The Reality of Working in Tech :') | Data Scientist at Spotify

Hello everyone! Long time no see. I haven't picked up this camera in like over two weeks, so this feels kind of foreign to me right now. Well, happy Monday. It's a very gloomy and rainy Monday here in New York, but the work day has started and for the past couple of weeks, probably for the last month, work has been extremely demanding to the point where I don't really have time to vlog or edit and I also don't have much to vlog because I'm just like working all the time. When I do make work vlogs, I want to look presentable and I want my space to look good for you all, but if that's the case, unfortunately, I will just never produce any content. So here we are. I actually woke up extra early this morning to change out of my pajamas to wear something nice for you all. Just a cardigan and a t-shirt and some sweatshorts and then I also like kind of cleaned my living room, basically just stuffed everything behind. It looks good for now, but we'll see how it looks throughout the week. So yeah, this is going to be probably like a pretty unglamorous, un-aesthetic vlog, but I hope you all enjoy and let's start our Monday. Hey, good morning. I've been in a meeting since 10. Did like two hours of pair coding and the data was just not working. The queries were not working. My curry just splattered all over. I need to eat fairly quickly because people must be leaving. Thanks everyone. Thank you. It is a little past midnight right now and I realized that I didn't wash my dishes and I hate having dishes overnight because I live in New York City, man, and the roaches are ruthless here. So definitely need to tidy up before I go to sleep. Good morning. It is 7 a.m and I regret signing up for my Pilates class. Here we are and I don't want to pay the $28 late cancellation fee on CrossFest. Outfit set from Ella. It's actually also like freezing. It's like 50 degrees right now so I'm a mess. So this morning I ran out of toner pads so I'm just gonna have to do this. So I spent around like 45 minutes at the coffee shop this morning, came back, took a quick shower. It is almost 10. It's like 9 40. People keep pinging me. It's been quite hectic. Like the messages are non-stop. People would ping me at like 8 or 9 p.m and they'd be like, don't read this until tomorrow. But obviously I'm reading it right now. I guess there is a setting where it's like snooze until tomorrow at 7 but I get a lot of anxiety so I'd rather just look at it now and then if it's like urgent because we have like a test running then I need to take a quick look regardless of the time. I think today is gonna be much better than yesterday. Yesterday was, for lack of better words, a shitshow but I think most of the things are resolved at work and hopefully it'll just be more manageable. Sunscreen. Don't forget your sunscreen folks. I feel like a new woman every time I wash my hair because we were on day three and a half hair and yesterday I just had my camera off all day because I looked like a mess. My hair was so greasy so today is a good hair day. I'm gonna let this dry a little bit and then blow dry it and then it's gonna look so nice. Very quickly, I don't know if I showed you all the changes in my alcove but I got a headboard. I don't know why, like I just wanted one. So Wayfair sent that to me. They actually also sent me this bench and this bench has been like the best thing because I just placed all of my clothes here instead of on the couch so the space looks a little nicer but now I don't have to put all of my clothes on this one chair. If you know, you know this is like the not clean but not dirty clothes chair. Now I can just have it all over here and have so much more surface area. Yay! First day in the vlog where we actually look nice-ish. Okay, so outfit of the day. The top is from Reformation. I almost forgot. The skirt is from Urban Revivo and the blazer is Thrifted. With that, let's head to the office. My desk. I have this new sticky thing on my phone. I don't think you've been on the vlog, Pedro. What's up? I don't think you've been on the vlog. Josh has been on the vlog. Yeah, I've made an appearance. How many times? I'm a recurring character. Yeah, I need to catch up. Do people comment about your guests? No, but if you guys keep coming on, I'm sure they'll start picking favorite co-workers. These two are engineers from my old squad but now we're just friends. We don't work together though but we sit on the same floor. Yeah, unfortunately. Unfortunately? Unfortunately, we sit on the same floor. Well, that's rude. You're gonna be labeled as least favorite co-worker. I'll take the most awesome co-worker. Very long, a little bit of a rough day at work today. So my boyfriend sent me some sushi through Uber Eats. He is so sweet. He got it from Sushi on Jones. If you know, you know. It has been a very rough day at work today, to say the least. I had some difficult conversations at the end of the workday today which kind of brought my mood down and maybe I'll share it with you guys in the future but as of right now, I want to keep it a secret. Just know that every job comes with its difficulty and just because it's the tech industry doesn't mean that there aren't downsides to it too. There's definitely a lot of perks and I feel like most of the vloggers on YouTube or people on TikTok and Instagram on social media, we all depict it to be like this beautiful, nice, glamorous, cushy bubble but there are like periods of time where you just go through regular work stuff, work struggles and those things are not limited to just one industry or one profession. The work struggle is real, the hustle is real but I have a delicious plate of sushi right now which I'm gonna enjoy. I'm gonna watch some Netflix and I'm gonna try to unwind for the rest of the night. I currently have almost six hours of footage to sift through, cut and edit into like a 10 to 15 minute polished video so wish me luck. I kind of just let the run this time and that's why there's so much footage. I really wanted to capture just like genuine moments throughout my work day and hopefully that was translated through this video. I hope you all enjoyed. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you all next time. Bye!