 Do-do-do-do, I packed it, I'm holding it, she's smiling, she's living, she got it, she lived for me, says she needs a new vision. Chris! Left motivation, she goes water, she goes sing along with me, and I'll make her smile like a drunk for you. Chris! What the heck, Wyatt? How many times have I specifically told you not to interrupt me while I'm playing Fortnite and listening to Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind? You need to come over here and see what's going on over on Twitter. What? What is so important over on Twitter that I need to see this? You remember that dude, Dre? He used to be one of your biggest fans! Yeah, yeah, I remember Dre, what's going on with him? Well, now he's talking all this stuff on Twitter! And you know, Gary, mm-hmm, yeah, Gary, he's up saying some stuff too. Gary too? Oh, come on, Gary! But Wyatt, I wrote that five months ago. A lot of stuff can happen between then and now. Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, I know that, and you know that, but they don't know that, baby. Ah, I guess you're right, but what am I supposed to do, Wyatt? Chris, I think you just gotta tell him the truth. All right, I guess I'll go try to clear my head and think about what to do next. From the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel's all about mental health. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And if you're not yet, please, please, please go follow me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul. All right, and I hope you all enjoyed the little skit. I want to start doing some more stuff like that in the beginning of my video. So if you liked it, do me a favor and share this video, because we're going to be talking about some important stuff. So I'm going to show you a bunch of stuff in this video that a lot of YouTubers won't show you. And I'm praying, I'm praying that Ethan was right when he was telling Trisha Paytas that you can't get in trouble for what I'm going to show in this video. You have to edit that out then. No, I don't! I'm not editing it out. You're not going to get demonetized. I guarantee it. That's an urban legend. No, they don't. It's never happened. I've asked them about it. It's an urban legend. All right, but anyways, those of you who are familiar with my channel, you know that every video I do, I made a promise to all of you that I'm here to provide you with value. So the reason I'm making this video and going to be transparent about this stuff and discuss kind of my journey this last year is I really wanted to benefit anybody out there who's had troubles with getting a job, finding a job, keeping a job. Like if you've struggled with job loss, if you have a dream that you want to pursue, I really, really hope you get inspired by this video. I've learned from some of the choices that I've made, some of the successes, some of the mistakes like you know how we do on this channel. But also I hope you take away some lessons on when to be humble and when to put certain dreams on pause and everything like that. But also, I want this video to be informational for anybody out there who wants to be a full-time YouTuber and just kind of give you some information. Let's rewind to about a year ago, okay? A little over a year ago. So for three years, I was working a dream job. I was the lead alumni manager for a very big addiction company. We had rehab centers all over the country. I was leading a team and everything like that. And it was going great, right? And I loved it. I got to work with addicts and alcoholics every single day, people who struggled with mental health issues and all that. I was loving it. And I started my YouTube channel just kind of like a side thing, right? Well, the company started to downsize a lot. They weren't making as much money and they eliminated a lot of positions. A lot of people that I worked with got let go and everything, but I still had my job but with some restructuring, I ended up getting called into HR and they let me go. So yeah, like they gave me severance and I had enough to live off of for a few months and it's something I had to think about. Did I want to start looking for another job? Or did I want to really try to be an entrepreneur, do my own thing, and make this YouTube thing work, right? And I made the decision to triple down on this YouTube thing. You know, really hustle, do like daily videos, do multiple videos a day, get very involved with Instagram and Twitter and everything like that. And in October, that was when Shane Dawson released his Jake Paul series and that's when things really took off for me, all right? Like I actually started getting views and subscribers. Like my channel went from about 5,000 subscribers, I believe, to about 18,000 within a month, all right? And I was like, oh my God, like maybe this was the right decision, maybe I can really do this full time. And I decided not to look, you know, for other work and everything like that and just really focus on this. So now is YouTube something that you can live off of, all right? So I'm going to talk to you about AdSense, like the money you make off YouTube, all right? I just don't want this video to be five hours long and talk about all the different, you know, sources of revenue and everything but YouTube was my number one source of revenue. The rest of the stuff was just like little extras here and there, all right? So I want to talk to you about this and yeah, so to put in perspective, between January and September of 2018, I made a total of $1,093 off of YouTube, all right? Now, October, when the Shane Dawson series was going on and I was doing my mental health breakdowns of it, I think started going, that month of October, I made $2,705, okay? Us