Quitting my job was a big mistake

In 2017, he quit a nearby minimum-wage petrol-station job after a coworker conflict, despite only about 4,000 YouTube subscribers. YouTube brought strong years, but by 2021 income had fallen to roughly half the petrol-station wage; he feels burned out. He may seek regular work or reinvent the channel; driving, Japan’s reopening, and a tentative Thailand trip remain possible directions.

The dream’s initial success became financial precarity, burnout, and renewed ambivalence about abandoning conventional employment.