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I Saved $20,000 馃挵 And Quit My Full-Time Job To Be "Funemployed" 馃帹馃帀 For A Year - YouTube
Channel: Evelyn From The Internets
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hey you brought it to me Evelyn let's go
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ahead and a some cues about being
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funemployed this video will answer those
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frequently asked questions from the
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comment section of my funemployed create
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a video this video will not spill any
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sort of beverage about my former place
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of employment like this internet cousin
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had wished you go ahead and be
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unhireable for being messy on the
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internet but I shan't first I want to
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define what funemployed means to me
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because I noticed a lot of you from the
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comments thought that funemployed was
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synonymous with being a hashtag
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influencer an entrepreneur being
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self-employed
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which ended up happening because I don't
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know how to not work but that was never
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the intention funemployed simply means
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unemployed on purpose hence the fun
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that's it I saw I thought it is my one
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and only goal was to quit my full-time
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job and not have to immediately look for
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another one unemployed next I want to go
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into a little bit of my background and
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the privileges I have that made giving
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up gainful employment an option for me
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number one I worked one salaried
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full-time job that paid me enough that I
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had disposable income I wasn't living
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paycheck to paycheck and at the end of
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the month
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after all my bills were paid for I had
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money left over number two although my
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job was stressful Oh
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stressful at times like all jobs are
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once that clock hit five or really 6:00
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in the p.m. I went home I had manageable
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and ethical working hours so that I
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could go home every evening and work on
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side hustles if I wanted to I always
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tell people that I worked a 9 to 5 and a
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5 to 2 a.m.
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number three I have a college degree and
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since a lot of jobs require you to be
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college educated even
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to apply I felt a lot more comfortable
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giving up this job and just finding
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another one later gotta be fun employed
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first it's the goal number four I have
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access to things like a car Internet I
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have an iPhone with the internet on it
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number five I'm not married and I'm
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there no kids all right so my decisions
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only affected me at number six I have
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parents that with a lot of questioning
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and stipulations would let me move back
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home I had zero intention of doing that
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but just knowing that's an option even
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if you think that option means failure
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if worse comes to worse just alleviate
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so much stress running in the back of
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your mind it is truly a privilege to
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know you have a place to lay your head
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at night since my definition of fun
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employment meant to not work and
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essentially not make any more cash that
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meant I had to live off money I had
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saved with about five years of income
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from side hustles and saving my
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disposable income from my full-time jobs
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paycheck combined with a little bit a
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little bit of money left over from my
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youtube grant I was able to save about
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twenty thousand dollars I think it's
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important to note and a lot of you had
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asked in that video when I decided to
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quit my job I toyed with the idea you
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know lose little drop in my brain brain
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bucket about a year out so at the top of
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2017 it wasn't about four months out
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from when I actually turned in my two
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weeks notice and I said oh okay this
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bucket of money is going to be used for
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my fun employment endeavor so that means
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four years since 2012 every paycheck
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from YouTube Adsense every PayPal
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invoice from a time I edited someone's
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video or filmed someone's video every
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hashtag sponsored piece
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content that I really only recently
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started doing in the scheme of my 10
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year YouTube existence went into a
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separate baking account that did not
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have a debit card attached what I'm
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trying to communicate is that for years
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I had no idea what I was saving the
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money for it could have been a down
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payment on a house I could have saved up
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to go to grad school what is a year out
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half of the year of grad school Jesus I
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could have been had paid my undergrad
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student loans off it could have been
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used to move out of Texas but it wasn't
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until about August 2017 that I decided
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that this money was going to be used to
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support me in the amount of time I
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wasn't going to be working so initially
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I wanted to take maybe three months off
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you know give myself a summer vacation
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again cute but then I really realized
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that this is probably the only time in
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my life that I will be able to do
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something like this so I decided to give
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myself a full year why and so what that
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meant is that in addition to saving
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money I had to reduce my costs and sure
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I went through my bank statements and
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you know try to cut out subscription
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services that I didn't really need you
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know try to reduce my spending you know
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what text makes happy hours you feel me
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but I really and truly the biggest way
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that I cut my expenses was to move out
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of my apartment my rent was about nine
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hundred dollars a month and combined
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with bills I was paying about twelve
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hundred dollars a month to live I lived
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by myself and I loved my apartment you
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know even though we had some issues in
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the past I loved that place but I knew I
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couldn't justify staying there and
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paying $1,200 a month when I ain't got
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no job
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so my friends who have a house had a
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spare room and I now rent that room
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you all are familiar with it by now I
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rent that room for $600 a month flat
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Bessie no extra bills y'all I
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essentially cut my living expenses in
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half so I quit my job I moved out of my
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bachelorette pad and I moved in with my
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friends into their spare room and now
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what was my goal I noticed that some of
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y'all in the comment section of that
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past video assumed that being
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funemployed meant I was renouncing
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nine-to-five life that I had no
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intention of ever working for anybody
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else ever again
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and I never said that BAM never said
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that I loved having health insurance
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which I didn't have during my
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funemployed year I enjoyed contributing
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a little dust of my paycheck to a 401k
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which I had to stop doing when I was fun
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employed and I loved the stability of
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knowing that paycheck don't come through
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hashtag irregardless I never said that I
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never wanted to work for anyone ever
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again I said I'm taking a year off I
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wanted to travel I wanted to participate
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in some opportunities that I couldn't
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participate in before because I had to
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go to work you can't just abandon your
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job and your team because something cool
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you've been invited to something cool
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and I wanted to use this time to learn
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new skills and be creative again I had a
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note on my iPhone called sabbatical all
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caps it had things like learn to grow
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food visit the national parks in Texas
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go to museums take a screenwriting class
