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1. 0:00First of all, before this video starts,
2. 0:02I would like to give a big thank you to
3. 0:04all of my new subscribers. I was not
4. 0:06expecting even one subscriber to be
5. 0:07honest. So, to wake up this morning and
6. 0:09see a hundred people following me, I was
7. 0:11a bit surprised. So, thank you so much
8. 0:14for liking my content and I hope you
9. 0:16stick around in the future for even more
10. 0:18content.
11. 0:25About two days ago, I gave my final
12. 0:28presentation on my senior project, which
13. 0:30fingers crossed went really well.
14. 0:32Meaning that in a couple of weeks now, I
15. 0:34will finally graduate college.
16. 0:38I mean, it just feels so great to
17. 0:41finally be free of homework,
18. 0:43assignments, projects, and free from the
19. 0:45godamn elevator that breaks every 2
20. 0:48weeks. Finally, I'm able to do whatever
21. 0:50I want as a free adult.
22. 0:53[Music]
23. 0:57Who are you?
24. 0:58Yeah. Hi. Uh, did you check your bank
25. 1:00account?
26. 1:01What do What do you mean check?
27. 1:03Just just check your bank account.
28. 1:07Oh,
29. 1:09yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I should probably get
30. 1:12a job. It's kind of funny how college
31. 1:14just kind of takes your money and then
32. 1:16after four years throws you out to the
33. 1:18streets and says, "Good luck on finding
34. 1:19a job and you know, please when you get
35. 1:22money, pay us even more." It's like the
36. 1:24first couple thousand were not enough
37. 1:26for them. But I do want to agree that
38. 1:27college does not have to baby you
39. 1:29through all the steps of life. Finding a
40. 1:32career is something that you have to do
41. 1:34all on your own. But anyway, because I'm
42. 1:36soon going to need to find a job, I
43. 1:39wanted to spend some time and research a
44. 1:41little bit about the possible jobs there
45. 1:43are out there because one of the
46. 1:45beautiful things about being a
47. 1:47programmer is that you're not really
48. 1:48limited to just working in one field,
49. 1:51which is amazing because imagine if
50. 1:53you're majoring in art history. I'm so
51. 1:55sorry, but hear me out. Put down your
52. 1:58paint brushes. No, I don't think art
53. 2:01historians paint. Put down your art
54. 2:03textbooks. What I mean by this is that
55. 2:06as an art historian, I think the only
56. 2:10place you really work in is a museum or
57. 2:13something. As a programmer, however, you
58. 2:15have many different fields to choose
59. 2:18from. You could work as a programmer in
60. 2:20the medical field. You could work as a
61. 2:21programmer in the finance field. You can
62. 2:24work in robotics, in avionics. Heck, you
63. 2:27could even work at Roblox. You're
64. 2:29laughing, but I kid you not, that's
65. 2:31where the real money is. Look it up, I
66. 2:33swear. And so today, I'm going to spend
67. 2:35a little bit of time going through
68. 2:37various different fields and figuring
69. 2:39out what they are and what it takes to
70. 2:41become whatever it is you're going to
71. 2:43become. Disclaimer, I spent a little bit
72. 2:45of time researching this so that I don't
73. 2:47sound like an idiot, but if I do get
74. 2:49something wrong, please let me know in
75. 2:51the comments. After a little bit of
76. 2:52researching, I've compiled a bit of
77. 2:55information about some of the most
78. 2:56popular jobs there are. And the most
79. 2:59basic jobs that usually pop up are
80. 3:01computer programmers and software
81. 3:03engineers. Now, you might be thinking,
82. 3:05"Aren't those the same thing?" I mean,
83. 3:07they surely sound like the same thing. I
84. 3:09mean, a software engineer just kind of
85. 3:10sounds like a fancier version of a
86. 3:13computer programmer. Oh, what do you do
87. 3:15for a job? Oh, I write computer
88. 3:16programs. Oh, cool. Cool. What do you do
89. 3:19for a job? I engineer software.
