The TRUTH about working as a Software Developer.. Why I QUIT!

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@pauly202 Жыл бұрын

Golden handcuffs are better then copper handcuffs. im a warehouse worker with a broken body who can barely afford to pay my rent and feed my family. Earn your Bag and find meaning and purpose outside of your work, get hobbies and interests that give you value. ill take those golden handcuffs in a heartbeat. We all wanna take pride in our work but lets be honest if we had the option to do what we always wanted none of us would be "working". Don't be me guys, If you're offered golden handcuffs i suggest you take it. Ill take being bored with work which you will always feel in any role if you do it long enough over being broke and stressed how im gonna feed my family any day of the week.

@kku6857 Жыл бұрын

Exactly we have to work be wise and work for good money and life

@Szcza04 Жыл бұрын

Bro you can always do it don’t ever give up bro. Change your career you can do it

@djaesir Жыл бұрын

I hope you will overcome those hardships one day brother. I’m a second year student in software development but I’m always worried whether I’ll even get a job or not, whether I’ll be able to provide for the one I love, whether I’ll live up to my successful parents. Know that your words really inspired me to keep the work to succeed too. Sending you and your family all my prayers and best wishes for the future.

@beannhead Жыл бұрын

Worked at a FedEx warehouse for my first job at 18y/o. The job itself was pretty face-paced, especially during those holiday seasons, although cool people you can meet. I see how these jobs can take a toll on your body in the long-run, so me now (being 21y/o) am exploring routes to work remotely and travel to different destinations around the world and explore the cultures. I agree with you wholeheartedly that people shouldn’t take what they have for granted (especially if they’re making enough to refer to themselves as “golden handcuffs”). The smaller detours of life is often what can make us happy in the long run.

@ko-Daegu Жыл бұрын

@@Szcza04not always bro I know it’s difficult pill to swallow But grown older becomes much harder to learn switch tasks and also keep up now u want him to start with a family so old and AI taking over the field ?

@Fuzzycap Жыл бұрын

You didn't deceive us, we all know the reality of corporate

@0x007A Жыл бұрын

Most of us, including experienced professionals, watch Joshua Fluke's channel too. Some of us were JF before JF was JF.

@Fuzzycap Жыл бұрын

@@0x007A yes, I have been watching him since early 2020 too!!

@mickconnor88 Жыл бұрын

I have this recurrent feeling now that I am working on customer service taking shitty calls for 8 years.

@Fuzzycap Жыл бұрын

@@mickconnor88 I have experienced the same thing in my first project.....where everyone was getting core development I was put on service desk, taking phone calls and resolving tickets all day which resulted in derailing me from track and all peers went through.....it sucks!!!!?

@konstantinklykov3719 Жыл бұрын

Since the first day I started working as a programmer I have had the same feeling, at first it is exciting because it is a new job, a new project, a different company, but that does not last long. Then the routine starts to invade me, I lose interest, I become apathetic towards the project and I have the feeling that I am paid to die sitting in a chair looking at a screen, because the only thing of value I get out of it is a salary, nothing else. I always think about a change, working for myself, but the leap seems too big and never happens.

@Buntstoff Жыл бұрын

in my opinion, what you discripe calls "routine" what does not give you exitment anymore. I wouldnt say its a problem about beeing a programmer. I worked in so many diffrent jobs/positions - always the beginning was existing- but after time there came the routine and gets bored me and feeling bad everytime.

@JeremeyD Жыл бұрын

Not just in the program field.

@TheJakeStream Жыл бұрын

Exactly how I feel, hope it's going better💥

@reiniergarcia 6 ай бұрын

I have being looking for a job as software engineer for more than two years, and nothing. My life is a living hell. I used to think exactly like you after a frw years working as RoR developer. I think I’m banned somehow. It’s insane but it’s too much coincidence. It’s mathematically impossible to have such bad luck. Nobody hires me anymore. I know what you want to do… Don’t F do it!! I regret my decisions of the past every single F day!!

@Number704 Жыл бұрын

I'm a little younger than you. I worked as a BMW tech, teacher and forklift engineer. I still never made anywhere near what developers make and now my body is broken. Choose your handcuffs, being poor or having them made of gold.

@DonTheGreat Жыл бұрын

facts lol i am literally getting no value out of my job and its shit pay i hope i can learn to code!