YouTubers, November and December, that's like the sweet spot, all right? Everybody's pushing, you know, their holiday products and more advertisers and there's more ads to go around and everything like that. So November, I ended up making over $5,000 off of YouTube and in December, even more, I made $8,600 and I'm like, what, right? Like this was more than I was making at the rehab center and I was, you know, like I was managing an entire department and everything like that and I was like, wow, like I'm working from home, I could spend more time with my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and my son and everything like that and the timing was perfect too because, you know, Christmas was coming up so now I had money to buy Christmas presents but December is a nightmare for me financially because not only is December Christmas but it's also Tristan's birthday. My son's birthday is on New Year's Eve so the last day of December, right? So all these things I got to pay for so I'm like, nice, but to be honest too like a lot of what I was using this money for was to pay off a lot of debt. I had, I have student loans I'm trying to pay off so I can go back to school. I really want to pursue a PhD in psychology. I also tried to reinvest that money into you guys, the audience by doing giveaways and, you know, different fundraisers for charity events and everything like that, you know what I mean? So after December, that's when like my YouTuber like mentors and friends were like, yeah Chris like you really got to like just be careful you're not going to make as much as you were, you know because November and December with that sweet spot I'm like, what do you know, right? And then January happened and I made less money than December but I still made $7,000 that month and then February $5,000 so I'm like okay, February is a short month I made five grand and like my dream and even though you need to make more than this typically living in the United States like my goal is to make about 60 grand a year, right? So if I can make five grand a month, boom 60 grand a year, that's easy so I was like, okay in February, two months after Christmas if I can make five grand a month, we are golden but then what happened is what I call my Tommy boy moment, all right? And you guys might remember that scene from Tommy boy when he's trying to get the wings and it's kind of how I was with my YouTube channel I had my pretty little YouTube channel it was my pretty little pet and I'm like naughty, you're naughty oh I love you my pretty little pet and then I just I killed it I killed my YouTube channel and that's when everything started going downhill so that next month, March I made $925 April $1,140 May $1,500 June $1,100 Now on YouTube, that is a significant amount of money that is a significant amount but keep in mind full time YouTuber how many people out there can live off of $900 in a month $1,100 in a month and remember those other side things the sources of revenue that I was talking about all of those plummeted as well so thank God for my beautiful girlfriend Tristan for you know, not only was I you know, paying off some debts and things like that like she also convinced me to put things into savings and you guys like, I've never talked about this on camera and I won't get too far into details but taxes, I had to pay a ton in taxes, you know being my own employer right, also I had to pay a lot in taxes I owed from previous years to try to get that out of the way and then something else happened where to put it, you know, into just like kind of summarize I woke up one day and about $3,000 was taken from my account from the state alright, so like a lot of the money I saved up went phew and this is kind of where things just really got serious, alright because like I said I've always had that entrepreneurial mindset I want to be my own boss I felt like I made it and I didn't want to go back and find a job like I had been self-employed for so long and I was doing this and I just kept hoping and hoping and just putting more effort into the YouTube channel right and things weren't getting better August I made $874 September I made $641 right, it is not something I can live off of and remember a year ago this is when everything was taking off so this is something that I haven't talked to anybody about, any of you guys out there so the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over expecting different results and I just for months I was refusing to look for work and do anything I didn't want to step backwards for me if I'm being totally honest it felt like being such a failure like hitting my dream of being self-employed then having to go back to work and that's one of the reasons I was pushing it off and pushing it off for so long I had bills to pay just like all of you rent, car payment, insurance gas, groceries, all that kind of stuff and finally I got desperate I'm like, you know what, this isn't working, screw it and the way I thought about this and I hope you can too is I wasn't giving up on my dream I was just kind of putting a pause button, you know what I mean and what I did was I started hustling, I started hustling like you wouldn't believe I it's a good and bad quality but I work the best when I'm backed into a corner you put me in a corner and I will fight my way out and I started reaching out to everybody I knew, trying to find work alright, just seeing who knew somebody who knew this person, I was doing online applications, I spruced up my resume I did so many things next thing you knew I ended up getting hired as a private contractor and it was enough to kind of balance things out a little bit, I would have still been struggling if that was the only thing