Name: Why I Left My $100,000+ Job at Google
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T17:18:07.000Z
Duration: 3 min
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So I worked at Google Eamonn Show as a fulltime software developer for about a year.

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I like to work in there, but then I decided to leave the company to focus on my YouTube channel.

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Is that when I told my friends about it, some of them were like, Wow, you're following your passion.

I liked making YouTube videos for sure, but I didn't quit my job just ill, that I could follow my passion.

If passion was what I was falling, I would probably be pursuing stunned up comedy right now.

But when I left Google, that's not what I started doing.

Instead, I was following this gap in the market.

I found so a little bit before I started working at Google, I started my YouTube channel called Siesta Joe, which was mainly about software engineer job interviews.

It's started growing fast, and I got more than 100,000 views on 5000 subscribers when I had only like 10 videos on the channel.

Around the same time, I also started coaching people on how to get through software engineer job interviews and they actually started paying me for it.

What I realized through this experience is that I was starting to feel the difference between what people wanted on what they were getting.

It was sort of like this gap in the market.

People wanted to see high quality videos about software engineer interviews, but they couldn't find them anywhere else.

That's why I was able to get that many views on subscribers.

Some people also wanted someone to teach them how to get through software engineer interviews one a one.

But they couldn't find anyone else to do that easily.

And that's why they found me to help them, because I was starting to feel this gap between what people wanted on what they were getting.

I was able to grow my YouTube channel really quickly, and through my channel I was able to help thousands of people being able to help so many people actually just felt awesome.

And then I thought, maybe if I focus on this full time, maybe I'll be able to help a lot more people a lot faster and that's why I left Google.

Actually, I'm making a lot less money now, but it's just amazing to be able to directly see the impact that I'm making on people's lives.

This was actually something that was sort of lacking in my engineering job, even though working at Google was amazing.

So I'm not really sure how my channel is gonna go from here, but I think there are still a lot more potential here on there.

Still a lot more people I can help out there somewhere.

You know, I actually just feel really lucky to be able to directly touch so many people's lives.

And so I promise you, I'm gonna keep doing this as long as possible.

Hopefully I'll see you in the next one too.