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College was when I realized that books are just like a user manual, it provides an abstract idea of whatever the fuck it is talking about and even give you some guidance on how to replicate, but it is never a learning material. Sadly, I learned that too late, but fortunately, It was how I got into programming.
Core idea: “Anything is learnable, nothing is out of reach as long as you just sit down, be patient, and read from the beginning”. And also you’ll learn nothing at Microsoft.
Microsoft internships / work is hit or miss. I did an internship there the past summer and was extremely satisfied with the work I did for my level of experience. The opportunity I got for next summer also made it all the more worth it to get to work on HoloLens/mixed reality at Microsoft which is honestly a dream job for me and all I could ask for while still being in college
This guy went to a good university in USA knowing 100x less than I do in 21 yo (I'm 17) whereas I may not be able to go to shitty university in Russia.
"You cant control the outcome of your dice rolls but you can control what dice you use " that was a booster on my motivation, really got inspired to get more focused on my goals, best quote I heard in a while...
Very nice! A quote by Louis Pasteur that has helped me & mine: "Chance favors the prepared mind." So don't forget when you're out there in the grind to do some stuff for yourself...
I’ve been a dev for 17 years now. I got a job as a tester at a tax software company. My first coding experience was a little vbscript I wrote to map network drives for the ops team, and the company made me an automation developer a couple days later having NO IDEA how to code. If you’re half intelligent and tenacious about learning, you can code
@@duyviet5801 Sometimes you don't apply half of what you learnt in school in actual jobs, that because the job usually requires you to learn their code or other syntaxes that is required.
coding is different from other fields in that you really have to be all-in, learn everything, practice all the time to keep your skill up. its not like going to college to be a teacher. you just gotta know the stuff. most colleges dont prepare you well for an overall career. - ya gotta do that in your offtime, outside of class. Or even before you go to college.
@@scorch4299 and that is the most stressful thing if you consider it properly. For your career, HIGH salary, you need to be doing what 99% are not. Missing out on people, parties, good social life... That's more of a life of a loner actually. I was i guess wtih a group one time, i've enojoyed is way more than being alone and it's harding pushing onward, but sometimes you level up with a company and sometimes alone. like at one point it becomes just so sad because you are literally sacrificing days months and years of your life to be able to make a living and be happy financially, that you dont realize there is more to life than just working. Travelling is a huge stress reliever imo, calms mind and soul, making friends and going all out on travels -with hard earned money makes it worth it tho. Better than spending out miserable days working for low income salaries live pay check to paycheck. anyway, the hardest part is optimizing your every day and routine. make it fun, make it enjoyable, anything you learn or advance on it, market it, promote yourself with it, get even higher earning jobs, open side business with someone who is willing to put in the hours and needs capital, be partners, after awhile quit the jobs, work on employing people to make money for you, travel, enjoy, get laid, order a cocktail, put your legs on the table and relax boss
This doesn't just apply to coding. If you get a job in accounting and you have dismal skills you'll learn on (and off) the job. Get a construction job and you'll learn how they do things unique to them. JUST APPLY FOR THE JOB!!! Even if you don't know everything about it, sometimes they just need a warm body to train to fit.
“Everyone is as clueless as I am” I literally came to this thought a couple weeks ago. Just repeating it to myself helps me take more confident actions and reassures myself that I can actually do stuff that people have done. Thanks for sharing Joma!
Great video. I need help guys. I like to do programming but I don't have laptop or desktop I have my tablet with me so can you tell me how to start my programming my tablet. Is someone can help me can you reply my comments. Actually I need good application to do that. I did research but I didn't found good application to do that please help to start programming.
I found this quote, I'm also like you, need more confident. "If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Don't overestimate the competition, and underestimated your self. You are better than you think."
"The things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other, often actually complement each other, surprisingly" This! and nothing else. When you're a bit of a generalist and you learn many different things it gives you a depth of perspective. The word "surprisingly" is key, because you're constantly surprised at how applicable seemingly distant knowledge turns out to be. Thanks for making this, I enjoyed watching. You're wise, more success to you my friend.
You probably won't see this Joma, but don't sell yourself short! Your help with the Nessie code was highly valuable, and we couldn't have achieved the paper deadline schedule we did without your help! You absolutely deserved your picture on it, and I'd gladly put it there a second time! :)
I have been coding for 20 years, and had my quota of lows and highs, but at the end I am happy where I'm at this moment. Thanks for the great work, and to anyone just starting and even to the not so young crowd, follow Joma's advice of keeping rolling the dice!
Big inspiration to me that you didn't start coding until college. I'm going into my sophomore year, seeing all my friends with 5+ years of coding experience has been a little demoralizing -- like it's too late for me. But not at all! Thank you Joma! Love your vids
I don't really agree with this. I think it's more like we know what we are doing is almost always shitty, I.E. we are always aware that we should have solved the problems in a better way (but we didnt have time / didnt know better when we started solving it / eveyone around us wants us to focus on something else / etc)
@@linusjoensson8219 Fuck I can relate. I started working on my MERN stack project with only knowledge about react useState and useRef and not other hooks. I did my the project with just these hooks. But as I am progressing I started discovering other hooks and it could make my project a whole lot better but I just can't refactor my codes cause I don't have time for it. But surely I will do it in my next project.
Completely disagree with you. 37 years now, and nothing gives me problems coding at the enterprise level. Just remember to leave your ego at the door, and take constructive criticism.
"Work is just work, your technical abilities and your expertise don't matter as much as you think, what matters more is your grit and got stuff done, just be a doer and make things you are proud of and the rest will come" - Joma 2021
In truth, this video touched me very much, we all seek happiness, we all seek to be happy with what we love. Few people have the joy of working what they love. I feel super happy because you are walking your dreams and super happier because you are sharing it. I studied Visual Arts and since the pandemic I have started studying Programming, when I was 40 years old. Good vibe Seinsei.
"One of the best skills to work on in your life is the ability to be self-aware and understand yourself just like coding sports or video games it all comes down to practice the more you work on trying to understand yourself the more you'll be literate in your own emotions and having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions" - Joma 2021
I'll be *that pedantic comment people hate* and point out that: Not everyone is born with the same inclinations, tendencies, intelligence etc. BUT do not mistake "self" with "what I like and don't like" or "how I behave for the last year". You might be depressed, but depression is not "you". There are also periods in life where you may be more open to new things than normally. Explore more, what you put in your brain shapes your personality and character. People make the mistake of thinking that their mood, taste, likes and dislikes are immutable throughout their life, and think that what they want to do now will stay the same. What we're fundamentally are is our biological makeup. The fact that this gets shaped through our experience is proof that it's more malleable than you think. And it keeps changing even past your 50's. But you're still yourself.
"You cant change the outcome on the dice,but you can change the dice... Work on yourself,Increase the possiblity of success" - Joma tech,One of the best quotes heard in a while
Hello, I'm just got into cs and coding .I really want to know about these courses. Can you tell me when you joined the course (like are you a student or professional now)
I am 40 years old and have no background in coding. Im currently just watching freecoding videos on TH-cam to learn python. Do you think a beginner like me can understand those courses at google?
Dude I loved this. I’m a 35 year old welder. Ready for change and have always been interested in programming. I had this weird veil of feeling like I’m too old or too late with these 10 year old computer geniuses. I needed some motivation. Thanks 🤙
i love this video - i am just 3 years into my university education and starting my masters and it is just very interesting to hear more experienced people talk about stuff
hey man, i'm older, and been a dev for a long time but what you are saying still applies to me. my path was way different. i never sat around and didn't have shit to do! but the lessons learned, that you speak about, bring down the anxiety, for real, i think that at all levels everyone feels the same shit about not knowing this, or that, in a job description. when you learn to learn, then stuff becomes abstractions. like, everything is an API. thanks for the good content!
