Ep. 8: How to Become a Software Engineer, Budgeting in Your 20s, and Getting Into Investing and Personal Finance with Bukola Ayodele
But What's Next? with Michelle Reed
Michelle Reed
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a conversation with Bukola, a software engineer based in NYC. In this episode, she shares her journey to becoming a software engineer after pursuing different career paths and tips for anyone looking to learn about coding and programming. Bukola discusses how she budgets her income, the importance of giving, and tips for getting into investing.
Things Mentioned:
+ Bukola's YouTube Channel- https://bit.ly/3fbmHw3
+ YNAB Budgeting App- https://bit.ly/2Yisf14
+ Bukola's Video on Resources for Learning Code- https://bit.ly/2MJP08T
+ Michelle's Instagram- https://bit.ly/30BoiXU
+ Michelle's YouTube- https://bit.ly/3cPHQdP
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome back to the podcast I hope you guys are having just a |
| 0:15.0 | super awesome start to your week when you're listening to this episode I |
| 0:18.7 | cannot wait for this episode because I explain a little bit into the backstory of how I met Bukola who is the person I'm interviewing in this episode |
| 0:26.3 | But it is basically a crazy story you guys may have seen her if you watch see and be see and they do one on millennial money and they essentially |
| 0:34.7 | break down how people spend their salaries and I remember watching bakola's |
| 0:38.7 | videos and just thought she was so awesome so smart and she discusses a topic that I know absolutely nothing about, |
| 0:46.2 | and that is software engineering and coding and all of those things. |
| 0:50.3 | She has an awesome story about wanting to pursue becoming a doctor, but then switching to law, to switching to software engineering. |
| 0:56.5 | She goes into spending her money. This girl really knows how to budget. She touches on investing and kind of building your personal wealth while also sharing more about getting into software engineering and just pivoting in your career. |
| 1:08.0 | All the things, this is such a very useful episode. I think that if you're someone who's going into software |
| 1:13.7 | engineering, if you're someone who wants to learn how to budget, if you're someone |
| 1:17.2 | who's kind of learning about investing, I think that would be cool it |
| 1:19.7 | touches on these things in a very just thoughtful way and she's really great so I really |
| 1:24.2 | hope you guys enjoy this episode I think it's definitely a good one and if you do |
| 1:28.4 | feel free to leave me a review feel free to share on your Instagram and I just wanted to note that because we are recording this virtually, |
| 1:35.3 | obviously I'm not in person with my guests right now |
| 1:37.7 | that I have on. |
| 1:38.8 | There is a little bit of an audio issue |
| 1:41.0 | or sometimes when our voices overlap, there's a little bit of like a |
| 1:43.7 | gargle noise. Please excuse that. I try to not interrupt her as much as possible or kind of like |
| 1:50.0 | cut over her to avoid that, but it makes the conversation a little bit more choppy. |
| 1:54.8 | That is because I was trying to avoid that. So please excuse that. It's just kind of a thing of the times right now. |
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