How to find your passion as a Software Developer

make sure that you really enjoy doing

确保你真的喜欢你所做的事情

make sure like the thing

确保你喜欢的那个东西

that you are making a living out of is something that

可以作为你谋生的方式

is something that

是你能够

you have a passion for is something that you

有激情的东西

one day after spending all the time on it

即便一整天所有的时间都投入到这个上面

one day you'll tell them

你也会告诉自己

I'm kind of proud of what I did

我对自己所做的事情感到充实且自豪

if you find something like that I think it's

如果你找到了这样的东西

it's kind of like going to

我认为它会

turn everything for the better

让所有的事情都变得更好

at least that's what happened for me

至少对我来说是这样的

um even in programming right like um

嗯...以当下我选择编程为例...

I kind of

我显然

obviously like if you're just trying to

有点儿喜欢这样的状态，即使你只是单纯为了

get into programming to

改善经济状况（钱）

improve your financial status

而选择编程

that's totally good

那其实也是可以的

I mean there are stages that you have to go through

我是说你必须经历一些阶段

but eventually you kind of want to

但最终你可能会发现

in programming there are

在编程中有一些

there will be fields or topics that you

领域或方面会让你觉得

feel like oh that's my calling

这就是你的使命

I'm just like I'm better at doing this than doing that

你会发现自己在这方面比做其他事情更擅长

then you should kind of

那么你应该

take any chance

抓住任何可能

to steer your work opportunities towards the thing

可以将你的工作引向

that you feel like you would be

你觉得会让你

like feel better doing

感到更好的事情的机会

I think that happened for me too

我觉得我遇到过这种情况

like even looking back all the way to college I

当我回顾我刚进入大学那个时候

had no idea what I want to do

我也不知道自己到底想要干什么

and it's just like I

但通过

I kept making

不断调整

making these tweaks to what I'm trying to do just by

自己对事情的看法，让自己能够尽力

just by trying to get a bit closer to the

更进一步地

to the eventual thing that I want to do right

做自己最终认为正确的事情

like I started thinking I was going to be a designer

例如，我一开始认为自己将会成为一名设计师

but my college did not have a design major so I had to

但我的大学没有设计专业，所以

settle for studio art

我只好选择纯艺术专业

but then I went to this design technology program

但后来我参加了一门类似兴趣班性质的

for grass school

设计技术编程的课程

and in Grass God discovered that

并且就是在社团兴趣活动这种环境下

I actually enjoy programming

连老天爷都促使我发现自己原来真正喜欢的是编程

and

而且

if I did programming for so long

经过长时间的编程训练

I found that I want to do open source

我发现我开始想写开源项目

I want to do Javascript

我想用JavaScript语言去写

I want to do a front and framework

我想开发一个前端框架

and eventually I find that I can actually

最终我发现我竟然真的可以

make a really good front and framework

做出一个很好的前端框架

so

所以

every step I think like

我认为以往走来的每一步

deep down in my heart I kind of

其实都深入了我的内心

like at a certain moment I

比如在某个时刻

if I

如果我

feel like what I'm doing right now is not what I want

觉得自己现在做的不是自己想要的

you know it right like if you

你明白吗，就像你

at any point of time like

有那么一瞬间

you're working and you feel like this

突然觉得现在正在做的并不是你

not really what I want

真正想要的东西

you really know it like when it happens

当这种境况发生时，你真的应该有所顿悟

so if that happens

所以当出现这种情况时

try to just like

尽力去

look for what is it that you really want

观察什么才是你内心想要的

and try to just steer your work towards that

并试着将你的工作引向那个方向

I think it would be awful the better

我认为如果没有这样机会

and if there's no opportunity like

就不会让你变得更好

I mean this is kind of getting like

我想表达的是

into sort of like inspirational talk kind of stuff but

虽然这有点像激励演讲

but that's kind of the life lesson

但这却是我迄今为止的

I've had so far and it's just

人生经验

it worked for me

至少对我来说起作用

I don't know

我不知道

I feel to apply to any everybody but

这是否适用于每个人

that's kind of what I feel is

但我觉得这是

how to me get to where I am today

我能够拿到如今这个结果的原因