what is up guys forest here and I think
now more than ever is an appropriate
time for me to talk about programmer
burna which has a lot to do with why iOS
development has kind of been missing
from this channel wait a second before
we get started as I was editing this
video I kind of realized that I forgot
something I forgot to integrate that
Tomas is the one who kind of brought
this to my attention I've been
experiencing programmed burnout as well
and you'll see why and I'll explain
everything and tell you stories in this
video but Tomas Santiago made a not sure
if I pronounce your last name correctly
if I didn't apologize kind of shared his
experience via a comment on one of my
previous videos about his own program of
burnout how I was spreading himself too
thin and that really encouraged me to
make this video because I've been going
through the same thing recently and I
want to let everybody know that it's not
uncommon you're not alone when it comes
to programmer burna if you're feeling
unmotivated there's probably a reason
not because you're not cut out to be a
programmer but because there's just it
just happens it symbols that it just
happens to 99% of us and I'm gonna put
Tomas is coming up on the screen now so
pause it if you want to read through
that whole entire comment I basically
told you the summary of it how it's his
program or burn out story and I'm gonna
take it off the screen and now we're
gonna get back to our regularly
scheduled program enjoy so programmer
burnout it's really appropriate for me
to talk about it right now because these
past like six months essentially the
past two semesters have been hectic but
the past like two or three months have
been especially hectic this semester in
school I'm currently working on two four
hours of sleep it's not enough sleep for
anybody which is why I need my coffee so
as I was saying this semester I've been
building two Android applications one of
which being an augmented reality
application integrating tensorflow
machine learning things of that nature
I'll discuss more about it with you guys
in the future but right now I'm in a
group of nine total people maybe there's
like seven or eight now you know a few
people didn't make it all the way
through this semester but a big
developing this Android application so
that's one thing going on
second a droid application is a social
media style application where I actually
discussed it in a previous video it's
called pizza topper well I think I've
told you about how we had four people in
that group and then it got narrowed down
to two people because nobody in the
group was doing anything except for me
well guess what in that group of two
nobody was doing any of the work except
for me and I was really stressed out
approaching like the midterm demo like
that's kind of what we had to do we had
a demo our Midway application basically
and I had to stay up like for two
consecutive nights maybe getting like a
three-hour nap somewhere in there and
created building like the rest of this
application whereas I thought my partner
was going to kind of participate that
that's kind of how we divided the skills
but I wasn't hearing any communication
so I kind of expected I was gonna do all
of it and it's just a horrible time I
actually asked my professor with the
partner in the room to go solo so now
what started off as a four person group
ended up as a one person group and that
social media style app pizza topper is
part of my mobile app development course
where we're learning Android development
and I'm also working on another
assignment which is the third assignment
where we essentially are creating a
smaller application to kind of learn
some of the basics within Android
development essentially the assignments
are to focus on one thing or another
maybe a few things at once and integrate
it into like a little application
doesn't have to be fancy just has to get
done and don't even get me started on
cs4 17 which is computational methods
and software where essentially I'm
writing numerical algorithms and
integrating those into Java or C++
applications well not integrating I'm
creating the applications surrounded you
know based on these numerical algorithms
it's basically where linear algebra
meets programming fun right oh yeah and
I also have a theoretical computer
science course where I'm not even going
to get into that just to know that if
you're interested in pursuing computer
science degree math please a huge role
not just in the math classes I'll talk
more about that in another video I
actually want to make a video about kind
of conquering math as a computer science
student but we'll get to that probably
in the next week or two
subscribe if you're interested in
anything like that and then that's
suddenly what's going on in school I'm
also trying to you know do YouTube
induce a few other things like I'm
setting up my twitch account I've been
you know getting my profile picture
together getting the panels together
getting my station over here setup
properly I already got all my Wi-Fi and
whatnot our internet set up and then I
have look-look a cool little mic stand
back there and I have a webcam up there
it's not facing out because I haven't
been using it yet so I don't really want
it facing at me you know cuz hackers put
