Take it from me there's time to improve your life but it might not be easy and it's probably not going to happen overnight.

You can achive alot in just 4 years, if you are in your 20s, 30s 40s or even 50s. I found a good job, bought a nice house, found a wife and now expecting a child. Never give up!!

Never underestimate the power of discipline.

I loved how you worded that, “money, solves a lot of problems.” I hate that saying “money doesn’t buy happiness,” but you know what it does buy, less problems or not having to worry about making ends meet, and that equals happiness to some of us! If you ever grew up poor or struggled you know money buys you less worry, less stress. Only people with a lot of money say it doesn’t buy happiness because they don’t even know what makes them happy, so of course it wouldn’t work for them. Those of us who grew up without it however…

I'm almost 60 and I'm still trying to get my life together.

If only it was that easy to find a 'good partner'. I'm 33 and just about to buy my first place on my own literally next week. As much as I'd love a good partner, nobody should wait around for one. These things can be achieved alone.

I'm kind of the opposite. I was a great kid in school, joined the Army at 18, had my Bachelor's degree by 24. Had 2 career jobs that paid well. Then I hit 30 and now at 32 I'm in the worst place I've ever been in in life and feel like quite the loser. Trying to turn it back around, but it hasn't been easy. This year was first time I ever had a negative bank balance and first time I ever went two consecutive months without employment. Reflecting and watching this video, I realize I stopped doing a lot of the things I really focused on and pushed for before. I got complacent and kind of gave up for a couple years, just existing and not living. Spending more than I needed to as well. But I used to be so good at adulting when I was younger. :| Need to get back

I'm 35 now, my 20's were a complete waste, from blowing up a good job in banking I had back there it just went downhill all the way to rehab for cocaine adiction. I lost everything, the little shit I got left I got together 3 years ago and started learning to code by myself, just relentlessly grinding and learning non stop til this day. I was hired last january to a Senior Fullstack Developer role, the pay was so good that I could leave Brazil and lots of those bad memories that still haunted me. Now I'm living in Canada, still working remotly for this Brazilian company and trying to land a job here in Canada. So YES, everyday is a new day to get your shit together, a thousand mile journey begins where one stands, so don't give up guys!

As someone who is in their 30's with a similar story it's really refreshing to see another delinquent getting their life together.

I had suicidal pangs due to depression and that's when quit my last job at the age of 35 and since then - for a year now - I have been freelancing on things like content writing and subtitling in English and German (as I cleared my intermediate certification recently). I had decided I won't go back to the BPO jobs I was into. While freelancing I started consuming more and more content on things like Content Marketing and Coding. That's when Python happened to me. At 36, I am doing a Python Bootcamp and also learning things on Blockchain. From being in total shit at 35 to being someone and with childlike curiosity at 36, I have learned one important life lesson - IT IS NEVER TOO LATE And THIS is precisely why I can relate to you and your channel a lot man. Great going!

Im 30, Brazilian, broken... Just quit my job and now I have nothing, but I believe in myself e I know I will overcome

from astronaut to doctor to teacher to plumber to programmer this man is so motivated 🤣

This video came at perfect timing. Thanks for sharing I can relate especially with sacrificing good relationships as collateral damage while learning to code and distancing from bad relationships

bro I feel this. I’m 23 and finally accepting that I may have to do some things I never wanted to do in order to overcome poverty. no shame to anyone still trying to figure this thing out. take that job that pushes you out of your comfort zone, save that extra cash. lots of us are in the same boat

I can relate to your upbringing almost entirely. I turned 29 this March and I'm looking to get my ish together. Thanks for uploading this.

Hey Dorian, really appreciate the authentic and helpful content you're putting out there man. I'm turning 30 this year and sometimes feel like I've wasted a large portion of my life, but for opposite reasons (always doing what I'm supposed to do, rarely what I feel a calling to do). I quit my job last year and am learning finally learning to code, but it's hard not to let the comparison game get me down sometimes. I often find your videos to be a good cure for that toxic 'comparing' mindset. Keep doing what you're doing man, there are people out there that really benefit from your story and perspective.

