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My YouTube Experience - A Goodbye, For Now

First and foremost, let me make this clear, this little write-up isn’t going to conform to any specific writing guidelines. I’m not planning on having a “thesis” nor standard sentence structure. I’m turning the Kerouac up to 11 and just letting my thoughts come out. That said, let’s get started. Two years ago my wife and I had an opportunity arise to move away from friends and family across states. She was being given a promotion but my job at the time was going to be unable to follow with me. After some consideration and a little mathematics we concluded that we’d be able to live off her income alone and that I would take the next 2 years to try and further myself online. Specifically, I wanted to attempt to start a decent YouTube channel that could provide any amount of income. I, of course, dreamt about being a big YouTube star akin to Markiplier or Jacksepticeye, however my true goals were much more grounded than that. In my mind, if I could have built up even a small following and