I started coding and it was a love hate. Thought I didn't have to do it anymore as I switch interests but they all had a bit of coding involved. Until I enrolled into IT I just realized how coding just keeps finding a way back in my life.
Well I'm on the edge to "quit" coding and instead focus fully on cloud engineering. There's so many various ways of writing code that it simply becomes too much of an obstacle to work with people that does things differently, in my case people that are old-school and don't wanna learn new technology or tools.
personally I was pessimistic about online class due to covid and I was right assuming it would be more compliance than actual learning any curriculum will have general subs (like math in comsci)take up most of your work so you can't "just want to code" but if like me you enjoy some gen subs it will be bearable and it gets credited which is helpful when moving to a better university if you don't have the money for college you could always do Joma Class or free courses on youtube honestly learned a lot more on my own and picked up 3D graphics, virtualization, and azure because I wanted to learn so depending on your situation and your will to learn you can go the distance
I graduated as a naval engineer and worked as a journalist before I jumped into my master. Now I am clueless and unemployed. Even whenever I wonder to go back to my engineer field, imposter syndrome occurs. Now I'm learning data science and programming again which I learnt from my degree as a minor subject. I thought I was lost, but after seeing this video, it reminds me that we can only connect our lives backwards. We should dismantle the illusion of continuity. Thanks for sharing your experience, Joma.
Thanks for sharing this with us, Joma. The other day I was talking to a mentor of mine who helped train me as a project engineer at my current job. One day I told him I was not fulfilled with my current job even though at this point I’ve moved up quickly in the company. His response was discouraging and surprising, as I was hoping to hear something inspirational like in your video. Great job with great money, but it just wasn’t for me. Now I’m changing careers, to chase my dreams and continue rolling the dice.
For whoever which is currently studying in CS or getting frustrated in the middle of their way of whatever you wanna do and doing, keep going, you're not alone to struggle :)
I just love you. Couldn’t think of a better summary to describe my feeling of joy when watching your videos. I’m a Typescript SE myself and started working in 2012. Keep it up!
"One of the best skills to work on in your life is the ability to be self aware and understand yourself. The more your work on trying to understand yourself the more you become literate in your own emotions, and having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions." Joma
"In the end work is just your work. Your technical abilities and your expertise don't matter as much as you think. What matters more is your grit and just if you can get stuff done. So just be a doer and make things you're proud of and rest will come." that really inspires me
Yeah it's just about doing, everything else, failure, success, that one bug that's taking you 200 hours to fix, ect, everything else besides "doing" is but a tool for you to "do" even more, and better. Taking on such a mindset is perhaps not universally effective, but it's one way to get far in life.
Thanks a million Joma for this amazing and inspiring piece. This is very much what I needed. I appreciated every bit of what you said, especially when you talked about being recruited as a software engineer meanwhile you've not being coding for some time back then. I can totally relate to that, being in that exact same situation right now. The imposter syndrome just kills me every time I think about my new job because I just feel like there's so much stuff I have to catch up with and it's so hard bearing these feelings. Anyways, thanks for that relieving statement you said : "Anything is learnable, as long as you sit back, read and practice."👌🏻👌🏻 Just guess I have to be patient with myself and actually take a step at a time on this dreadful journey😅
"the things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other often actually complement each other, surprisingly" - i love that! im always worried because there's so many things i'm doing at once that i'm not sure if i'll be able to have one whole combination of everything but i just hope everything will turn out well in the future. thank you!
I am so happy to see this video. I taught myself two years ago amd the last week I got two interviews and did pretty well. Now, this week will be my final interview for both tech companies. I am hoping to be chosen and start my life as software engineer and start my youtube channel and them grow from there. I am currently finishing built my online learning plateform to teach people frontend and backend development. Thanks Joma. I let you know the next week
@@TheMrchickenman63 thanks I am currently focusing ontheir stack while learning docker on the side. I am very happy to finish the new year with an amazing job. Thanks for your support too
Thanks Joma for the inspiration, it's been a pretty rough few years, I hope to persevere through the next few and succeed, although it's hard to when you feel lost
Bro, I feel so happy and motivated with the things you said and quoted. Im at my first job in Europe where all my job life ive been in Argentina and I sometimes really feel the pressure and the burnout, but this videos keep me very focus and motivated. I thank you for all the time, experience and dedication you put in each one and please keep doing it because as you help me, you help a lot of people. Cheers Joma, you are awesome
11:04 I've been thinking about this for the past week. The problem is that I am too self-aware. I can't stop beating myself up over the mistakes that I make resulting from my flaws, defects, shortcomings. It's a good thing, however, that I realize my mistakes and I analyze them, I try to learn from them. I ask myself what went wrong and why. I think everybody can do this, but some choose to sweep it under the rug. Being able to acknowledge your weaknesses and then combatting them is, while definitely scary, a necessity in order to progress. Last night, for the first time, I created a new text file and just brainstormed all of my thoughts in an attempt to organize/structure them because they became too many to handle. This is just the beginning of my journey, I guess. As they say, knowing the problem is half of the solution. I am slowly learning to better understand myself and what I want. I hope this will make me do things that I won't regret later on. Even if it was just a mere coincidence, this video popped up at the right time for me. Right now my mind is a bit of a mess but I have to power through and sort it out. I'm certain that I'm going to be in a much better spot after all this is done.
Try writing down your thoughts. Also, learn how self - worth works and practice self compassion. Making mistakes means learning and growing. Its not a mistake - it’s a feedback.
Thanks I was like depressed for last 2 or 3 weeks and I didn't know where to go or what to do, but this video - it just woke me up. "It's not about getting 6 in dice with first roll, it's about rolling the dice until you get 6" - this is the best thing that I've heard in my entire life thank you Joma, keep going on I wish you a lot of luck with the youtube channel And, you know, be happy!
Hey Joma Tech, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. This year has been incredibly tough for me-I didn’t make it into one of the top CS bachelor’s programs in Europe, and I’ve been struggling to find a job. But your content has been a huge inspiration during these challenging times. Your videos remind me that setbacks are just part of the journey and that perseverance is key. I may have hit some bumps along the road, but I’m not giving up. I’m going to keep pushing forward, learning, and growing, and one day, I know I’ll reach my dream job as a software engineer at Google. Thanks for being such a motivating force in my life. Keep up the great work!
I'm watching this in one of my worst times since years ago. I just want to say "thank you". As a developer, as a human being who can't find his way of success, or achieve anything awesome yet, this has been pretty refresher.
I'm one semester away from graduating from CS, in an internship on a nice company and I got the offer to continue here. I was thinking I was set up for success, but I had the lingering thought in my mind if this is really what I want to do. Thanks for your words, now I know I'm not alone, and I just have to continue doing what I'm doing: doing stuff, building good stuff.
