How I replaced gaming with coding

Yo! In this video im telling you how I beat my gaming addiction and my journey from a gaming addict to a software engineer.

If you have any questions leave them down in the comments I'll promise that I'm gonna reply to you.

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[CynicalDemeanor]

When you said "I was never addicted to gaming, I was addicted to the feeling of leveling up", a F*KCING lightbulb turned on in my head! Thank you Luke!

[Brothercole]

You got some serious balls not only for believing in yourself but also to share your previous life with everyone. Big respect to you, man

[TheForgettenWaylen]

Gaming is good up until it becomes an addiction

[GamingWithTucker]

Bro, this hit me hard. I have been trying to get into coding my whole life and being told I could never do it. So I stuck to playing videogames, my joy of videogames has run out but I still try to learn coding from time to time, I am working on Python right now and probably gonna do Java next. Just hearing someone else, who barely made it through high school, who didn't have a drive to go anywhere with their life, making it in the career I want has opened my eyes. Thank you man, you have shown me a new light and a clear path forward.

[LukeMadeIt]

Don't try to "quit" your addiction cold turkey. Find a replacement for that addiction that will benefit you in the long run. If you quit cold turkey you will have a void in your life and that void will lead you back to your old habits.

Thanks for watching bro <3

[Lofi.am]

This was very inspiring for me. Your comparison to iPhone needing new hardware to run better software being similar to going to the gym to feel better and retain information better and become a better programmer made so much sense to me.

Thank you for this information. I hope I can learn more from you and I’ll try to keep you updated on how things are going for me. I might occasionally update this comment or make some new ones.

But really, thank you. This provided a much needed perspective that I had never thought to consider. You seem to be very bright. Thank you bro!

[DrDre]

It’s so great you share your story with other people! I’m also learing coding and I feel like the Internet is completly full of people who complain that there is no sense in learning coding, because there will be no need for programmers in a couple of years etc…
Thanks for spreading positive vibe and giving motivation.

[kirflickers]

It's exciting how our life can turn out sometimes.

I finished my school with the worst grades possible, failed THREE universities, two of which were CS. Built a really strong feeling of disgust to all IT-related stuff. Fell into depression and lived in a hospital for 1, 5 months. Sat two years at home and then tried some shitty local courses. It's been two years now, recently I've got a job as a frontend developer and met a bunch of really incredible people.

[mememan]

I like how this video is straight to the point and not some 20 minute life story. Keep it up man

[mgs_k]

A genuinely motivating video.
Wish you all the best in your career.

[Feeeiiid]

strangely I came along this video, I'm suffering from multiple mental illness including gaming addiction. And a week ago I also started teaching myself coding, I had the same exact experience as you as soon as I started I really got hooked cause every move was a new challenge, everything new that I was learning was an achievement. Things I haven't felt in gaming for a long time. Can't wait to be in your position right now, hope most of us that had been in that state of darkness find a way out like this.

[bencodes]

When you said "Hard work beats talent every time" This couldn't be truer in our industry. If you work hard and just keep going anything is possible.

[EstebanGT]

This is how I feel about cybersecurity. Currently a software engineer and while It's not my cup of tea, I see the value in it and would love to at least be decent at both. Fantastic story for sure! I came from a poor country and a lower middle income family. I didn't even see a computer until a little later in my childhood. We've come a long way!

[thomasyoung]

Watched your video start to finish. Thanks so much for taking the time to make the video about your start to coding it help people like myself compare so it seem more possible.

[filipvasic]

Hi there! Great video man. I had the same experience 3 years ago. Was gaming my whole life then decided to learn programming. Got into a private school/course that lasted a year. Learned about CSS/Javascript/Html/C#. Got a certificate. Found a job as a junior developer in some foreign country. Worked there for about 8 months. We've finished the project and then the covid started and I got fired. After that every other job application I have sent was denied and every interview I had was just a dead end. I lost the will to be a programmer because currently companies are asking for med-senior programmers with at least 2-3 years of exp. And that's something I don't have. It's been a year since I've done any coding and depression is slowly starting to kick in. This video gave me some hope but I don't know where to even try to get an internship.

[Abottlebaby]

This is the best 5 minutes ive spent. str8 to the point, and impacted a bunch of people going thru the same thing

[danimunf]

i don't know about the youtube algorithm. But i think this video is specifically made for me, I'm a software engineer with less than 2 years of experience but i feel like I'm stuck on a dead end. I feel lost in focus also I'm having difficulties learning new concept, method or even fundamentals. Now your videos really speaks to me well, i think i just lost a goal that I've been set way before. Thanks for being vurnerable and inspiring story bro. +1 subs, really looking forward to your stories in the future

[zoobi]

Here a story : i've been modding games for years, went through a lot of struggling but also a lot of wonderful experiences. I needed to learn, train, dedicate myself and persevere a LOT. (got 15 000 hours). Long story short : it took me so much time i was actually not playing the game, but feeling the progress was the driving thread for me. I guess it's the same thing for everything in life : progressing and feeling that you are passing milestones. Same with the Gym, my other big hobby. Now feeling like transferring this to my job will help make my life rich (i want to learn coding for automating imaging devices for biology research, i need to learn from scratch) and add AI to that (well good job)

So i dont want to skip gaming completely (eventhough it'll only be a few erratic hours in the weekend once in a while, if i don't get someone entering my life lol) but yeah, pretty much, looking forward to get more & more skills and being able to achieve things i previously thought impossible to reach.

[JadenIIT]

This was an amazing video man, i subbed

[MIO_sh]

My pathway is somewhat similar but quite different. Back in like 12, my friend introduced me to minecraft, and quickly, I'd just rush home and play around with it, and eventually, more time was sunk into that I start to notice my grades was going downhill. But in front of minecraft, what could stop me from continue playing it? Nothing, and not even the game itself is the limit. Then, I came across mods and plugins, and those things are so magical it changes the game into a completely different thing, and that was very very interesting. I had a lookup, quickly realize those are all written in Java, the same language as Minecraft itself. That moment, I realized if I learned Java, I could write these mods for myself the way I wanted minecraft to be, and then, the addiction went into writing Java stuff, even the back motive is just the same playing minecraft.
And with my friends needing to play together, I needed to start a server, and there, I was forced to learn all the networking knowledge to pull off the server, forwarding ports, setting up firewall, etc. Soon, the server grew up to more than just friends, it started overloading, and I need to move it away from the game crappy laptop I use to launch minecraft, and without a single cent in my wallet to rent anything, everything was built from scratch to cut cost, and everything was learned and done by myself.
All these, adds up, and I graduated from college with a shitty grade of course, but went to the university just to realize everything they taught was already knew, and best yet, everything I knew was actually the solutions used by companies out there, I have already equipped myself with everything a company needs from me, just by playing minecraft better.
Now, I am a fullstack software engineer, that also manages the network and cloud infrastructures of the whole company, and all these wouldn't be a thing if I didn't get addicted to Minecraft. So, the takeaway is that, it isn't "gaming" a life problem, it really boils down to how you game smart, and what side projects you did to make you game better that changes the rest of your life.