 Hey guys, it's MJ the student's actuary and what I wanted to do in this video is just do some sort of a Channel update, you know, what's what's happening with this channel? What is going to be the future direction first things off I mean, I've hit seven thousand subscribers, which is absolutely huge. I don't even think there are seven thousand actuaries in the world So it's really great to see that there's a lot of interest in this topic Also on the actuarial vibe I'm probably not going to be a student for much longer because I have just passed The fellowship exam so I passed the fellowship in finance and investments It's the ultimate actuarial exam. It's the final one. It's it's been a crazy journey trying to get this one done But I finally passed all of the exams. I'm not a fellow actuary yet I still have to do the professional course which will happen later on and and all that type of stuff But I have finally passed all of the exams Which now makes me say well, you know, where to from here Because the general idea was to oops. I just I've got this new iPad I I'm still learning how to use it. Sorry So where to from here because the general idea was I made this channel to Help myself study and it was kind of like, okay, let's share these videos and it turned out that you guys also enjoyed them Which then caused me to think well, maybe I should make some of the other videos and I know that you guys are demanding Subjects like CT3 which is statistics or I think otherwise known as exam P Subjects CT4 which is survival models CT6 which is advanced statistics and CT8 which is You know financial economics and then there's also a big demand for me to finish up the CA1 series Which is all about actuarial risk management. So these are what I'll refer to as my tutorial videos and I think I think that's like the bread and butter of this channel are the tutorial video So I'm gonna keep making these tutorial videos I know I made a whole bunch for for finance ST5 Which hasn't been getting a lot of views But I think that's because it's such a such a high and specialized Subject is even less people who are studying that so I think what I want to do is focus on these five subjects When it comes to the tutorial videos, but besides from tutorial videos, I also want to make just maybe use a different color here I also want to continue making the advice videos So this is where people ask questions and they say what university should I study how to transition from being a pure Mathematic student to an actuarial student Etc etc how to become an actuary where to get your first job? How do you negotiate your salary? These will be known as the advice videos, which I want to continually do I also want to look at making videos that are just interesting. So interest videos These are normally going to be based around say the whole blockchain technology How blockchain is going to disrupt life insurance? How blockchain is already disrupting micro insurance the whole concept of smart contracts and and how it affects the claim cycle so I want to look at New technology and how it's influencing the actuarial Subject I want to look at news. I want to look at you know developments. So that's going to be the the interest videos. I Also want to keep making these these next time. We've already used purple. Let's use green I want to make more vlog videos These ones are just kind of I don't think they're that popular, but I just enjoyed doing them This is kind of like what am I currently? What am I currently up to? So these will be very much. I mean, I'm making this app called hype coin So I'll be documenting my whole process there the programming the coding How I'm using actuarial techniques in the monitoring process and how I'm trying to optimize certain things I also talk about developing a brand and marketing and blah blah blah blah blah and all that type of stuff And then finally what I also want to do is I want to make more. I guess you can call them fun videos So fun videos will either be me comparing saying who's better between Eminem and Drake from a statistical, you know point of view Or it could be me playing. I don't know an app online Kind of like, you know, how I'd go play like they say card games or is this that Kim Kardashian game? You know, try try that one out. I've downloaded it. I haven't opened it yet But it'll be quite fun to to record my my first impressions of it going forward So yeah, you can see there's I mean doing a lot of thinking on how I want where I want this this channel to go and I think that That these are gonna be the five types of videos that I want to push going forward for I don't know Maybe in next two months, maybe after two months that I lose half the subscribers and I'm like, okay, maybe this was a bad idea But generally this is what I want to do. I want to create Tutorial videos and I think the best way because What I want to do with the tutorial videos is I want to get your guys feedback So if you guys are saying, okay, I want you to do Markov chains or I want you to look at the black skulls model I want you to do this want you to do that Then that's the whole point of the comment section So the comment section is a great way for me to know what you want So comment section on tutorials on what advice videos you want. That is great What you can do if you want to get my attention and you'll be in my good books is if you do download my app hype coin and Hype coin is every five minutes you get a couple of coins if you send me coins So if you get the app and you download and you start mining coins and then you send me hype coins I can then see who is sending me the coins So if you if one person is like I want Markov chain and the other person is like they want black skulls But the person who says black skulls also sends me say a hundred hype coins Then the black skulls video from a tutorial point of view is going to be pushed to the top of the list And I'm probably going to do that one first. So use my app hype coin Which is only available on Android at the moment Apple have rejected me again for being an unapproved virtual currency I'll make a video about that. But that is a great way to to get my attention Even I guess with the advice videos is if you have a video request leave a comment And if you want I mean if you're the only comment then we'll go ahead and do that one But if there's a quite a few comments and you want your video to be made then download hype coin and send me my full name on the app is Michael Jordan so look for that Send me the coins. I can then see who has sent me coins and be like, okay, you know Jimmy sent me 150 coins and Jimmy's commented on my YouTube channel Let's make that. But other than that, I also want to continue with block chain So if you've got any ICO or coins that you want me to do same thing The vlog videos and the fun videos, I guess you can request those as well a certain thing but But yeah, I think that is the future of the channel. I have downloaded the small skin app as you can see I've made a loveliness But let me know what your thoughts are. Nothing is set in stone. That is the nice thing about a YouTube channel There's no boss. I can just stop making videos altogether or I can start something completely different or I can make these as Their own separate channels Oh, which leads me to the final thing and that is with regards to the notifications. I don't want to spam people And I do want to start releasing videos almost on a daily basis So I might be putting my turn off that whole alert thing so that people aren't You know completely spammed like every day. There's another video I'll try and be you know responsible with how I use the alert button But I think you can so you can stay subscribed and you can turn off the alert button if you don't want to get them But I am going to be respectful and try not to spam too many people But there we go. That is that is the channel I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I wanted to say thank you so much for helping me get to 7000 I think that's absolutely huge. Thank you so much for being with me on my journey To becoming a fellow actuary. I know it's difficult And I know a lot of you guys are wanting to get there the same So that's why feel free to ask me questions on the advice videos Send me hype points to get my attention and I will be seeing you in the future for more videos Thanks so much. Cheers