90. 3:23Oh, okay. But there is a difference
91. 3:26though. So, let me first explain what a
92. 3:28computer programmer is. A computer
93. 3:30programmer at the most basic level is
94. 3:32someone who can write, modify, and test
95. 3:34code. Although, we all know that you're
96. 3:35probably going to spend like 10% of the
97. 3:37time writing code, the other 90% of the
98. 3:39time banging your head against a wall
99. 3:40because something isn't working. Don't
100. 3:42you just love being a programmer? You
101. 3:44should generally be proficient in at
102. 3:46least one type of language and have a
103. 3:48basic knowledge of computer science
104. 3:50principles. We help us to see what's
105. 3:52trending at the time in the programming
106. 3:54world to see what language you should
107. 3:55learn. And now we have the software
108. 3:57engineer. To put it simply, they're not
109. 4:00only responsible for writing the code.
110. 4:01They're responsible for coming up with
111. 4:03the concept of the code. You can think
112. 4:05of this as a mechanic is able to put a
113. 4:08car together with a bunch of parts. But
114. 4:09a mechanical engineer can understand the
115. 4:13individual functionality of each part as
116. 4:15well as probably design the car from
117. 4:17scratch himself. These two fields work
118. 4:19together in a way where the software
119. 4:21engineer spends time developing a
120. 4:23specific software and then works
121. 4:25together with a bunch of computer
122. 4:26programmers to make the completed
123. 4:28version of the software. And now the
124. 4:30most important part, salary. According
125. 4:33to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
126. 4:35computer programmers earn an average of
127. 4:3793K a year, which is pretty good if I
128. 4:41say so myself, while a software engineer
129. 4:43averages at 120K a year. But do not
130. 4:46confuse this with the starting salary.
131. 4:48On average for a starting salary, I'm
132. 4:51seeing online a mix between 60k a year
133. 4:54or 70k a year at a starting salary. If
134. 4:57you're lucky, you could get something
135. 4:58higher than that. And if you get
136. 5:00something lower than that,
137. 5:03anyway, let's move away from these
138. 5:05really broad career topics and I want to
139. 5:07talk a little bit about these three jobs
140. 5:08that I keep seeing pop up, which let's
141. 5:11start with front-end development.
142. 5:12Front-end development works at the front
143. 5:14end of applications, which is where the
144. 5:17UI exists. You're dealing with the
145. 5:19buttons, you're dealing with the images,
146. 5:20you're dealing with the layout and the
147. 5:22design of the website itself. Now, this
148. 5:24might not seem like something really
149. 5:25difficult, but in fact, it actually is
150. 5:28pretty hard to create a really good user
151. 5:30interface.
152. 5:34What is going on here?
153. 5:37[Music]
154. 5:39What am I looking at? And so if you're
155. 5:41going to be working with UI, it's
156. 5:42definitely going to require a bit of
157. 5:44more creative psychology. And that's
158. 5:46essentially all that front-end
159. 5:48development is. You're going to need to
160. 5:49know a little bit of HTML or CSS. Now,
161. 5:53moving on to I wouldn't call it the
162. 5:55opposite of it, but at the opposite end
163. 5:57of front end, you have the back end. The
164. 6:00back end deals with the functionality of
165. 6:02the front end. So you have the buttons,
166. 6:03you have the very coolly animated
167. 6:06portfolio website, but do the buttons
168. 6:08work? Do you need a database that you
169. 6:10need to search? All of this is the
170. 6:11responsibility of the back-end
171. 6:13developer. Have the love child, the full
172. 6:15stack developer. They are the jack of
173. 6:16all trades. Now, let's talk about
174. 6:18salaries. This is where I got a bit
175. 6:20confused looking up online because
176. 6:23they're giving a bunch of different
177. 6:25variety of salaries. Like, and I'm just
178. 6:27going to say that I think they're all
179. 6:30within the range of 100k. Again, not the
180. 6:34starting salary, but the possible future
181. 6:36salary. Going even deeper down the
182. 6:39rabbit hole, there are even more
183. 6:40specific specializations.
184. 6:43Cyber security is a field where you're
185. 6:45working with encryption and making sure
186. 6:46that data in websites or applications
187. 6:48does not get leaked to hackers. There's
188. 6:51also cloud computing. This is a field
189. 6:53where essentially working on delivering
190. 6:55different types of computer resources to
191. 6:58different people over the internet.
192. 6:59Another important field is data
193. 7:01scientists, which are people who work on
194. 7:04a load of data that is given to them and
195. 7:06try to make sense of it. The reason I'm
196. 7:08able to look up all of the salaries is
197. 7:10because some data scientist did their
198. 7:12job. And there's just so many more
199. 7:14specialized jobs out there that if I try
200. 7:16to put them all in one video, I would be
201. 7:18sitting here for an hour and that's just
202. 7:20going to be too long to edit. So, I'm
203. 7:22not going to go any further. I'm going
204. 7:23to link some pages of where I found all
205. 7:25this information if you want to take a
206. 7:26look at some more fields that there are.