@andrewdrewdrew1637 Жыл бұрын

Yeah these people need to try some other jobs, see their are just as trash because working is TRASH 99% of the time no matter thé job, then thank God they can make 6 figures doing what everybody else does-work

@thatdude1623 Жыл бұрын

Lmao. I'm a chemist with a $300/month pay. I'm currently at html&css on freecodecamp. Planning to learn javascript on The Odin Project.

@jakew4829 Жыл бұрын

@@thatdude1623 We're in the same path, currently on TOP now. Good luck👍

@MultiWillow33 Жыл бұрын

@@thatdude1623I finished freeCodeCamp a couple of years ago. Learned more there than thought possible. Keep up the good work.

@wesammmm5432 Жыл бұрын

The moral of the story here is this: People will always find something to complain about. Give them a car, they will want a Mercedes. Give them a roof over their head, they will want a mansion in the hills. Happiness is an inside job moreover anything else. Learn to be happy with how much you can live without; not how much you can live with.

@larrymeadows7535 Жыл бұрын

Happiness is an inside job is a dope line. 👍🏿

@radon1671 Жыл бұрын

being happy is very nice,but sometimes you must feel sad to change your life. All the successful people were employees at a time,but they weren't always happy. that's why they changed and now they're legends.

@cipher1167 Жыл бұрын

It is this way with most careers/jobs though, yeah we can create stuff but our skills are so we make stuff/computers/websites etc, work that’s it. At least he gets great pay and most likely amazing benefits.

@ko-Daegu Жыл бұрын

@@radon1671u know a surprising fact majority of rich people are employees they are c-suite level (coo cto ceo ..etc) Again we got multi millionaires who are depressed some are simply sad not satisfied The guy in he video said do freelancing many losing their life over it cuz it’s a lot of pressure Start your own startup also can be demanding I did the later do and guess what I don’t have a family i wish I had a wife and sons daughter but simply no time I was looking for a job (in either net eng sec or SWE) didn’t find any did freelancing and started my own startup with a friend then it’s an agency then we did a partnership with a huge company cuz they saw potential with us

@joylynch5204 Жыл бұрын

Happiness is important but not if I am broke

@mattiaslp9645 Жыл бұрын

company pays you to build what they want, not what you want. unfortunate reality but that’s why you get a paycheck at the end of the month. use that money to live life outside of your job.

@ifstatementifstatement2704 8 ай бұрын

I spent 24 years programming as a hobby. Finally due to covid lockdowns and being made redundant, I decided to work as a software developer. After two years of being forced by senior devs to copy-paste implementations from others and follow patterns from others, I realised the mentality in the industry. So I am now developing an app solo and have started my own business. We'll see how it goes. What chatgpt these days you no longer have to struggle to build anything.

@djszal Жыл бұрын

I'm switching careers from construction project management to software development. it sucks everywhere. I have a feeling not much will be different in this change. I just need something a little more close to what I want to be doing for 8 hours a day since I have to and have no choice not to work. until work culture changes, this is what we're stuck with and we have to keep food on the table somehow.

@PharaelMartins Жыл бұрын

Why the hell did you just realized you were just a number after spending all this time in tech market? Does it lack creativity to become a entrepreneur and start develop your own projects and a career as a programmer? What about startups? Developing SaaS for profit? Programming is a vast area with loads of oportunities and I think you might are scratching the surface right now. That's my rumble opinion.

@ko-Daegu Жыл бұрын

And even those will feel like u are missing out on something I did that I got no family I wish I had a loving family won’t stable home and rich as he’s whole only working ko need for years building a startup to an bench to a partnership to multi-million software deals with gov But alone No one loves me, i will probably dir without a family (and no relationship built on money is not a real relationship) The real answer is satisfaction and happiness is an inside job No putter parameters will change that Yes i mena what I’m saying I was happy before migrating from my country were we had civil war I enjoyed my time with my family They died their I went out and worked to provide (sadly didn’t see them enjoying my work, they were gone) but I’m from a family oriented so it’s not like I didn’t care or spend time with them If all happened again I will do it all over again in a heartbeat

@uziboozy4540 Жыл бұрын

You're a cog in a machine when you work for big tech. I'm a tech lead at an employee intelligence platform where I'm completely rebuilding everything from scratch. Going from multi tenancy using Heroku to single tenant architecture using Kubernetes

@DaddyOKaboom Жыл бұрын

we have the ability to work hard, wake up early and force ourselves to focus when we work for somebody else, but we can't do it the same when we work on our own projects?