Respect to you man.... It takes courage to share the hardships. Kudos to you. This is inspiring.

I really like the way you approach to the problem, in a world where everybody is a winner in social media, seeing a person that can say "I'm a loser and I got a job and got to be successful" Is something that is really inspiring. Thanks.

Dude I love that you're reaching out to other guys who struggle. I was a goddamn TWEAKER. Needles and everything. Homeless. Pushing the cart. No lie. Whacked out of my mind. 15 years later, I work in a cardiac cath lab, making just about 6 figures or close to it, depending on how much extra I work. I'm saving to buy properties and I'm on my way to financial freedom with a plan. Change is slow and sometimes unnoticeable. It comes with SETBACKS. But guys, it comes. It happens. All you have to do is start with something small and build on that success. You're better than you think, guys

Your videos have been a huge source of inspiration to me lately. I'm 33 and even though I haven't messed up as much as you did - in terms of drugs or going to jail - I also feel like my 20's were a total waste of life! I was trying, but from a more experienced perspertive, now I see that I absolutelly wasn't trying hard enough. Not even close to it. To find motivation to start over after more than 10 years doing basically nothing to improve is reeeeally hard. The feeling is (or at least was) that there was no way that there was still any perspective for me in this life. And now I've been studying code everyday as I was gonna die tomorrow. Something I should've already started doing many years ago, considering I'm enjoying it so much. I'm really grateful that you choose to share not only the perks, but also all of the shit you've been through and how you managed to overcome all of that. Thank you!

Just wanted to say your channel is a goldmine for people who are trying to change their life especially if your in the beginning throws of learning code. Thanks for sharing your life.

I found you by accident,but I stayed because I'm at the stage that you were at. And I really love what you had to say. Nearly all the improvement videos on KZfaq exclude 30 YO as if life is over at that age. I really appreciate you making this. Thank you.

This video definitely encouraged me to take on what I'm facing right now. Thank you.

That is exactly what I needed right now. Thanks Dorian

Always appreciate the honesty you give us.

I needed this. You’re so underrated, wish you continual success 🤞🏻

Thank you for sharing your journey and keeping us from falling victim to the negative artifacts of conformity!

Thank you for this. Stumbled by this cause of your google certification video. Glad to have been curious enough to click this video.

Wow 👌🏿 👏🏿, I like what you said" stop doing things that waste time"

Thank you 🙏🏼. The boost I needed to carry on.

I am working every day on coding and I really want to make my life better. Your videos are very valuable. They are helping me to keep my path towards my goals. Thank you so much for sharing all these thoughts!

I am grateful to have come across your videos on personal development- I am 31 years old right now, but your videos offer alot of hope and insight on how I can avoid making mistakes in my 30s and how I can make my 30s even better than my 20s!!

Keep the good work dude!!! Your story is amazing and so inspiring. Also the real experience which you share here on KZfaq is priceless.

Got linked to your channel from Fireship. Your an absolute inspiration dude. Keep killing it.

well said. I've been learning how to code for 5 years now on the side and I just recently got a job. Battling with how to handle relationships because I love hanging out with friends but I know I should focus on this career if I want to get better. and some relationships have to be sacrificed for a better future even if they are healthy ones.

This was phenomenal! Thank you so much for this. Please feel free to make more videos like this.

thenks for this one dorian!!! from argentina, i keep watching your channel! 😊😊

I'm from Brazil and I want to thank you for sharing it man... I'm trying to put my shit together and this video came as a inspiration. Thanx m8!

You have a very authentic realness to you! Thank you for sharing!!!

Thank you so much, you have given me so much hope. I know now because of you and your videos codeing is not for me. I am an outside guy, i cant sit in front of a comouter for hours even if its fun.You have given me a push to start my own thing.

I really don't know how to put my thoughts into words together but I just wanted to say thank you for your down to earth life advice. With a lot of patience and a lot of hard work there isn't anything you can't achieve. Wish all of you get the strength you need to reach your life goals and dreams.