over on twitch.tv slash force tonight
I'll link it down in description below
if you're interested I'm doing QA videos
while I play fortnight's so a lot of
people have asked me for Q&A videos
that's going to be the platform I also
like to diversify and not just hold
everything on YouTube but also kind of
girl following over on Twitch as well so
give me fell over there I really
appreciate it now I'm not only
mentioning this to plug my twitch
channel although I am plugging my twitch
channel I'm mentioning this because all
this has to do with programmer burnout
it's just my specific case with all
these programs and applications that I'm
building in school along with like I
said everything else that I have going
on in my life you know everyone has
everything stuff going on in their life
but that has really just burnt me out
from programming I haven't really been
able to work on my own iOS application
except for a few days out of the month
so yes it has been getting done you know
a little bit along the way but it's not
as much as I'd like to that's because
all of my programming time is allotted
to Android development or just every
anything with school any school
programming that's where my programming
time is allotted I still want to have
time to myself and I still want to have
time for y'all in order to make these
YouTube videos and I've also been
looking a bit more into programmer
burnout per se and a lot of people have
been saying like four to five years it's
kind of the time where let's say in
someone's career they kind of get burnt
out with doing the same job over and
over and over again maybe you're working
on different features but that's kind of
like where programmer burn out sets in
and although I haven't been in the
workforce for four to five years I have
been programming for four to five years
that's when I started and with all of
this going on and me you know not being
able to focus on one emphasis iOS
development for example and I have to
focus on Android development standalone
java development C++ development Python
development
Python with artificial intelligence and
machine learning development then
learning all the frameworks of
technologies around that it's so it just
burns you out what this does in our fur
back to Tomas is comment from earlier in
the video it spreads you so thin that it
just burns you out it makes you not
enjoy programming as much as you did you
know when you're getting into
programming you have all of these hopes
and dreams and you think about I one day
create this application in this
application or maybe one day I'll go
work at SpaceX or you know work for you
mind must go over at Tesla or solar city
or you know wherever you really want to
work whether that's NASA or Facebook or
Google and then it just kind of
diminishes and diminishes and diminishes
it for me I think that's really like
computer science my school at this point
in my career and my school career that
is it's really just burnt me out and I'm
completely over just spread me too thin
I mean I understand that school is where
you learn how to learn and you need to
essentially build a foundation because
if you learned this this this isn't that
you really learn how to learn a new
language so you start off with Java or
you start off with C++ and then you're
able to learn Java and then you're able
to learn Swift you're able to learn
Python and that's kind of like the idea
behind school I mean computer science
isn't just programming it's actually
more so computer theory than programming
but you use programming to implement
that computer theory if that makes sense
you're not in computer science program I
don't know if it does but school is
spreading me too thin you may be
spreading yourself too thin you may be
interested in web development and then
when it's it's time to you know get over
that hump
once it gets like really to the
difficult part you're ready to get over
that hump but you don't see that you're
about to hop over that hump you switch
over to iOS development or you switch
over to Java programming or artificial
intelligence programming and then that
keeps happening you learn the basics of
that language of that framework of that
technology and then once you're about to
essentially break through as they say
you switch you switch you switch and you
don't really find yourself being an
expert or at least being able to
complete a full program that you want to
create on your own in a timely manner
you're sitting there with the basics of
web development you're sitting there
with the basics of iOS development
you're sitting there with the basics
Python development but you're not
excelling that's what we call a
jack-of-all-trades and if you know if
you follow me on instagram you will see
in my description on instagram jack of
all trades master of none
that's true right now unfortunately I'm
not proud of it I just thought it's kind
of funny so I included in my little bio
up there and on Instagram but that's
like kind of what I'm going through
right now it's just everything is just
spread too thin I'm building so many
different skills up to like this level
when in reality I should be focusing on
one maybe two skills and building you up
to this level so I can be a professional
and expert at that and all honesty I've
