How I afford to travel the world without working [lzxtcnpqvTU]

Hello and welcome back to the river. As

you can see, it's raining and a little bit

windy. I think this is going to be

a very tricky video to make, but we'll

try. I'll try my best. I've noticed a lot

of people asking, how does Daniel afford

to stay in Airbnbs and travel the world

when he doesn't work? So I thought I'd

make a video explaining. Basically, I make

videos on YouTube and then I put ads onto

them. And I know that's not a very

interesting answer, and that's mainly

because it's just not a very interesting

question. A more interesting question

would have been, how did I used to make

money before my YouTube channel became big

enough to support me? And I would love to

answer that question, but the stupid wind

keeps interrupting me. I've only been able

to live off of my YouTube channel since

the beginning of last year. But I've been

living this lifestyle of traveling around

and meeting girls and having fun for the

past 10 years now. And apart from the

channel, which has only helped me since

the beginning of last year, I've had 2

jobs in the past 10 years. I worked in a

convenience store in Japan for a few

months, and I also worked in a petrol

station for about 8 months in England.

But apart from those 2 jobs, I have been

mostly unemployed for the past 10 years.

But I didn't let that stop me from

traveling the world and meeting girls and

having fun. Okay, so I found a place

that's a bit less windy and there's no

rain. I can't believe how windy it

is. If I just step over there, it's like a

hurricane, but I'm protected by this

concrete pillar. Okay, so before I started

living off my YouTube channel, um, one of

the things I used to do was I went to the

job centre. And in England, we have

this place called the job centre.

Basically, they give you money if you

don't have a job. And all you have to do

is you just go in there every week and you

sign your name and you have to fill out

this little diary so it looks like you're

looking for work. So for example, you

would just write in, Monday 2 PM, I went

on jobs.com and I applied for 10 jobs.

And then they'll check your diary and if

everything's okay, they'll sign and give

you your money. The problem is they're

very nice and friendly to you in the

beginning, but after a few months on the

job centre, they start to nag you and they

start to talk to you in a condescending,

rude way. And then they'll start trying to

send you on these work trials and courses

where you have to learn how to write CVs

and stuff, and they'll try and make you do

volunteer work, which is kind of stupid

because the whole point of volunteer work

is that you volunteer to do it. It's

voluntary. If you're being forced to do

volunteer work, then it's not volunteer

work. So what I used to do was, to avoid

the nagging and to avoid being sent on

these volunteer things and being forced to

work at McDonald's for 4 weeks without

being paid, I would save up all of my

money and then just go to Japan before

they started nagging me, or just as they

started to nag me, I would sign off and

then go to Japan, go to South Korea, and

then come back half a year later and then

sign back on. And by then everything

resets and they're nice to me again. And

then after a few months of signing on,

they start getting rude again, and then I

just sign off again, go back to Japan. My

friend Bill said that he used to fill out

his diary and And he would just put in

anything. Like, he would put he applied

for 10 jobs on Tuesday and then 5 jobs on

Wednesday, when actually he spent all day

playing World of Warcraft. Now, I never

did that because I'm a good boy, and I

tried really, really hard to look for a

job. But because I couldn't drive and I

lived in the countryside and I don't have

any qualifications, I didn't have any

experience, it was very difficult for me

to find a job. And the job center found it

very difficult to find me a job as well.

They tried sending me on a few interviews,

but because I have social anxiety and I'm

not very good at talking to people. I

failed all of the interviews. The last

time I went to the job centre was in 2016,

slightly before I got my petrol station

job, and then I signed off for the last

time— hopefully for the last time ever.

And apart from the job centre, I used to

have other methods of making money,

mostly online. So I used to do online

surveys. There's loads of websites where

you just fill out these online surveys and

then they'll pay you about 20 or 50 pence.

And there's— there used to be about 5

websites I was signed up to, and I had

multiple accounts on each website. So I

was just spending all day long filling out

these surveys. And because there are

multiple answers, you don't even have to

do the surveys properly. I would just sit

there spamming Tab and Enter to go to the

next question. And I'll just spam tab,

enter, tab, enter, tab, enter. But you had

to be careful because sometimes they would

do a trick question. For example, what

color is a banana? And if you didn't press

yellow, they would kick you out of the

survey. I got banned from a few websites

because they found out I wasn't actually

doing the surveys properly. There's also a

website called Swagbucks where you watch

videos and they give you points, and then

you can exchange the points for gift cards

or PayPal payouts. And I just had multiple

browsers running in the background

auto-playing these videos on multiple

accounts, just racking up points. I made a

couple hundred pounds every month doing

this. My dad wasn't really happy about it.