Dorian, I just want to say thanks. I'm learning a lot from you and hearing it from someone who made it out of a tough situation makes me feel more confident that I can also be successful one day. I hope you continue uploading this kind of content as it boosts my morale (I think the others as well). Have a great day!

The important thing for me, besides all you said in this amazing video, is to get to know yourself better and don't punish yourself when you fail, recognise your patterns and try to improve the situation, one step at the time. If your direction and mentality is right you'll get where you want to be.

An hour-long subscriber, thank you for the valuable life lessons and tips, I genuinely enjoyed watching the whole video.

Thank you so much Dorian, I'm 31 now and I'm learning JavaScript, HTML, CSS and after that React because I want to be frontend developer and this kind of videos help me a lot to never give up and just keep on coding one day I'm going to achieve my goal to be Freelance, thanks a lot bro!!

And now you are inspiring people. Thank you !

Thank You for making this video.

Thanks a lot, Dorian. I really enjoy your videos. Keep doing what you doing.

Very inspirational, I'm 38 now and been working to fix my life for the past 4 years Thanks for the encouragement your helping a lot of people keep it up[

seeing guys like this gives me a lot of inspiration. right now im without a job, thinking about changing careers after my doctorates and sometimes i think i have no hope in my future, then you find this video, and you start thinking again and maybe I will make a change.

I'm from Italy, and I want to tell you with all my heart that, you are an example and motivate me so much, thank you and always keep it up!

Honest.Straightforward. Authentic. Thank you !

I'm so glad I found your channel. You sound exactly like me, it's great haha. Thank you for providing value to people that are on similar paths

One of the best video out there on KZfaq. Always real, hard-hitting and relatable. Thank you Dorian! Like I've mentioned earlier, my wife showed me your video and that pushed me strongly into coding. I am 6 months into this coding journey with a full time restaurant job from 4pm to 11:30pm. Yet, I always devote minimum of 6 hours everyday to learn coding after my hectic shift. My goal is to become a Web Developer before the end of 2022. Thank you again and good luck to everyone who's aspiring to become one!

Chapeau bas! That’s what I wanted to hear rn. Sometimes you doubt if it’s worth hassle and work harder than anyone else around you, and then a man like you is giving you a little bit of hope;) cheers

thank you so much. keep doiing this . giving us hope that we can turn around our life. blessings upon you

Hi Dorian, i appriciate your content a lot. It does help me out immensely as somone who is close to 30 and wasted life on drinks, smokes, drugs and video games. It feels great to relate to someone who got there already.

This type of videos help me a lot!!! Thank you for making these!!!

I tend to feel like I wasted my life, and I'm only 20 years old. I've been trying to get my life together slowly but surely. I love watching videos like these. I also stopped playin videogames. I just felt guilty playing games when I havent achieved anything meaningful yet. Hopefully when I become a software engineer, that achievement will make gaming actually fun again.

I am about to get 28 Dorian. I am also a loser. Your videos give me hope.

Loving your channel! I am a Brazilian that lives in U.S and just finished my marketing degree and decided to change the whole path and go to programming.

Dude! You are so amazing, thank you so much for all your advices! I'm in my 20's so your words are very value to me. Thank you so much for this video.

Bookmarking your video to watch it once a week, at least! Precious words.

So happy I stumbled upon this video. Thanks for the motivation!

Thank you! I get self destructive sometimes and lose motivation and discipline to do the things I know will be best for my future self. Actually hearing similar insights, helps me to grow. I’ve never been around people who see this way. It’s always been near sided, nobody wants to put the effort in giving up when shit gets hard. Or peeps that just have a mask on at all times who don’t realize how important goals are. Didn’t learn until i wanted to get my head out of my ass that you become the people you surround yourself with. Thank you Dorian

You are actually awesome! Thanks for sharing😊

Thank you man soo much, i was stuck in youtube and videogames loop that i couldn't star coding, so thank you so much for that man. Now im back in track!

