I work in healthcare IT. I can confirm everyone thinks you are magician, you can make up whatever explanation you want, and 90% off the work you do is restarting the computer.
I also work in healthcare it also that. One negative though is that all the big tech companies are trying to break into the industry and other Medicare changes can fuck with your pay and promotions
My god, was this video made specifically for me?? I've been through the money vs. passion thing in software for a decade plus, which culminated in quitting my job to become a solo game dev because that's where my passion was. Ended up hitting the incredibly fickle luck you need to succeed in indie game dev and actually launched a game that makes enough money to sustain me and a small team. Even after all that, I would never, ever tell someone that "follow your dreams" is a reliable life rule, but I agree with Atrioc that "do something you feel good about" is vitally important. If I didn't have an out and was still stuck working as a web dev or something, I would be hating everything right now.
I work fulltime in software and do gamedev as a hobby. Having seen many people try to yolo their life away to live the gamedev dream, I can say that i'm definitely better off taking the safe route. Unironically, the few people who chose a similar path as me seem to be more productive than the yoloers. There is something to be said about not deteriorating your mental health with financial stress.
. As someone who quit they're job to pursue they're passions. I can let you this. A year later, I'm broke and I'm trying to find a new job in the industry I left. If you quit, my advice is to just do it with class. No need to "burn bridges". Side note: I'm incredibly happy that I took the opportunity to work on myself but I just wish finding a job was as easy as quitting. Good Luck, my (hu)man. 🤞🍀
3:40 I got a job as a graduate data analyst in a government agency and IMO it's the perfect position between "tech" and "non-tech". Most of what you do is focused on business outcomes so you interact predominantly with the business side of things rather than the tech side, but your job is also technical enough that the business guys don't have any idea what you're doing and think you're some kind of genius. In reality it's like, stuff anybody could do with a few months worth of SQL training but to them it's like magic. Sometimes it feels to me like they think I'm manually going through spreadsheets line by line to find patterns in the data.
Same (kinda, but with consulting). My main "brand" is around data analytics but atm I'm working a lot on proposals and learning how projects are priced and sold
as someone who graduated with a cybersecurity degree, it’s not as easy to get in as people make it to be. it’s a lot of learning and practicing on your own time
I love how Big A always sprinkles around why 2:17 we should become accountants because being accounts in myself this is where I get my motivation from.
As someone who works IT at a non-tech company Atrioc is entirely wrong. I work for a financial company and they continuously try to cut the budget of IT as much as possible because they don't understand the support infrastructure that we provide and only see us as a "necessary evil". Literally just had this convo the other day with colleagues and we talked about how much we get underpaid as a department compared to others. lol
Given the other comments by people who also had IT experience, it definitely does not seem like he was *entirely* wrong, for some he was right on the money lol. So definitely just situational
@@Pyxyty Healthcare IT, maybe. But I've been in financial IT, education IT, and even retail IT. I think it's far more nuanced than what Atrioc says and would hate for someone to get into IT because of those expectations.
Fintech IT pays the best and also provides the $$$ for tools and projects. But they do tend to have a better overall understanding of tech, so it's harder to BS to upper management. I can't speak for Healthcare (though I've heard the on call is often brutal), but education is easy street. Generally lower pay but way less stress, less oncall, less overtime. Atrioc keeps farming that "Cybersecurity is the way to go" but the market is so scuffed, entry level positions are impossible to find, plus nobody actually cares about cybersecurity outside of regulatory requirements. I will say the hours are generally 8-5 (or shift work, for those in a SOC), but wait until you jump in for incident response and get stuck in a bridge for 12 hours.
@@Jekk2317 Fintech only pays the best in certain markets, Healthcare IT pays better as well as government tech jobs in my region of the country. That's also because a decent amount of large healthcare and insurance companies have their home offices here. If you looked at the average fintech salary in my region it's roughly 10-15k lower than the national average. Granted these are numbers for entry level infrastructure engineers and workspace techs so I'm sure that could very well be different for cybersecurity, network admins, etc.
I love Atrioc, I’m so glad I have these videos to watch every day. I’ve been going through it a little lately. These videos make me happy and Atrioc is a good example of how to persevere. Keep it up Big A
The whole thing about "follow your passion" is very interesting to me, cause like... Since I was maybe 12 or 13 I've known that i want to be an accountant (or at least something accounting adjecent), but it's not like its like a "passion" I have. It's just something that I've found to be a thing I like to do, and I don't get bored with it. This was only confirmed further when i was on a school trip to England where I got to intern at an accounting firm, and i literally just got so into it that I forgot to have lunch most days.
You’re right, the advice shouldn’t be “your work should be your passion”. It’s that you’re maximizing your energy when you work on something that feels to YOU like play but feels like WORK to others. Snowboarding and smoking weed is play for everyone so it isn’t what you should dedicate your time to (in career)
As someone who both loves snowboarding and smoking weed, and currently deciding on either taking a gap year or getting my MBA, I feel like this comment was meant for me 😭
@@colbybowen288not specifically to you, but for anyone else considering a gap year, i really recommend you just finish your degree first and *then* take a gap year. Like maybe save up some money for it while finishing your degree, before you take that break. If you stop before you close out that last year, your momentum is just cut off and it'll be way more difficult to start again. Consider that one wheel metaphor from that Atrioc video of Bezos' book, where if you want to accomplish something, you need to take advantage of momentum in the actions you do and make sure that momentum keeps going until you finish your task, in this case being a degree.
i was passionate about game dev until i realized what it would take to make a game and that working for a AAA dev team as a grunt would be gruling, i never looked back.
I remember a teacher or someone in highschool came to talk to my class and gave us the best advice. You have three things to consider: Are you good at it? Do you enjoy it? And will it make you enough money? Whatever career you pursue should hit all 3 to some extent
Eh, I would throw out the "do you enjoy it." For anything you enjoy, remember that working in that field will probably suck that joy out of you and even if you quit that job it'll take years before you can enjoy doing said thing again. That's really just stuff that people tell kids so that they continue with their education tbh.
Solo game devs are basically playing high stakes poker. Yes the best players rise to the top but at the same time you are still so dependent on luck to hit it big. But there is no ceiling though which is crazy. Anything COULD happen.
Im a professional musician and music teacher living my dream :) Also the music industry is far more independent now, labels hold very little weight. Even more so if you have a-lot of followers ( I do not yet, but don’t care either way :) )
I think the important part of "follow your passion" is that the passion needs to be monetizable. It isn't just about something you like, your description was pretty close. Something you could enjoy growing in as a field/career. Non-work passions, such as the jelly bellies hehe, aren't what people are talking about.
i agree that they are. especially through the union. im only 21 but i can already see the benefits vs non union work or even something like office work (not hating on office jobs specifically, just not my cup of tea)
The trades work when you're in your 20s but by 40, you won't want to be in a hot attic or cold garage all day. Plus the risk of injury is a lot higher.
@@Inverter222there are trade schools that teaches you things like medical. I know because I did this to get certified for a few things. It can get you into other careers.
@@Inverter222 im an electrician and the physical work aint too bad most of the time. plus, and this may be my youthful ignorance of not knowing how the real world works, but i wanna “retire” in my 40s and become a teacher till i actually retire
@Inverter222 for sure I can see that but there are options for example starting your own business after you make enough money or you can be a job site manager or an overwatch position
honestly wouldnt a solo game dev make money as long as its and okay game and they sold it for like 20 bucks. so man shit games sell thousands of copies just because there in the cheaper indie game price bracket even if they rip off another game.