I felt the last part especially hard “..because successful outcomes, in the end, are pretty much luck. If you want to succeed it's a numbers game like rolling the dice. So keep rolling the dice. You can't control the outcome of your dice rolls but you can control what dice you use and the more you work on yourself the more the dice become weighted to your advantage, so eventually you'll hit JackPot! 🎰 ..as long as u keep rolling the dice you'll archive success, whatever that means for you, specifically” 🎲 That resonated very well with me and it reminded me of an Albert Einstein quote which reads “God does not play dice” I guess you can see why and the analogy is pretty obvious but in case you don't get it let's put it like this: See, in the way that people ultimately improve themselves by constantly evoluting themselves and becoming a better version of themselves, learning and thriving on the knowledge and enjoyment of creation due to constant effort and actual realness I feel like man / woman / humanity in itself and one themselves can find a spark of divinity and therefore becoming a part of God or the conscious/ness of God, becoming ultimately not only able to change their individual fate but (possibly), by chance rolling the dice so much and so often and reiterating themselves that they can change the fate of an / their entire species and (possibly) create new meaning and life entirely..Out of nowhere, just like that
I’m a senior math and data science major, and I’m looking at a CS grad program. This video both adds to and decreases some of my fears! So much jargon that I don’t know, but also I agree with what you say “nothing is unlearnable”. Thanks for the video!
This video is amazing ! it gave me a different perspective on goals in life and how it changes over time base on the different jobs you work at. More so, once the pandemic happen a shift happened for everyone and things they had went away. School, Work, Car, College ect. In addition, working at odd jobs just to keep the bills paid and humbling your self to find individuals to help you while you’re struggling helps you understand different people and how they can help you find what you really want in life. Lastly, like you mentioned in the video jobs that you’re not really interested in somehow tied to the job or jobs that interest you by working really hard at learning it and asking God for guidance and understanding for the next chapter in life. Thank you my dude, continue to stay blessed in the faith !
"as long as you sit down and learn FROM THE BEGINNING." Just like people trying to learn Deep Learning while asking how to install python on Stack Overflow.
"The things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other often actually complement each other." That words really give me the inspiration to start working on the athlete motion analysis, since I am a zealous basketball fan and I learnt data science.
Contents like this are helpful, Thank you. This is just a definition of my journey, I tried coding many times as an Engineer, worked as a banker, I am a professional photographer and I am currently a Software Engineering student at ALX and I will be running my youtube channel full time before or once I graduate by the grace of God, I believe all my skills and experiences will converge soon. Thanks
Merci Joma! 🙏 You have such an inspiring life! Honestly, thank you for inspiring me to become a software engineer for big tech companies and start making videos to help young French engineers in their career 🇫🇷💙 you had ups and downs like everyone but got stronger each time. Your success is well deserved! Bravo 👏
@@MinistalGamer Non je n’ai pas de discord désolé, je viens tout juste de commencer TH-cam🐣 j’essaie déjà de me focus sur ça et de trouver l’équilibre avant d’être actif sur d’autres réseaux 🙃 hésite pas à mettre des commentaires, j’y repondrai directement ou ferai des vidéos pour aider d’autres gens 😉
You have no idea how much you reach people out there man... I'm from Brazil and I follow your work for a while, every time I feel grateful for one day watching a random video of yours
Wow, this message arrived at just the right moment when I was feeling low. Although I'm still in the early stages of my career, it sometimes feels like I haven't accomplished much. Yet, your message emphasizes the importance of being proactive in pursuing my goals. Thank you for being so inspiring Joma.
Thanks for the tip joma, I thought I was doing it all wrong, I have been a software engineer for almost 5 years now and I really felt like you just removed all my anxiety and stress with trying to figure out where my career could go in the future. knowing that people ahead of me with their Programmer or IT experience have been. I was in the right track and the right mindset all along.
I am also a SE and I feel proximity with your learning path, "work is just work", "be self-aware to make better decisions", "be proactive to achieve what you want", "show results" this is ultimately good lessons for life: understand that we need balance, know ourselves better and chase what we want for living with quality regarding our dreams. And it's true what they usually say, soft skills are more required than anything else, because everything else you can easily learn (with time) and it will probably be enough to do you work. You can be an expert, but if you are an asshole who doesn't know how to work in a team, you will probably be excluded from the project or even the company. Show passion and being proactive will also push you forward in you career, if you have the right people checking on you, they will notice and you will be rewarded somehow, recognized by your own value.
"The more you work on trying to understand yourself, the more you'll be literate in your own emotions. And having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions" - Joma
"You can't control the outcomes of your dice rolls but you can control what dice you use and the more you work on yourself the more the dice become weighted to your advantage" ~ JOMA
Best video yet! Thank you for making this. I can relate on so many levels. I was a pharmacist turned digital marketer then i picked up some coding and now am exploring web3 and nfts. I believe every stage, related or not has played an integral part in helping me get where am I and I’m loving and trusting every step of that way!
Sounds like you've had quite myriad of Interesting experiences, never would've have thought from watching your videos. I've come across the channel via some of satirical clips that were trending, and never seen those early coding videos. Love the fact that you acknowledge luck as factor in your success (multiple times), not to diminish the importance of hard work of course. So few people even mention luck as if it would somehow belittle their intellectural capabilities. Even though everyone knows, for every opportunity we got in life, there were probably 10 other people who worked just as hard (if not harder) and just as qualified and perhaps more deserving as we would be, but somehow the wind was blowing in the right direction for us. Love the new pivot with the channel, keep up the good work!
"The more you work on trying to understand yourself, the more you'll be literate in your own emotions - and having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions." - Joma 2021 Wow, spitting wisdom here. Thank you for this, Joma. I came here for the laughs, but left with the feels.
In the past I've been fired, I've failed important interviews and I've worked jobs that were pretty bad. Now I see that all of that was an integral part of the fulfilling software engineering career I have today. I know it feels bad now, but in the future it will feel like an essential detail in a much bigger story. Keep it up m8!
@@invictuz4803 been working with software development for 12 years now. I'd say that been very happy with were I was at started around the 5th/6th year lol (much happier now than then, though)
As I'm applying for internships this seems to be so relevant. The experience you need for software jobs is almost entirely gained through actual working. School has taught me what i need to be successful when learning new engineering concepts but in no way did it train me for what its gonna be like the day i sit down at my own desk and start writing code.
@@flashv4941 i agree i always feel like its such an open ended field, no one can possibly learn everything yet the more you understand it at a fundamental level the better you are at it i guess. I still have a long way to go 😅
It's not the luck, it's the hard work that gives you the success. I was turned down quite a few times when I first started going professionally in high school, these days, my resume does all the work for me. Not everybody can be a programmer, you have to have that mindset.
@@MrRizzyWizzy hardworking is necessary but not sufficient, there are millions like you and I that work hard or even harder but dont get what they want because they didn't see the same opportunities in life
@@kemijarks You make a lot of your opportunities and you have to be able to step outside your comfort zone, or you'll just be a hard worker with nothing to show for.
Still in my first year. Started my development journey at the cusp of the pandemic, so this was super insightful. There was a brief mention of grit. I honestly don't think I could be where I am at this point without it.
I absolutely agree with you on so many levels. As a person transitioning from a regular paid job to do something entirely different from scratch. It takes immense amount of courage to stare at the unknown and keep going.
Im a software developer , and I am in office watching this video. It inspire me and thinking what I want to be and how to improve my programming skills as I am not CS major in the past. Thanks for making this video to inspire programmers in the world. btw I graduate from UWaterloo too :)
Joma, you certainly have a lot to be proud of and have accomplished quite a lot in 10 years. However, I could have done without you looking into the camera and repeating "I own you. All of my effing life I own you" for as long you did.
