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  • Hey, what's up, guys?

  • So, you're probably thinking,

  • "This isn't Tom's normal backdrop."

  • And you would be right.

  • So this week, I'm actually in Portland, Oregon,

  • staying with my friend, Chase, and this is his

  • much cooler office than mine.

  • He's letting me use for a while.

  • And this week, I wanted to do a video

  • to follow up on last week's video

  • which went over that whole passion versus experience

  • and skills debate.

  • And I kind of just want to augment that video,

  • which is more general discussion,

  • with my own experience,

  • how I got to where I am today

  • and how I became a YouTuber.

  • Not a lot of people have done like these

  • "My You Tube" story videos, and they're really cool.

  • I like to watch them for the people

  • that I enjoy watching,

  • but I want to frame mine in the context of

  • how I got to here from where I was

  • as a student early on in my college career

  • and near the end of high school,

  • and kind of like show how my major selection,

  • which was totally different than

  • what I'm doing now,

  • progressed into me being a full-time YouTuber.

  • So, and I'm like away from home, so I don't have

  • access to my full computer,

  • but if I have pictures online, I'll kind of like

  • throw them up in here and kind of like

  • make the story a little bit more visual.

  • So, let's go back to like high school.

  • Um, actually, I'm going to go back a little bit

  • further than that.

  • Because my major selection was really, really different

  • than being a YouTuber.

  • I didn't go into film,

  • I didn't go into communications or journalism

  • or anything like that.

  • I went into a major called Management Information Systems.

  • And this is basically like the IT guy major.

  • So like if you think of the guy who's running

  • all the networks and systems at a big corporation

  • or like the dude who runs the computers at your school

  • and makes sure the computer labs are set up,

  • like that's what I wanted to be.

  • I grew up watching The Matrix, and like my

  • favorite character was Tank, the dude who had like

  • 15 monitors and all the scrolling

  • text coming down.

  • And I wanted to be that.

  • I wanted to run all these systems

  • because when I was I think 12 years old,

  • I wanted to make a website.

  • And I found this site called like

  • Yahoo GeoCities, where you could drag and drop

  • elements onto a page,

  • and it was basically like Power Point.

  • So I made a website for like a favorite band of mine,

  • and it was terrible, it looked really terrible

  • and eventually, I was like so fed up with it

  • that I wanted to start changing things,

  • and the drag and drop editor wouldn't let me do it,

  • so I had to figure out how to start coding my own websites.

  • And I was reading tutorials and like these

  • super old websites.

  • One was called like Web Monkey I think,

  • and I just kind of learned HTML and CSS

  • and a lot of the other languages that like the web

  • is built upon,

  • and I was having fun building my own websites.

  • And I kind of put that aside for a while,

  • but then during my junior year of high school,

  • I met a friend in a math class,

  • and we got to talking about web design

  • because he said that he knew how to code,

  • and I was like, "Well, hey, dude, I also know how to code.

  • "Why don't we set up our own business

  • "and charge people to build websites?"

  • So that was actually what we did,

  • and right after high school ended,

  • I had like, I had so much trouble finding a summer job

  • because I was not yet 18,

  • and I was also going off to college,

  • so nobody wanted to hire me.

  • So we just went out and found clients

  • and built websites for them.

  • And sort of built this love of computers.

  • And the reason I went into Information Systems

  • rather than like computer science or computer engineering

  • is because Information Systems is more of a mix

  • between business and computers.

  • And the reason I loved the business is because

  • when I was a junior or maybe even a sophomore,

  • I can't remember the year now,

  • but I joined a club called

  • Business Professionals of America at my high school.

  • I basically did it because I needed stuff

  • to put on my resume for college applications.

  • But it was fun, and we got to go to these

  • like state conferences,

  • where we'd stay in a hotel,

  • and we'd have to do competitions,

  • and the competitions I entered were like

  • HTML coding and web design.

