I can't work a 9-5
Summary
TLDRThe speaker reflects on their journey from gig work to entrepreneurship, expressing a strong preference for independence over a traditional 9-5 job. Despite friends' advice, they chose the less conventional path, driven by a desire for a more fulfilling life. The script delves into their mindset post-18, their initial plan to work in a bank, and the realization that a repetitive office job was not for them. It highlights the speaker's moment of clarity and subsequent anger about the disparity between their potential earnings and the wealth of others, leading to an intense research phase to find alternative paths to success. The speaker also discusses their YouTube journey and a dilemma about monetization, seeking audience input on whether to accept ad revenue and potentially give it back to the community.
Takeaways
- 😀 The speaker used to do gig work like Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats, preferring the flexibility over a 9-5 job.
- 🤔 Friends questioned why the speaker didn't opt for a more consistent 9-5 job, to which the speaker valued freedom over higher earnings.
- 🚀 The speaker shares their entrepreneurial journey, which started after turning 18 with a mindset against traditional employment.
- 🎓 After barely graduating high school, the speaker joined a community college with a plan to eventually work at a bank, a plan they later found unappealing.
- 💡 A moment of realization came after a long shift at a cafe, leading to deep contemplation about the value of money and the nature of work.
- 🤑 The speaker calculated potential earnings from a part-time job and contemplated the worth of working hard for money that didn't buy happiness.
- 😡 A sense of injustice arose when considering the disparity between their potential earnings and those of millionaires who don't work traditional jobs.
- 🔍 Driven by anger and curiosity, the speaker researched how people make money passively and became determined to find an alternative to a 9-5 lifestyle.
- 📈 The speaker discovered the possibility of making money online and encourages others to seek out and learn from those who have succeeded in doing so.
- ⏳ The importance of taking action sooner rather than later is emphasized, as the longer one waits, the harder it becomes to start on a new path.
- 🎁 The speaker is considering monetizing their YouTube videos but plans to give the earnings back to the audience as a way of giving back.
Q & A
What type of gig work did the speaker do before starting their own agency?
-The speaker used to work in gig roles such as Instacart, Door Dash, and Uber Eats.
Why did the speaker's friends suggest getting a 9-5 job instead of doing gig work?
-The speaker's friends believed that a 9-5 job would offer more consistent and higher pay compared to the variable income from gig work.
What was the speaker's initial reaction to the suggestion of a 9-5 job?
-The speaker preferred the freedom of gig work and stated they would rather make less money but have the flexibility of not working a traditional office job.
What was the speaker's mindset like after turning 18?
-The speaker was confused and dissatisfied with the idea of working a 9-5 job for the rest of their life, which led to the start of their entrepreneurial journey.
Why did the speaker consider community college as an option after high school?
-The speaker had bad grades and couldn't get into the colleges they applied to, so joining a community college was their last resort.
What was the speaker's mother's plan for them after graduating from college?
-The speaker's mother promised to help them get a job as a bank teller if they graduated from college, as she knew someone in the banking industry.
How did the speaker feel about the prospect of working at a bank for the rest of their life?
-The idea of working at a bank for the rest of their life sounded depressing and sad to the speaker.
What was the speaker's realization after considering the potential earnings from a 9-5 job?
-The speaker realized that even with a high-paying job, it would take a significant amount of time and effort to accumulate wealth, which made them question the traditional path to success.
Why did the speaker feel anger and confusion about the traditional 9-5 job path?
-The speaker felt anger and confusion because they discovered that there were people making millions without following the 9-5 path, which made them question the validity of the advice they had received.
What action did the speaker take after feeling upset about the 9-5 job path?
-The speaker spent two days researching ways to make money without a traditional job, driven by a desire to understand how others achieved financial success outside of the 9-5 model.
What is the speaker's current situation regarding monetizing their YouTube videos?
-The speaker discovered that ads were already being shown on their videos without their intention, and they are considering whether to keep monetization off or turn it on to potentially give the earnings back to their audience.
Outlines
🚀 Beginning the Entrepreneurial Journey
The speaker shares their early work experience, explaining their preference for gig work like Instacart and Uber Eats over a traditional 9-5 job. Despite advice from friends to seek a stable job, the speaker values the freedom and control of gig work. They describe their mindset after high school, struggling academically, and the prospect of working at a bank, which felt depressing and unfulfilling. The speaker couldn't envision a life confined to a typical office job, driving them towards entrepreneurship.
