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Hi everyone.
It’s been a few months since my last post:
Thankfully, I didn’t completely waste that time. But there are also a few things that really bother and drain me - I’ll get to those in a moment.
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on my YouTube channel. It started completely spontaneously, but as someone with ADHD, I decided to stick with it no matter what - kind of as a personal test. In just four months since monetizing the channel, I managed to earn five times the minimum wage in my country. That was a big shock to me. The international market must be crazy, considering I’m only operating locally.
During that time, I gained almost 10,000 subscribers. It’s faceless content. It brings me a kind of satisfaction, and I’ve had to learn a lot, but... I’m feeling a bit tired and burned out. I worked on the channel almost every day after long shifts at my corporate job.
I also tried selling a product (candles - loosely related to the channel’s theme). I hoped the channel could become a sales channel too. But the response was minimal. Nobody clearly expressed any interest in buying. There were a few survey comments, but they weren’t really related to the product at all.
Besides YouTube, I also produced a batch of the product I had in mind - something I thought the market would accept. But as it turned out, quite brutally, there wasn’t even a single concrete inquiry, let alone a sale. I had a landing page. I ran a Facebook ad campaign for about three weeks. Aside from two likes, nothing happened.
YouTube became a nice creative outlet. But the product project was the one I really tied my hopes to. The vision of freedom and breaking away from the corporate world filled me with energy and optimism. When that didn’t work out, I felt like a flat tire.
I’m still in the corporate world, and it’s wearing me down. That “nail” MJ DeMarco talks about is starting to really sting, and I have to do something about it. Where I live, I’m on a work contract that gives me some opportunities. I’m seriously thinking about quitting, but I want to use the system to my advantage before I go.
I came up with an idea to buy an apartment to rent out - through a mortgage, since I already have a place to live. So here’s my question for you:
Does this seem like a smart move right now?
I know real estate markets vary across countries, but based on my calculations, depending on the loan amount, the rent could cover the mortgage. With a bigger loan, I’d need to top it up by around $200-250 a month.
I’m honestly feeling lost with all of this. My long-term plan is simple: once this is sorted out, I want to quit my corporate job and maybe find something new. A fresh stimulus. Right now I feel stuck, mentally empty. Maybe there’s just not enough going on in my life at the moment to identify real problems I could solve for others.
Should I just grit my teeth and keep going? The corporate job gives me some stability and flexibility. I have a few days off each month just for myself. But it also drains my energy. Some days I feel deeply frustrated, wondering what I’m even doing here.
Yes - another round of complaining.
These unbearable, yet somehow comfortable chains of modern-day slavery.
Thanks to anyone who made it through this whole post. My previous topic helped me realize that the last project wasn’t worth it. It was a Sisyphean task. And in the end, it saved me a lot of time.
It’s been a few months since my last post:
Thankfully, I didn’t completely waste that time. But there are also a few things that really bother and drain me - I’ll get to those in a moment.
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on my YouTube channel. It started completely spontaneously, but as someone with ADHD, I decided to stick with it no matter what - kind of as a personal test. In just four months since monetizing the channel, I managed to earn five times the minimum wage in my country. That was a big shock to me. The international market must be crazy, considering I’m only operating locally.
During that time, I gained almost 10,000 subscribers. It’s faceless content. It brings me a kind of satisfaction, and I’ve had to learn a lot, but... I’m feeling a bit tired and burned out. I worked on the channel almost every day after long shifts at my corporate job.
I also tried selling a product (candles - loosely related to the channel’s theme). I hoped the channel could become a sales channel too. But the response was minimal. Nobody clearly expressed any interest in buying. There were a few survey comments, but they weren’t really related to the product at all.
Besides YouTube, I also produced a batch of the product I had in mind - something I thought the market would accept. But as it turned out, quite brutally, there wasn’t even a single concrete inquiry, let alone a sale. I had a landing page. I ran a Facebook ad campaign for about three weeks. Aside from two likes, nothing happened.
YouTube became a nice creative outlet. But the product project was the one I really tied my hopes to. The vision of freedom and breaking away from the corporate world filled me with energy and optimism. When that didn’t work out, I felt like a flat tire.
I’m still in the corporate world, and it’s wearing me down. That “nail” MJ DeMarco talks about is starting to really sting, and I have to do something about it. Where I live, I’m on a work contract that gives me some opportunities. I’m seriously thinking about quitting, but I want to use the system to my advantage before I go.
I came up with an idea to buy an apartment to rent out - through a mortgage, since I already have a place to live. So here’s my question for you:
Does this seem like a smart move right now?
I know real estate markets vary across countries, but based on my calculations, depending on the loan amount, the rent could cover the mortgage. With a bigger loan, I’d need to top it up by around $200-250 a month.
I’m honestly feeling lost with all of this. My long-term plan is simple: once this is sorted out, I want to quit my corporate job and maybe find something new. A fresh stimulus. Right now I feel stuck, mentally empty. Maybe there’s just not enough going on in my life at the moment to identify real problems I could solve for others.
Should I just grit my teeth and keep going? The corporate job gives me some stability and flexibility. I have a few days off each month just for myself. But it also drains my energy. Some days I feel deeply frustrated, wondering what I’m even doing here.
Yes - another round of complaining.
These unbearable, yet somehow comfortable chains of modern-day slavery.
Thanks to anyone who made it through this whole post. My previous topic helped me realize that the last project wasn’t worth it. It was a Sisyphean task. And in the end, it saved me a lot of time.
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