Day in the life of a Software Engineer & YouTuber (NYC)

yeah so usually I start the day with some classical music but I promise it's not because I'm some pretentious douche it just helps calm the anxiety from you know having to wake up and [ __ ] so I use red Solo cups to drink cuz uh I just moved in all right I don't have cups I used to wake up with this childlike wonder and excitement but recently I feel like I kind of lost it so I'm trying to find it back urgently cuz you know what's the point otherwise oh yeah and I start the day with some workout well not really workout but you know all right I hope the view is pretty cool and uh next up I take my laptop so I would start by checking my calendar for any surprise meetings and just try to remember you know like what's going on usually I start work at home first and then I go into the office around noon cuz there's free food and when I do work from home I usually go eat lunch at the rooftop to get some air and sunshine which is probably something you need as well if you're you know watching this video and by the way if you like this sweater I'm wearing uh it's my merch frying pan. all right let's go to the office by the way I did make a new channel where I've been uploading Vlogs every single week so do check it out if you're interested in the non-coding stuff all right so it usually takes about 20 minutes for me to get to work I just take a Subway and it's a direct line these days I like to read on the subway cuz for some reason there's no internet between the stations so I'm reading the Elon Musk book on my phone but honestly I'm not much of a reader I used to do all my readings on spark notes in high school and my favorite book was holes but lately I'm trying to read against because my brain is getting rotted by Instagram reals someone needs to turn that [ __ ] off so here I'm eating my free lunch amazing free lunch and my coffee and then I start work all right so as you can see my work here is extremely adventurous and exciting I'm you know fighting dragons and [ __ ] in my head uh you know I seen some of these day in the life video comments like people complaining oh why aren't you talking about the code base what what the code bro I can't leak that [ __ ] like that's you know I'll get fired stop being so selfish okay but what I will say is I am on the security team working as a backhand software engineer I know a lot of people hype up back end over front end but honestly I always did full stack prior to this full-time position so I do kind of miss it and since it's the end of the year I'm doing my annual performance review currently where you essentially write the top accomplishments you did last year and I just joined three months ago so you already know I'm just so intelligent I already solved everything so I'm on track to be prom oted to CEO soon ice cream yum yum oh wow would you look at that the sun is down which means it's time to go home psych it's time to clock into my second shift so now I start working on my YouTube stuff and for that there's really infinite things to do I could either be hiring designers or editors or working with my editors since I'm doing weekly uploads right now or coming up with new ideas or filming but today I'm working on my merch store which is out by the way if You' like to support me you can check it out at frypan. please help my mental health is declining all right what a great productive day time to go now before I go I want to show you guys what I use to juggle between all of these different things more efficiently which is notion the sponsor of this video so as you guys know I have very high IQ but despite that sometimes I still have too many things to do at once and I need to write stuff down and I like to use notion AI to convert my to-do list into an actual plan and schedule and that's not something you want to do yourself right you want to spend your time your precious time on what actually matters which is what's in the plan so for example one thing I like to do is just write out a quick to-do list so you know you can just brainstorm a bunch of stuff and then you can just notion AI this into an actual plan and schedule right so you can just quickly write uh yo make this into an actual schedule and plan comma probably into a table you can always iterate on the changes afterwards so now I wasn't very specific right so it just like give me one day but I I want this like to be a week spread out through a week coding is every day because it's my job right there you go okay so boom now we have every day see so now it's like okay content creation but I wanted this to be more specific so like what exactly about content creation am I supposed to do each day so I can finish it by the end of the week be more more specific when splitting the tasks and usually I would write this for my coding stuff as well but I can't expose to you guys exactly what I'm coding at work so I'm like leaving that out if I had that in this too it would be very well put out you know my coding stuff separated and my content St separated I have all these things so I I need this if we look through this so we have Monday prepare next uh main Channel video short clips on Tuesday coordinate with sponsor with the Merch this is pretty good already you can always add stuff to this right if you have like a hangout on this day you can tell it to oce AI it's going to add it to the schedule so it's very flexible and I like to use it for my planning there's also many other things you can do with it like summarizing or modifying complete text notion itself is also a great tool for note taking I use it to track my job applications and I would take at school basically everything so you can get started with notion completely for free using my link below and if you want you can also unlock all the great AI features for just 10 bucks a month it's pretty great stuff all right now let's get back to the office so usually I would go to the gym at this time but today is Friday so I have some very important people to meet my ex meta intern friends are here in New York so we're going to go cook some dinner instead uh well actually they're going to cook the dinner I'm just going to eat but they tasked me to go buy some limes I have to Google what a lime is I only knew what a Citron was cuz in French we say CIT which literally means green Citron I don't know why you English people had to go invent a whole new word for this fruit it is unequivocally ridiculous your reactions for my merch is my merch good what the [ __ ] why are laughing this is so good I know that thank you thank you thank you thank you look so good right the beautiful meal I just cooked when TR cook when cooked great great everyone no I I brought the limes why did you need the limes course dude I didn't oh what the [ __ ] are for drinking so that's pretty much my Frid day I don't really go out that much except to eat at restaurants with friends and today I decided to to sleep over at my friend nang's place because I wanted to work on this video a bit so we were just grinding and talking until like 400 a.m. so a lot of you are probably like man this guy's life is kind of unhealthy how is he working so much well to be honest you're probably right but I just don't know what else to do at this point I feel like I'm so deep into both of my careers as both a software engineer and content creator I can't just give up either I'm not exactly sure what type of change I need to make but I'm sure I'll find that excitement again because I always have in the past

Channel: Frying Pan

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Id: Li7zNFmcULA

Length: 7min 41sec (461 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 24 2023