I got I would have been struggling and it would have been very difficult to live off of but I figured at least it's something at least it's something, it's not something that I wanted to do, it's some tedious work that I'm just like, you know what I mean but it was something, you know what I mean but out of nowhere out of nowhere um somebody ended up texting me back someone that I know and they said, hey are you looking for work? and I'm like yes and no, you know what I mean I didn't know what it was and basically they offered me a full time job they offered me a full time position so I already said yes to this contracted work right then I got offered a full time job and I'm like okay and that contracted position about 20 hours a week full time job 40 hours a week I said yes to both okay so a full time job and a part time job and this happened my first day I actually started both of them on August 26, I'm sorry I haven't told you guys about this alright but from the outside looking in you guys probably didn't even know you know why? because I've been still hustling I've still been doing almost daily videos on YouTube and this month of November I've been doing pretty much daily blogs right? like from your perspective you might have never known you might have thought I was still doing YouTube full time but I had to go back to work after I accepted those two jobs I got a third job offer and it helped me out a lot because you know once everything happened with the YouTube channel and everything like I felt like such a failure and that I sucked and I'm not good at anything right so to have three people offer me jobs was mind blowing so fortunately I had to turn one of them down and to this day I'm still doing the other two jobs once full time once part time I'm still doing YouTube so what's the lesson for all of this and it's all of you out there like don't lose hope there is work out there you are skilled and talented and sometimes we don't get to do what we want to do but we got to do what we got to do and even though the part time job isn't something that you know like I plan on doing forever the full time gig that I got it's something that is very beneficial for what I'm doing with my life what my hopes are where I want to grow so it actually I don't really look at as too much of a setback because the company knows all about the rewired soul and what I do and they're they're going to help me in a lot of different ways and I'm working with people who I can learn from and everything like that you know what I mean but anybody out there my biggest advice I can give you is just humble yourself get whatever work that you can realize like most of us I'm 34 years old but most of us are young enough if you got to do something for a little while until you're able to go and pursue your dream again do that do whatever you got to do so much that I want to do I'm currently working on my next book aside from doing YouTube videos I've been trying to be more active on social media just I'm doing a million things alright but anyways like I don't I don't come here to brag or anything like that I'm probably going to do a blog post on this but like I want to be an inspiration to people out there about work ethic right like work hard you know what I mean like here's here's the thing no matter what anybody says about me whether people disagree with my opinions or they just think I'm a d-bag whatever it is one thing that nobody nobody can argue is that I am one of the hardest workers out there and I hope that inspires some of you alright I will be doing either a blog post or video on how I manage my time I just learned something about being time rich first time poor because like I said I'm working two jobs plus YouTube plus writing alright and I feel like I have all the time in the world I spend quite a bit of time playing video games with my son watching movies with him and my beautiful girlfriend Tristan her and I binge watch shows right and some of you out there are probably wondering like how the hell do you get all this stuff done and it's possible and I'm not overwhelmed I'm not burning out so I do want to provide you guys with some tips and tools on how to do those things so I just want you to know I want to be living proof that you can pursue your dreams your passions your work whatever it is you can do it it just takes a little bit of adjusting alright but anyways I'm glad to have gotten that off my chest you know like like in that intro skit like there's a lot of people who don't get what I've been doing and everything like that like people can talk smack all they want but the reality is that I work my ass off alright everything I get I work very hard to get it and I'm not living an amazingly rich and lavish lifestyle but I'm living well enough and that's really all we can hope for alright and yeah it's really weird recording out in public but I wanted to challenge myself I've had people walk by one of the cuts I did earlier like this family just stopped right next to me it was really weird but I'm trying to push through my own social anxiety and start filming out in public a little bit more so I hope you guys enjoy it alright anyways thanks for watching if you have any questions any topics that you want me to discuss let me know down in the comments below so how'd it go I don't know it went alright I guess I don't like recording in public I'm sure you did fine and you know what I'm sure you did so well that everybody needs to like and subscribe to the rewired soul thanks Wyatt I packed it I'm holding she's smiling she's living she's going she lived for me says she needs motivation left motivation she goes water she goes stand on me and I'll make her smile like a drunk for you