at work, I feels like i wanna die everyday

[@techienomadiso8970]

Me too 🤣🤣

[@TheMasterfulcreator]

A a day in the life of someone watching 'a day in the life of a software engineer' videos.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

New meta

[@filmlife1000]

I needed this! It's so so true - most "day in the life of a programmer" videos are just the highlights and they sensationalise it and make it look like nothing goes wrong in this sort of job. For instance: I don't have any friends at work, I'm usually staring at the screen like "what is it?" every 20mins in the day, there have been awkward arguments in my team, the food isn't all that and shouldn't be the highlight of working as a dev and I get woken up at the crack of stupid when I'm on support for a week. But of course, there are perks like every job but it's not peachy in every aspect - like any job, there are pros and cons.

[@gregbarkhamjr4308]

My job I’m at right now forces us to work 8-12 hours a day. And we get minutes notice about working more than 8 hours, literally. At 1:30 pm when it’s about time for us to leave, they’re like “ oh no, you gotta stay till 5:30” granted that I do work at a automotive plant that makes car parts. We get a 8 minute break. And a 15 minute lunch for a 8 hour day. We get 3 8 minute breaks for a 12 hour shift, and the normal 15 minute lunch break. I’m currently going to Community college then transferring to UofL for a Doctorate in CS. I’m ready for this CS future. I’m working this job now to make ends meet for me and my girlfriend. Don’t even let me mention the 2 vacation days we get a year. yes. We only get 2 days. Also. Some people at my work have went 3-5 months straight without a legit day off. It’s nuts. So I am beyond willing and prepared for a long day of sitting down behind my keyboard for 8 hours. Then going home to my lovely wife and kids. And my beautiful house. I’m absolutely ready

[@mattbarrington]

I feel for you. I used to pack bran in a flour mill. Now I work in an air conditioned office in a comfy chair or from home. I love the IT life, it's worth the work it takes to get in. Even my crappiest days in IT are better than most days in the mill!

[@OsirisNO]

They are trying to sell a lifestyle. And some people, especially young people like the idea of that. But in the end it's just work and it should be separated. I read about this company that changed their working hours to 6 hours a day instead of 8 but there would be no lyfestile b/'s just work. But you get the same pay. They saw a huge upshoot in productivity. This whole mindset of having to work from 9 till 5 (and here that's not even 8bhours because your lunch time is on you(but forced)) Imagine getting to work at 9 and being done at 4. Plenty of time in the morning to go to the gym, do a hobby, sleep in, do the morning with kids. And at 4 plenty of time for the store/relaxing/nap/kids. It relives stress and in turn makes people more productive.

[@rabchwan7623]

100% agree w u on this

[@mrosskne]

heh, I work from 10 to 2 and take off whatever days I feel like

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

No real engineers work 6 hours a day.

[@blocktube123]

Beware companies that give you "free" food and a nice comfortable couch to sleep on in your cubicle. It's because they don't want you to leave.

[@Adefuye]

When I interned I had headphones in half the time, 80% of the time I was at my desk, did my job and leave 😂👍

[@maryna1374]

All those companies with Chai Breaks hire an outsourced company in a third world country that has to do x2 the job making up for all the things that americans didn't do.

[@bosnian.artillery]

*realizes I am from a third world country* *sweating intensifies*

[@roshankanchan3324]

So true

[@kostavsheoran1530]

yeah here in india

[@HansFlamme]

Indis and China aren't 3. World countries

[@kostavsheoran1530]

@@HansFlamme idk abt china bt india is 3rd world

[@karthik-ex4dm]

Dude, I did my college, Got a job in another city 200 miles away. My salary was $260/month. I was forced to take that job since my parents didn't want me to find my passion. They just want me do whatever work I got I had to work 14 hours/day and 6 days/week. ZERO perks since the office was the house of the person who runs the company... Had to pay my rent, take care of food and travel with that $260/month. Had no friends or anything. I didn't understand the language of the city. I used to get anxious and nervous whenever my phone chimes or rings. The heart starts pounding heavily... I start breathing heavily...Your head starts hurting...It's a horrible horrible feeling. I wouldn't wish that for my enemy I never wanna experience that again. After 6 months, I got myself into depression, didn't wanna go back to work and Finally, I quit that job after 8 months. I curse that company goes into the gutter. They should not do that to any other living being ever again!!! Sometimes being without a job feels better than being in a job...

[@mist3325]

Indian?

[@karthik-ex4dm]

@@mist3325 Correct

[@lbasura]

So what are you gonna do now

[@Terzaghi12]

they don't show when someone it's yelling at you because you "didn't do your job"

[@nicolasazoidis9064]

The most realistic "comment-video" EVER made about the industry! Love it to the details

[@faiqarif5765]

Thank you so much. This video can be a lifesaver for those, deluded into the belief that an SE job is a smooth sail ahead.