I can't work a 9-5

Summary

The 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

00:00

🚀 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.

05:01

💭 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.

10:01

😡 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.

Keywords

💡Gig Work

Gig work refers to short-term, temporary, or freelance jobs that are often filled on a contract or project basis. In the video's context, the speaker mentions doing gig work for companies like Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats. This type of work is significant in the video as it contrasts with the traditional 9-5 job, highlighting the speaker's preference for flexibility and autonomy over a consistent, but potentially unfulfilling, full-time job.

💡9-5 Job

A 9-5 job typically denotes a full-time employment with fixed working hours, usually from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The speaker in the video discusses the concept of a 9-5 job as a societal standard for stability and financial security but expresses a personal aversion to the routine and monotony associated with it, preferring the freedom of gig work even if it means earning less.

💡Entrepreneurial Journey

The entrepreneurial journey refers to the process of starting and running a business venture. The speaker reflects on their mindset post-turning 18, which led to an entrepreneurial path. This journey is central to the video's narrative as it represents the speaker's pursuit of a different life trajectory, one that diverges from traditional employment and seeks independence and self-determination.

💡Community College

A community college is a type of educational institution that offers two-year associate degrees and various certifications. The speaker mentions joining a community college as a fallback plan after barely graduating high school and not getting into preferred colleges. This step was part of a broader plan to eventually work in the banking industry, illustrating the speaker's initial acceptance of a conventional career path.

💡Bank Teller

A bank teller is an employee who performs customer service transactions at a bank, such as cashing checks and receiving deposits. The video's speaker was promised a job as a bank teller by a family contact if they graduated from college. This position represents the conventional career ladder the speaker was initially expected to climb, which they later rejected in favor of a less predictable but personally fulfilling path.

💡Part-Time Cashier

A part-time cashier is someone who works less than full-time hours in a retail or service setting, handling cash transactions. The speaker recounts their experience working as a part-time cashier at a cafe, which was physically and emotionally draining. This experience is pivotal in the video as it catalyzed the speaker's introspection about the nature of work and the pursuit of a more meaningful career.

💡Paycheck

A paycheck is a payment issued to an employee by an employer as compensation for services rendered. The speaker vividly remembers receiving a paycheck after a long day's work, which initially brought excitement but later led to deeper contemplation about the value of their work and the financial goals they were aiming for.

💡Financial Independence

Financial independence is the state of having enough wealth to live without having to work actively for basic necessities. The video's speaker contemplates the idea of financial independence, questioning the traditional path to achieving it and exploring alternative means to secure their financial future without being confined to a 9-5 job.

💡Millionaires

Millionaires are individuals with a net worth of one million units of a currency, typically dollars. The speaker expresses frustration and curiosity about how non-celebrities become millionaires, as they realize that traditional employment may not be the only path to significant wealth. This curiosity drives the speaker's research and desire to understand alternative wealth-building strategies.

💡Anger Research

Anger research refers to the act of intensely investigating a subject out of frustration or a strong desire to understand or solve a problem. The speaker describes an episode of 'angry researching' about wealth creation outside of traditional employment, which signifies a turning point in their mindset and the beginning of their quest for alternative paths to success.

💡Monetization

Monetization in the context of the video refers to the process of generating revenue from online content, such as YouTube videos, through ads or sponsorships. The speaker discovers that their videos are already being monetized and contemplates whether to continue this to potentially give back to their audience, showing their growth and the community aspect of their entrepreneurial journey.

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