Week in the Life as a Software Engineer in NYC 🎧 Work Life Diaries

Good morning! It is the morning of day one on Monday. I finished Pickleball in the morning and I am now at the office and I am in the bathroom and I checked all the stalls. They are all empty don't worry and I'm going to start my day off with some breakfast so let's head over to my desk. It is currently 8.05 p.m right now and I just wrapped up my work day. I decided to stay late today because I am in the thick of a project and I wanted to wrap up some loose ends and the goal is to deliver this project by the end of this week so timelines to be met and also I had some one-on-ones scheduled from tomorrow after lunch to tomorrow morning and I just wouldn't have had time to prepare for the meeting sufficiently if I waited till tomorrow to do that so I decided to stay late tonight to do that hence why I'm still here at 8 p.m and the office be looking completely empty but at least I get this incredible view. Let me show you. At least I get to enjoy this but that wraps up my first day of work. I'm gonna stay at the office a little bit longer to edit some content but then hopefully head home within the next hour but yeah I'll see you guys tomorrow then. I just finished back to back to back meetings and it's already 2 30 p.m and it was pretty unfortunate because I actually had lunch plans with my friend and some other new grads. We wanted to go to pop-up bagels to try the new cream cheese spread but it was sold out earlier today and so they wanted to go to apollo bagels instead but then the wait was pretty long and then I had a meeting right at 1 p.m so I decided to just dip and eat leftovers at the office so that was just pretty unfortunate and yeah I didn't end up getting to have bagels or hang out with them really and and then I just got stuck in a bunch of meetings and I had to eat my leftovers while in the meetings and yeah it's been kind of hectic and I just have so much stuff to do but it'll be okay so anyway I'm gonna go back to my desk now and try to have a productive rest of my work day. I just wrapped up some pickleball and now I'm gonna do a quick upper body workout. Let's go! Oh yeah I still messed it up. Wait it's good, stop. That's a beautiful one. It is currently 7 20 p.m and I heated up some leftovers to eat for dinner and I just finished work and now I'm going to be editing some video content. I brought my personal laptop here and I feel like it's a nice workspace to do some editing as well so switch in context a little bit and let's edit some content before heading home. So it is currently approaching 10 30 a.m and I am leading my team's training for internal engineers who are getting started with our product. This is my second time leading it. The first time I led it was actually during my first week as a full-time employee but honestly it has been a few months since then so I'm sure it'll go smoothly but obviously you know pre-presentation jitters and last time was for a group of interns and this time it's for senior engineers so I'm just hoping the questions they ask me are not too bad. There's going to be like little breaks during the presentation and I have picked Gracie Abrams new album to play in between so that's my little personal touch as a Gen Z new hire. Okay it is now 11 22. I just finished leading training. I just feel like okay it went okay. I'm overthinking everything that I did but it's okay it went well. It's over now. I did a good job. Yes there are things that I could improve. There were things out of my control. There are things that went not but there's no point in overthinking it now. I'm just going to note down you know my takeaways, things I did well, things that could be improved and I'll hear my manager out when he gives me feedback and I'll do better next time and it'll be good. I'm not crashing out. We're good. Self-regulating, emotional regulation is a thing that I am practicing. Maybe I'm like watching a video on like uh creamy clicks. Eggs and toast and my yogurt bowl with coconut water. Coffee in yogurt bowl. Matcha and watermelon. There's four quarts. Yeah yeah 24 spots.