so this isn't really a video I wanted to
make
I've actually been putting it off
putting it off put it off until here we
are and that is the beginning of the
year I actually said quite a few goals
out for myself and I've been sticking
true to most of them one of which that I
set out for the beginning of the year so
effectively do what I said for y'all to
do last video and that was effectively
to pick a schedule and stick to it for
your coding in order to improve as a
program or in code whatever you have on
your own projects I decided to do one
hour a day three days a week so I don't
want to start out doing I did that for
the first couple months I mean I did
that youtube subscriber counter which
somehow got lost in them in the move and
I really have no idea where it is maybe
it's up in the attic but I did that had
a few other projects going on on the
back end and it just slowly started to
diminish and to the point where I
effectively quit coding now that may be
a little bit deceiving because all year
I've had a software engineering job so I
didn't quit coding altogether I'd quit
coding my own project so the reason
being is at work you code for six even
eight hours a day sometimes and for me
the last thing I want to do is after
coding all day is come back home and
code even more I mean don't get me wrong
I really do enjoy coding I love coding
in fact but doing it four to six maybe
even eight hours a day at work the last
thing I want to do is come home and code
even more on top of that which it's kind
of sad because the reason why I got into
this is to create everything that I
wanted to create at work you create
something for somebody else you're
creating what they want you to create or
what the client was you to create
instead of creating what
my mic duct-tape job didn't hold too
well I'll get that fixed eventually but
you're creating not what you necessarily
want to create not why you got into this
hobby and that's kind of how a lot of us
start out is it's a hobby it's like just
a skill or something that you want to
learn like playing the guitar and then
if it turns into something more than it
turns into something more but you always
want to be able to enjoy yourself while
doing one of the things I'd like to do
after coding all day is actually sitting
here making a video video throw it up on
the YouTube channel in fact what this is
right here is to get the bank account
opened for this business the YouTube
business because kind of it's lacking on
that and I need to really separate
everything from personal finances and
business finances I do a good job at
documentation on documentation but
accounting of those few things but you
really need a business bank account if
you're gonna run a business so let me
finish this up real quick and we're
gonna have to head on over to the bank
no it's vehicle to drive the nice SUV or
the beautiful pickup nice SUV with a
beat-up old pickup truck alright so we
chose the nice SUV the old beat-up
pickup truck as much as I love driving
that thing it doesn't have an inspection
stick and it probably can't pass
inspection right now Bota is a project
truck so I had to change out the
suspension the ball joints the you
joints in the front drive shaft
basically all of that that you see
behind the wheel of any vehicle probably
needs to be looked at and most likely
needs to be changed so I need to do all
that work before I actually getting it
inspected then I can actually legally
drive it that brings me to another point
of what I like to do after coding all
day and that's get my hands dirty
working on a truck like I bought this as
a project truck not too long ago I have
a lot of work that needs to get put into
it I'm going to go over more of that
like walk around the truck with y'all
here towards the end of this video
because it's just something I like to do
I love to create and this is just
another way of expressing that ability
to create my videos I have code now I
have pickup truck because I need to be
able to work with my hands and get my
muscles moving again because it doesn't
matter
who you are sitting at a desk for eight
hours a day maybe taking a couple breaks
here and there throughout the day these
are really good for anybody so if you
find something that you can get up get
active get the blood pumping through
your veins through your body then you
might as well try but it's Nate peek
into what I have planned for that
considering I'm switching out the
suspension I'm going to be adding on a
lift because I could just get lifted
suspension for similar price that I can
get all brand-new suspension stock
height so with that I also need to get
wheels and tires to fit that lift
probably some performance parts I need
to do some body work on there we get
back home we'll take a walk around the
truck so you can see a little bit more
what I'm talking about I finally got
that taken care of
stay on theme with this video another
thing I like to do is that I just joined
a slow pitch almond softball league and
actually I kind of ran myself out of my
old tweets y'all can kind of kind of see
what happened there so Kay move on over
here to Dick's Sporting Goods don't mind
all the dirt and stuff from my dogs but
I'm gonna be getting some new cleats
here
all right mission failed unfortunately I
went in there tried on a pair but I
don't really like the way they look the
way they felt nothing that I liked in
there was for the right price and I'm
not trying to spend a hundred dollars on
a pair of cleats I'm gonna wear for one
baseball season out of the year and
maybe a couple pickup football games in
the fall so I'll just try to find some
other store some other day or something
offline she's got to be here before
Thursday cuz that's what my next
softball game is it's just these are the
type of things that I like to do after
sitting all day I don't like to sit even
more even though a lot of my video work
and video editing is sitting but that's
why I try to integrate all of this other
stuff and actually got out of the office
today to record this video at least for
the most part Ford f-250 7-3 power
stroke if you don't know anything about
the power showed be so well if you don't
you know it's kind of like one of those
situations but I mean you can see that
this is old rusty it's a northern truck
I knew it was gonna have rust since the
fact that it's a project truck really
bad bondo and paint job right here they
tried to like tack in some sheet matte
on the back of that fender plus you know
you can't really see it but one of the
cross members under there is uh kind of
rusted out and you see right over here
this cab corner needs to be replaced
same well on the other side and I plan
to effectively just kind of cut this out
tack in so weld in a new cab corner and
then same thing with this oh look a frog
are you okay okay he's okay but same
thing with this outer cab floor what I'm
gonna have to do is cut the head out I
don't know how exactly I'm going to do
