I am so hot and bothered right now, I don't know if you can tell…
Anyway, how's it going guys? Hold on, let me just have a sip of my gin and tonic…
*slurrrp* ahhh!
All of a sudden, all of my problems have been solved.
God, where do I start?
**You start at the very beginning**
So over the last couple of days,
Cat and I have been over in the east of England in a place called 'Norwich' where my dad lives
We spent a couple of days there and it was really nice. Really, really nice.
As you can probably tell it's quite nice weather here in England right now and judging
by the sweat on my face and the redness of it *gaaaasp*
Anyway, it's all been a bit stressful because we came back today and tomorrow we actually fly to Finland
Yesterday, I thought it would be a fun idea to fly the drone over the Norwich countryside.
And it was a good idea, to be fair.
But I actually ended up crashing my drone into a tree…
And not only that, it didn't come back.
It just stayed in the tree, and it's still there now.
And all this happened just two days before my trip to Finland, where I'll need my drone.
So, not only do I have this, now, I have this.
I was kinda hoping for a different colour.
I went just now and bought the exact same drone, but this time I got this which is a
giant controller.
I had no idea it was going to be this big, oh my god.
So, the problem before was that I crashed it because the connection dropped out and
all that stuff.
This should fix that problem.
If you don't learn from your mistakes in life…
You're an idiot.
But anyway, onto the topic of today.
*slurps gin and tonic*
So, oh my god, guys.
I did it.
I quit my job!
Which kinda sucks since I just dropped a whole bunch of money on a load of drone stuff.
I did it and I did it because I was to put all my time, effort and love into YouTube
making videos.
You might remember back at the start of the year, I made a video like "2017 Goals"
and my goal was to be able to quit my job and do YouTube full time.
And now I feel like I'm at a place where I can start doing that.
I figure if I put the same amount of time and effort into working for someone else into
my videos then I'll really be able to make a go of it and…
URRRGH…
It's pretty scary, I'm not going to lie.
I feel like I'm putting all my eggs into one basket but that basket should lead to
a pretty friggin' happy life.
If I can make videos for a living it's the dream - I'm going to be living my dream!
Because, although really over the last couple of years my YouTube channel and video views
have started growing, I've been working for this for 6 years.
I've been doing YouTube for 6 years now!
And I think that's another reason why it's quite scary because I've been working for
this for so long and now it's finally here and I'm like "Oh my god, what am I doing?
Is this even possible?
Am I ready?"
So many feelings.
But I'm also psyched because I have been working for this for 6 years and it's now.
It's happening now and it's crazy.
It's pretty crazy that I'm actually gonna be living one of my dreams and it's really
over the last 6 months a lot has happened personally in my life, a lot of things that
I haven't really made videos about.
I've lost people and it really makes you open your eyes and just think "Oh my god,
what am I doing with my life?!"
It really did make me realise that you've got to do stuff with your day - your entire day
When you go to work, you're spending 8 or 9 hours in one place and for some people that's great
Some people are career people, for me, that didn't feel right because I had this whole
thing which could have been developing into something.
As much as I loved the place that I worked, I loved the people - they were great.
To another person, that job, that role - they'd be set.
I was doing such a cool job, I don't know if I talked about it much on here.
Basically, I was working for a company called Jungle Creations, they have a whole bunch
of Facebook pages and they're like a media company.
And I was working on their largest page which has nearly 16 million page likes which is
nuts!
I was just on Facebook all day… sounds a lot easier than it is.
It was pretty stressful at times.
To one person, that's an amazing job, and for me it was an amazing job, but now it's
time for me to move on and I really want to just start realising some of the dreams that
I have and not spend 8 or 9 hours somewhere making someone else rich!
But, you know what guys, I know this isn't going to be easy, and it's a huge leap of faith
The easy route would have been to carry on working for someone else and come home at
the end of a month with a decent wage and just be like, OK…
Pay bill, pay bill, pay bill.
Yep - Happy!
But life is way more than money, although it does help.
To be able to do something that I love every single day, contributing to something that
I'm creating, that for me is huge.
That's why I'm going to be doing this starting from this video.
This is my first video as a full time YouTuber, guys.
This is a big deal!
I feel like I'm not putting that much love and attention into this like I do normally.
There's no lights, there's all sorts of glare coming in, oh my god.
Maybe I'm scaring myself unnecessarily.
Maybe everything's going to be alright…
Everything's going to be alright, Dave.
Everything's going to be… *cries*
I just gotta stop crashing drones.
That will contribute to my financial stability quite a bit!
Anyway, what was I saying?
After that video at the start of the year, some people were like "Dave, how can we
help make this a thing, how can we do this?" and to be honest, you guys are doing everything.
You watching this right now, you're helping me realise this dream and I thank you so much,
it's so cool.
Some of you guys even go the extra mile and help me out with translations and stuff.
What you'll see on this video if you click the CC button there will at least be English subtitles
Amazing people go down there and translate them to Finnish, Swedish, someone even did
German the other day, that was so cool - thank you!
Honestly just doing that really, really helps me
Because by having that expands the reach of my videos so much!
I think people do these and don't even know how much they're helping me, so thank you, again
And a few people back a few months ago bought some of my merch, that again helps me out a bunch
So, in answer to you question guys, you are doing absolutely everything that you could
do to help me.
Just watch my videos, like every now and again if you want.
You guys are great.
What you might see with this transition into full time, you might see some more brand collaborations,
a little bit of sponsorship and stuff like that.
But what I want you guys to know if that I will not promote anything to you that I don't
believe in myself.
It's really important for me because I don't want to look like a sell out, I'm not going
to start doing like make up tutorials because, I mean, I have no idea.
God, that is terrible.
Have you been blinded the whole time?
I'm so sorry!
That's zero percent better.
OK, cool.
Just noticed the washing is in the background too.
Cat's probably going to kill me.
Tomorrow we go to Finland and that's where I start 'The Summer Vlog'.
That's going to be big.
It's going to be huge!
And what I really want to do it put out at least 3 or 4 videos per week.
That's the plan at least, but I've go to much cool stuff coming up over the next
2 or 3 months.
It's going to be so sick.
Anyway guys, thank you so much for watching this video and for watching all of my videos.
And thank you for making me able to do this.
I hope I don't let you guys down.
Maybe just drop a like on this video for me if you're psyched for me that I'm going full
time with YouTube.
That'd mean a lot.
And starting in the next video will be the start of the summer vlog.
Hype Hype for that.
So right now guys, I need to go and pack so, thank you again for watching and I'll see
you in the summer vlog!
See ya!
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