It’s winter, it’s so damn cold, and I’m walking to work thinking about a question that’s been quietly bugging me: I’ve been coding for almost 10 years… so why do I still want to be a software engineer? In this video I take you through my day and unpack the real reasons I’m still obsessed, even after a decade of missing semicolons, broken builds, and that constant feeling of “I don’t know enough.” For me, software engineering is basically modern-day magic. My brain gets bored fast, so I’ll randomly think, “Could I clone Lando Norris’s website using just CSS?” and the dangerous part is… I can actually try it. I don’t need permission, investors, or a factory—just a laptop and Wi‑Fi. And unlike the physical world (hello, dead Arduino chip), software lets me fail for free. I can be reckless, learn fast, and rewind the timeline. But the biggest reason is how well this job fits my brain. I’m a weaponized overthinker—I see systems everywhere, bottlenecks in queues, inefficiencies in daily life. In the real world that can feel like a bug. In engineering, it’s literally the job. And when everything else feels like a gray area, code is honest: it runs or it crashes. That green check mark is my daily dose of mathematical certainty.