One time we had this big argument. He came

home and he had this big go at me. He

said, I'm fed up of working hard, working

really hard all day long whilst you just

sit here all day making 50p an hour.

I was pretty upset because he wasn't being

very supportive of my dreams to somehow

make money on the internet, and we didn't

talk to each other for about a week after

that happened.

I also used to have an eBay shop. I used

to sell cheap tacky things like watches or

pens. I would bulk buy them, buy them in

bulk from Hong Kong or China. For example,

I'd buy a box of 20 Spider-Man watches and

then sell them for about £2.99 each. It

was kind of frustrating because the

watches weren't very high quality and they

would break easily, And I

used to get a lot of customers

complaining, saying that it broke, and I

had to refund them or replace the watch.

I also used to go to flea markets and look

for little jewelry boxes and then buy

those for a pound or 2, and then I'd sell

them for about £10 each. And then I found

out that English people are willing to pay

£60 or more for these Japanese knife

sharpeners, whetstones. So I went to Japan

about 6 years ago, and then I started

selling knife sharpeners. I would buy them

on the Japanese Amazon and then sell them

on eBay. The problem was I ended up buying

out all of the knife sharpeners on Japan

Amazon, but I was still getting orders

from people in England on eBay. But I

didn't want to give them their money back,

so I tried making them wait, but they

didn't want to wait and they reported me

to eBay and gave me negative feedback.

And eBay refunded everyone, then I had to

pay back eBay about £2,000. And I thought

if I paid them the £2,000, they would let

me carry on selling, but they banned me

from selling. I phoned them up and they

said, unfortunately, we don't think eBay

is the right place for you to be selling.

So after eBay failed, I tried out stock

photography. Stock photography is

basically where there's these websites and

you can sell them photographs. For

example, just boring photographs like an

apple or a cup of tea, and they would

review the photo, and if it got accepted,

then they would sell the photo for you,

and you'd make about 20p or 50p per

photo. It was really difficult because

your photo had to be perfect. It couldn't

be out of focus, it couldn't have any

defects or noise or grain on the photo.

It had to be a really good photo. And even

if your photo got approved, it wouldn't

mean that you'd get sales. I barely got

any sales, and after half a year— after

half a year of trying, I only made about

$50. So I started to get frustrated,

and I started to download other people's

photos, and I tried to sell them as my

own. Obviously, the websites that I was

using found out about it, and I got banned

on most of the websites I was using.

There's quite a few websites. My favorite

one was Shutterstock and CanStockPhoto,

but it can be quite tricky to get your

approved, and you need a good camera.

Okay, so the last thing I tried before my

channel started to grow to a nice size was

online Japanese translating. So as you may

know from my last video, I can speak

pretty good Japanese. I speak level 2

JLPT, so that's advanced

Japanese. And there's a website called

fiverr.com, and you can sell your

services. So if you know how to do

something or you have a skill, you can

advertise yourself on Fiverr, and I

advertised myself as a Japanese

translator. And I wasn't expecting anyone

to actually ask me to do work, but

surprisingly, I got quite a lot of work.

In the beginning, it was just simple stuff

like translating comic books, but then

people started to ask me to do more

complicated things. I started getting

messages from people asking me to

translate difficult documents like

cryptocurrency and medicine and financial

stuff. And instead of saying, no, sorry,

I don't know how to do that, because I

have pretty much zero understanding of

cryptocurrency and business and medicine,

even in my own language I barely

understand it. But because I was so

desperate for money, I said, okay, I'll do

it. I thought, how hard can it be? I'll

just use a dictionary if I don't

understand anything. And in the beginning,

I really tried to translate it properly,

but I just couldn't. I didn't understand a

word of it, even in English. I don't know

anything about cryptocurrency. So I got

lazy and I started to use Google Translate

more and more. In the end, I was just copy

and pasting the entire document into

Google Translate and then pasting back the

Japanese to my customers. And it was

actually working for a bit. They, they

paid me and no one noticed I was using

Google Translate until a few months later

when a few people did notice and I got

some angry messages from someone saying I

asked my Japanese friend to check your

translation and he said it's really bad.

So I got a bunch of negative reviews from

loads of people, and after that happened,

I just stopped getting messages from

people offering me translation work. So

yeah, those were a list of things I used

to do to make money before my YouTube

channel became big enough to support me.

eBay, online surveys,

Translating, Job Center, and Craigslist.

So if you would like to have some money

but you don't know what to do, those could

be some good ideas. Just try not to get

banned like I did. I got banned from

nearly every single one of those things.

Okay, so how do I get out of this flooded

Oh,

so wet.