Hi guys, so last time I drew my life was in 2013, and SO much of my life has changed since
then. I’ve had quite a crazy year! So I figured, let’s do something new! Draw My
2014. Here we go.
I left off a bit unsure about what the heck was happening in my life. How #relatable.
Also don’t ask me why I look like a potato. My drawing is spudtacular.
2014 started with a big accomplishment. I finally graduated with my MSc in Actuarial
Science. It’s basically crazy financial math and trying to find out the probabilities
that people are gonna die. Yeah not fun.
But while I was on my way to my graduation I saw a line of people in suits walking down
the road so I followed them thinking they were going to my graduation and I accidentally
ended up in the inner chambers of a bank discussing an upcoming merger. I snuck out and eventually
found where I was supposed to be. But still a bit of a weird, fun story.
Also, great artistic direction there. Move the feet to change which way I'm walking.
I'm a genius.
2014 started with me having less than 28 days to leave the country. Pretty freikin hectic.
The job I was working at in January wasn’t being too nice about it either. My boss would
be like “ehhh we’re thinkin bout sponsoring you and… ehhh maybe” when I had ONLY 2
WEEKS LEFT. Like geez. Talk about a deadline! Also I felt like my office was lacking so
I figured ehh let's make it…COOLER. *laughing*
While I was being messed around by that company another company approached my on linkedin
to run their facebook ads. The job sounded too nice and had too many perks so I thought
it was fake and I took my time replying to them and even went in to the interview super
laid back. They loved this however and gave me the job! And now I had a visa! I could
stay in the country! Huzzah!
In March I traveled out to Florida for the annual Playlist Live YouTube convention where
I had a crazy amazing time and got recognised as the guy who photobombed pictures from the
year before. Guess I won’t be sitting next to Troye and pulling funny faces anymore.
I’ve gotta troye hard to save my rep. Sorry Troye!
Around this time I decided to make a pact with myself to not miss a single Sunday upload
and take my YouTube channel a bit more seriously. Since then I have not missed an upload in
40 weeks.
Also, puns.
In July my friend Dodie and I embarked on a 2 week trip to Los Angeles to attend another
big YouTube conference. Vidcon. Not much to say from vidcon except it was nice to see
my American friends and Santa Monica again!
However, when Dodie initially joined me on my trip I didn’t really know her too well
and I didn’t know if she’d be down to literally live day to day without knowing
where we were staying the next night because that's just how I am whenI travel. but she
was rad! I had a few friends lovely enough to let us stay a couple nights and since then
we bounced between crazy place to crazy place, until eventually we decided we had to do something
else while we were in America.
I remember looking at her and she said are we doing this? Are we seriously doing this?
And I was like oh yeah we’re doing it. So we rented a car and drove off to the grand
canyon. We made a pitstop in Las Vegas on the way there and the heat was insane. Opening
the window was like opening an oven door. And yes our car did look like a slice of toast
vomiting spaghetti. Luckily for some reason I was driving outside of the car? And sweating.
I’m an artist.
During the drive, we got to see some of the most breathtaking scenery ever as seen by
my beautiful art here. I remember pulling up to the reserve and seeing a sign saying
it was another 25 miles to the scenic point and I joked that ya know what, I didn’t
care anymore I didn’t want to drive another mile we were just gonna turn around and give
up but as I was saying this we looked to my left and there was the Grand Canyon. And I
just remember both of us swearing profusely because of how breathtaking and how startlingly
beautiful it was and we pulled over immediately and started taking it in.
On the way back I was afraid of falling asleep driving so we ended up listening to our favourite
albums and we talked and talked and talked and talked until we felt we couldn’t anymore
and then we pulled over near a cracker barrel and slept until sunrise. Eventually we made
it back to LA, and then we boarded our plane back to London. It was most definitely my
favourite part of 2014.
Despite how amazing my summer was, the joys of Summer in the City, and the amazing weather
London received, I hit a bit of a rough patch at the end of September. A very close friend
of mine at the time was revealed to be quite toxic so I had no choice but to cut him out
of my life completely. It was very rough and very public, and I almost considered taking
the next day off from work to rest my mind from it. However, I ended up going to work
the next day only to find out that I and a lot of other people at my workplace were being
let go. Talk about a series of unfortunate events.
However, I used my time off from work and bad friends as an opportunity to look for
better jobs, better friends, and to travel a lot more.
I went punting in Cambridge with my friend Dottie. I hung out with my 2 friends Chai
and Sam in Brighton. I hiked the hills in Edingburgh, Scotland, I went mountain boarding
in the Isle of Wight, I explored all of Belfast which I guess is just a giant shamrock for
some reason. In the meantime though I was applying to loads of other jobs and I went
from having 0 offers in October to 3 in December. I got to choose! I picked an opportunity at
a company that would build my cv a bit it would start sometime in early January right
after they sort out my visa. That's right. My visa is once again sorted!
I won’t let a few negative people define my 2014, so I’m focusing on all the amazing
trips and things I did instead. Also in the course of a year 40,000 new people decided
to start watching my YouTube channel. Welcome aboard! 2015 is gonna be an even better year
with even better people. In fact my friend Dodie and I are moving in to a flat together
next week, so look forward to lots of fun times ahead.
I thank you all so much for your support! Be sure to give this video a big thumbs up
if you liked it and subscribe for more! As this is a new tag I’m gonna be tagging my
friend Dodie and the twins Niki n Sammy to draw their 2014's. Also here’s my last video
if you haven’t seen that yet. Thank you so much for watching! I'll see you guys next
week! Good bye.