@peterk.2108 10 ай бұрын

Yes kaboom

@atomp153 Жыл бұрын

The blind leading the blind. It happens quite often.

@SaiBardSukotoAkura 5 ай бұрын

"Behold, how the blind lead eachother." Artist: Chuck Schulinder Song: The Philosopher

@andresramirez4469 Жыл бұрын

I decided to take a break from coding and honestly I feel so much better away from it . But if I don’t want to do coding what now? That’s my problem

@RealSlaz Жыл бұрын

It’s all fun and games until they tell you to finish someone’s else’s project

@Robinson8491 Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel, thinking about programming route and then this :')

@ThapeloMachaka256 Жыл бұрын

its probably burnout... just dont overwork yourself. Take opportunities that interest you

@steffy007 Жыл бұрын

truer words never been spoken...i feel exactly the same...I am working in an mnc for past 5 yrs post graduation, i feel utterly burnout, not enjoying really features, blah, blah for a paycheck... basically a cog in someone else's business, but I love tech n programming but if u ask me do i want to be the way I'm for the foreseeable future if money was not a problem, I wouldn't chose this route....alas ...

@Sladeofdark Жыл бұрын

Exactly, I am glad you admitted to this and shared.

@GabenNewell123 Жыл бұрын

Yeah you're a cog in the machine wherever you go even at Faang. At the end of the day a job is a job irrespective of where you work. Currently looking into some side income to eventually set free from the golden handcuffs lol

@andrewdrewdrew1637 Жыл бұрын

At any job you are a cog in some sort of a machine. You're a psychologist in some sort of office, you make that office run. You're self employed and a faang employer comes to you for treatment, you're kinda working for the faang, just indirectly. We're all part of some sort of machine it's just how you perceive it

@pogrammerinthehouse8643 Жыл бұрын

but I think companies like meta and Google works on innovative stuff that's why I want to join them..also that's why I want to be a software engineer in a R&D field and having this specific choice is challenging for me but I love it

@andrewdrewdrew1637 Жыл бұрын

@@pogrammerinthehouse8643 yeah they find innovative ways to collect all the data about everyone

@Ryosuke1208 Жыл бұрын

Even if you have your own company, sometimes you can feel like a cog to clients.

@MoonOvIce 11 ай бұрын

@@Ryosuke1208 Exactly what I was going to say. A lot of the time, I think it all boils down to money as a need for survival. That existing at all, is what makes us feel like a "cog" in something always. So far, we haven't found a working alternative for there to be no money and still have a functioning society.

@mayankmohitagarwal9291 Жыл бұрын

"I may have deceived you!!" ....I mean what lees could you expect from voldemort

@mysystmz Жыл бұрын

Wow, poor you, working in an air conditioned office or from your living room and making a ton of cash and being able to do whatever you want with your free time!

@rameeziqbal8711 Жыл бұрын

That free time is not much.

@chaseatlanticfan6553 Жыл бұрын

@@rameeziqbal8711 whatt o thought that was the main perk

@amf2702 Жыл бұрын

that happens in most jobs, it depends on what and where you're working, it really isn't the career's problem.

@steelsteez6118 Жыл бұрын

Those are not careers, those are just jobs then.

@felipeferreira5206 2 ай бұрын

I love the grind personally and bringing value to companies in terms of technology. I feel like the dev role has changed so much over the last 10 years or so too that I think you might be out of the loop already

@usoppgostoso Жыл бұрын

Exactly how I feel. I feel like quitting every single day.

@thekey6083 10 ай бұрын

Actually, appreciate your transparency! I am looking to get into the tech world and have researched a lot of different jobs within intake. Software development was higher on my list, however, I am similar to you. I don’t want to miss out on the creation of things where it is visible, and fun. Software engineering just seem like the right move because it pays a lot of money, I want to be paid and fulfilled!