Right on point ☝️ Glad that you are alive man

Amen, preach it Brother! It's not gonna come to you, you have to go get it! You also hit the nail on the head, don't hang around toxic people, and surround yourself with people who are also trying to better themselves!

Thank you Dorian I just recently stumbled upon your channel and just wanted to say your videos have been inspirational and motivating for me. I spent my 20’s just partying playing video games had a lot of odd jobs while wanting to do something with my life but lacked the motivation to do anything. Now that I’m 31 I FINALLY have the motivation to get into coding and turn my life around I want to be able to look back 10 years from now and say I’m glad I did this

I just want to say, watching this video was like hearing the hard truth with great advice from a friend who genuinely cares. Thank you Dorian.

So inspiring! Thank you! Definitely subscribed.

I definitely feel this I'm completely different from who I was in my mid 20's and younger. I'm almost 30 now and I just wanna kick myself for how much time I've wasted on video games, relationships and partying my whole life. Hate thinking where I could be right now if I knew back then what I know now.

This brought me value! Thank you!

It's really cool that you've done all that you have & do all that you do, on top of what you already do for work, AND THEN also make videos for KZfaq that are actually really good quality. I don't think I could ever be that focused & determined & driven. It's really impressive. I just always been afraid to focus on anything because I don't want to lose my wider sense of things. Like, I've never done anything in particular because I've always wanted to do like... everything. Now I'm 31 going on 32 in 7 months and I have absolutely nothing to show for it. It's really defeating. Really defeating. I'm so swamped & behind on rent & bills right now. It's disgusting. Working dead end jobs, doing 60 to over 80 hours some weeks just to stay busy & have enough money to not worry about paying my bills or rent at the end of every week or month. It just gets so aggravating some times though. I've lost my cool a few times & knocked what little tower I had built down working such long hours and then found myself in a hole that I then had to dig myself back out of. This video & the shorter version came really close to really connecting with where I'm at & what I've gone through. I had a dual parent household, but I think I would have been better off in a single parent household and... so many other things. I never did anything bad but never really did much of anything at all beside trying to stay busy & not think about things. I never really had any body who cared & didn't really have the patience or see the point in putting a lot of time & money & effort into trying to go to school after high school because I didn't want to have to live at home so that I could afford to go to school while only working one job in order to be able to have the tike TO go to school. I don't know how I expected that to work out in the long run. I didn't really think about it. I guess I figured that so long as things were withstandable now, than they should be later. I never kept very high standards & never wanted to much either, and couldn't have afforded it anyway, so I didn't really mind or feel like I was missing out on too much. Well, let me tell you, ten or twelve years down the line here now I don't think I could be ANYMORE frustrated or bored or unfulfilled or disappointed than I am with myself & life than I am right now. But, like the sayings go, we often don't see how things could get any better when things seem good, but things can always be worse, no matter how bad they seem. That's not the perspective I want to have or keep, but those are phrases you often hear. I just feel so lost, man. I grew up in the middle of nowhere without even a little town & never had a lot of friends & so hustling of any kind wasn't really a thing I grew up around. I'm going to put in a few more applications today, but they're all for more dead-end jobs. Production & warehousing. Stuff I can hopefully do a bunch of overtime at & dig myself back out of this new hole I've dug myself into. I want to go at it with a different mentality now though. Like, I need to get out of this hole, but after that I really do need to put my money into things to make my self & life better. Things that are worth it & provide a little worth & value back. I can't tell you how much I hope that I can turn things around for myself in the next few years. The sooner the better. I would REALLY like to be making 100k sometime no later than between my 35 & 36th birthday. I'm a hard & smart worker who likes to do the best job that I can. It's just been one thing after another in life, man. It really isn't fair. I mean, some people are lazy or have bad intentions & don't deserve anything in my opinion, while then you have other who work hard & have good intentions but the world doesn't really help them if it doesn't also bury them in setbacks & obstacles. I'd like to do something like a skilled craft or trade, but I would also like to do something to help the world & people in general, like go to school for economics & sociology and/or psychology. Maybe even politics or policy making. The world is so screwed up & I often think the answers seem so simple. It's a mad, mad world. The good die young, man. The good die young. Thanks for this video & the shorter version. It felt personal & honest & really kind of helped. Fingers crossed. I wish a good life were as easy to have as cracking open the right fortune cookie. If all life were like that we would probably take it for granted. After a life without it, though, let me tell you, I'm pretty sure I would appreciate it now. Not having earned it, though, I would probably only end up ruining that life & ending right back where I currently find myself anyway, like I feel poor people who win big lotteries probably would or do. Most schooling, especially college, seems like just such a waste though. Semester style school years waste so much time & then they pack your course load with so many "fluff" classes that have nothing to do with your degree major or minor it just seems like such a waste of time & money & attention & effort. It's really, really frustrating & disheartening. I wish there were other options. Of course there are tech & trade schools or even apprenticeships. A lot of tech schools have bad reputations though, & trade schools & apprenticeships are by and large only for highschool kids or looking for kids freshly out of highschool. The same with colleges & universities. Like, it really should be easier for adults of any age to go back to school for anything, and it should be direct & efficient & affordable. Everyone wants to target the kids though. "Get them nice big loans they'll take half their lives to pay off. Forget anyone who didn't go to school right out of highschool." I feel we live in a rather disfunctional, crippling world. I wish I had the commitment & know-how to make my own KZfaq channel picking the world apart & talking to people about problems they have had in the world & life & other problems they feel & see in the world at large & talking about & researching why these problems exist, persist, and where they come from & what could be done about them & maybe even encouraging action to change things & taking those actions my/ourselves. The world really, really, REALLY needs to change, man. Really. Anyway, thanks for the video, man, it really hit home. Serious. Thanks for being personal & honest & open. We could use a hell of a lot more of that in the world.