Very inspiring. In my 3rd year of college, want to go into a career in finance (economics major but I was very into CS in high school), and the internship process is seriously stressing me out. I’ve been applying and doing virtual interviews since March and I have yet to receive an offer. I’ll have spurts of disappointment and almost depression because of the success that I see around me and I’ve been close to quitting before because it’s discouraging to receive rejection after rejection. I thought I wanted to go down this path but I really don’t know what I want or even what I like (I seem to be indecisive that way). This video definitely gave me some much needed confidence and hopefully things start looking up soon career-wise.
I’m on the other spectrum. Graduated with an applied math degree working in finance and want out desperately. I’ve been studying Python and C++ for a few months now and I’m feeling like I’m not getting anywhere. Looking for jobs, prepping for interviews, competing against others and watching people around you succeeding in their roles while your struggling to find your path and all the feelings of inadequacies that follow can be so overwhelming. I hope you’ve found some success since you posted this, or are at least moving in that direction, but know that you are not alone
"The things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other often actually complement each other" Big motivation for me. Knowledge hardly ever wastes. So keep learning.
This is the hardest thing to manage, and to plan, but in the end, it is really the one of the most interesting things that happen to people, after years of learning, working, living.
rarely to see Joma being this serious, was expecting some plot twist at the very end. But actually none this time. Haha. Great said about the ending statement
I don’t even know where to start. Your sense of humor is ace mate. Clearly you worked hard to get there. Also, you make it seem like any bloke can do this. Cheers mate 🍻
Joma, thank you a lot for the video. I have just finished my first semester as a Mathematics major and I am so broken because I am extremely unsure of what I want to do for life. You gave me inspiration; I realised that everything is doable with will and time and that I’ll eventually find the thing I both love and good at. Again, thank you.
Congrats on your success! I always wanted to be a coder but I spent several years teaching myself and was still very basic. I bought books, software etc and just went into construction instead haha. I made alot of money in it, but it takes a toll on your body. Would have much rather been chilling with programmers building sick video games
Joma no joke I love all your videos even the coding ones and honestly I could give a shit about tech on that level. Its your humor paired with how genuine and ridiculous you can be at the same time. Without sounding weird I feel like you are the type of person I naturally gravitate toward to just act silly and talk about dumb shit for a laugh. I am never surprised to hear the growth and insight that you share from your personal experiences and I am touched to hear you drop the knowledge you have manifested along the way. I think you’re great man. Keep following your passion because its really inspiring especially to this 40 yr old Silicon Valley man child 😂😂
Thank you for this video. It has made me feel a lot better about entering the software development field. I am about to get my first job, hopefully, final interview is tomorrow, wish me luck!!
My uncle has been working at Citadel for 30 years his names Jed Greene in case that rings a bell. Love your no nonsense talk that summarized what was actually important to you in the 10 years of learning the ins and outs of being a programmer.
Kudos for keeping it real while being humble! There is no success without the hard work. I love how you emphasized the significance of it. Any person would think they came across your video because of the YT algorithm. They don’t realize how much passion+hard work went into what you did to get here.
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Thank You For This Joma , my inspiration ! ♡
Wow
I’m 40 year old and needs a career change. I’m going to give it a shot.
Joma sounds like one of those kids in highschool who never prepared for the test but always got an A+
I'm pretty sure Joma was this kid at some point
Doesn't feel like that to me.. specially after I saw that video where he talked with errichto
College was when I realized that books are just like a user manual, it provides an abstract idea of whatever the fuck it is talking about and even give you some guidance on how to replicate, but it is never a learning material. Sadly, I learned that too late, but fortunately, It was how I got into programming.
Aka. Wiz kid
@@hossamismail9354 What was your method of learning that worked best for you?
"it's not about getting 6 in dice with first roll, it's about rolling the dice until you get 6"
- me inspired by joma
@Joma Tech. Lol
facts
actually POG
i used to roll the dice
did u just distribute geometrically???
Core idea:
“Anything is learnable, nothing is out of reach as long as you just sit down, be patient, and read from the beginning”.
And also you’ll learn nothing at Microsoft.
Why tho? I mean their docs on windows api seems helpful to me
Microsoft internships / work is hit or miss. I did an internship there the past summer and was extremely satisfied with the work I did for my level of experience. The opportunity I got for next summer also made it all the more worth it to get to work on HoloLens/mixed reality at Microsoft which is honestly a dream job for me and all I could ask for while still being in college
@@ashiksaleem360 Guy hasnt even been to Microsoft, he is just justifying his path when we know its BS
This guy went to a good university in USA knowing 100x less than I do in 21 yo (I'm 17) whereas I may not be able to go to shitty university in Russia.
@@georgeousthegorgeous actually the university he went to is in Canada
"You cant control the outcome
of your dice rolls
but you can control what dice you use
" that was a booster on my motivation, really got inspired to get more focused on my goals, best quote I heard in a while...
His words killed it
@@tiho-nge60r-rttj It's exactly what I needed to hear for where I am right now in my life, learning new things
Very nice! A quote by Louis Pasteur that has helped me & mine: "Chance favors the prepared mind." So don't forget when you're out there in the grind to do some stuff for yourself...
krishna said that too in Holy Geeta...
@@CanOWhoopAz p😅p🎉g😂g
Inspirational.
aren’t you the marshal only guy?
What
Yes he is
look at joma man, so inspirational
Sup kaem kaem
I’ve been a dev for 17 years now. I got a job as a tester at a tax software company. My first coding experience was a little vbscript I wrote to map network drives for the ops team, and the company made me an automation developer a couple days later having NO IDEA how to code.
If you’re half intelligent and tenacious about learning, you can code
Damn you dont have any knowledge in that field while working on that job. That must be stressful.
@@duyviet5801 Sometimes you don't apply half of what you learnt in school in actual jobs, that because the job usually requires you to learn their code or other syntaxes that is required.
coding is different from other fields in that you really have to be all-in, learn everything, practice all the time to keep your skill up.
its not like going to college to be a teacher. you just gotta know the stuff. most colleges dont prepare you well for an overall career. - ya gotta do that in your offtime, outside of class. Or even before you go to college.
@@scorch4299 and that is the most stressful thing if you consider it properly. For your career, HIGH salary, you need to be doing what 99% are not. Missing out on people, parties, good social life... That's more of a life of a loner actually. I was i guess wtih a group one time, i've enojoyed is way more than being alone and it's harding pushing onward, but sometimes you level up with a company and sometimes alone. like at one point it becomes just so sad because you are literally sacrificing days months and years of your life to be able to make a living and be happy financially, that you dont realize there is more to life than just working. Travelling is a huge stress reliever imo, calms mind and soul, making friends and going all out on travels -with hard earned money makes it worth it tho. Better than spending out miserable days working for low income salaries live pay check to paycheck.
anyway, the hardest part is optimizing your every day and routine. make it fun, make it enjoyable, anything you learn or advance on it, market it, promote yourself with it, get even higher earning jobs, open side business with someone who is willing to put in the hours and needs capital, be partners, after awhile quit the jobs, work on employing people to make money for you, travel, enjoy, get laid, order a cocktail, put your legs on the table and relax boss
This doesn't just apply to coding. If you get a job in accounting and you have dismal skills you'll learn on (and off) the job. Get a construction job and you'll learn how they do things unique to them. JUST APPLY FOR THE JOB!!! Even if you don't know everything about it, sometimes they just need a warm body to train to fit.
“Everyone is as clueless as I am”
I literally came to this thought a couple weeks ago. Just repeating it to myself helps me take more confident actions and reassures myself that I can actually do stuff that people have done. Thanks for sharing Joma!
