I'm currently working in Marketing Department with a salary of MYR3-4.5K (USD650-1030) per month. Although I do learn a thing or two when it comes to digital marketing, I hated the entire corporate culture -- from traffic jams, being stuck in a cubicle for 50 hours a week and being told what to do by some fat dude in the office. I'm now planning to "build a rocket ship" for my escape. Here are my escape plans as followed: 1. Save enough money from my job (6 months of expenses) 2. Relocate a portion of money as investment funds and learn to trade Since stacking as much bread as I can is the main priority, Ive go through some extreme measures - eating one meal a day, stop eating out and even not subscribing to the gym anymore. However I was quite concerned about the gym part. I feel like the gym would actually give me nett positive in the long run (better health, good physique, clarity) but if I subscribed to the gym monthly (the gym I'm going is subscription based) that means a portion of my salary will be used for the gym's monthly subscription and thus, slower the process of me getting out of my 9-5. My brothers, if saving money to escape your job is your main priority. Would you sacrifice your fitness to achieve that goal? Or you think that fitness is the core of everything? I would like to hear your suggestions, appreciate that!

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I run a smaller channel with 2,800 subs that is more higher quality documentary style content. I’ve done youtube for approximately 3 years now, and you like to share what I put in for the end product my audience sees. And my plans on what to invest in as my income grows. For documentaries, stock footage is essential. And I use two services for this: Videvo and Artlist. I also use Videvo for sounds so I can get high quality songs and sound effects. All together annually it’s around $650 I also edit my own content to keep down on costs, and to also learn editing as a skill I could monetize later if need be. However I do pick up useful plug in over the years, adding to around $500 Occasionally if struggling with a thumbnail idea, I’ll pay someone on fiver and it usually gives me a push off point to make my own by tweaking it. I’ve spend maybe $200 on fiver thumbnails. Usually I make my thumbnails from scratch myself. I used to be an artist so I have developed photoshop skills. Just today I bought a $20 monthly service where people review thumbnails you submit. I think it will be worth it. I also payed around $800 for a course from the YouTuber Jake Tran, which caused me to rebrand my channel into a niche I decided upon. I also would count the books I use for my videos as a cost but I enjoy them so much I really won’t. But 15 bucks a pop, 9 vids. You do the math. Though I do pirate some of them. My channel is monetized but I’ve only received one paycheck for $100 so far. And I have no sponsors as of yet. In the future when I make more from the channel I will outsource my editing as well to free up time. As that’s my largest constraint by far. As I currently am a full time student, and work 15 hours a week part time. For those wondering my channel is called Salt & Pepper Economics. As videos do better I will show data on here on what causes a viral video to help anyone else out who is doing YouTube. Hope this was useful to someone!

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