Day in the life: Machine Learning Engineer

I'm interested to hear about other ML engineers in this sub: how you got to where you are; what you would've done differently; what a day in your life looks like. For me, I have a background in Econometrics and have been programming pretty heavily over the last 3 years. I only took one CS class in school – I wish I would've taken more. As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time each day programming. I don't do a whole lot of data engineering – I'm more on the model-deployment side of things.