Great video. I need help guys. I like to do programming but I don't have laptop or desktop I have my tablet with me so can you tell me how to start my programming my tablet. Is someone can help me can you reply my comments. Actually I need good application to do that. I did research but I didn't found good application to do that please help to start programming.
Coincidentally, same. I've been repeating it to myself whenever I feel intimidated since a few days.
I found this quote, I'm also like you, need more confident.
"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Don't overestimate the competition, and underestimated your self. You are better than you think."
@@dinadasuhansith3978 try learn basic programming with solo learn
@@difanaufalpratama8765 yeah
i've been really struggling with my classes, but you actually saying "no one is too dumb for cs" kinda helped me realize everything will be ok
@@magnetsec don't just use that. Use it for references just like the rest of the internet.
@@magnetsec Never heard of this
@@magnetsec for what? coding?
@@JohnStockton7459 hop off the self projecting
"The things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other, often actually complement each other, surprisingly"
This! and nothing else. When you're a bit of a generalist and you learn many different things it gives you a depth of perspective. The word "surprisingly" is key, because you're constantly surprised at how applicable seemingly distant knowledge turns out to be.
Thanks for making this, I enjoyed watching. You're wise, more success to you my friend.
Exactly!
I am Terra-/- Forming Cyber Space, Creating Technology, and Redirecting Human Psychological Pathways....th-cam.com/video/BGX67h-DdgQ/w-d-xo.html
You probably won't see this Joma, but don't sell yourself short! Your help with the Nessie code was highly valuable, and we couldn't have achieved the paper deadline schedule we did without your help! You absolutely deserved your picture on it, and I'd gladly put it there a second time! :)
this is so sweet
Oh man I hope this is true
@@HandledToaster2 seems like it isn’t… can’t find either one on the Project Nessie Commits
if you know hes probably not going to see it, why comment?
Wow
I have been coding for 20 years, and had my quota of lows and highs, but at the end I am happy where I'm at this moment. Thanks for the great work, and to anyone just starting and even to the not so young crowd, follow Joma's advice of keeping rolling the dice!
What are you feeling sir?
Big inspiration to me that you didn't start coding until college. I'm going into my sophomore year, seeing all my friends with 5+ years of coding experience has been a little demoralizing -- like it's too late for me. But not at all! Thank you Joma! Love your vids
Of course it's not late at all, foe each of us it hits at a special moment!
Programmers simply don't know what they are doing - not even after 10 years. This is relatable and inspirational! Thank you, Joma.
Inspirational quote of the day!
I don't really agree with this. I think it's more like we know what we are doing is almost always shitty, I.E. we are always aware that we should have solved the problems in a better way (but we didnt have time / didnt know better when we started solving it / eveyone around us wants us to focus on something else / etc)
yeah gotta wait til 101 years til you really know what you're doing
@@linusjoensson8219 Fuck I can relate. I started working on my MERN stack project with only knowledge about react useState and useRef and not other hooks. I did my the project with just these hooks. But as I am progressing I started discovering other hooks and it could make my project a whole lot better but I just can't refactor my codes cause I don't have time for it. But surely I will do it in my next project.
Completely disagree with you. 37 years now, and nothing gives me problems coding at the enterprise level. Just remember to leave your ego at the door, and take constructive criticism.
"Work is just work, your technical abilities and your expertise don't matter as much as you think, what matters more is your grit and got stuff done, just be a doer and make things you are proud of and the rest will come" - Joma 2021
Love it!
I will comment this so it will pop up and inspired you once again. Please tag me too in a few days, inspiration comes and goes very quickly.
@@MattDoesNothing :)
In truth, this video touched me very much, we all seek happiness, we all seek to be happy with what we love. Few people have the joy of working what they love. I feel super happy because you are walking your dreams and super happier because you are sharing it. I studied Visual Arts and since the pandemic I have started studying Programming, when I was 40 years old. Good vibe Seinsei.
“We fought against 14 year olds….. and WON”
"One of the best skills to work on in your life is the ability to be self-aware and understand yourself just like coding sports or video games it all comes down to practice the more you work on trying to understand yourself the more you'll be literate in your own emotions and having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions" - Joma 2021
I'll be *that pedantic comment people hate* and point out that: Not everyone is born with the same inclinations, tendencies, intelligence etc. BUT do not mistake "self" with "what I like and don't like" or "how I behave for the last year". You might be depressed, but depression is not "you". There are also periods in life where you may be more open to new things than normally. Explore more, what you put in your brain shapes your personality and character.
People make the mistake of thinking that their mood, taste, likes and dislikes are immutable throughout their life, and think that what they want to do now will stay the same. What we're fundamentally are is our biological makeup. The fact that this gets shaped through our experience is proof that it's more malleable than you think. And it keeps changing even past your 50's. But you're still yourself.
just blew my mind
The "serious-to-meme" ratio in this content is perfect. Great insights here.
"You cant change the outcome on the dice,but you can change the dice...
Work on yourself,Increase the possiblity of success"
- Joma tech,One of the best quotes heard in a while
“Let no man teach you” - GOD
@@Starkillr1where in da bible
@@Starkillr1rejection of wisdom or ignorance is also in conflict with the bible 😊
I’m currently taking the google data analytics course and I’m so close to finishing! I definitely recommend it
Hello, I'm just got into cs and coding .I really want to know about these courses. Can you tell me when you joined the course (like are you a student or professional now)
@@talal5033 it’s $40 a month, worth every penny. You can also apply for the financial aid so you can get it for free.
@@Dany-gc3mx I’m on my second month and almost done with it. I’m a professional now. But would definitely recommend it for student’s
@@adrian93317 40 a month compared to thousands a semester sounds like a pretty good deal ngl
I am 40 years old and have no background in coding. Im currently just watching freecoding videos on TH-cam to learn python. Do you think a beginner like me can understand those courses at google?
2019: “I wanted to chill so…I became a software engineer”
-Joma 2021
You incredibly dope man. Keep creating Joma!
I thought he was gonna say
“I wanted to chill so… I went on vacation”
Never lie on your resume.
Joma: "Handled concurrent micro-transactions in a face-paced environment."
That's what a cashier does he didn't lie lmao
@@otorbaev He just made it really fancy lol
face-paced
gamers coming at with with knives
ahahahaha
Dude I loved this. I’m a 35 year old welder. Ready for change and have always been interested in programming. I had this weird veil of feeling like I’m too old or too late with these 10 year old computer geniuses. I needed some motivation. Thanks 🤙
if you need some lessons and advice, let me know! :) im a fullstack software engineering teacher
@@christopher6267 hi i wanna know should i learn java or c++ first.
@@prashant8665 Java don't start with c++
I'm a 56 year old woman who is learning to trade crypto - it's never too late to learn new things. Go for it! :)
🤣😁
i love this video - i am just 3 years into my university education and starting my masters and it is just very interesting to hear more experienced people talk about stuff
hey man, i'm older, and been a dev for a long time but what you are saying still applies to me. my path was way different. i never sat around and didn't have shit to do! but the lessons learned, that you speak about, bring down the anxiety, for real, i think that at all levels everyone feels the same shit about not knowing this, or that, in a job description. when you learn to learn, then stuff becomes abstractions. like, everything is an API. thanks for the good content!
I started coding and it was a love hate. Thought I didn't have to do it anymore as I switch interests but they all had a bit of coding involved. Until I enrolled into IT I just realized how coding just keeps finding a way back in my life.
