Oh my God, I take my camera out of my office for the first time in a long time
and it's like I've never used the thing before. *cough* Hey, yo what's up guys so oh my God
there's not a top 10. The world's going to hell. Don't worry. Don't freak out. This is a little bit different today
We're not doing a top 10. We're not doing a 50 amazing facts
No today is a very special day for two reasons: one, we just hit a billion views on this channel
just a little while ago and number two, this is actually my 500th video. And in celebration of both of those things
I thought I would do something a little different for you guys.
I met these guys from a channel called "story booth" who animate videos
and they asked me if I had a story that I wanted to tell us that they could animate it and I said "yes, I do"
So that story that I'm gonna be telling you guys today is the story of how I risked everything to become a
Youtuber. Story booths' mission is to empower kids through shared experiences and stories,
which is exactly what I'm going to be doing for you today.
Whether you're in high school
university, or just working a job that maybe you don't want to be at I hope that this video
inspires you to take a chance on yourself and do that thing that you really want to do. So without further ado,
here it is. Enjoy.
You know I've always noticed throughout my whole life that there are so many people doing things that they don't want to do.
Working a job that they hate when their true passion lies somewhere else. When I was in high school
I had zero idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
One day my accounting teacher told me that I could make a lot of money as an accountant and
being young I was like yeah mommy, so let's do it.
So I proceeded to spend the next year getting the credits that I needed to get into the
university that I wanted to go to, and ultimately I did get into that school.
I spent the next five and a half years getting a master of
accountancy degree, and I got a job working in public accounting making a cool thirty thousand dollars a year...except that I was miserable.
I didn't want to admit that to myself because I had invested so much time and money into getting that degree, so I
convinced myself
"Hey, this is just what people do". You get a job and you sit in a cubicle
and you put your head down, and you just work.
One day the firm administrator called me into their office and had an envelope in front of them.
"Thank you for everything you've done here, but business has slowed down and you got to go now bye-bye".
And within minutes that safe job I had worked all of those years. Suddenly wasn't so safe anymore.
We're taught to take the safe route, but the truth is the safe route isn't safe at all.
So why am I not taking the same risk by working for myself?
I had discovered YouTube a year prior and fell in love with it.
I had been making videos on the side occasionally for fun, but now I decided it was time to go all-in.
But I won't lie, my time off was tough.
I had no guarantee that taking this risk would actually ever pay off. There were many nights that I laid in bed wide awake
wondering if I'd made the right decision at all.
I spent the next year of my life broke and feeling lost with no sense of direction.
It felt like I was just floating in an endless sea of doubt. All that I had was faith and a little determination.
But at the end of that year something happened. My videos started getting views!
My videos went from getting a few hundred views, to a few thousand, to tens of thousands, and eventually hundreds of thousands.
After a few months I started making the same as my accounting job, and then more.
It took something bad to happen to me to force me to try something new.
Something that might make me happy.
And I think that's where most people in this world fall flat. Most people are not willing to take a risk on a better life
that makes them happier, because they've gotten comfortable in a job or a life that just doesn't fulfill them.
The reason I'm telling you this story is in case you are one of those people who has that nagging voice in their minds telling
you that this isn't what you were meant to do.
I'm here to tell you that that is your heart talking,
and it knows what's best for you. Listen to it. Pursue your passion.
I promise if you stick with it long enough you will be successful, whatever that thing is.
Ah, so that's my story. I really hope you guys enjoyed it. What do you think? As far as I'm concerned story booth killed it.
It's a lot better than the stick figures I could draw. If you guys enjoyed this
please do me a favor - go over there, check out the channels, subscribe of course if you like what they do because they do a
lot of animation stuff just like this. They work with YouTubers animating their stories and other cool stuff.
And of course if you have a story, you can actually submit it to them through their mobile app or website,
and if it gets chosen they might animate it. Everything of course that you're going to need is linked down.
Guys, this is the first of multiple big project that I'm gonna be working on over the next few months/
You can look forward to some new fresh stuff for me, more creative stuff instead of just the usual that you're used to.
So that's it. Thanks for watching, check them out. I'll see you later. Bye.
Meeh. I just realized I still don't really know how to end a video right.
Yeah