Right then, what's up guys, it's Pete from
the Gaming Careers YouTube channel and
today I just want to do a video just me
talking to you guys, no script, no bullet
points, because I want to tell a little
story. Roughly eighteen months ago I
started the Gaming Careers YouTube
channel. I had the idea that there wasn't
really that great of a resource for
information for people looking to learn
how to livestream, learn how to create
content, really within the gaming niche.
There was a lot of videos and content
around the best settings and people just
talking through settings in OBS or
talking through Premiere Pro settings,
but there wasn't really anybody teaching
why each setting is appropriate and
I didn't really know why, and I had quite
a lot of experience on these platforms,
on Twitch, on YouTube over the past you
know 5-10 years. And also my university
dissertation was sort of to do with the
topic of live streaming. Anyway so I
felt like I had knowledge in this area
and also that there was a bit of a niche
where people weren't teaching or there
wasn't really that much resource with
information that were teaching people how
to do those kind of things. Now whilst
I've been running the Gaming Careers
YouTube channel, I've obviously also been
working full time. I've been writing code
as a developer for a company that deals
with live streaming but within the music
niche, so not totally related and my job
was more to do with writing applications
and websites and things like that, rather
than to do with the live streaming but
it was certainly useful being in an
industry that dealt so heavily with live
streaming and obviously what the Gaming
Careers YouTube channel is all about.
Over the past
well six months definitely, I was going
to say 12 months, definitely the last six
months and voice my frustrations about
trying to run this channel whilst also
having a full-time job and tried to keep
some sort of social life outside of that,
and it's difficult to try and
balance those things especially as the
YouTube channel has been growing so
quickly. And I've spoken to some of the
Gaming Careers community and voiced that concern
and they definitely feel the other side
of it, you know they would like more
regular content and some sort of
schedule to keep - which I can't really
do whilst trying to juggle a full-time
job.
So that is where the exciting
announcement comes in, I've handed in my
notice so that means that I have a date,
two weeks today which is my last day at
my job, and from then on I will be
full-time on YouTube. That just sounds so
nuts to say out loud but that's true I
will be a full-time YouTuber from two
weeks today and I owe everything to you
guys, to the community. So what exactly
that means is that I've handed in my
notice, I still have to work two more
weeks at my job and then from then I
will be a full-time YouTuber and this is
tying in nicely with me also moving out
of my current place in London into a new
flat which will have a dedicated room
that I'll be able to use as my studio. So
not only am I going to have loads more time
for creating content and everything that
I want to do with this channel, but also
I'm gonna have a dedicated space so I'm
not filming in my bedroom. I can leave my
camera set up and my lights set up and
I'm just so excited to get started on
working on this channel full-time. I
can't thank you guys enough, I want to
thank all the way from people that just
watch my content, people that subscribed
and liked and shared and commented all
the way through to people in my Discord
server that the real heart of the
community, people that are really working
hard to grow their channels, and
definitely massive thanks to all the
people that have supported me on Patreon.
You're really the reason that I've been
able to make the jump to deciding to do
this full-time and I'm certainly not at
the point where I'm earning loads of
money and you know splashing cash and
buying fancy cars and I'm nowhere near
that, I'm definitely taking a hit and a
financial risk doing this but by
diversifying where I'm making money from
so it's not just YouTube and
allowing people to support me through
Patreon as well as speaking to a few
brands and things like that, I'm able to
diversify my income more and takes some
of the risk out of it. So massive thanks
to my patrons, people that are supporting
the channel and individually I can't
thank you guys enough. You've been the
real difference that has made me able to
take this jump to take this risk. So what
is going to change with the channel,
obviously with me not working a job
anymore I'm going to be able to create
way more content and the primary source
of that is always going to be videos for
the YouTube channel. I want to keep to
more of a schedule, I'm not
sure what that's going to be yet but
certainly creating more videos for you
guys and keeping up that same high
quality of videos that I think this
channel has really succeeded from. But
not just more videos, I also want to
diversify the ways that I am helping you
guys, so I want to maybe start a podcast,
start live-streaming, doing some live
channel reviews and tuition through
Twitch and things like that. I've got so
many ideas in my head, I just haven't had
time to do whilst I have had a full time
job, so I'm so excited really I'm very
very thankful to everybody that has
supported the channel and the growth
over the last 18 months. This seriously
is a dream come true for me, I never in a
million years thought when I started
this channel that it was going to grow
into something where I would eventually
be doing it full-time, but this is
absolutely my passion, I love teaching
you guys and talking to you guys and
helping you guys grow and that is
honestly my passion. I'm so so happy
to be able to say that it's gonna be my
full-time job in just over two weeks, so
yeah in two weeks time I'll be full-time.
Hopefully you'll see a massive change
in the quality and the quantity of
content that I'm uploading, I'll also be
changing locations so they'll definitely
be some setup guides and new
tour of my studio once I've got it fully
built but I just wanted to tell you guys
and thank you guys again. It's just been
the most unreal experience and probably
the best decision I've ever made in my
life is starting this YouTube channel, so
thank you so much and I'll see you guys
in the next video. Peace!
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