Hey I was thinking of going into IT what do you think of the program?
@@rafikshaheen9437 same I just want to code.
Well I'm on the edge to "quit" coding and instead focus fully on cloud engineering.
There's so many various ways of writing code that it simply becomes too much of an obstacle to work with people that does things differently, in my case people that are old-school and don't wanna learn new technology or tools.
personally I was pessimistic about online class due to covid and I was right assuming it would be more compliance than actual learning
any curriculum will have general subs (like math in comsci)take up most of your work so you can't "just want to code" but if like me you enjoy some gen subs it will be bearable and it gets credited which is helpful when moving to a better university
if you don't have the money for college you could always do Joma Class or free courses on youtube
honestly learned a lot more on my own and picked up 3D graphics, virtualization, and azure because I wanted to learn so depending on your situation and your will to learn you can go the distance
I graduated as a naval engineer and worked as a journalist before I jumped into my master. Now I am clueless and unemployed. Even whenever I wonder to go back to my engineer field, imposter syndrome occurs. Now I'm learning data science and programming again which I learnt from my degree as a minor subject. I thought I was lost, but after seeing this video, it reminds me that we can only connect our lives backwards. We should dismantle the illusion of continuity. Thanks for sharing your experience, Joma.
what working as a cashier at McDonald's looks like on a resume: "Handled concurrent micro-transactions in a face-paced environment."
Thanks for sharing this with us, Joma. The other day I was talking to a mentor of mine who helped train me as a project engineer at my current job. One day I told him I was not fulfilled with my current job even though at this point I’ve moved up quickly in the company. His response was discouraging and surprising, as I was hoping to hear something inspirational like in your video. Great job with great money, but it just wasn’t for me. Now I’m changing careers, to chase my dreams and continue rolling the dice.
What was your mentor's response?
For whoever which is currently studying in CS or getting frustrated in the middle of their way of whatever you wanna do and doing, keep going, you're not alone to struggle :)
I just love you. Couldn’t think of a better summary to describe my feeling of joy when watching your videos. I’m a Typescript SE myself and started working in 2012. Keep it up!
I studied laws in college
have you finished law school?@@angelachanelhuang1651what do you do now? what keeps you busy these days?
"One of the best skills to work on in your life is the ability to be self aware and understand yourself. The more your work on trying to understand yourself the more you become literate in your own emotions, and having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions." Joma
When he says "I learn nothing", I always feel it to my core. The first 5 minutes is fking relatable.
😭😭😭
Even if i learn something, it can't compare to his something.
"In the end work is just your work. Your technical abilities and your expertise don't matter as much as you think. What matters more is your grit and just if you can get stuff done. So just be a doer and make things you're proud of and rest will come." that really inspires me
I liked this part a lot too. I have also experienced it at my old job.
Yeah it's just about doing, everything else, failure, success, that one bug that's taking you 200 hours to fix, ect, everything else besides "doing" is but a tool for you to "do" even more, and better.
Taking on such a mindset is perhaps not universally effective, but it's one way to get far in life.
Thanks a million Joma for this amazing and inspiring piece. This is very much what I needed. I appreciated every bit of what you said, especially when you talked about being recruited as a software engineer meanwhile you've not being coding for some time back then. I can totally relate to that, being in that exact same situation right now. The imposter syndrome just kills me every time I think about my new job because I just feel like there's so much stuff I have to catch up with and it's so hard bearing these feelings.
Anyways, thanks for that relieving statement you said : "Anything is learnable, as long as you sit back, read and practice."👌🏻👌🏻 Just guess I have to be patient with myself and actually take a step at a time on this dreadful journey😅
"the things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other often actually complement each other, surprisingly" - i love that! im always worried because there's so many things i'm doing at once that i'm not sure if i'll be able to have one whole combination of everything but i just hope everything will turn out well in the future. thank you!
Steve Jobs said the same thing about his calligraphy course.
@@anti7hero he said about connecting the dots. Everything happened to you means something. God put it in ur life.
this guy is funny to watch
I am so happy to see this video.
I taught myself two years ago amd the last week I got two interviews and did pretty well.
Now, this week will be my final interview for both tech companies.
I am hoping to be chosen and start my life as software engineer and start my youtube channel and them grow from there.
I am currently finishing built my online learning plateform to teach people frontend and backend development.
Thanks Joma.
I let you know the next week
How did it go? Hope it all went as you hoped.
And that it's not a sore subject!
@@TheMrchickenman63 yes
I got one and failed other interview
I start on the 22th this month
@@gabrielfono844 Great to hear man! Best of luck to you in your coming life! :)
@@TheMrchickenman63 thanks
I am currently focusing ontheir stack while learning docker on the side.
I am very happy to finish the new year with an amazing job.
Thanks for your support too
i think you are working now in that company . Is software engineer a frontend and backend developer ?
???
Thanks Joma for the inspiration, it's been a pretty rough few years, I hope to persevere through the next few and succeed, although it's hard to when you feel lost
Success is only guaranteed by God through Jesus..... Seek him out and you'll find out
Hows it going so far?
Bro, I feel so happy and motivated with the things you said and quoted. Im at my first job in Europe where all my job life ive been in Argentina and I sometimes really feel the pressure and the burnout, but this videos keep me very focus and motivated. I thank you for all the time, experience and dedication you put in each one and please keep doing it because as you help me, you help a lot of people. Cheers Joma, you are awesome
11:04 I've been thinking about this for the past week. The problem is that I am too self-aware. I can't stop beating myself up over the mistakes that I make resulting from my flaws, defects, shortcomings. It's a good thing, however, that I realize my mistakes and I analyze them, I try to learn from them. I ask myself what went wrong and why. I think everybody can do this, but some choose to sweep it under the rug. Being able to acknowledge your weaknesses and then combatting them is, while definitely scary, a necessity in order to progress.
Last night, for the first time, I created a new text file and just brainstormed all of my thoughts in an attempt to organize/structure them because they became too many to handle. This is just the beginning of my journey, I guess. As they say, knowing the problem is half of the solution. I am slowly learning to better understand myself and what I want. I hope this will make me do things that I won't regret later on.
Even if it was just a mere coincidence, this video popped up at the right time for me. Right now my mind is a bit of a mess but I have to power through and sort it out. I'm certain that I'm going to be in a much better spot after all this is done.
Try writing down your thoughts. Also, learn how self - worth works and practice self compassion. Making mistakes means learning and growing. Its not a mistake - it’s a feedback.
Thanks
I was like depressed for last 2 or 3 weeks and I didn't know where to go or what to do, but this video - it just woke me up. "It's not about getting 6 in dice with first roll, it's about rolling the dice until you get 6" - this is the best thing that I've heard in my entire life
thank you Joma, keep going on
I wish you a lot of luck with the youtube channel
And, you know, be happy!
Hope you're still doin good now man
So proud of you Joma, this is so inspiring!
Hey Joma Tech,
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. This year has been incredibly tough for me-I didn’t make it into one of the top CS bachelor’s programs in Europe, and I’ve been struggling to find a job. But your content has been a huge inspiration during these challenging times.
Your videos remind me that setbacks are just part of the journey and that perseverance is key. I may have hit some bumps along the road, but I’m not giving up. I’m going to keep pushing forward, learning, and growing, and one day, I know I’ll reach my dream job as a software engineer at Google.
Thanks for being such a motivating force in my life. Keep up the great work!