@waffle8364 10 ай бұрын

Get ready to work your ass off. It's not just about knowing how to code. it's knowing how to research, apply problem solving skills, have excellent communication skills among other things. High paying jobs pay high because it's hard to do and not many can do it

@disguisedcentennial835 Жыл бұрын

Living for Christ will bring meaning to any job. You’ll find contentment knowing you’re helping build the Kingdom instead of just surviving. A friend of mine is also in that and he agrees, but he said that’s why it’s so important to have those side projects.

@joylynch5204 Жыл бұрын

I was living for God but I was always broke

@fif18 11 ай бұрын

We have to be good stewards!@@joylynch5204

@waffle8364 10 ай бұрын

Live for something. It doesn't have to be a God. Live for your self, your family. You can give meaning to anything you want. also know that you are alive and can breath ands experience the knowledge that we have. Plus knowing that God is probably not real is fantastic.

@Lord_Garcia Жыл бұрын

Brother you speak truth. I have found that the first step is to recognize/accept your position and pivot accordingly.

@TheYoungGun444 Жыл бұрын

I mean that's what happens when you choose to work for someone. You CAN do your own projects and get creative outside of work. That's why I'm interested in this field

@MaeveEveam-jg7hh Жыл бұрын

How😼

@PianoOwl Жыл бұрын

At least you get paid well and can work remotely.

@JonathanSteadman2003 Жыл бұрын

If you dont get accepted in university. Whats the best way to become a software developer. Pls I wanna be a software developer. 😔

@loican861 Жыл бұрын

Every developer hates his job. It was expected.

@chaseatlanticfan6553 Жыл бұрын

wow tiktok is so decieving

@bhutchin1996 Жыл бұрын

Someone somewhere is saying, "These sound like First World problems to me." The thing to do, it seems, is take the money you make and invest it wisely and make passive income off it.

@Bercilakdehautdesert-yt1gd 3 ай бұрын

I went freelance 30 years ago, contractor here in the UK, after a spell working for an American software company. Since then I've worked with 40 different clients and the longest break I had was 3 months. I've done a calculation and had I stayed an employee and been promoted to a senior manager role, I would have earned 53% less take home over those 30 years. Anyone reading this and thinking about going for it - do it. Yes there will be days when you fear where the next pay cheque is coming from but those days are outweighed by the great ones, where you don't have to worry about your boss being a dick, the company going under, or having your meagre pay slashed, again.

@randomperson4683 3 ай бұрын

Well it spans even in other professions too, I'm an architect, instead of feeling like a wheel in a cog, I feel like we are juiced every bit of our creativity upto the last drop that there is no more creativity left for other stuff. Us working in a corporate feels the same. Funny coz, now I want to learn about software developers stuff because I feel like I can't let my creativity be more exploited, now I would like my analytical mind be exploited by learning this new stuffs lmao. We are opposite at the same time lol

@jjvs9 Жыл бұрын

you fell for the meme that a job is going to fill that existential void in your life of religion and meaning. and youre stuck in the illusion of progress and improvement. lol.

@chaseatlanticfan6553 Жыл бұрын

elaborate

@decoyoctopus3252 11 ай бұрын

oof

@danielkoontz6732 5 ай бұрын

A mindset change is necessary here. Many, many of the comments here are, "I'll take those golden handcuffs," and I say the same. I work as an automotive tech. If I could have a desk job, a job I'm not spending thousands of dollars on my own tools, not subject to labor time drops year after year, a job where I'm only made to work exactly 8-5 5 days a week, a job that doesn't have a stigma that everyone who works on cars or is employed by a car dealership is a thief... good gravy, I'll take those golden handcuffs. As Jeremy Clarkson says, "could be worse."

@TheManFormz Жыл бұрын

That’s why I want to start my own business as a software developer and hire people!

@omarbenladen8710 Жыл бұрын

thank you for being honest

@dseanhd Жыл бұрын

Even though I never had a job in my life. I learnt how to code because I thought it would be cool to build my own projects and I enjoyed it. Glad you don't tell us BS and tell us how it actually is

@StEvUgnIn Жыл бұрын

Bosses should pay developers

@fcff28 Жыл бұрын

I can take being a cog in a machine. Just not for 8h a day. Maybe like 5-6 :) Time is what matters most and it's finite.

@funhole26 Жыл бұрын

Would you suggest starting off in a company as a junior to get experience then if you want break off into free lancing, or just start right into free lancing so you never take the risk of wearing the golden cuffs? Thanks for the content!

