How I got my job - YouTuber Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
All right, two things about how I became a YouTuber. First, we moved away and we were going to just film little videos for our family to be able to see and keep up with. My parents really wanted to see their grandbabies, so we just started posting videos and they were able to kind of keep up that way, which ended up kind of making us become a YouTuber. But another one was we couldn't afford crafts at the time and I had convinced my husband that it was really an investment because maybe we would make money off of YouTube after I made these craft videos. Well turns out I was right and I didn't even know I thought, I really thought I was just kind of coming up with an excuse to be able to make some craft videos that we could not afford. Ended up actually paying us back, so that was pretty cool. It really did end up being an investment.
Video 2 Transcript
You know, the nice thing about YouTube is anybody can do it. Are you a kid who loves Legos or video games? Well, you can get a job as a YouTuber. Are you a stay-at-home parent who does a craft that you would love to share with others? Well, you can be a YouTuber. I run a small farm and also I have an art business. You can see some of my art in the background there. So I've made these into YouTube channels and you can just make it. There's no one to report to or to submit a resume to. You just start doing it and what's awesome is people will start to want to see your personality more and more and what you do. They'll become interested and then you just have a job.
Video 3 Transcript
Well, my wife and I and our seven kids have been through a lot over a 15-year, 20-year period of time. And we had only really documented things through pictures and started doing some Facebook stuff. But I had this strong desire to document more, have more of the experiences we were going through documented. And so we did. We started, and a friend of mine said, put it on YouTube. And so we did. And then all of a sudden, after a few months, we started getting subscribers and some people asking us what to do certain things. And so we started doing them and challenges and whatnot. And then someone said, hey, do you know so-and-so on YouTube? And I think it was like Shaytard or something at the time. So we looked into it and went, wow, some people are actually doing this. And it's like their job. And so it took us about seven or eight months to get to the point where we were full-time doing it and making a little bit on YouTube. But that became a part of our life at that point.
Video 4 Transcript
My YouTube channel, Working With Lemons, got started about seven years ago. Frozen came out, I saw it. Anna looked, little Anna looked a lot like my little sister and so we decided to film it as if it was like a real life and we try to match shot for shot and then it took off and then we're like well let's keep doing this and so we kept doing this to the point where we're here where we are today of making covers of cartoons or taking Broadway and bringing it cinematically to life so.
Video 5 Transcript
The wonderful thing about YouTube is you get your job if you want it. If you want to do YouTube, it's your choice. It might be a side hustle for a bit. It might be something you can turn into something full-time. It might be something that's always something you do for free. My daughter's channel, because she plays a lot of music that's copyrighted, she doesn't get a ton of revenue from her videos. But yeah, if you want it, you start it. That's the wonderful thing about YouTube. No resume needed.
Video 6 Transcript
So back in 2012 or so, I felt like I should work on this passion idea I had of interviewing tons of people who served Christian missions around the globe and post them on the internet. So I published like 10,000 to 15,000 YouTube videos in the space of like five, six years, just little interview segments. And bit by bit, you know, those videos about different countries kind of started growing our viewership, you know, where it took us about a year to grow from about zero to a thousand views a day. And then the second year, I think we grew from about like a thousand views a day to like 10,000 views a day, and then 10 to 20, 20 to 30. And then we've kind of remained at pretty close to 30 off and on. We've had some months where we've went well above that. But yeah, I just got my job doing a passion project I felt inspired to do.
Video 7 Transcript
So how I became a YouTuber is kind of funny story. I've always been an entrepreneur and I always wanted to have my own business, but I never knew what I wanted to do. And one day my wife says, you know, people are making money filming YouTube videos. And I was like, why? Like how? She's like, yeah, they just filmed their life. Like this is for vloggers specifically. They're just filming their daily life and they're getting paid by YouTube to do it. And I was like, people are watching their family home videos. They're getting paid for it. Super weird. Uh, sign me up. Uh, and so we started creating videos and you know, it took us years to get to a point where we were making any substantial money cause I had no videography skills, no editing skills, no social media skills. Like I was like the least qualified person to be a YouTuber, but my passion to be an entrepreneur and to make money doing what I love helped us to see the success that we wanted. And that's how we got started on YouTube.
Video 8 Transcript
The story of how I got into YouTube is not traditional, I don't think, but I actually basically got a digital media degree, which I did get a digital media degree, but it was basically a YouTube degree from Utah Valley State College. I actually graduated when it was the university, so I had a lot of experience with filming, editing, audio, lighting, all that kind of stuff that was a lot of fun, but I was doing software engineering and one day my, we were super poor and just trying to work my way up the ladder, we, I broke the sewing machine that we had while we were making our kids costumes because we couldn't afford to buy them costumes. And so I called the sewing machine repair place and said, um, how much is it going to be to look at this? They said 90 bucks. I said, I'll fix it myself and I'll teach other people how to do it too. So I made a video, it started getting some views and then we started making money and we realized this could turn into something. So I got my start by fixing a sewing machine and putting it up on YouTube. Definitely not the traditional means, but it's been a fun journey.
