Quitting My $15/hr Job And Now Making $200,000 Per Month

this video was sponsored by HubSpot so my first real job out of college was working as an assistant at a staffing agency this job starting pay was 15 per hour which came out to about 480 dollars per week or about two thousand dollars per month after taxes this means that my take-home income was only about twenty four thousand dollars per year however over the past few months I've been consistently earning over two hundred thousand dollars per month in income a very big jump from the two thousand dollars per month that I was earning at my real job and I want to talk with you guys about how exactly I did this how was I able to go from just making fifteen dollars per hour to now making over two hundred thousand dollars per month in income because folks not that long ago I was sitting in the same exact spot as you and then I finally opened my eyes so I never told anybody this except for my immediate family but back in 2015 after spending four years of my life in college I actually failed to graduate you see I never actually applied myself in college because I've always hated school and so here I am in 2015 this young kid fresh out of college thirty thousand dollars in student loan debt with no college degree to show for it this means I had zero prospects out of college and because of that my first real job out of college was as an assistant at a staffing agency and honestly this job was fine it was comfortable I had my own office I got free coffee I could go into work dressed any way I wanted it was fine but after spending one year at this job I quickly realized something that would go on to change my life forever and the thing that I realized was that every single one of us has a choice we could either choose to just sit back and just go with the flow you know get a decent job with benefits go home eat dinner numb your mind with useless TV shows or video games go to sleep wake up go to work get a paycheck drive home eat TV sleep over and over and over again and until you die or you could wake up you could stop turn around and then start walking against the flow and realize that everything around you was conceived by somebody who was just like you when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much that's a very limited life life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it you can influence it you can you can build your own things that other people can use and the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will you know if you push in something will pop out the other side that you can you can change you can mold it um that's maybe the most important thing you see folks the only thing stopping you from achieving your goals the one thing standing in your way is the person that you see when you look in the mirror because you have the choice to choose between mediocracy or Excellency choice not chance determines your destiny and so here I was spending 40 hours per week working this you know 15 per hour job using my time to make somebody else richer because remember I'm working for another company right and this company hired me to leverage my time to help build their wealth and so here I am spending my years of my limited life making somebody else's dreams come true when instead I could be using my years of my life to make my dreams come true and it was at this moment when I realized this truth that my eyes were completely opened Jay you're gonna be the first millionaire in the family son don't take that responsibility lightly you have to choose to make that a reality that was what my father told me when I was just six years old and so with those words deeply ingrained into who I am I knew that it was time to make a choice I could either choose to just continue working this mediocre job and solidify my destiny as just another tiny Cog and a great big machine or I could choose the opposite and so I quickly turned in my two week notice and left the security of this job that was paying me only fifteen dollars per hour and so here I am no money in my bank account no prospects no college degree no connections nothing but there was one thing that I did still have something that nobody else in this world can take away from me and that was a choice at this moment at the Rock Bottom I could choose to give up I could go back and try and find another job maybe one that's going to pay me a little bit more than 15 per hour if I got lucky and I could do that and I could just choose to you know settle for mediocracy or I could choose to stand up and in the face of all the odds against me I could choose to reach for Excellency and so for the next few years I put my head down and I went to work I began starting different business is trying different things taking risk and not being afraid to fail and step by step each failure each attempt brought me closer and closer to success and last year I earned over six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars from my YouTube channel and this year with the help of other businesses as well as my YouTube channel my goal is to earn two million dollars in income and folks every single one of you watching this video has the same exact Choice settle for mediocracy or fight for Excellency yo what's up Joshua just wanted to tell you I really appreciate you bro the way you share your story really motivates me let me tell you bro I need help I'm truly lost on where I should start what's the next move I should take this is tough down now my story sounds good right but what about you because after you get done watching this video after you've made the choice to start pursuing your Ambitions what's the next step well the next step is that you need to start building something for yourself immediately start a business start some type of side hustle right start doing something that's gonna break you out of this monotonous routine that you're currently stuck in because if you just continue doing what you've always done then your results will always be the same when I left my low paying job the first thing I did was start a business it failed and so I started another business it failed and so I started yet another business and guess what it failed again but the difference though is that I never gave up I knew that each of those failures was a lesson learned and that eventually all those lessons will compound into experience that would help me to accomplish my biggest goals now you're probably thinking to yourself right now but Joshua I don't know what business or side hustle to start folks my entire channel is dedicated to this exact thing after you finish watching this video go to my channel and just start watching my videos I even have a dedicated a tool that I've built called the side hustle database that will help you to select the best side hustles or business you can start based on specific filters that you select but it's going to be critical for you to learn how to start being resourceful everything that you need to be successful at basically anything can be found online completely free for example when I first started this YouTube channel there were plenty of free tools and resources that I use to get my channel to where it is today to get it to a point where I'm consistently making over two hundred thousand dollars per month in income and I fully believe that YouTube is a legitimate option for a lot of people watching this video plus it's a highly scalable business now one of the tools that I use when I first started my YouTube channel and I still even use it to this day was this completely free YouTube templates kit that I found on a website called HubSpot this template kit comes with five customizable YouTube Banner templates five customizable thumbnail templates seven