this time exactly one year ago i narrowly missed making the worst choice of my life and i want to
tell you exactly how that led to everything great that happened in 2020 a 40 raise a much
better work life balance and the building of this youtube channel here's how it happened
if we haven't had the pleasure of getting to know each other my name is andrew i am a data scientist
here in silicon valley that's professor meatball he is a dog turret from the university of corgell
and today i'm going to answer the questions of exactly how you can royally trap yourself you can
really screw up your prospects for getting that extra bonus each year of your young professional
life and that bonus could mean a lot of different things it could mean a financial bonus
to your net worth it could mean a spiritual bonus to the amount of recognition you get at work and
then finally it can mean a accomplishment bonus so whenever you are feeling like you are stagnating
at work you've achieved the one thing you wanted to achieve whether that's a stable sixty thousand
fifty thousand dollar job or perhaps you are a young professional and you're making somewhere
between a seventy to ninety thousand dollar job doing consulting or investment banking or you
are a silicon valley engineer a data scientist making six figures right off the bat and having
a great time at the volleyball court or wherever it is that kids spend their times nowadays in
the pandemic you are stagnating you are slowly stagnating if you are not thinking about the next
step which is what i was doing this time last year i really wasn't thinking about the next step i had
a general understanding of how i could rise up the ladder of the silicon valley company that
i was working for but i had absolutely no idea how or where the resources were to get started
hopefully this video will help you understand exactly where i could have gone horribly wrong
and how to smash that like button as hard as you can so that we can defeat the youtube algorithm
together well that said let's get into it this time last year i de-prioritized my personal
and financial growth a ton this time last year i had only three things on my mind travel dungeons
and dragons and volleyball all the free time i had on and off of campus was just to occupy myself
recreationally playing volleyball on campus we had a nice beach court set up inside the
campus itself as well as dungeons and dragons and board game nights outside of campus with whatever
little bandwidth i had i would just think about where to travel to next at this point i had over
a dozen countries traveled to since i came to california and i wanted to go to the next place
now if you're interested in how unlimited vacation translates into how me taking almost two months
off to travel to those dozen countries a year ago would be interesting for you
if that was a sentence that made any sense go ahead and leave a comment down below to hear about
that story i was feeling pretty stagnated i didn't really understand what else to fill this hole in
my life this kind of empty feeling that i was just keeping myself recreationally busy and just
making that six-figure bank until i decided that i needed to find a new job when i hurdled myself
into the ring i had a deadline i wanted to find a job in the next eight weeks and then when eight
weeks went by and i was still in the pit of all of these different job applications and final round
interviews i was feeling pretty down on myself i missed my mark it really didn't feel like eight
weeks worth of a six figure salaries paycheck was well forfeited for my process two months out of 12
months is a sixth of your salary so that was when i was feeling pretty down on myself feeling like i
might have made the biggest mistake of my young career until i was able to pit three different
offers against each other on the tenth week when i finally started work during the pandemic i was
ready i was ready to do a two hour commute there and back from here to san francisco i live around
two hours south of it if you have heavy traffic so normally if you start heading off to the office
around 8 a.m you're not gonna get there until like 10 a.m that was not the case i never ever
made that commute because the very first day the pandemic hit and i started working remotely this
ended up being a surprising best of both worlds not only did i cut out all of the hours i would
have spent on a commute but i was lucky enough to be able to then turn those productive hours
into creating this youtube channel and making all these educational content for you in terms
of lifestyle in terms of data science learning i'm hopefully going to continue and this opened up my
eyes a ton opening up nine streams of income most of them passive as well as creating these legacy
educational content on youtube is going to be a lot more rewarding a lot more to grow on every
single new subscriber i welcome in every single person that watches one of my videos i want to
thank you guys so much because this is a dream this is something that gives giving myself meaning
meaning that i didn't have a year ago so yes i was able to improve my quality of life my work-life
balance as well as shooting myself into the new year on a magic carpet of sorts however it is
a lot of work each of these videos you see still takes five ish hours of work not only for me but
from my best friend and roommate who does a lot of the heavy editing in the beginning and i do mess
up a lot to the amount of reckon recognizement the main point is i never would have made this
incredibly pivotal part of my journey if i stuck to the volleyball courts and the dungeons and
dragons and the board games i still do those things i still play three active campaigns
with possibly another one on the way and those those take some time but gosh darn it if i
don't have the best of both worlds the best of all three worlds the spiritual side of being able to
be connected with my family people that consider my family here in the bay area the academic side
of being able to continue learning and researching these specific video concepts but also working on
initiatives like the 66 days of data where i am able to do something data sciency computational
statistical or nerdy every single day thanks to people like kenji and people like you part of a
community of learners and finally professionally the third and most important thing is that you
constantly keep growing yourself your self-worth your net worth as well as the myriad of different
things that you want to do everybody wants to be a renaissance man hopefully you had chances to learn
some art before the pandemics some creative outlet singing dancing or whatever it is that keeps you
integrated into your community in college or beyond if you have something that you love to do
for me it was fire juggling and circus and martial arts and acrobatics that you no longer am able to
do during the pandemic go ahead and write that comment down below to let me know what you are
hoping to get back into as soon as the pandemic starts to let up that's the trivia question for
today what are you missing out on that you could have done this year and what are you grateful for
that you're able to do just because this year existed for me you'll start this youtube channel
and create this amazing community of people just like you thank you so much for being there with
me thank you for 2000 subscribers let's read some comments for this video it's editing andrew with
editing meatball here and today i just wanted to cover a couple of the comments that really
made me smile especially back in december i had less than a month ago 1.69 subscribers
a thousand subscribers 1.69 000 subscribers and a user called redonkulous said hey andrew
just found your channel can't believe you're under 2k subs right now the videos and thumbnails are
amazing give it up you will make it on youtube i really hope so thank you for people like you
who comment and support the channel i want to give a big shout out to data professor he had one
of the very first collabs with me on my channel and without his support there's no way i would be
at my size he said hey andrew congrats on 2k your channel is growing very fast and 100 videos in six
months how can you do it would love to see a video about your journey in six months in kudos thank
you so much data professor i'm so glad that you're here and i'm excited to do a new collab with you
sometime soon finally the third comment that i want to give a shout out to is happy llama happy
llama says you're doing a great job with uploading new videos every day i have the attention span of
a goldfish but i can actually watch your videos i am focusing my gaze on professor meatballs
just vibing in the background and i can listen to your speech so it's perfect after also watching
this cute dog daily calm my anxiety thank you professor thank you to andrew thank you happy
llama happy llama has been one of the most awesome supporters on the channel here's another comment
from happy llama that says i see your faces more than my mother's and we live in the same house
at this point i feel like you are a family member winky sad face uh winky sad face back to you happy
llama and now back to not editing andrew thank you guys for sticking this far into the video
i really do appreciate it if you want to be shouted out in this video and for me to support
your youtube channel or perhaps your brand or whatever you are trying to get started in the
pandemic then go ahead and screenshot part of this video put it on your instagram tag me andrew more
money and i am happy i am happy to include you in one of these next videos and they're getting less
frequent have you noticed uh so that means that they're gonna be more valuable so until next time
back to the original scheduled andrew for now but not for forever i'll see you guys next time peace