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First jobs suck. I had to work six different jobs in my life to finally achieve my dream job, which is being a YouTuber. Everybody in the world has had a first job. That's why in this video, I am going to show
A YouTuber shares his journey through six tough first jobs, from milk boy to landscaper, to finally achieving his dream career.
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Key Takeaways
- First jobs are often difficult but provide important life and work lessons.
- Perseverance and self-motivation are crucial when facing early career setbacks.
- Starting small and self-employment can be viable options when traditional jobs are unavailable.
- Sacrifices such as social life and leisure may be necessary to achieve long-term goals.
- Success often comes after multiple failures and continuous effort.
What the video covers
- The creator worked six different difficult and sometimes silly jobs before becoming a successful YouTuber.
- His first job was as a milk boy at age 13, involving early mornings, harsh conditions, and low pay.
- Despite the hardships, he made funny memories and learned valuable lessons from his first job.
- He saved money from these jobs to buy a computer to start making YouTube videos.
- After initial YouTube failure and no job callbacks, he started self-employed jobs like lawn mowing and fence painting.
- He faced challenges such as inadequate equipment and difficult clients in his self-employed jobs.
- The fence painting job was more enjoyable but still physically demanding and frustrating.
- Throughout the journey, he remained motivated to pursue his dream of becoming a YouTuber.
- He eventually gained traction on YouTube with thousands of subscribers and millions of views.
- The video emphasizes perseverance, hard work, and creative problem-solving in early career struggles.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and First Job as Milk Boy
- 00:55Challenges and Experiences as a Milk Boy
- 02:27Low Pay and Illegal Work Issues
- 03:52Funny Memories and Boss Stories
- 05:23Dangerous Work Situations
- 07:02Saving for a Computer and YouTube Beginnings
- 08:38Starting Lawn Mowing Business
- 10:56Difficult Client and Quitting Lawn Mowing
- 14:03Fence Painting Job and Challenges
- 15:30YouTube Growth and Motivation
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you how I went from being a waiter, a milk boy, a landscaper, and tons of other painful, difficult, and silly jobs to now achieving my dream, the best job in the world, a YouTuber. But first, I need to take you back to when it all
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started at 13 years old. My very first job as a milk boy. I really wanted a computer growing up so that I could start making videos. The only problem was I couldn't afford it. After both my birthday and Christmas went by and still
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I had no computer, my mom sat me down and told me she can't afford to buy me one. This was a super important canon event for me because it made me think to myself, "Well, I guess I'll buy it
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myself then." After I begged my brother for a whole year, he finally got me the same job as him being milk boys. And oh my God, it sucked. We had to wake up at 2:45 a.m., run around in the freezing
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cold, getting covered in milk, rotten gunk, and all sorts of crazy stuff. The worst part was after all that grueling work, I had to go straight to school by 8:00 a.m., come straight home and study by 4:00 p.m., and then fall asleep
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watching YouTube by 8:00 p.m. And yes, before you ask, I did fall asleep in [music] class multiple times. This job sucked on every level. In the summer, it was too hot to be running around and delivering milk. And in the winter, if
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the cold didn't kill you, then carrying multiple glass bottles while running on snow and ice definitely will. I slipped and broke so many glass bottles on this job. But in my defense, I had to jump off a moving van to deliver the milk to
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people's doors. Do not do this at home. And you may be thinking, well, at least all that work pays well. Nope. The money sucked. At the end of the week, I would have $15 and I couldn't complain to my
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boss because I was only 13. It was completely illegal for me to be working.
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So, me and my brother lied saying I was 16 years old. The funny part was my brother was 17 at the time, 6'2, and had a beard. Well, I was saying I'm 16, which is just one year younger, but I'm
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only 4'11, no facial hair, and had a giant baby [laughter] face. So, you two are brothers? Yeah. And you're just one year apart? Yeah. Sir, don't you see this massive thick beard?