@0x007A Жыл бұрын

It depends on your comfort level with uncertainty. By that I mean are you resourceful enough to be self-reliant when you encounter a problem, an issue, or a challenge during a project? Also can you survive between paid projects as a freelancer or do you currently need a steady income to reach a level of financial stability? One benefit of an entry-level or junior role is you have other people on the team of whom you can ask questions and from whom to learn directly or indirectly. You can always dip your toes into freelancing during your spare time, while working in a company full-time; never work on your freelance projects during your regular employee work hours.

@embow_o 6 ай бұрын

Voldemort! That you bro?

@embow_o 6 ай бұрын

😅

@indraxios 11 ай бұрын

Just join a startup bro.

@__sarik Жыл бұрын

Just as top g said, I am into software engineering because it brings me money(by the way, I also love problem solving and automatizing it)😅

@shadowhunter1345 7 ай бұрын

Ditto ! ❤

@invalidaccount2315 3 ай бұрын

the problem with the software industry is techbro entitlement, as a 37 yr developer the behaviour is out of control, quit hiring ppl under 30 they are not mature enough to handle both the responsibility and accountability needed to better society, there is no handcuffs, just lack of accountability, its is so bad getting hired is an excercize in futility, hr mommy is everywhere and will devalue any man, because her 18 yr old hs graduate needs to make 180./yr and spend 100 of it on diablo forget the men trying to raise families and lift others out of poverty, moar $$ for children who devalue and outsource you.

@tropabert4024 Жыл бұрын

Bro have problems, kaya mo yan

@ashuraartz1356 Жыл бұрын

wouldn’t h be able to im race your creativity by working on passion projects when ur not working? I mean after all ur being paid to work on something specific so u can’t really do what ever u want

@TheTrueAlphaBird Жыл бұрын

Gotta give it to him though, eminem speaking facts

@unknownsoul7043 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 i head alot of people talkong, "oh do the work and do something outside of work thats fun", only problem with that is, you cant, i consumes your entire world, thats why people are bruned out, think we are dumb? Cmon, if work finished at the end of the day and nothing else until the beginning of the work day, nobody would complain at a programmer, bra, you literally have to work 24 hrs tf you guys think

@ElmirHamidli 7 ай бұрын

What if I want to build AI and stuff.

@Goose2008. Жыл бұрын

She is litterly wishing us Ramadan on her Instagram story.. Roman is her alter ego and not some demon

@yassinmokni8652 11 ай бұрын

Go build your stuff, a lot of it, until it ticks

@vincentbuscarello1357 Жыл бұрын

Dog you working at the wrong place

@silentlyhit1462 Жыл бұрын

Ahh I need a software web devloper for my work , anyone interested????

@petrbelohoubek6759 Жыл бұрын

You quited because you now have stable income from youtube :D :D :D

@ignitiousseabi5314 Жыл бұрын

True, people always talk negative after their bellies are full, it's really not necessary against people who are fighting to leave the bottom of the food-chain!

@karolnowosad9765 Жыл бұрын

IMO you started complaining too much. I just remind you that majority of population are manual labour without even a slightest opportunity for improvement. 2 billion people don’t have access to fresh water, more than 37% never used internet (not because They didn’t want to) and there’s you in your cozy home office moaning about being a small gear for 6 figures 😂

@Smartify05 20 күн бұрын

Why does he look like hitman 😅(agent 47)

@thomasparkes5707 10 ай бұрын

Whoa you look like Stephen wonderboy Thompson

@mongi244 7 ай бұрын

True

@GT-tj1qg 6 ай бұрын

This is very over-cut

@magnefficientgaming4327 10 ай бұрын

why you learn game dev

@TwoBitJoe 8 ай бұрын

Agent-47

@tripnation9659 7 ай бұрын

Man wants to start selling courses

@centripetal6157 Жыл бұрын

The fact that you started a KZfaq channel... Kind of shows that you wanted to do something else. Most programmers don't do social media or entertainment stuff. They just code.

@MoonOvIce 11 ай бұрын

A lot of programmers I know play video games.

@FR4M3Sharma Жыл бұрын

This is why I'm getting myself into Reverse Engineering old PS1/PS2 titles to port them to other platforms. It definitely makes me finish my work as soon as possible so I can learn Reverse Engineering and game dev with Assembly.