Oh, my God, This is so exciting.

With 16,000 off you in this video, guys, I will tell you a little more about my journey over this year, and I will give you some updates for what's comin next and what's going on in my life in general.

This'd so exciting.

Last week I hit exactly a year on my life of your channel, and it's been such an incredible journey.

And I've had so much fun creating videos for you and learning so much about myself.

What?

I like what I dislike.

And let me tell you a little more how all got started before I actually went ahead and started my own channel.

I've wanted to start a channel for probably over six months, but I was too scared off not having anything to talk about not having any a specific Thio, my own standards expert, he is or not having anyone that would listen.

And just in general, you know, YouTube is such a new platform.

I didn't know how to.

It was just a lot of barriers until on Facebook randomly, I saw that a friend of mine, Alexis, she posted a YouTube video with a friend, and I was like, Oh my God, I have to reach out to her and ask her what software is used for added and how did the whole process go?

So we met up and she was super pumped that I wanted to start a channel, and we decided that why not?

We would start a channel together.

She's a product designer.

I'm a software engineer.

So we decided to start a channel around software engineering and product design perspectives in a workplace.

Which would it We have four, I think, or five videos together.

You can still actually find them on your channel now for channel nose cold.

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She's mostly talking about you.

Ex design and just life experiences.

Yeah, we got started with that.

Let me go way got started with that together.

And then after having gone through the process of planning videos, actually being in front of the camera and just feeling overall more confident that I have something to say and it looks like people would listen.

I decided that I was ready to start my own channel.

And that's how Life of Yuba, God born and my first video Waas a day in the life of a software engineer at Airbnb Video.

And it's actually still to this day my most popular video on the channel.

And I started with this video for a few reasons.

I'm not gonna lie.

I I thought that there was a trend off Dana Life videos, Friends of mine, such as my Yuko Jarvis, Joe.

My bail posted a video like that about software engineer and specifically and that I thought was really easy barrier to entry for my own channel because I could show people what my dating life.

Woz and I also kind of wanted to see whether my video would also do well because I knew the trend was there.

So I had a ton of fun filming the day in the life video.

Was walking around the office just filming everything.

People were kind of You're looking at me weird or just thought it was funny.

It turned out to be a really fun video, and actually, my hypothesis to see whether will do well came true because it did amazingly well.

It got picked up by you to bother with them, would act, which actually gave me a huge book boost right at the start of my own channel because because I was getting so many views, I was also getting subscribers.

So I think I got about 3000 subscribers from the get go just because of that video.

Once I posted it, I started thinking, Okay, look what else I can share it because I already started feeling comfortable talking about my software engineer in Journey and Perspectives with Alexa.

I decided to expend on those topics on life of Uber Channel.

Basically, I started posting more videos and just getting that barrier off fear of what to talk about was extremely huge.

I've realized that I can share my experiences and hopefully someone would listen to me and hopefully it will help someone.

And it's been so amazingly incredible.

Seeing so much positive feedback from all of you guys.

I love what I get Commons that I made you work harder.

You got more motivated thio achieve your goals whether its programming related or not, programming related, you're becoming more productive.

And just in general, you like seeing what it's like.

Thio live in Silicon Valley to live in San Francisco so thank you so much for all of your support.

Hard to believe, But we're at 60,000 subscribers now, just within this one year.

It's incredible.

I'm feel so humbled by all of your positive response on all of your support.

And it just makes me want to keep going and one of the things besides, you know, not being scared and just doing it if you want to start.

YouTube is also to stay consistent, really working hard on being consistent with videos right now.

And actually, the more you practice, the better you get it.

I want to start expanding and talking about more things, not just software engineer.

And I want to share with you guys what else?

I'm working on what I've learned with respect to, you know, move into the states what it's like to live in Silicon Valley.

And I just have so many ideas and topics.

And since I started of YouTube a year ago, a couple of things also have happens.

So besides me just being more comfortable talking about whatever my own journeys perspectives knowledge is and sharing it with others and fueling more confident about myself, I also feel more empowered to try new things and to be open minded and try something quick.

And if it fails, it fails.

And if it doesn't amazing just learning about what I personally like and dislike with my audience likes.

And there's a few of those things that I'm working on right now to give you a couple of updates for what's going on in my life.

What happened over the course of this year, My two good friends and I are actually building a whole course about getting a senior software engineering job at a tech company on this course is gonna focus on the whole process, starting with practice for interviews, the type of intra muse how to kill that the mind set the negotiation stage and actually picking the offer.

I'm super excited to launch, and I think we're going to be lunching it within the next few weeks.

I knew you were interested in hearing about it earlier.

You can actually go ahead and sign up for updates at job search dog depth.

I will leave the link in the description down below.

I'm also working on a project with my boyfriends and we're going to lunch and it's soon on Kickstarter like financial had a few very successful Kickstarter projects before.

And I was thinking that maybe I can share with you guys about how to launcher products, helped to develop our products and how to be successful on one of the crowdfunding platform.

Skip started being one of them.

I'm really excited to be launching it in a few weeks.

It has nothing to do with soft for engineered or life in Silicon Valley.

It's something completely out there.

But as I said, being on YouTube over the course of this year helped me be more open minded and help me just, you know, jumping onto idea, quickly working on it and seeing how it goes and not being scared and fearful off potential failure.

But if you are curious about these topics and it's something that I have never really covered on this channel, just leave that in the common section down below.

As I said, my boyfriend also has incredible amount of expertise with respect to these topics, and we may be even together can put something for you and you can learn about a completely different area off my life, and I also personally, was thinking that it be fun to potentially share my own Kickstarter campaign.

Last year about operated drone footage in San Francisco, went actually have a video from it, also up on my channel here, right at the very beginning when I started almost a year ago.

So again, I want to teach you guys and tell you more about things that I've personally learned from different areas and interests and hobbies off my life.

So I hope you're up for this journey and up for expansion off topics.

Also, as for what else is coming up on life a blue.

But I am personally working on making the brunt work.

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He's if working with, designed to put together a more comprehensive website.

Right now, it just says coming soon and you can actually still download my free pdf about learning to code.

And that's life dot com slash code.

I'm planning to work on more guides for you.

I potentially will start putting webinars and more courses together as I sat on organ on, of course, with two friends of mine.

But I'm also thinking of expanding my own course selection, so if you guys have any specific topics that you want me to cover it in a comprehensive course or life or weapon are leave that in the clone section down below.

Overall, let me wrap up.

There was a lot of information, a lot of updates.

I'm just incredibly excited to have had this one year with you guys and to share so much knowledge, So many experience, so much off my own life with you.

And I'm incredibly humbled and excited by all the support, all the kind words that I've received from you and that over this year it just makes me keep going and makes me come up with more ideas and with more things that I want to share.

A few guys.

Thank you so much for your support.

It's been, ah, whole year, 60,000 of you super excited super poems for what's Next ends again.

As always.

I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day.

Keep going, keep working, Stay motivated.

I will be putting more stuff on the channel for you and on other platforms solidly on Instagram for more updates.

Super excited.

Let's see what 2019 will bring.

Thank you.

Have a good day.