💭 Realization of Financial Constraints
Reflecting on their time as a part-time cashier, the speaker recounts working a full day shift and receiving a modest paycheck. Initially excited by the earnings, they quickly realized the financial limitations of such work. Calculating their monthly income and potential savings, they felt the effort wasn't worth the return. This led to a deeper contemplation of traditional employment, contrasting low-wage jobs with high-paying careers and the associated lifestyle.
😡 Frustration with the Traditional Path
The speaker becomes increasingly frustrated with the idea of working a 9-5 job. They question the societal norm of pursuing high-paying yet unfulfilling jobs and express anger towards the system. This anger propels them into intense research on how millionaires make their money. They become obsessed with finding alternative ways to achieve financial success without succumbing to the traditional career path, driven by a desire for freedom and autonomy.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Gig Work
💡9-5 Job
💡Entrepreneurial Journey
💡Community College
💡Bank Teller
💡Part-Time Cashier
💡Paycheck
💡Financial Independence
💡Millionaires
💡Anger Research
💡Monetization
Highlights
The speaker used to do gig work like Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats, preferring the freedom over a 9-5 job.
Friends suggested a consistent 9-5 job would pay more, but the speaker valued the flexibility of gig work.
The speaker's entrepreneurial journey began after turning 18 with a mindset against traditional employment.
High school graduation was challenging with bad grades, leading to community college as a last resort.
A potential job at a bank was offered if the speaker graduated college, but it felt unappealing.
The idea of a lifetime working at a bank was depressing and sparked a fear of a monotonous life.
A part-time job as a cashier led to realizations about the value of money and the limitations of traditional work.
Calculations of potential earnings from part-time work led to a moment of realization about financial goals.
The speaker questioned the worth of a 9-5 job, considering the effort versus the reward.
A deep contemplation about the nature of work and the disparity between different jobs' earnings.
The realization that there are other paths to wealth beyond the traditional 9-5 job sparked anger and motivation.
The speaker's 'angry research' into alternative wealth-building methods led to a shift in perspective.
The importance of finding the right mentors and learning from them in the pursuit of financial independence.
The speaker emphasizes the difficulty of starting when waiting too long and the need for immediate action.
A reflection on the potential of monetizing online content and the unexpected presence of ads on videos.
The speaker considers giving back to the audience by potentially donating ad revenue.
An open question to the audience about whether to keep ad revenue or give it back, showing a community-oriented approach.
Transcripts
so before upw work before I started my
own agency I used to do a lot of gig
work like
instacart uh door Dash Uber Eats stuff
like that and I did that every day and a
lot of my friends would tell me like why
don't you just get a job like a like a
9-5 job you're working all these hours
doing this every day you're better off
just getting a job like you'll get paid
more um the pay is more
consistent um and I remember I told all
of them I would rather you know do what
I do and make 35 Grand a year than work
a 9et to-5 sitting in some office and
get paid a 100 Grand a year and like
when I told them that they all said like
oh you're crazy you're
insane maybe I maybe all right in this
video I wanted to take a couple steps
back and kind of just tell people my
story of what happened to me after I
turned 18 and what my mindset was like
uh back then which kind of got me to
start my entrepreneurial Journey
um uh which I guess led me to where I am
now uh but long story short it's pretty
much I can't work a 9 to-5 so for me I
didn't know what to do after I graduated
high school like I barely graduated high
school I had bad grades uh I couldn't
get into any of the colleges that I
applied to and at the very last second I
had to join like a community college and
my mom told me that if I can just find a
way to graduate college um she could get
me a job working at a bank as a bank
teller like she knew someone in the
banking industry and she told me she can
get a job there if I can just graduate
college so my plan was like okay my goal
is to just um go to this Community
College Study really hard transfer to um
like a University or a Cal State
graduate there um and then after I
graduate I'm going to work at a bank for
the rest of my life and then I thought
about it um work at a bank for the rest
of my life like something about that
just sounded kind of depressing and
sad like I'm not I'm not bashing by the
way I'm not bashing anybody who works at
9-5 or who works at a bank it's actually
the opposite like I have so much respect
for people who can do this because I
can't like I
I physically can't do it like the more I
thought about it the more I thought
about like how this was going to be my
life like the more I started to panic
this is going to be my life this is
going to be what I do for the rest of my
life as a as a bank teller sitting in
front of a desk typing in numbers doing
