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  • Hey, YouTube.

  • So in one of my previous videos, I talked about why I left my full time job at Google to focus on my YouTube channel instead, this huge of Jonah right here on a lot of people commented on that video saying, Why did you have to leave Gugelmin?

  • Why couldn't you have done both of them at the same time?

  • My answer to that would be actually, I could have done both of them at the same time.

  • But I decided not to.

  • For a few reasons which I'm going to explain this video also, a lot of people said to me, You know, you didn't really leave Google because YouTube is part of Google.

  • I'm gonna talk about that issue later in this video to on in case you're wondering why I have this huge microphone.

  • I'll talk about it in this video to So here are the four reasons why I left Google to be a youtuber full time and not part time number four.

  • As I mentioned in my wire left Google Video, I decided to leave Google when I saw this market gap.

  • Basically, people were looking for high quality videos about software engineer interviews and maybe programming in general, and they couldn't find them anywhere else.

  • And that's why my channel started growing really fast.

  • So when I say I saw this market gap, it was pretty obvious to me based on the way my channel was growing.

  • And chances are if it was obvious to me, it was obvious to other people, too.

  • And it's not like this market gap, what's going to exist forever.

  • You know, anyone else could have taken it.

  • Like I said in my last video, I do like helping people, But I'm also a very competitive guy.

  • So I wanted to make sure I was the one who was going to get to this gap.

  • Get to this market first before anyone else.

  • And I thought I wanted to move as fast as possible for that.

  • Number three already started making some side income while I was working at Google, so I was making a little bit of money on YouTube on.

  • I was also making some money on this platform called linda dot com, where I put out an online video course about software engineer interviews.

  • So I just thought maybe I could just start working on this full time.

  • Keep growing my YouTube channel on.

  • Maybe put out another online video course out there and then try to promote it through my YouTube channel.

  • And that's exactly what I did on I'm doing Okay now, even though I'm making a lot less money than I was at Google Oh, by the way, this microphone, I got an idea to get a microphone like this from one of the top instructors on lena dot com.

  • He was using a microphone like this on.

  • I thought I wanted to get one of those and so I got one to make, you know, my online video courses on.

  • I just kept using it for my YouTube videos to anyway.

  • Reason number two.

  • I'm not that good at making videos.

  • You know, for one thing.

  • And not even a native English speaker.

  • I'm originally from Japan.

  • I grew up there on I started speaking English when I was 18 or so.

  • So whenever I try to make a video like I'm doing right now, it takes me a lot of work and a lot of takes like it takes me five or six takes or even more to make you know this test second clip.

  • So I felt like I needed to put in a lot of work on a lot of time compared to other YouTubers just to catch up with them and reason number one.

  • It was just so much fun working on these videos, you know, Like I said in my last video, I wouldn't call it my passion.

  • Making videos wasn't my passion, at least at the beginning, but I still liked it a lot.

  • I liked how I was learning a lot like about my speech and about gestures and stuff on.

  • I liked how I could be creative when I must making videos, so I wanted to spend more time on it.

  • You know, after I graduated from the university before I started working a Google, I had so much time a hand.

  • I do have, you know, that much money.

  • But I had time to travel a little bit on work on different kinds of projects like this one on.

  • It was just so much fun on.

  • I just wanted to get back to that feeling again.

  • Oh, before I forget.

  • Like I said earlier, a lot of people said to me.

  • You two have really leave Google because YouTube is part of Google.

  • First of all, you know a good point.

  • It is kind of ironic, but I did a leaf Google because I don't work for Google anymore.

  • I don't work for YouTube anymore.

  • It's just that my content happens to be on YouTube.

  • And it's not all off my content because some of my content is on Facebook and some of it is on lena dot com and you to me.

  • So I'm not totally reliant on YouTube or Google anymore.

  • And so, if YouTube fails at some point in the future, you know, in 10 years or something, I would just go to whatever the next platform is, whether it's Facebook, instagram or anything else.

  • As long as I'm addressing people its knees.

  • As long as I'm feeling this gap in the market, I should be able to, you know, keep making full time income indefinitely.

  • And if I fail to do so at some point in feature, I'll just get a job somewhere.

  • If Google is willing to take me back, I'll be very happy.

  • But there are a lot of other good companies out there too.

  • Okay, in case you're curious about my why left Google Video open a link right here?

  • If he could support me by subscribing to this channel, like in this video on checking out my patron, Paige, I'd be super grateful.

  • I'm y que from Siesta Joe, the guy with a huge microphone on.

  • I'll see you in the next video.

Hey, YouTube.

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