I'm watching this in one of my worst times since years ago. I just want to say "thank you". As a developer, as a human being who can't find his way of success, or achieve anything awesome yet, this has been pretty refresher.
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"worst time" ... thats all relative ... you still have your good health don't ya ?
@@Hero.Lone-Wolf I wasn't in that moment.
@@rokck_ Ok .. my apologies .. good health to you ..😀....
@@Hero.Lone-Wolf what a dumb question, having a "worst time" it's not related only in health
I'm one semester away from graduating from CS, in an internship on a nice company and I got the offer to continue here. I was thinking I was set up for success, but I had the lingering thought in my mind if this is really what I want to do.
Thanks for your words, now I know I'm not alone, and I just have to continue doing what I'm doing: doing stuff, building good stuff.
How is it going? Did you graduate?
I felt the last part especially hard
“..because successful outcomes, in the end, are pretty much luck.
If you want to succeed it's a numbers game like rolling the dice.
So keep rolling the dice.
You can't control the outcome of your dice rolls but you can control what dice you use and the more you work on yourself the more the dice become weighted to your advantage, so eventually you'll hit JackPot! 🎰 ..as long as u keep rolling the dice you'll archive success, whatever that means for you, specifically” 🎲
That resonated very well with me and it reminded me of an Albert Einstein quote which reads
“God does not play dice”
I guess you can see why and the analogy is pretty obvious but in case you don't get it let's put it like this:
See, in the way that people ultimately improve themselves by constantly evoluting themselves and becoming a better version of themselves, learning and thriving on the knowledge and enjoyment of creation due to constant effort and actual realness I feel like man / woman / humanity in itself and one themselves can find a spark of divinity and therefore becoming a part of God or the conscious/ness of God, becoming ultimately not only able to change their individual fate but (possibly), by chance rolling the dice so much and so often and reiterating themselves that they can change the fate of an / their entire species and (possibly) create new meaning and life entirely..Out of nowhere, just like that
I’m a senior math and data science major, and I’m looking at a CS grad program. This video both adds to and decreases some of my fears! So much jargon that I don’t know, but also I agree with what you say “nothing is unlearnable”. Thanks for the video!
This video is amazing ! it gave me a different perspective on goals in life and how it changes over time base on the different jobs you work at. More so, once the pandemic happen a shift happened for everyone and things they had went away. School, Work, Car, College ect. In addition, working at odd jobs just to keep the bills paid and humbling your self to find individuals to help you while you’re struggling helps you understand different people and how they can help you find what you really want in life. Lastly, like you mentioned in the video jobs that you’re not really interested in somehow tied to the job or jobs that interest you by working really hard at learning it and asking God for guidance and understanding for the next chapter in life. Thank you my dude, continue to stay blessed in the faith !
"as long as you sit down and learn FROM THE BEGINNING." Just like people trying to learn Deep Learning while asking how to install python on Stack Overflow.
"The things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other often actually complement each other."
That words really give me the inspiration to start working on the athlete motion analysis, since I am a zealous basketball fan and I learnt data science.
Contents like this are helpful, Thank you. This is just a definition of my journey, I tried coding many times as an Engineer, worked as a banker, I am a professional photographer and I am currently a Software Engineering student at ALX and I will be running my youtube channel full time before or once I graduate by the grace of God, I believe all my skills and experiences will converge soon. Thanks
This is the most hilarious, most inspirational video ever lmao. Thoroughly enjoyed this. As someone on this same path, i needed this. You're awesome
Merci Joma! 🙏 You have such an inspiring life! Honestly, thank you for inspiring me to become a software engineer for big tech companies and start making videos to help young French engineers in their career 🇫🇷💙 you had ups and downs like everyone but got stronger each time. Your success is well deserved! Bravo 👏
Salut, tu t'es expatrié ? Je suis jeune diplômé et ça m'intéresse :)
@@MinistalGamer Salut! Oui je suis expatrié, et je serai ravi de pouvoir t’aider 😊
@@and0v tu as un compte discord ?
@@MinistalGamer Non je n’ai pas de discord désolé, je viens tout juste de commencer TH-cam🐣 j’essaie déjà de me focus sur ça et de trouver l’équilibre avant d’être actif sur d’autres réseaux 🙃 hésite pas à mettre des commentaires, j’y repondrai directement ou ferai des vidéos pour aider d’autres gens 😉
You have no idea how much you reach people out there man... I'm from Brazil and I follow your work for a while, every time I feel grateful for one day watching a random video of yours
Wow, this message arrived at just the right moment when I was feeling low. Although I'm still in the early stages of my career, it sometimes feels like I haven't accomplished much. Yet, your message emphasizes the importance of being proactive in pursuing my goals. Thank you for being so inspiring Joma.
I love how genuine your videos have always been. Stay true to your art!
That’s was the perfect dose of inspiration as I’m starting bootcamp!🙏🏽
This whole time he was the reading the script...such a legend
Yeaaah i just noticed haha
How did I not notice this? Nice one
I noticed it when I read this comment
That's why when youtube recommend these so call software engineering. I'll report right the way.
@@huntertide5388 report what?
Thanks for the tip joma, I thought I was doing it all wrong, I have been a software engineer for almost 5 years now and I really felt like you just removed all my anxiety and stress with trying to figure out where my career could go in the future. knowing that people ahead of me with their Programmer or IT experience have been. I was in the right track and the right mindset all along.
This guy cracks jokes effortlessly 😂
I am also a SE and I feel proximity with your learning path, "work is just work", "be self-aware to make better decisions", "be proactive to achieve what you want", "show results" this is ultimately good lessons for life: understand that we need balance, know ourselves better and chase what we want for living with quality regarding our dreams. And it's true what they usually say, soft skills are more required than anything else, because everything else you can easily learn (with time) and it will probably be enough to do you work. You can be an expert, but if you are an asshole who doesn't know how to work in a team, you will probably be excluded from the project or even the company. Show passion and being proactive will also push you forward in you career, if you have the right people checking on you, they will notice and you will be rewarded somehow, recognized by your own value.
Almost cried! Never seen you this emotional. Great background music and great video!
What song did he use?
If someone knows the song, please let me know, thanks :)
@@chukwukamorka5055 at 6:51 he used "don't keep me down - Minsoo Feat. Adelyn Paik"
"The more you work on trying to understand yourself, the more you'll be literate in your own emotions. And having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions" - Joma
Funny how Computer Graphics is always the hardest class in most Universities 😂
i took computer graphics but it wasnt that bad, then again my professor kinda just gave us lots of source to get by.
Compilers on the other hand...
Its all about the balls
lmao no
It's because of all the math lol
The math in computer graphics was chill. However, fuck webgl
"You can't control the outcomes of your dice rolls but you can control what dice you use and the more you work on yourself the more the dice become weighted to your advantage" ~ JOMA
Best video yet! Thank you for making this. I can relate on so many levels. I was a pharmacist turned digital marketer then i picked up some coding and now am exploring web3 and nfts. I believe every stage, related or not has played an integral part in helping me get where am I and I’m loving and trusting every step of that way!
nice! How are you finding it that you left pharmacy? I’m a dentist right now and want to study computer science and career change but I’m so worried
Sounds like you've had quite myriad of Interesting experiences, never would've have thought from watching your videos. I've come across the channel via some of satirical clips that were trending, and never seen those early coding videos.
Love the fact that you acknowledge luck as factor in your success (multiple times), not to diminish the importance of hard work of course. So few people even mention luck as if it would somehow belittle their intellectural capabilities. Even though everyone knows, for every opportunity we got in life, there were probably 10 other people who worked just as hard (if not harder) and just as qualified and perhaps more deserving as we would be, but somehow the wind was blowing in the right direction for us.