the same thing every single day so from
the very beginning like something
something just didn't sit right with
me and I used to work work at a
part-time as a part-time cashier at at
this one Cafe uh and I still remember to
this day like vividly but there was one
day where I got home from working a full
shift a full day shift on a Friday it
was 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. so I was
working from opening to close that day
it was a full day and I I was dead tired
and I remember like I got home and that
Friday was the day where I received my
paycheck so it was a two-e paycheck um
it was like 400 $50 I think and I
remember like I was excited like I I was
dead tired but I was looking at my
paycheck of
$450 and I was like oh I can't wait to
spend this and I was I was like thinking
of all the different things that I can
buy um whatever like I was lying in bed
dead tired sleepy tired um and just
thinking about like with my eyes closed
like what I would do with this money
like I was holding the check lying in
bed like
this uh because to me that was a lot of
money but once I got past that phase of
you know thinking about what I can buy I
started to go a a little further and
start thinking about like okay I'm
making
$450 every two weeks working at this
part-time job that's $900 a month right
you know and I was only working like
three days a week I think at the time so
I was like okay if I can ask for another
work day per week I can probably up this
to $11,000 instead of $900 a month so
$1,000 a month um for a broke uh high
school student who just graduated like
that's a lot so I was like okay let me
do this for an entire year $1,000 a
month uh let me save every penny and I
started to get like motivated I was like
let me start to think of all the things
that I can buy with $122,000 so I went
from thinking of about what I can buy
with $450 to like let me work for an
entire year make
$112,000 okay now I'm thinking about
what I can buy with ,000 so I was
excited but the more I actually thought
about it like the longer I was lying in
bed just thinking about how I was going
to spend the
$112,000 the more confused I got cuz I
was like sure $122,000 is a lot of
money but there's not a lot that I would
want to buy first of all and also I'm
working an entire year you know taking
drinks you know taking people's orders
making drinks are and taking people's
orders like I'm already this tired from
working one day can I even do this like
is this worth
$112,000 and then I started to think
about like how people are actually
making like a full-time living U making
all this money and then I thought about
it I was like okay jobs that makes a lot
more sense like I'm working at a minimum
wage I'm working a minimum wage job at a
cafe like a 9o5 office job is different
okay these people are making 40,000 to
880,000 a year you know some paying some
high paying jobs higher paying jobs like
doctors lawyers they're making hundreds
um $100,000 a year and that's a
successful job that's a successful life
and I was like okay now I get it so I
need to go my goal should be to aim for
these types of jobs like these 9 to-5
jobs that should be my goal so then I
started to think about what my life
would look like um once I start working
a 9 to5 like a office job like just
sitting in front of a desk typing in
number filing paperwork just doing the
same thing over and over and over again
and I was like I don't want to work in
an office like it's already
distressful working at a cafe and all
I'm doing is just taking people's orders
and making drinks and I'm already
distressed like imagine a full-time job
you're telling me that I have to spend 8
hours a day 5 days a week doing the same
thing over and over again working for a
company that doesn't care about me and
honestly like I don't care about the
company either um but you're telling me
I have to do this for the rest of my
life like is this really the only way to
make a living to make money like is this
the only path that's available and this
was when like my confusion level started
to reach like its peak and my confusion
slowly started to turn into anger like I
was I was like wait a minute how how are
there millionaires in the world like I
understand celebrities I I understand
athletes and you know these musicians
these
professionals like those people are
making millions of dollars like cool I
understand like all these actors these
World level uh athletes whatever cool
I'm not talking about them but I was
like celebrities aren't the only
millionaires in the world there are
there has to be other people that I
don't know about these normal people
that have millions of dollars that have
all this money like how are they doing
it you know do they have like a job do
they have one of the those you know
successful $100,000 a year jobs so I was
like okay maybe this should be my goal
cuz for me I needed a goal like I needed
to know what path to take so I was like
okay I work really hard and then I get
one of those $100,000 jobs so let's
assume that I somehow found a way to
live for free I don't pay rent I eat for
free I drive to work for free I don't
spend any money on clothes um on
insurance nothing I have no bills
whatsoever and then on top of that let's
assume that I somehow found a way to
avoid taxes like the I found a cheat
code or a hack the government can't
catch me somehow the entire $100,000 a