207. 7:28But for now, I'm going to move on to two
208. 7:31fields that I find incredibly
209. 7:32interesting myself. The first is game
210. 7:34development. Now, this career in itself
211. 7:36has many different paths. You could
212. 7:37think of it as all the different
213. 7:38specializations that I said before,
214. 7:40where in game development, you could
215. 7:42either work as a a game programmer, a
216. 7:44game designer, and most importantly, I
217. 7:46would say you could work as an indie
218. 7:48game developer. You don't have to work
219. 7:50sitting there 9 to 5, killing your eyes,
220. 7:52killing your back, killing your social
221. 7:54life. Instead, you could work from home
222. 7:56and develop games on your own. or maybe
223. 7:58in small teams. Technology is getting so
224. 8:00advanced in game development that this
225. 8:02is fully possible and I think it's a lot
226. 8:04more comfortable. And lastly, one of the
227. 8:07most in- demand fields there are right
228. 8:09now is AI and machine learning
229. 8:12development. Now, I know you've probably
230. 8:14seen it everywhere how AI is on the
231. 8:16rise. And yeah, AI is getting incredibly
232. 8:19powerful. Just in the last couple of
233. 8:20months, there's been so much progress
234. 8:23and development in machine learning and
235. 8:25AI that honestly it really scared me for
236. 8:27a bit. But then I sat back and realized
237. 8:29this isn't the Terminator.
238. 8:30I'll be back.
239. 8:32And that's the thing. I don't think many
240. 8:34people realize that AI is not this
241. 8:36supercomput that can think on its own.
242. 8:39Well,
243. 8:41actually is kind of that, but it's still
244. 8:43just a bunch of code. We're not at the
245. 8:46level yet where AI can effectively think
246. 8:48on its own without having some human
247. 8:50sitting there telling it what it's doing
248. 8:52wrong or right. Now, this is a field
249. 8:54that is on the rise, but the most
250. 8:56popular language at the moment to do AI
251. 8:59development and machine learning in is
252. 9:01Python, but you can use a variety of
253. 9:03different languages as well. And I would
254. 9:04say for this you definitely need a bit
255. 9:05of math. You also have to understand
256. 9:07some more in-depth computer science
257. 9:08concepts to understand how to program a
258. 9:10neural network. But nothing Code Academy
259. 9:13and a couple of YouTube videos cannot
260. 9:14teach you. I will be making another
261. 9:16video going more into depth about AI. So
262. 9:19subscribe if you're interested in that.
263. 9:21And yeah, that's pretty much some of the
264. 9:22main jobs that I've looked into. I do
265. 9:24want to close this video off by saying
266. 9:26one last thing. And I think this is the
267. 9:27most important life lesson that I have
268. 9:30been told. See, when it comes to finding
269. 9:32a job, people get this misconception
270. 9:34that they have to look for their dream
271. 9:36job or the job that they're going to
272. 9:38absolutely love to be in every single
273. 9:40day of the week. And that's just a bit
274. 9:42of naive thinking. I'm not saying that
275. 9:44it's impossible to find your dream jobs.
276. 9:46There is multiple examples online out
277. 9:48there where people find their dream
278. 9:50jobs, but some people just don't really
279. 9:53know right away what their dream job is.
280. 9:55Or some people just want to dabble in a
281. 9:57bunch of fields. And so I feel like
282. 9:59instead of saying that you should find
283. 10:00your dream job, you should rather find a
284. 10:03job that you tolerate at the very least.
285. 10:06You see, even in a dream job, you're
286. 10:08going to have bad days. You're gonna
287. 10:10have days where you wish you can just
288. 10:12jump out the window. And that's fine
289. 10:14because a job is a job. There's the
290. 10:16saying, you work to live, not live to
291. 10:19work. I'm going to try and do a bunch of
292. 10:21different projects, you know, and post
293. 10:23them on this channel to basically just
294. 10:25get a feel for what I personally am
295. 10:27interested in, and I highly encourage
296. 10:29you do the same thing. Anyway, thank you
297. 10:30for watching. Once again, thank you so
298. 10:33much to all of my new subscribers, and
299. 10:35yeah, see you next time.
300. 10:40[Music]