  • I did a business plan competition, which kind of

  • like got my appetite whetted for entrepreneurship,

  • and I ended up running for state office

  • and got elected as the state treasurer,

  • which let me travel to a different state,

  • I went to Reno and Nevada,

  • I went to the national conference,

  • and it was super cool,

  • and I was kind of getting these ideas in my head

  • that maybe someday I wanted to be

  • an entrepreneur or at least do something

  • involving business,

  • but I also wanted to kind of meld

  • technology into that with computer stuff.

  • So MIS it was.

  • I ended up declaring my major early in college.

  • I think most people declare their majors two years

  • after they start college,

  • so after their junior year starts.

  • But I ended up declaring my major

  • during my sophomore year, and I started getting

  • into these classes,

  • and right away on campus I got a job

  • at the campus tech support center,

  • so I got to learn how to remove viruses

  • and basically how computers worked like from the ground up,

  • and it was really cool.

  • And that led into an internship,

  • where I worked at a Fortune 500 company,

  • and I worked in the network department.

  • And this is kind of where things started to shift.

  • Because my preconceived notion of

  • the networking department was that I would a dude

  • who would like be wiring up servers

  • and hauling cable around this gigantic corporate campus

  • and I'd be able to kind of go through all

  • the secret tunnels

  • and be all over the place all day long.

  • And I'd always wanted to find a well-paying job

  • that was technical and like intellectually challenging

  • but also physically challenging.

  • I didn't want to be in a cubicle all day.

  • So I got this internship, and it turned out to be

  • nothing but cubicle work.

  • I was like in a box 40 hours a week,

  • just changing like configuration settings in servers.

  • And what I learned actually,

  • and this is what I elude to in the end of the video,

  • you kind of have to learn what you don't like to do

  • as well as what you do like to do.

  • What I learned is I really don't

  • like maintaining things.

  • I like to create things.

  • I had almost no opportunities to create things in that role.

  • It was all maintenance,

  • and it was all sitting in the cubicle, and it was like

  • almost a prison sentence to me.

  • The co-workers were cool,

  • like they gave me a lot of opportunities,

  • and I hate to say, but like the work itself

  • ended up being almost like a prison sentence.

  • Which kind of motivated me further

  • to keep working on College Info Geek.

  • So go back like a year before

  • that internship started,

  • I got a summer job on on campus,

  • and I don't really know what to call this job,

  • because they called us cyclone aides

  • since Cy is the mascot of Iowa State University

  • where I went.

  • I'm just going to call it like

  • student orientation assistant.

  • Basically, my job was to give tours of the campus

  • to other students and parents

  • and help them sign up for classes,

  • and also answer any and all questions people had

  • about the college and about the like experience

  • of going to college itself.

  • So I was learning all this stuff,

  • and the same time I was reading blogs like

  • Life Hacker and other things like that,

  • and there was this one like college-specific blog

  • that I was a huge fan of.

  • And near the end of my freshman year,

  • they actually were hiring some new writers,

  • so I applied, but I got rejected.

  • And I had like this whole application and I had written

  • this whole post for them

  • as part of that application,

  • and I didn't want it go to waste,

  • so I just figured I would put up my own blog.

  • And was just like another one of these attempts

  • to kind of like bolster my resume

  • and have a personal project that'd look good to employers,

  • and I just soft of did it for fun

  • for like a full year until right around the time

  • I did that internship a year later.

  • One of my posts kind of blew up

  • and got shared all around the web,

  • and since I was like hating that job so much,

  • I decided to pour all of my time into

  • trying to make this website as big as it possibly could be.

  • And it was just writing at first,

  • but I actually ended up finding out

  • that I liked to write,

  • and there was a lot of creativity in it.

  • I got to create things, I got to share things

  • with people and help people out,

  • and I found out that was much more conducive to

  • my personal traits than changing configurations

  • in servers in a cubicle for 40 hours a week.

  • So that's what I ended up doing like

  • all throughout college.

  • Whenever I had free time, I would work on articles,

  • and I would soak up as much knowledge

  • as I possibly could from people like

  • mentors of mine and people who I looked up to.

