Thread by @lakatos88

🥑Why would you be jealous of your Developer Advocate? Cause of the glamorous #devrellife? Let me take you on a little journey about a day in the life of a Developer Avocado👇

😴You spent the night before in a plane, and the morning queuing for 4 hours to get a visa on arrival to Thailand.

😪You woke up at 6 today, and showered keeping one eye open at a time because that's the most you could do

☹️You lucked out of getting shitty hotel coffee cause breakfast opens at 7...

😬So you went for shitty 7eleven coffee instead. At least you found the one option without sugar, so that's something.

🌄You got to the conference an hour before everyone else, because you need to setup the booth.

🧳A jetlagged @RabbiGreenberg joins you, with the 'swag stash', which you both carried into the country, shipping stuff in this part of the world is a 'no no'.

👨‍💻Because you're working at the conference it means you're on an opposite schedule to everyone else.

🙊You're working during the conference breaks and your 'break time' is during the talks.

📜The keynote just started, so you could technically do that coffee run you've been badly needing since 6 am.

🎁But this is the only conference @timriley is doing this year, and the keynote is supposed to be special.

🤔What do you do? Decisions, decisions...

🍣Guess who has to do shifts to get lunch while at conferences? And you guessed it right, everyone else is still watching the talks.

🏝️I hope you like eating alone.

🤞You were really lucky today, the conference organizers have the same schedule as you, so you got to have lunch with some of the @rubyconfth organizers!

😶It got quiet at the booth, it's finally time to get caught up on some work.

📉But you really should check social media and analytics first, see how your conference engagement went so far.

📢Maybe you should spend this quiet time scheduling some more tweets for tomorrow.

🥳 Congratulations, the last break of the conference is done! You can start packing up the booth.

🙊By now you've had similar conversations with 100 people at least, and they all started the same.

👻Have you heard about Nexmo before?

👨‍💻You've actually managed to get some work done today. You added one new endpoint to the node SDK you're working on. Two more left for tomorrow.

📦Just in time for the end of the first day of the conference, you really should be storing the booth you packed up earlier!

😪The first day is done, and so are you. Looking forward to go to the room and just crash for an hour or so.

💃You keep telling people you'll be at the after-party. In 30 minutes.

👟Look on the bright side, the only time you get 9 hours of activity is during a conference!

😎You got dragged to the #rubyconfth party after all, looks like that 'crashing in your room' is going to have to wait.

🚧Remember you have an early day tomorrow as well, so don't party too hard tonight.

🛌You've managed to leave the party unnoticed and you're finally crashing in your room.

🤯But before you shut down your phone and go to sleep, remember why you're doing all this.

💼Nobody talks about the 12 hour work days or about always being out there.

🚧Everybody gets hung up on the travel and the glam life.

💸Not sold on the glam life? Travel was amazing. You saw so much of Bangkok: the airport, your hotel and the conference hotel.

✨You're not doing this for the 'glamorous' life, or for all the 'fame' and 'glory'.

👨‍⚕️You're doing all this because you genuinely like to help people!

🔮And you could honestly say you helped at least one person today!

👩‍⚕️You really care about the developer community!

💖And 'making developers' life easier' is not just a marketing gimmick for you.

☺️Despite being sarcastic today on Twitter, you'll gladly do it all again tomorrow.

😁With smile on your face. Because you love helping people!

🤩It's honestly the most rewarding job you've ever had (and I've had a few), and you wouldn't trade it for another!

🙇‍♂️Thanks for coming to my TED talk, see y'all tomorrow!