So I actually started out Not even realizing I wanted to be an engineer was a baseball player in my whole life, actually, and, ah, prime halfway through high school, like I got hurt and kind of needed to fill a void. So I walked into Ah, the robotics lab. You know, we're part of first robotics and said, I feel like I'm missing this for my life. I would really like to get into this, and and I basically took that head on and started to just really put a lot of time into learning about science and physics and math and engineering, and I really liked it. To be fair, it's not like I you just picked it up out of nowhere. But, um, but that was really, you know, the first step. And then from there, I mean, it was kind of just it kind of all just fell into place. Turned out that being part of first was ah, actually really good. Um, you know, experienced seven stone and learning point to actually, uh, get into engineering colleges. And then once I was in an energy in college, you know, I like all kinds of math and science. So I didn't really know what is going to do it. Just computer science. It felt brought enough that I could do whatever I wanted from there, Um, and then and yeah, so, uh, followed computer science in college. And then, uh, the company that I'm at now, Green Hills was at my career fair. And and we talked, and they like me and Ah, and that's that's how I am right now.

from home s. So I guess I'll answer this as if I wasn't at home already because of covet. Um, so with cove, it I'm, of course, home for all of my work hours before that. The position that I'm in has very little traveling outside of recruiting. So the same way that my company recruited me going Teoh, you know, my school. I went to Caltech. Um, I I wanted to be a part of that. So basically, all the traveling I do it is just during recruiting season, going to schools and creativity and stuff like that. Um, the only exception really to that, I think is, um we work with some hardware companies that, you know, provide the hardware for the software that we're writing for. And it's not uncommon that they say this is proprietary were not allowed to send you our source code or anything like that. The best we can do is you have to be on site in a secure facility using only our machines. You turn your phone off, so on so forth. Um and so, uh, that personally, that hasn't happened to me. You're supposed to go to Taiwan. If Cove it didn't hit. Um, but now you know, that didn't happen. Ah, call my, uh, teammates. They've gone to San Diego door with call come for that Same reason. Um, as far as work hours, You know, I I love what I do. Um, my company asks, you know, 45 ish hours a week, which I think is very reasonable. I mean, you really see a lot of startups that kind of expect you to spend every waking moment, you know, kind of working toward the dream. Um, you know, I I'm very lucky that I'm in a company that that isn't in that kind of pressure situation where they need to get a product out as soon as possible. Um, you know, we kind of that said, when we have releases, you know, it can get like that. But I wouldn't say I wake, um, more than 45 hours without actually wanting to I mean, I personally tend to work 50 to 60 but that's purely out of interest.

typically have. It turns out that almost anything that you would use is actually something that the company already develops. So for the most part, I think the tools and stuff that people will use are gonna be, um, get or subversion for version control. Um, some sort of compiler. It's probably gonna compiler and some sort of the bugger, maybe like Microsoft official studio or something. Um, it turns out that we actually know my company actually makes a compiler ended. The bugger. Um, and we use subversion. So, um, you know, as's faras my personal answer, it's probably not as relevant, but in general, um, in general, it's it's it's mainly, you know, if you can familiarize yourself with the bugger a good text editor, I use him. A lot of people use sublime. Um, then that's probably good. But at the same time, almost any where you go, I have found is you know, they realize there's a learning curve. But if you walk in and you've never seen sublime before because you've been on Windows your whole time, that prices, someone does. But in any case, they're usually pretty, you know, tolerant. If you don't really have much experience with the tools that they expect you to use