hey guys welcome to or welcome back to my channel this is a yumi teresa as you can see from the
title my life has drastically changed in the last few months and i just wanted to update you guys
and let you guys know what it's all about so a lot has changed due to some of my personal
choices and covid so in this video i will explain why i made these certain drastic changes and what
i'm doing now so if you guys don't know if you guys are new to my channel i've been modeling for
over six years and that had been my mainstream income for a really long time and it was all a
really amazing experience that i got signed all over the world i got to travel for work
i got to see myself on billboards and malls and in magazines and it was all really fun and
i'm really grateful for the experience that i had through modeling but you know modeling isn't
always about the glitz and glam and as i got more and more used to the industry and kind of
you know it became my normal job modeling started to become a little bit unfulfilling i didn't feel
like it was what i wanted to do for the rest of my life and you know i'm not gonna stay young
and youthful forever i also have a lot of goals and dreams that are way beyond just modeling and
like you know i don't want to give it away just yet but i eventually want to start my
own thing and that requires a lot of certain skill sets and a lot of experience and you know i just
wanted to learn and like venture out into this new step these new goals i have in my life and you
know i felt stuck for a really long time because modeling was what was paying the bills and as
privileged as i was having that job as my full-time income i just wasn't
100 happy and fulfilled and i started to look to studying and learning all these new skill
sets that i wanted unfortunately modeling wasn't something that was offering those new skill sets
and new experiences that i needed for this next step in my life and as a pandemic it just got
more and more apparent to me that modeling wasn't a sustainable job it wasn't like a recession-proof
job you know like a lot of friends a lot of models that i know are actually they've been hit
hard i took this as a sign to focus on my next goals i wanted to use this time to acquire all
these new skill sets and these experiences that i actually wanted so for the first time in my life i
did job hunting like it's crazy i've never looked for a real job before like you know sure i've
waited tables like you know my first couple of years and i wasn't getting enough model jobs but
like i've never had a normal nine-to-five job before i've never had an office job i've never
you know worked in business you know i thought to myself okay well what am i good at and what
jobs can you know provide me the experiences and the knowledge that i want to acquire
and um i put together my resume i wrote down my modeling experience i wrote down my social media
experience you know i've assisted during tokyo fashion week way back in the day when i was like
really really young and like you know all those little like intern jobs and things like that i
wrote all of them down all my experiences down made a really really nice professional looking
resume even though i don't really have a lot of experience besides modeling
and um i started just looking for jobs and it was tough like you know you guys saw my last video it
was while i was looking for a new apartment i was also like oh my god i need to look for a new job
mind you is my first time getting a normal job and my first time living as an adult in the
u.s because i left when i was like 11 years old so the whole process was really crazy at first
but um i ended up getting a job in social media marketing um so now that is what i do
from monday through friday nine to five and it sounds it's just it's so weird for me to say out
loud that i have a full-time job like a nine to five monday through friday um but i'm extremely
extremely lucky because this job is a hundred percent remote i get to work from home every
single day and i had so much anxiety just going into this job because it was my first
real job and i had no idea what to expect and i couldn't sleep the night before but
you know what guys surprisingly i'm liking it a lot more than i thought i would and i'm learning
so much about marketing and strategies and business and it's so interesting and it's such an
eye-opening experience to me and you know it pays bills it's steady you know modeling sometimes you
make a lot of money one month and you don't even make half that the next month it was very very
unpredictable but this job i get a stable income every single month i don't plan to
you know work this job forever i have lots of plans ahead um but i do see this as you know a
stepping stone for my next goals that i want to achieve in my life i started this job in
september so you know it's been a good like four months since i started like the first couple
months was you know hard because i had to adjust to this new lifestyle and you know still sometimes
they get a little bit meh because you know i'm just stuck in my little corner every single day
working from home from nine to five and like it's not like i have a lot of friends here it's
not like we can go out and do stuff because of covid you know i couldn't go and see my family
and my close friends for the holidays sometimes it gets kind of tough and like i get in my head but
you know i keep reminding myself okay no yummy this is for you and your goals and
your learning and you're experiencing these new things and you're gonna take all of this
and just you know use it and use this knowledge to do what you really want to do in the future
so that's what i'm doing now and this year my goal is to be more consistent on youtube
and try to get you guys like one video a week because i do work a full-time job now it might
be less it might be one video every two weeks but my goal is one video a week i'm gonna try
to pump out content for you guys 2020 was hard and it challenged me a lot but i am doing so
much better now you guys mentally and yeah i feel like this year i really want to focus on myself on
improving myself on learning about myself you know the little things that i've always
wanted to achieve the little things that i've always wanted to change about myself
i feel like i finally get to focus on those things now and i'm actually really enjoying that and um
yeah i'm really excited and like in the title i know it says i quit modeling but just fyi guys i
i didn't like 100 quit like i'm still assigned to my agency in tokyo i'm still signed in singapore
um my new agency in bangkok still wants to sign me i obviously would love to go back and do that one
day when it's the right time but i just don't see myself doing it like as my main source of
income for the rest of my life um i see it more as something i could do in my free time you know or
in like a transition period of work i still take model jobs like on the weekend and stuff out here
um so yeah you know when i say i quit doesn't mean i'm never gonna model ever again um it just means
that i transition my mainstream income for now as of now from modeling to this new social media
marketing job so yeah i just wanted to update you guys on my life and my situation i'm in right now
um let me know if you guys are interested and knowing a little bit more about what i do and
my new job and what that's like i just want you guys to remember that 2020 was a tough year it was
it was a tough year for a lot of us and even though it is the new year there's still a pandemic
going on i know that there's still a lot of people that are going through a difficult time right now
i just want to tell you guys like don't be too hard on yourselves like give yourselves credit for
surviving one of the worst years like ever in our lifetime in our lifetime at least and don't be so
hard on yourselves remember to believe in yourself and everything will be okay like everything
is gonna be fine that is all for today's video guys don't forget to thumbs up this
video and subscribe to my channel if you haven't already remember guys do you and stay kawaii
you