Software Engineer Day in Life during RAMADAN (Fasting)

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it is currently about 5:50 a.m. and that means it is time for meal number one for the day I typically have something kind of mediumish uh have three eggs and then a slice of bagel with some cream cheese the thing is we have to eat before Dawn so Dawn first morning prayer time is about 6:15 a.m. so I have about like 20ish minutes to eat this my workday doesn't start till much much later but if you're ever looking for a good Deep Quiet working session there's no time like right now it's now much later in the day I took a nap so I'm well rested now it's kind of like the more official start of my workday pretty much what I do is check messages check emails review code from like the day [Music] before I actually have this meeting right now for this Creator event that's coming up I'm super excited for it because it's going to be a pretty cool event I can't share too much about the details just yet but stay [Music] [Music] tuned now it's time for our Friday prayer so let's go just finished up the prayer about to meet up with one of my friends and actually get some work done haven't seen him in a while so I'm pretty [Music] excited I'm here with my friend anit he's a current data scientist at UBS based in New York so what do you like about working in New York it's overall a really cool city to live in and uh Network and the best part is I got a really cool commute to work I take a ferry to work ooh okay okay and what's better data science or software engineering well I personally love data science because uh as at work I create ml algorithms to track Bank data like financial data Etc um but you know if if you're love software engineering that's what you want to do then go for [Music] it it is now officially time to break my fast and to do that I have this menual date these are delicious a glass of water and while I was at the mall I went ahead and got this beef burger delicious dessert ferer milkshake but before I get too deep into the meal I usually try to do a prayer and then come back and eat otherwise you start wobbling around it is now 1:25 a.m. and I have way way too much energy cuz at the event I was at uh I had this white mocha drink um very high caffeine and sugar too so I'll probably just do a little more work and then um call it quits when I feel like [Music] it hey you social [Music] media [Music] l