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The lucky part was I'm pretty sure he knew I was underage, but he just didn't care. Even though my first job was a lot of work, I still made a lot of funny memories. Because we would work so early
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in the morning, our boss would tell us to always be quiet. And me and the other workers were always quiet. It was the boss who may have had some anger issues who was super loud. There was this one
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street that was always filled with cars, and because the milk truck was so big, he would always get it stuck in awkward places. And instead [music] of being a normal person and keeping his cool, he would roll down his window, scream as
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loud as he could while simultaneously beeping his horn. I'm not joking, he woke up the entire street. And when I asked him why did he do that, he said that it's their fault that he's stuck. I saw him do this multiple times. If you
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think my boss is crazy for doing that, there was this one day that we were running super late because the boss slept through his alarm. So when he picked up me and the other workers, he started driving really fast to try and
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get back on time, which is very dangerous because me and the other two workers had one bar and this platform to squeeze onto. I had so many close calls jumping on and off of this van, but the boss still didn't care and actually
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started getting faster, not seeing the speed camera he's driving straight towards. All I remember was seeing a flash of light as my boss annihilated the speed limit. I would pay a lot of money to see the real-life photo and
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video of this happening because it must be the funniest photo of all time. [screaming] It took me years working as a milk boy to finally save up enough money to buy a computer. Even though I was super happy
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with my accomplishment and I was also one step closer to being a YouTuber, I never went to a single party. I never hung out with friends and I even skipped my own prom to work on YouTube. But still, my YouTube channel was
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unsuccessful, which meant I was earning no money from YouTube, which also meant I had to get another job. But there was just one problem. There were none. I applied to every job I could online. I only did this more than a hundred times
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and not one job called me back. So once again, I said, "Well, I guess I'll do it myself." I was in my bedroom and I came up with two different jobs I can do that won't cost me a single penny. Job number
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one was cutting grass. I asked my mom, "Can I take our family lawn mower and use it to cut other people's grass?" After she said yes, I ran to the back garden to unlock the shed and there stood my beautiful money maker.
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Well, she was not exactly beautiful. My family's lawn mower was tiny and really, really old. This meant that the one job it's supposed to do, which is cutting grass, it wasn't very good at, but I didn't let anything stop me. I'm not
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going to lie. The first few times I cut a customer's grass was questionable. I'm finished, sir. Do you like it?
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Would you like to pay with cash or credit? Okay, fine. I sucked at first.
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It was super hot. My lawn mower couldn't cut grass and it kept turning off every 3 minutes.
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[groaning and screaming] I also didn't know you had to check the grass before you cut it. I chopped up so many things with my lawn mower, like big rocks, tons of dog toys, [snorts] and all sorts of crazy stuff that's been
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stuck in that grass for years. Because my lawn mower was so small, I had to keep emptying the grass from it every couple of minutes. It's full again, which sucked because on windy days, you'd have the grass fly back and hit
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your body. I would find grass everywhere, like my shoes, boxers, socks, armpits, and just about every other place on my body. I'm also allergic to pollen, so when I'd get a face full of grass, I'd have a major
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10-minute sneeze attack. [snorts] I think I'm done. I think I'm done. Okay, I would say cutting grass was a successful side business. That is until I met Albert. After I knocked on his door and asked if he would like his
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grass cut, he said yes and invited me in. As we were walking to his backyard, he started quizzing me on the equipment I'm going to use to cut his grass. So, boy, what equipment you got? A lawn mower, string trimmer, shovels, a rake,
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grass knives. Me having no idea what half of that was, I said, "Yeah, of course. Great. You're going to need it." And proceeded to open his door to show me the forest he's been growing for years. He told me he hasn't cut the
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grass in 3 years. I'm 6'1 and the grass was taller than me. Not to mention, the grass was filled with spiders, slugs, and every other insect. I instantly knew my 10-year-old lawn mower couldn't cut one blade of this guy's grass. So, what
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happened next? I'm not very proud of, but it had to happen. So, you can start today.
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Of course, sir. Let me go get my equipment and I'll be right back. I never went back. The funny thing is, I still have to walk past his house sometimes, and I'm always scared he's going to come out and get me. After this
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happened, I moved on to my second self-employed job, a fence painter. Ah, this job was actually pretty fun. There was something so satisfying about painting fences that just allowed me to enter flow state. I became one with the brush and the paint. I was
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happy painting. When I painted, I became the fence. Now, to be fair, I said I enjoyed painting. I never said I was any good at it. My very first client is when I realized this job is not for me. The
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fence was super long. I spent days coming back and forth this house because even once you've painted the whole f
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from painting a fence is one day this wasp was bugging me. No matter how many times I shoot him away, he kept coming back. My patience was wearing thin. A couple hours into painting, I was hot, hungry, thirsty, and exhausted. And I
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still had half a fence to go. And this wasp had the audacity to come up to my face. My instincts kicked in and I started swinging to hit the wasp. I was like a crazy caveman screaming and punching the air. What I didn't realize
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was I still had the wet paintbrush in my hand. I had splashed and flicked the wet paint all over this nice fancy garden with the worst part being the man who hired me was watching the whole thing through his kitchen.