year that I make the salary that I make
um I keep all of it for myself I don't
have a single expense and I save and I
somehow find find a way to save save
every
penny it will still take me 10 years to
reach 1
million 10 years of slaving away working
at a job I hate cuz I know I'm going to
hate it saving every single penny not
paying a dime in taxes working at this
supposedly successful top tier job um 10
years of that and I have 1
million there are multi-millionaires out
there somewhere billionaires like I'm
not even gonna get into that because I
didn't I couldn't even fa that wasn't
even a thought that went into my head I
couldn't fathom it at that point but
there are multi-million millionaires out
there these normal
people like let that sit like I don't
know about you but that made me so angry
like I got up from my bed like keep in
mind I was dead tired like I just came
back from working a 12-hour shift I was
lying in bed eyes closed ready to sleep
but as soon as that thought came into my
head like I just couldn't sleep like I
got up from my bed and got in front of
my computer and I started to type like
all the ways to make money how people
are making money in their sleep how
millionaires become
millionaires like I was so angry and
upset at the fact that my entire life I
was told that I need to be striving for
this N9 to-5 that the whole purpose of
me going to school going through all
these things that I went through
learning all these things whatever to
reach the Pinnacle of life to have a
successful
life I need to work towards this N9 to5
this should be my goal and then there
are people out there making millions of
dollars and these guys don't work a 9
to5 like there's no way like I wanted to
know what they were doing like I didn't
sleep for two days two days I was just
in front of my computer angry
researching like I've never done
anything like this in my entire life
have you ever angry researched before
like you don't know what you're doing
you don't know what you're looking for
you're just upset and you need to know
so you just research like you don't care
about anything you're not you're hungry
uh you have people calling you you don't
care I need to find an answer to this
I'm going to find it so why am I
mentioning this story it's because if
there's one thing that I learned over
the past couple months um posting on
YouTube it's that there are there are a
lot more people like me than I actually
thought people who think like me people
who go through similar thoughts and
similar situations like I'm just a
normal guy with extravagant thoughts
there are other normal people out there
who have the same thoughts that I have
but before they get into it or before
they actually do anything and take some
action they were told by someone else or
they tell themselves that it's not
possible
it's possible like it's real like I'm
sitting here now telling you that it's
real find the right people you trust you
know obviously be careful but find these
people like whether it's me or somebody
else and learn from them like Implement
their strategies um and you can change
your life you can change your life you
can make money online don't listen to
anybody else that tells you any
different and another thing that I
realized the longer you wait the harder
becomes for you to start the longer you
wait the harder it becomes for you to
start like whatever it is like I'm not
saying you know to quit your job or
anything like that but like what do you
want what is it that you want in this
life and what are you currently doing to
get there so it turns out I'm actually
pretty close to monetizing my videos and
um putting ads or getting paid for ads
or whatever and I never planned on
turning this on um cuz I don't want ads
on my videos but it turns out because I
just I watched one of my videos on a
separate
account um and I got ads on it so it
turns out there's already ads on my
videos and I didn't know that like I
thought I had to turn this on for there
to be ads but apparently not um so I
wanted to ask like cuz I don't want to
get paid for this like I don't want it
like I don't want it um so I just
planned on turning this off but I don't
know if like I turn it off there there's
going to be less ads or if I turn it on
there's going to be more ads like I
don't know how this works um so I wanted
to ask would you rather have me keep
this off and then maybe I guess there's
going to be less ads like I don't know
how it works um or do you want me to
turn this on you know when I become
eligible for it so that I get paid for
the ads but then like I give it back to
you guys cuz so like whatever money I
make by the end of the month I'll take a
screenshot show it to you guys and then
give it away to like someone who
comments or who's a subscriber whatever
CU I don't want it like I don't want
this um but I thought it'd be a cool way
to kind of give back to you guys um so
yeah let me know what you think I didn't
know like there were ads on my videos so
that's that's weird like it's probably
not going to be a lot anyways but I
wanted to ask um in case you guys are
interested cuz I don't want this um I I
never again I never planned on turning
this on but I didn't know there ads on
my videos already so I might as well
like get paid for it and then I guess
give it back to you guys or donate it or
do something so let me know
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