 I know guys it's been way too long since I posted a YouTube video but so much has happened in my life the past month month and a half between traveling landing a new job. I've been also really consistent on other platforms like TikTok and Instagram so be sure to give me a follow on those platforms as well but I will be posting more consistently on YouTube. I have a lot of exciting content that I'm going to be creating between now and like July. Alright so I just have to run out of store really quickly. I found kind of this like healthy recipe for Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and last night I forgot to get provolone. I also want to grab this really good green tea from this brand called Steve's or Steve's. I can't remember. So yeah this is the first day of being in between jobs so my first day of not working for anyone right now and I'm just really grateful and just feel so blessed to be able to have this opportunity to take a month off of work. Like I didn't know when I'd ever be able to do anything like this so I'll be able to focus on content creation. You know relax a little bit, kind of decompress, got some traveling and yeah just just enjoying this beautiful weather on the East Coast. The whole segment just felt like an ad to me but I'm about to actually go work out before I eat and then after I work out get some food I'm going to sit and just talk. Probably just do like a coffee chat so I'll probably run to a cafe really quickly probably bring it here and just have like a coffee and chat segment of the video catching you all up on my life. Let me open up these blinds really quickly to get some more light. So we're back from Switzerland and I'm actually going to work out in probably like a few hours. You know what's been really weird is my new job doesn't start till like July 11th or that's like my new start date. So I have like this like massive gap in between my old job and my new job and it's funny because it seems like a vacation but it's really not because I'm doing content creation so it's actually been really fun to just see what life would be like if I worked as a content creator full-time. Alright so it's time for me to make some coffee. I'm really excited about this new coffee machine we got. It's actually not that new it's just that I haven't really posted any YouTube videos like any vlogs and like months where I would talk about you know recent things I picked up or just life but anyways it makes for much better B-roll. Alright what is up everyone back at the crib time to just reflect and just talk about what's been going on the past few months. So I recently got back from Switzerland so Lee and I went to Lussain, Switzerland. I've been there before because of a Logitech conference. I feel like if I didn't go in that conference I probably wouldn't go to Switzerland for like a long time if not ever but anyways Switzerland is one of the most beautiful countries I've ever been to. Definitely the most beautiful place I've ever been to. Most beautiful scenery I've ever experienced. Clean and just appeared just incredible place. One thing I really enjoyed about that trip was experiencing a different culture and speaking French speaking a different language. Alright so got back to the states but let's just rewind to the whole purpose of this video and I made sure I added chapters just in case some of you all want to fast-forward to this part where I talk about leaving my job and being a part of the great resignation. So I quit my job with JP Morgan. I think I quit it like May 3rd. So I got a new job offer. I'll talk about that a little bit later. I quit my job with JP Morgan. The main reason why I left was because I just really didn't like working as a tech worker in investment banking. My team was great. We programmed with React. Our lead engineer was very smart. Like he was brilliant. He enjoyed playing around with new technologies and that's an important part of your job is that your leadership actually cares about it. Playing around with new tools, new libraries and just always learning opposed to just writing legacy code. So the technology I use was actually great. I know a lot of people experiences with banking and banking technology is just pretty trash. Like they're coding and like these legacy projects. It's not fun. They never work on anything new. They never write in new libraries or or new frameworks but that was in my case. I didn't like the culture and my team like I said I really enjoyed my team. I actually built some great relationships with multiple of my team members but as a whole the banking world just isn't for me. I know some people like it but for me I enjoy it being easy to meet new people and just building relationships outside of my team which I didn't do at all and this is the first time I've ever not built any relationships. Like I kid you not I don't have one friend. I can't name one person outside of my team or someone that worked with. Another big reason or I guess this is actually the main reason. The main reason why an important reason why I left was because I wanted to be fully remote and I found myself in office three times a week which was pretty difficult. I felt like I was stretching myself thin especially when it was the like winter and fall time where we lose so much daylight. It made it really difficult to create content because you know I have to hop on the train. I'm there to like 5, 5, 30. Don't get back to 6, 6, 15 if I'm lucky. Also I've always wanted to work at a major tech company. Like I feel like before one day I decide to become a full-time creator because I definitely think that is in the cards for me in the future. I've wanted to just work at a major tech company and I've also been very interested in pursuing developer relations and advocacy roles and I'm excited to say that I accepted an offer from Twilio and I'll be working as a developer evangelist which falls under the umbrella of developer advocacy or the developer network at Twilio. This Twilio offer and honestly came down to like really two things. Am I remote? Yes. Twilio already knew was a great place to work and the culture I knew, I knew the culture at Twilio aligned with what I was looking for. So then when comparing it with JP Morgan it just came down to like two things. Am I remote? Yes. Am I getting paid more? Yes I'm getting paid more. Also it's a developer advocacy role and I'm kind of tired of just being a programmer 100% of the time. So it checked all three of those boxes so I really thought it was a no-brainer. So yeah that's what's been going on with me. I think that's that's one of the main reasons why I actually haven't been posting a ton of content. I've been doing some traveling. I did a solo trip from New York to, excuse me, Palm Springs. I stayed in Palm Springs for a day and then I drove to Vegas so it wasn't necessarily a solo trip only part of it was to meet some of my friends from high school and we just hung out in Vegas and had a good time. So yeah I've just been like relaxing and not putting too much stress on myself to like push out a ton of content. I want to make sure I'm pushing out content that I enjoy making. Also with this free time I get a chance to spend more time experimenting with videos and posting more consistently but I've been on Instagram reels a ton. I post multiple times a week on Instagram and on TikTok so I would definitely check out those platforms. They're all Jocelyn J as well. I make some pretty fun content on there. I've been growing those platforms because I just I just love making reels on Instagram and I really enjoy making like fun content and interesting content more interesting less like niche-based content on TikTok but I definitely still make tech content as well. So that concludes this video. I don't want to make it too long. I hope you all enjoyed this vlog style type of video. Be sure to give it a thumbs up. It definitely helps out with the algorithm. Also subscribe for more content like this and comment down below just like what's going on like I just wanted to know what's going on in you all's life. I love interacting with you on a comment section. Also the more engagement I get in my videos it makes it easier for me to figure out like what type of videos you all want me to make. So with all that being said I'll see you all soon. As always have a blessed rest of your week. Peace.