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support peoples events happening in town
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make a family history book yah I
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literally had in that note learn about
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space I made that list in May of 2017
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and what that list showed me is that I
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was so overwhelmingly unfulfilled
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and unchallenged in a way I wasn't
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learning or doing anything new and for a
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kid who grew up turning up at the
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Scholastic Book Fair for the kid who
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spent summer vacations learning to code
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or who would buy a book of writing
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prompts for the kid who would take
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pictures with her Barbie camera and
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collect sticks and rocks and big old
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magnolia leaves I wasn't feeding my
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curious and creative self and a lot of
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the things on that note made me realize
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I I needed contact with the physical
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world I was making so much stuff for the
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Internet and I didn't really have any
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tangible I feel like I had no skills
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here I'm saying I had no skills I can't
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go to Basel what we don't doing the
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apocalypse come you need spices you need
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herbs it reminded me of a lot of y'all's
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comments from that video in the comments
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below let me know two things you'd
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finally get to do if you were
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funemployed
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and the responses honestly we're kind of
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sad because y'all are not asking for a
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lot I don't think I'm asking for a lot
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capitalism has tricked us into thinking
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that desiring a better life a more
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creative life a more well-rested life if
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somehow Bujji when really you should be
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asking yourself why do we live in a
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world in which someone feels they don't
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have time to put food on the table and
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hang out with their offspring we didn't
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make that world we just live in it my
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goal was to create an environment in
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which I could slow down and learn things
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again and on top of that I think there's
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in general just a stigma around creative
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people but it's creative people who make
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the TV shows you watch and the music you
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listen to authors go off into woods to
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write that book but you want to read and
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even if you never produce a piece of
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entertainment or something for someone
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else to enjoy ever in your life
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creativity and curiosity play help you
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be a better human being it is a shame
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that you have to have a lot
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of privilege and a level of access and
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order to strategize and kind of create
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that sort of life plan for yourself to
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take time off but I think everybody on
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God's green earth deserves the right to
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a full-bodied well-rounded life and that
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includes you so anyway that's what I
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wanted to do with my funemployed year
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after the year was up I always planned
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on becoming a freelancer and working
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with other teams on a project basis so
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that I could still have some sort of
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flexibility in my life but also make
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money again I wasn't opposed and I'm
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still opposed to having a full-time job
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but low-key I feel like I would need to
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leave Texas in order to truly level up
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in the way I need my career to level up
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my parents would gay um well a lot of
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y'all asked what my parents thought
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about this whole thing
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and truth be told I'm not like a 19 year
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old trying to take a gap year I was 27
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years old so honestly they didn't ask
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much yeah I'm saying they have an adult
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child apparently I'm an adult child but
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my dad asked me one question he asked me
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Evelyn
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what do you need from me and I thanked
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him you know I'm saying for caring and
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asking and I told him you know pops I
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need you to trust me and trust me when I
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say I'm okay and no and this is me
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telling you that the second I'm not okay
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I will let you know and I think that did
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a lot for him because parents the good
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ones just want to know that their kids
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all right
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the kids all right and I once I am one
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of the most frequently asked questions
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on that video was how I was able to
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travel so much
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during my funemployed year and that
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leads me to address the reality of my
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funemployed year which has ended your
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girl got a job
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jobs multiple during my funemployed year
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I actually ended up working so the
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overwhelming majority of my travel was
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work-related or related to being from
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the Internet's the biggest expense for
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travelling I found is the plane ticket
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and a lot of times that was paid for by
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whatever organization was flying me out
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so for example let's take VidCon VidCon
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takes place in Anaheim California they
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booked my ticket but I asked them
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instead of making me immediately come
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back home to Texas while she you know
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book my return flight for like two weeks
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out and so that gave me time to visit
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people I already knew in different parts
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of California essentially I turned one
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plane ticket into two extra trips a lot
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of y'all asked when is the best time to
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be funemployed and the truth of the
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matter is that's a question that I
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cannot answer for you because I don't
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know how your life is set up you know
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who you have to provide for I don't know
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your situation in life your struggle
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your story money timing that's only
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something you can know and it's a very
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personal decision and unfortunately a
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luxury that not everyone has asked for
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me I low key i key didn't do a lot of
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the things on that on that iphone note
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titled sabbatical all caps which is
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another video for another day um got two
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jobs right now I also have a year's
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worth of lessons learned about how sucky
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it is that our self-worth is often tied
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to our productivity a lot of lessons
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learned about being an influencer versus
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a creator how easy it is to get caught
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in the in the
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hamster wheel of promoting someone
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else's stuff instead of making your own
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got-damn stuff lessons about
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communicating with friends better and
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collaborators better and not speaking up
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for yourself myself I don't know your
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life and not saying yes to things just
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because you have the time now and a
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bunch of stuff we can talk about later
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but this video is long enough I just
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want to thank all of y'all who spoke
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life into me in the comments section of
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that video and in all ways in all places
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on the internets i really appreciate
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those thoughtful kind comments
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encouraging words and if you're
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interested in understanding more about
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this topic i urge you to go back and
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read the comments of that video there's
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like 700 comments alright and people
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aren't sharing their fun employment
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stories or their obstacles maybe you can
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find someone who has a similar life
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situation to you and i never take it for
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granted that y'all continue to share
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your stories with me shared pieces of
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yourself with me it makes me feel a
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whole lot more comfortable about cutting
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the camera on and sharing myself with
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you right back in the comments below if
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I missed anything
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I let you girl and I will see you on the
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internet somewhere bye
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