that and how big the actual replacement
is and then weld in a new outer cap
floor Oh
actually not too bad I love the red I
love that thing as you can see up here
look how trashed that leaf spring is and
look how the trash that shock is so
obviously those are gonna need to be
replaced as well and then of course all
those upgrades that I would even put on
like a like a nicer truck like that
because considering the lift and the
wheels of tires the performance parts
and things of that nature
all that's going to get all right so I
just recorded the entire end of this
video that you are about to watch and I
realized that I did not plug my
microphone into the camera so it is very
echoey but I'm really happy with what
what I said and how I said it and it's
not something that I really feel the it
won't be the same if I try to rerecord
it so in order to avoid making mistakes
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do is exactly what I said in the last
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three four seven days a week one to two
hours a day and you should be good and
I'll do my best to figure out in post
what I can do to reduce the echo of this
next clip just know I tried my best and
everything I'm talking about is coming
from the heart that's why it's not it's
not anything that I can rerecord and it
actually makes sense
so enjoy know we surprised you about all
this is that them I'm gonna be okay with
it
I mean if you're in the similar boat you
should be too because there's this
stigma where if your github graph isn't
green all the way through and through if
you don't code after work then that
means you're not good enough or that
you're not passionate about what you
actually do and all that's crap I mean
what other profession does anybody do
what they do eight hours of work for
somebody else for their professional job
to make a living actually do that
outside of work whenever they get they
get home like I'm sure there's some
crazy people out there that actually do
that you know all power to you but I
don't know anybody that does that on a
consistent basis
the main part I don't like about it is
because I would love this YouTube
channel doing a great actual projects
that I'm working on into the videos
obviously when you're working at a
full-time job you can't be integrating
that code and what you're doing there
specifically into the videos whereas if
you're working on your project you can
do whatever you want with it cuz that's
your code your project will have you and
I've actually been trying to mix around
a few things in my life for the past
month or two to the point where I can
start working on land practices again
and I have been haven't been as
dedicated as I would like to be but I'm
slowly working towards you know you
can't just pile all this stuff on
yourself and expect you to see it
through over the next six months just
I'm right now what I'm doing is I'm
using on into it and just seeing how it
goes and what it is right now
sure hope I stick to is that I'm not
gonna make any videos about my own
coding projects that I'm working on at
the moment actually it's just one
project what I'm going to do is wait
until I complete that project film along
the way and then I'll make a video or a
series out of it because I'm like having
to start something and then something
comes up and I end up not finishing it
because I've had that happen before
where I have a decent amount of time and
I'm dedicated to working on a particular
app you don't know what I'm talking
about you know what I'm talking about
this is maybe like a year or two ago and
then something would coming away I
remember when I really wanted to start
working on that very next month I
started one of the busiest semesters
I've ever experienced in terms of the
actual coursework at hand
plus I was doing an internship so I was
working full time plus I was trying to
grow this YouTube channel and I had all
these three things juggling that I could
maybe get by with four to five hours of
sleep that whole entire semester so
there wasn't really much time left to
work on the app that I wanted to work on
but even though I said I wanted to do it
and I loved it be man of my word like I
literally had zero time to do that
because I was doing all of this so I
don't want to make a promise or a
commitment right now I'm just going to
have fun work on what I got and then
eventually you know we'll see what I'm
working on and I know many of y'all are
out there where you may code all day at
work or at school or what-have-you but
you don't have the energy when you get
home you're you're mentally drained to
work on your particular project even
though you think you want to my little
advice is is it's easier said than done
is what I said last video is try to
figure out like is there a little thing
I can tweak like within 5-10 minutes
just just something so small that you
know you can go up and just fix it or
tweak it or maybe you can refactor some
code and make it a little bit cleaner
and then that may snowball into 45 to 60
minutes because you jumped from that and
you saw something else you need to
refactor you saw another feature that
you wanted to add or maybe that's just
all you need is at initial five to ten
minutes
refactoring some codes actually work on
the task
suppose work on that day for me and a
lot of other people it's always the
hardest to get started but once you get
going you'll find yourself having more
energy in order the device if you found
those people who love to say well we had
a project that you were passionate about
you love then you would find the energy
to complete it energy is not a magical
substance granted by fairies for when
you pass the test of loving a project
you just have to figure out a method to
gain that energy whether that be like a
20 minute power nap or the the little
tip that I just mentioned earlier I
mentioned how I really didn't want to
make this video because you know there
are various reasons why no need to go go
get into those but the reason I'm making
it now is because I finally got them
back into coding my own projects and the
fact I don't feel pressure from you know
trying to put it up on YouTube we're
trying to do this trying to do that like
for school for work I'm doing the this
particular coding for myself that's why
I'm comfortable making this video
because I just it kinda makes you feel
like a failure in some weird sort of way
at least that's how I felt when I tried
to record this video when I wasn't
coding like when I actually did quit
coding my own projects and I just didn't
like the feeling so I didn't end up
posting that video but here we are now
our many months later that that coding
again and I feel good about it I hope
you all enjoyed this video I enjoyed
taking you all along with me on some of
these little tasks that I had to do
today and appreciate you all listening
to you know me rant a little bit about
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