been looking into jobs as I'm you know
closing out of my computer science
degree more so and the data analysts
work systems analyst worker or work that
has minimal coding and you want to know
why because I don't want to have
programmer burnout I want to be able to
come home and if I want to work on my
iOS application I can and I will because
I haven't been programming at work all
day I'll be working all day but I won't
be writing code I won't be trying to
debug or figure out what's going on with
my program I will be doing all of that
data analyst systems analyst type work
so I have more motivation to work on my
own projects because after all most of
you know that I plan to work for myself
I actually kind of have this goal in
mind where one year I don't know if I
should say this in case any employer is
what my potential employer is watching
me but I would love I'm gonna say it
anyway I would love to be able I hope
that after one year working at whatever
job I get after school I have the option
to leave that job and come work for
myself full-time whether that be
building iOS applications for myself and
YouTube and twitch and all these other
ventures that I'm trying to dive into
and I'm only gonna be able to make that
possible if I don't burn out if I'm able
to come home and work on my own projects
my own IRS applications in order to
build those applications into a business
my own Android applications if I want to
go that route as well or maybe even you
know if I'm able to build up this
YouTube channel my twitch channel and
whatever else I choose to dive into and
essentially generate enough revenue
whereas I can be working for myself I
may even reach out to you guys and hire
you guys to build apps for me I may be
too busy with YouTube and twitch and
maybe doing a little bit of iOS
development or maybe I want to be a
project manager in order to run the iOS
application that I've built and then I
can bring on an Android developer
because maybe that may not be my
favorite thing to do or I can bring on
someone who does web development or web
application development and things of
that nature so there's just this is
what's going on in my mind right now
and I'm really getting scared from this
whole programmer burnout thing and I
don't want that to happen to me so I'm
doing my best to avoid that situation
which is why I'm so excited that I'll be
graduating in May I'd actually do have a
few other classes that I'll be taking
this summer and later in the fall but
it's only like one or two classes so
it's not that big of a deal or at least
I'm hoping that it's not that big of a
deal I just want you guys to know that I
don't care if you're one year into it or
if you're five years into it or 20 years
into it programmer burnout is real you
just have to I don't know I'm going to
share my experience with you guys
hopefully all this works out well but in
my mind and what I've read and kind of
my understanding of why I'm being burnt
out you know trying to reverse-engineer
why why I'm being burnt out my
conclusion being step back figure out
what you really want to focus on and
focus on that and I've actually had this
mindset for the past like nine months or
so when I really started to kind of feel
this way and I just haven't been able to
do that because of school school is kind
of what's spreading me thin so once I'm
able to get out I'll do my best to be
able to work on my own software
applications myself and although I hope
nobody's thinking this I'm sure there's
somebody out there that is thinking why
don't you just stop playing video games
and focus on iOS development or stop
doing this or stop doing that and focus
on your own iOS application that's
because of this burn out because I'm
working on this Android application that
Android application these smaller
Android applications my numerical
algorithm applications and all this
other stuff going on that I need a
little bit of time to myself I need a
little bit of time to do fun activities
I have fun hanging out with my fiancee
missing my wife that'll be in about 34
days I believe so I have fun hanging out
with my fans I have fun hanging out my
friends but I also need a little bit of
time to myself so I need to be able to
sit back and play a little bit of video
games and that's just kind of how I I
don't want to say this
decompress that's how I decompress
that's how I just can't replace that
with iOS application development two
years ago I could one year ago I could
and I'm not trying to make any excuses
it's just that that's how I'm feeling
right now
and if I did any more programming I
would probably lose my mind so just know
that you're not alone if you're feeling
burnout just take a step back reverse
engineer why you feel that you're
burning out spreading yourself too thin
most likely that's the case otherwise
you know maybe you just need to take a
break from programming for a couple
months then come back into it you'll be
reinvigorated then you'll be ready to
roll in whatever application you're
working on or maybe it'll be a better
idea to work on a new application
because maybe you've lost interest in
that old application so that's just my
two cents on programmer burnout hope you
guys enjoyed this video till next time
have a good one peace
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