  • And eventually, I found out that I was

  • really liking to listen to podcasts

  • when I was at the gym or driving,

  • and I found out I was

  • like listening to podcasts more often

  • than I was reading blogs,

  • maybe a couple of years after I had started the blog.

  • So at the beginning of 2013, I was like,

  • "I can start my own podcast,"

  • and that is exactly what I did.

  • I started the College Info Geek Podcast,

  • which you can find down in the description

  • for this video.

  • And then I think it was like

  • middle of 2014, the same thing happened again

  • where I noticed like I'm watching a lot of

  • YouTube videos.

  • I'm not reading very many blog posts anymore.

  • I'm listening to fewer podcasts,

  • and I'm putting a lot of my time into YouTube

  • for whatever reason.

  • And I found creators like Caddicarus ,

  • my friend Satchell Drakes,

  • and my friend, YoungTown,

  • like I was watching video game channels

  • because I really liked video games,

  • but I was also really fascinated

  • with how they edited their videos

  • and kind of like put it all together

  • and I was really curious about how all that worked,

  • so just like with pod casting, I figured

  • what the heck, let's try doing some videos.

  • I didn't even want to become a YouTuber really.

  • I just wanted to have some videos to throw on my blog

  • as like a way to shake things up.

  • But the response to the videos

  • was way better, like way, way better than

  • I had ever gotten for podcasts or for blog posts

  • or for anything else, and so here we are.

  • And what I found with videos is

  • every week I can kind of push myself

  • to learn something new and like use a new editing technique

  • or do some different kind of animation

  • or light the set a little bit differently.

  • Like it never gets old, so

  • I ended up kind of finding my passion

  • through this long progression of just adding

  • different types of content to my website.

  • And that's kind of how I got to where I am now today.

  • I really didn't have a whole lot of experience

  • making videos before I became a YouTuber.

  • The only real experience I had besides

  • like making dumb videos with my brother as kid

  • was I think it was the summer after my junior year.

  • I had spoken at this event called "Ignite,"

  • which is an event where you do like five-minute talks,

  • and every slide progresses every 15 seconds,

  • so you like have to know your slides perfectly.

  • And they had not yet posted the videos

  • of the talks online,

  • and they wanted to see mine,

  • so I just emailed the department

  • who had put the event on, and I was like,

  • "Hey, if you guys want, I could help edit

  • "those videos.

  • "I don't know how to edit very well,

  • "but I'm willing to learn."

  • And they told me,

  • "Well, we're already done editing those videos,

  • "but we have another video project,

  • "and it pays if you want to learn, we'll teach you."

  • So I said, "Heck yes, let's do it."

  • It was like a few-week project.

  • It really wasn't a long thing at all,

  • but they taught me how to use Final Cut,

  • and they taught me kind of like how to do lighting

  • for setups, like documentary setups,

  • and that kind of like built a little bit

  • of a foundation that I was able to apply

  • to my YouTube videos.

  • And I actually don't use Final Cut anymore,

  • but a lot of the concepts were the same,

  • and I was able to sort of apply them

  • to what I was doing.

  • So, that's kind of my YouTube story,

  • and hopefully, this gives a little bit of context

  • to the video from last week about, you know,

  • passions and experiences.

  • For me, my passion really came out of five full years

  • of just working on this website and adding new things

  • and also doing other part-time jobs

  • and internships and finding out

  • what I didn't want to do

  • and really getting this motivation to make this work

  • so I didn't have to do that kind of stuff in the future.

  • So, hopefully this has provided some sort of context

  • or helped you in some way,

  • and I'll see you next week.

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  • Hey there, guys.

  • Thanks so much for watching this video.

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  • Also, I wrote a free book on how to get better grades

  • so if you want to get a free copy of it,

  • click the picture of the book and I'll send you one.

  • And if you want to check out the article for this video,

  • click the orange button right there,

  • and it'll take you to that page.

  • If you missed last week's video,

  • again we talked about that passion versus

  • skills and effort debate, so check that

  • if you missed it.

  • And I'm on Twitter or Instagram @TomFrankly

  • if you would like to connect.

  • See you next week.

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