So much of what you've said resonates with me. Thank you for this

You are a huge inspiration to me. Thank you for making this video and giving me hope.

Thank you a lot bro ! I'm using your videos not just for learning code things but for motivation too, and I'm also learning English and your way to speak help me to get better with my listening. You're a big referent to follow, hope you keep sharing with us all your knowledge And experience in live.

Thanks for this brotha. Inspiring story, especially since I see a lot of myself in your journey 🙏🏼

First minute sounds a lot to me 😄Now im 30, finishing university, starting to get things done, no more parties... hope it takes some similiar turn as you did

Thank you for posting this video. You are 10 years older than me and you sound exactly like I am right now today, I’m going to follow your advice and hopefully in 10 years I’ll be able to look back at today a completely changed man.

Thanks for the sharing Dorian. Really appreciate it.

Love a good comeback story. 🙏🏽

Thanks for this helpful video. It really hit home.😊

Thank you for giving me hope.

Thanks for making another self improvement video bro. Needed it so much 👊

Cheers man, great advice

This is very empowering! ✊🏾🥶

I'm 35 and while certain things like my career and housing are concrete, everything else is missing. Family and partner are non-existent. Friends all moved away or cut me out of their life. And some half baked hobbies that just act as money pits. Started an online business for side hustle too. Everything is so unfulfilled.

Damn i am going thru your pre success story. I have no social life its all about hustle and steps. In a year I'll be done with graduate school and I am hoping to see this change. My 3 jobs are getting me by without too much bills loans. I basically feel like right now I don't exist outside of my school or home.

One of the best motivational videos Ive ever seen and Im the type of person that searches for motivational videos on youtube from time to time

Great advice. Keep the content coming man.

This is so honest. Thanks man..

you are definitely my favorite youtuber about programming and life lessons💯

Thank you for telling some of your back story, it trully makes me feel better. I can relate somehow with many of the things u said.

Ur an insperation man ! Thanks for the content and opening up about ur personal life

That’s what I needed it, thanks.

Thank you for this video. I just subscribed and going to finish my coding course.

Love these reflective videos

As someone with a similar history and is now trying to become a dev at 27 your videos give me a lot of hope. Thanks!