Love the new pivot with the channel, keep up the good work!
This is inspirational as I'm learning Object Oriented Programming right now!
"The more you work on trying to understand yourself, the more you'll be literate in your own emotions - and having that understanding of yourself will allow you to make way better decisions." - Joma 2021
Wow, spitting wisdom here. Thank you for this, Joma. I came here for the laughs, but left with the feels.
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Best quote in the entire video.
This really gave me a better understanding of life and what I want to do in life. Thank you so much for this inspirational video.
That was a great vid fam. Keep the passion alive.
I lost my soft eng job and seeing this video has motivated me to keep progress and keep learning thanks joma
It can happen to anyone, don't sweat it!
You we’ll get double the salary.
In the past I've been fired, I've failed important interviews and I've worked jobs that were pretty bad. Now I see that all of that was an integral part of the fulfilling software engineering career I have today. I know it feels bad now, but in the future it will feel like an essential detail in a much bigger story. Keep it up m8!
@@user-rl7hm7ix5n Inspiring stuff mate, how many years did it take you to get to where you are now?
@@invictuz4803 been working with software development for 12 years now. I'd say that been very happy with were I was at started around the 5th/6th year lol (much happier now than then, though)
As I'm applying for internships this seems to be so relevant. The experience you need for software jobs is almost entirely gained through actual working. School has taught me what i need to be successful when learning new engineering concepts but in no way did it train me for what its gonna be like the day i sit down at my own desk and start writing code.
True. Plus computer science is theory base rather than actual practical experience. Practical experiences comes from personal projects and work
@@flashv4941 i agree i always feel like its such an open ended field, no one can possibly learn everything yet the more you understand it at a fundamental level the better you are at it i guess. I still have a long way to go 😅
your “favorite interview question” video reinvigorated my interest in software engineering, thank you for that boost.
also the hair rocks
It is very refreshing to see a person who works hard but also understands the role of luck in one's success. Kudos to your career and your grit.
It's not the luck, it's the hard work that gives you the success. I was turned down quite a few times when I first started going professionally in high school, these days, my resume does all the work for me. Not everybody can be a programmer, you have to have that mindset.
@@MrRizzyWizzy hardworking is necessary but not sufficient, there are millions like you and I that work hard or even harder but dont get what they want because they didn't see the same opportunities in life
@@kemijarks You make a lot of your opportunities and you have to be able to step outside your comfort zone, or you'll just be a hard worker with nothing to show for.
Having Google as a sponsor for a TH-cam video weirdly feels like recursion:D
"The most important thing is your grit, and if you can get stuff done" so fucking true.
Still in my first year. Started my development journey at the cusp of the pandemic, so this was super insightful. There was a brief mention of grit. I honestly don't think I could be where I am at this point without it.
wow I never enjoyed a youtube video like this ever! thanks man I needed to hear all of that.
This was a bundle of humor, inspiration, wisdom, and relatability all in one! I love it
Joma: many people make such similar vidoes on this topic........
we: But your one was literally GREAT!
Straight to point
I absolutely agree with you on so many levels. As a person transitioning from a regular paid job to do something entirely different from scratch. It takes immense amount of courage to stare at the unknown and keep going.
12:38 'Success is defined differently for everyone' ❤
Im a software developer , and I am in office watching this video. It inspire me and thinking what I want to be and how to improve my programming skills as I am not CS major in the past. Thanks for making this video to inspire programmers in the world.
btw I graduate from UWaterloo too :)
Joma, you certainly have a lot to be proud of and have accomplished quite a lot in 10 years.
However, I could have done without you looking into the camera and repeating "I own you. All of my effing life I own you" for as long you did.
9.85 Years*
Uh...what?
thank you aaron rodgers
Yes he was kinda flexing. Like bruh you're not that successful
What??? I don't understand the top comment
Very inspiring. In my 3rd year of college, want to go into a career in finance (economics major but I was very into CS in high school), and the internship process is seriously stressing me out. I’ve been applying and doing virtual interviews since March and I have yet to receive an offer. I’ll have spurts of disappointment and almost depression because of the success that I see around me and I’ve been close to quitting before because it’s discouraging to receive rejection after rejection. I thought I wanted to go down this path but I really don’t know what I want or even what I like (I seem to be indecisive that way). This video definitely gave me some much needed confidence and hopefully things start looking up soon career-wise.
I’m on the other spectrum. Graduated with an applied math degree working in finance and want out desperately. I’ve been studying Python and C++ for a few months now and I’m feeling like I’m not getting anywhere. Looking for jobs, prepping for interviews, competing against others and watching people around you succeeding in their roles while your struggling to find your path and all the feelings of inadequacies that follow can be so overwhelming. I hope you’ve found some success since you posted this, or are at least moving in that direction, but know that you are not alone
Being at University of Waterloo struggling at the same courses you excelled makes me really respect your intellect.
"The things you learn and the skills you gain that are completely unrelated to each other often actually complement each other" Big motivation for me. Knowledge hardly ever wastes. So keep learning.
This is the hardest thing to manage, and to plan, but in the end, it is really the one of the most interesting things that happen to people, after years of learning, working, living.
rarely to see Joma being this serious, was expecting some plot twist at the very end. But actually none this time. Haha. Great said about the ending statement
I don’t even know where to start. Your sense of humor is ace mate. Clearly you worked hard to get there. Also, you make it seem like any bloke can do this. Cheers mate 🍻
Joma, thank you a lot for the video. I have just finished my first semester as a Mathematics major and I am so broken because I am extremely unsure of what I want to do for life. You gave me inspiration; I realised that everything is doable with will and time and that I’ll eventually find the thing I both love and good at. Again, thank you.
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Congrats on your success! I always wanted to be a coder but I spent several years teaching myself and was still very basic. I bought books, software etc and just went into construction instead haha. I made alot of money in it, but it takes a toll on your body. Would have much rather been chilling with programmers building sick video games
hey it's never too late man. I'm back in school for Software Engineering after almost 10 years in the service industry.
Joma no joke I love all your videos even the coding ones and honestly I could give a shit about tech on that level. Its your humor paired with how genuine and ridiculous you can be at the same time.
Without sounding weird I feel like you are the type of person I naturally gravitate toward to just act silly and talk about dumb shit for a laugh.
I am never surprised to hear the growth and insight that you share from your personal experiences and I am touched to hear you drop the knowledge you have manifested along the way.
I think you’re great man. Keep following your passion because its really inspiring especially to this 40 yr old Silicon Valley man child 😂😂
I agree
That's actually great advice! "The ability to be self-aware and understand yourself" is so important. Very well said!
It’s crazy how humble you are knowing the amount of work it took to get to your level. Keep it up!
Thank you for this video. It has made me feel a lot better about entering the software development field. I am about to get my first job, hopefully, final interview is tomorrow, wish me luck!!
My uncle has been working at Citadel for 30 years his names Jed Greene in case that rings a bell. Love your no nonsense talk that summarized what was actually important to you in the 10 years of learning the ins and outs of being a programmer.
Kudos for keeping it real while being humble!
There is no success without the hard work. I love how you emphasized the significance of it. Any person would think they came across your video because of the YT algorithm. They don’t realize how much passion+hard work went into what you did to get here.
This was something I really needed to hear at this point in time. Thanks for making videos and I hope to be as lucky as you some day!
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