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[screaming and groaning] [cough and clears throat] Hello, sir. How do you like the fence?
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H. Yep. Turns out painting fences suck, too. Around this time, my YouTube channel had around 100 subscribers, and I was super happy. But still, I knew it wasn't enough yet to support me financially. To everyone watching this, if you hit subscribe just one time, stay
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here. We'll never have to work one of these sucky jobs ever again. [laughter] It's okay. It's okay. They're going to subscribe right now. Subscribe. When I tell you what my next job was, you're going to be very happy you just
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subscribed. For my fourth job, I worked on a builder site. But I wasn't laying the bricks or mixing the cement. Nope. I had the worst job of all, the trash boy.
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I remember on my first day, I was asking, "Ah, when can I use a hammer?" Never. Am I allowed to break a wall down? Nope. Ah, can I use this cool spinny thing? Put this safety hat and gloves on and get to work. Wait, wait,
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Mr. Builderman, what's my job? You're standing on it. I found out why people say to lift with your legs and not your back. Because after a whole day of lifting with my back, I was walking like this.
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I was carrying bricks, cement, and a bunch of other random house items, even stuff I was super allergic to.
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with the worst part being I wasn't just throwing it into a van from a short distance. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was on the second floor of the house. I had to carry this trash down the stairs
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while jumping over and dodging builder equipment and then throw it into an even bigger pile of trash. I had to do this over and over again. When I got home that day, I was exhausted. My back was destroyed and I had a major headache
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from working in the sun all day. But even though I felt super defeated, I just remember feeling even more motivated to achieve my dream of being a YouTuber. And so I came up with a plan.
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By complete luck, my uncle got me a job at a local bar/rest as a dishwasher.
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This restaurant was basically brand new and became the talk of the town. The place was filled with customers, and more customers meant more work for me. I finally had a job that I could earn stable money in, and I was not going to
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mess it up. I washed those dishes all day until my skin peeled off my hands. I was meant to be just a dishwasher, but because I worked so hard, they gave me more and more jobs. I became a waiter. I
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would clean and sweep the whole restaurant. I served the drinks. I helped the chef prepare the food, and then I even served the food to the customers. If there was a clogged toilet, I'd fix it. I basically became
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the handyman. And I loved it because it was all a part of my plan. I worked every hour I could at that restaurant and then saved every penny I got paid. I did this for months. I don't really even
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have funny stories to tell. I was just locked in. And then finally, I looked in my bank account one day and saw $4,000 looking back at me. What did I do with this 4 grand, you ask? I left my job at
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the restaurant and I went all in on YouTube. I saw this as my one shot to make it as a YouTuber. I spent night and day working, studying videos, reading books, editing, writing. You name it, I did it. But as the months flew by, so
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did the money out of my bank account. I was running real low on that money I saved out. One year in, and my mom made me go back to college. I had no money left. I had two YouTube channels that I
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gave my all to, and both failed. I told myself that I'm only an official YouTuber if I have a subscriber [music] plaque trophy, and I didn't. I remember feeling like a complete failure, but still I never gave up. I would walk the
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college hallways planning how I can still make videos because all of my time was now taken up by college. Then it hit me. I'm going to go allin on making shorts. They are quick and easy to make and I can make multiple in a day. It was
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perfect. So, I did exactly that. Instead of doing my college work, I would just make and brainstorm videos instead. 6 months into making shorts, something clicked inside my brain. And it felt like I'd cracked the code to YouTube.
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And [music] technically, I did. I started gaining thousands of subscribers, millions of views a day.
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All of these years of working and studying finally paid [music] off. Overnight, my channel blew up. I worked harder than I ever have before because my videos were finally successful and I wasn't about to mess it up. Upload after
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upload after upload until one day as I checked my subscriber count. I literally watched live as it ticked over to 100,000 subscribers. I had done it. I am not only an official YouTuber now, but I had just achieved my lifelong dream that
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I worked all of these years for that took me my entire [music] life to achieve. Wow, what a journey that was, huh? I actually did cry when I hit 100,000 subscribers. I don't really know how to end this video. So, I strapped a
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to a rocket and I'm about to send him to space. Three, two, ONE. [screaming]
Topics:first jobmilk boylandscapingfence paintingYouTuber journeyearly jobsself employmentperseverancedream jobcareer struggles