YouTube video description templates and one YouTube roadmap and strategy template and folks this is literally 100 free all you're gonna do is just tap right here on the download now for free button enter your details and then click on on download now and then you'll land on this page here where you can then download the templates and so we've got the banner templates thumbnail templates and one of my personal favorite templates is the YouTube description templates basically it just shows you the best way to format your video descriptions for several different video Styles and we'll even give you a checklist for each video style for example is the video title less than 60 words a lot of people don't actually know this but after 60 characters your video title gets truncated which makes it a lot less effective for getting clicks which ultimately means less views for your videos and so you just go through this entire checklist to make sure that you're doing everything you need to do to maximize the number of views that you're getting on your videos and by the way if you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint and you can't open up these documents you can use Google Slides completely free to open up the PowerPoint file by clicking on file import slides upload and then selecting one of the PowerPoint files you downloaded from HubSpot and the same is true with the word documents open up the document by going to Google Docs clicking on file open and then click on the upload Tab and then drag the HubSpot document into Google Docs if you're wanting to start a YouTube channel then I highly recommend you check out this completely free resource I'll leave a link for it down below in the description as well as the pin comment now there are going to be some of you who are thinking yeah but Joshua I don't want to do YouTube but what else could I do to start making life-changing money and the truth is that you're not really going to know what you want to do until you just start trying stuff the first three to four businesses that I ever started were all ideas that ended up becoming nothing but if I never started those first businesses then I would have never had the confidence to start the next one and then the next one which eventually led to me being where I'm at today and folks just keep in mind right starting a business doesn't have to be this big ordeal that involves you writing a business plan and starting an LLC no starting a business could literally be you just sitting down one day and saying you know what I'm gonna start trying to sell print on demand motivational posters on Etsy and then you go to Etsy and open a shop go to printify open a free account and then you watch the video on my channel where I go into detail about how to start one of these businesses and so you start it you try it for maybe three to six months and if you don't like it just stop and then and you try something else maybe you say to yourself you know what I want to start a YouTube channel and so you start making videos but then after just one month you find out that you really don't like making videos and so you stop and you try something else and what you'll find is that you'll end up trying a lot of different things before you find the one thing that just works for you and you may even end up doing what I did which is going back to previous business ideas that you've already started and just trying them again for example this YouTube channel that you're watching right now is not my first channel I've had several channels in the past that all essentially fail and so what would happen every time is I would start making videos and I would be consistent and it would just get to a point where I said you know what I don't really enjoy doing this anymore and so I'm gonna stop and then I would go and start another business for example I started a real estate wholesaling business called Cash homes plus and I tried that for a few months but I really hated doing that and so I stopped but then I kept finding myself being drawn back to YouTube right and so I would go back to YouTube start a new channel and just try it again and so you see folks if you ever want to get to a point where you're making a lot of money and I'm talking about life-changing money then you have to start taking action you have to start trying things take you to this scene 20 seconds left to go you're down by one you want the ball you want to take the last shot absolutely I'm not afraid to fail folks here's the truth about making a lot of money right there's not going to be a clear definitive path that you walk down this path that people like you and I are walking down has never been walked on before because what we're doing is we're creating our own path and that's what makes it so risky when you go and work a nine-to-five job that path has already been created for you when you get hired for a job you have a very specific role with a very specific set of tasks that you have to complete in order to keep your job and receive a paycheck but here's the thing because that path has already been created for you the rewards that come with that path will be very small whereas the harder path that hasn't been created although it will require a lot more work will have significantly greater rewards and what you'll find is that when you start walking down this harder path if you just don't give up you'll eventually find the business or the thing that works best for you and that business will start making you money and then eventually it'll start making you life-changing money let's say that this business eventually makes you one million dollars per year after taxes you spend 20 percent of that or about 200 000 dollars just enjoying life enjoying yourself but then you take the remaining eighty percent of that or about eight hundred thousand dollars and you start investing it into performing assets things that are going to make you money even when you're not actively working and so now not only are you making all this money from your business but you're also making all this money from your Investments and you're just getting wealthier and wealthier every single day and now you're making more money in one week than most people are making in a year and all of this started because five years ago you decided that despite having no money no skills no connections nothing you decided to just take the leap and start something folks the reason I was able to go for making 15 per hour or about twenty four thousand dollars per year to making twenty four thousand dollars in just a few days about fifty thousand dollars per week which actually sounds really crazy to say out loud but the only reason I was able to do that was because I just simply started something I didn't overthink it I didn't wait for the perfect time I just started now folks listen okay I understand that this mess message is not going to be for everyone but my assumption is that most of you watching don't want to take the traditional route you want to be wealthy right you want to be able to live your life however you want you want to be able to buy whatever you want take vacations whenever you want you don't want your life and your time and your money to be controlled by somebody in the HR department at your job you want control over those things am I right well then start taking control that's maybe the most important thing is to shake off this uh this uh erroneous notion that life is is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it change it improve it make your mark upon it once you learn that you'll never be the same again

Channel: Joshua Mayo

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Length: 13min 27sec (807 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 02 2023