[0:01]Hello
[0:02]YouTube. So, I'm just sitting here in my
[0:05]I guess it's called a
[0:06]lagoon. Thought those were only in the
[0:08]south, but I think this is a
[0:11]lagoon. I'll show you. Just a nothing
[0:15]special. Well, it's special actually. I
[0:17]don't know why I said that. It's nice.
[0:20]Very
[0:21]peaceful. It's not the ocean. That's why
[0:24]I said that. But I'm going to go to the
[0:27]ocean in a minute. I'm going to walk
[0:28]down there. It's about maybe a mile from
[0:31]here and then up a big dune and then
[0:34]there's the
[0:36]ocean. I wanted to talk to you about
[0:39]some some things I did
[0:43]today. So,
[0:45]first I put all my videos behind my
[0:48]subscription
[0:51]service. I didn't do this to punish
[0:54]anyone. I didn't do this because I don't
[0:56]want you witnessing my life or
[0:58]participating in
[1:00]it. I did it because I feel like nobody
[1:02]is actually witnessing or participating
[1:04]in my life. And the only way I know how
[1:07]to correct that is to put it behind a
[1:08]subscription
[1:11]service or people make a conscious
[1:13]choice to do those
[1:17]things. Right now, it's not possible to
[1:19]sign up for it because uh YouTube needs
[1:22]to fix a problem with my account. I had
[1:24]to make a new AdSense account and I'm
[1:26]just waiting for it to be
[1:28]approved. So, it's not even possible to
[1:30]see them right now. But, I felt like I
[1:33]needed to do
[1:35]this cuz I'm sharing very vulnerable
[1:40]content and it's not being received
[1:43]well. I turn comments off because I get
[1:46]a lot of negativity from
[1:49]people and I get very little positivity.
[1:54]and even less true
[1:56]witnessing. And it's
[2:01]because well for a lot of reasons
[2:05]and I felt I had to do that to protect
[2:08]my
[2:11]space. But I want you to
[2:15]know that it will be available soon that
[2:18]I hope some of you sign up.
[2:21]And even if you don't though, at some
[2:23]point I'm going to get my videos onto my
[2:25]homepage, my own website. They'll be
[2:28]available there without being behind a
[2:30]payw wall. So there will be a way for me
[2:32]to share my life with people who just
[2:34]can't afford to pay for the sub
[2:36]subscription
[2:41]service. But this is something I need to
[2:43]do for now.
[2:47]The next thing I want to tell you is
[2:49]that I made some positive steps
[2:52]today. So I started off by looking for
[2:56]work
[2:56]onguru.com and I discovered that
[2:58]platform is basically dead which is
[3:02]really disappointing and kind of
[3:04]shocking for me cuz I had worked on that
[3:06]platform in the past and built quite a
[3:09]profile. I had over 40 reviews on there.
[3:12]I'd made over $70,000 on that platform
[3:15]before I started working with clients
[3:16]long
[3:18]term. And so it would have been the
[3:20]easiest way for me to find work if there
[3:22]was a job there that I was qualified for
[3:24]and I applied for it. The clients would
[3:26]be able to see my previous history and I
[3:29]would have been more likely to receive
[3:30]that job. But there's nothing on there.
[3:34]Did applied for two jobs on there that
[3:36]are just very short-term work. I was
[3:39]hoping to hear from one of them today
[3:41]and I didn't. But, you know, I'm
[3:44]hopeful because of that. I had to pivot
[3:47]to Upwork and I don't have history
[3:49]there. I never used that platform. It
[3:51]wasn't around back when I was a
[3:53]freelancer. And so, that makes it much
[3:56]more difficult for me to find
[3:58]work. But I with the help of artificial
[4:01]intelligence cuz I use it for
[4:03]everything. I built a really good
[4:05]profile and I applied for four different
[4:08]jobs.
[4:10]all of which would be great fits for me.
[4:12]So, I'm hopeful. I'm just waiting to
[4:16]hear if anyone responds to that. I'll
[4:18]keep looking every
[4:23]day. My life is in in a big transition
[4:27]right now. My birthday is Friday, one
[4:30]year since I moved into my
[4:33]RV. But the next day, I have nowhere to
[4:37]go. I have no money. I have $50 that my
[4:41]parents sent
[4:42]me and I need to use that to put fuel in
[4:45]my Jeep because that's literally how I
[4:48]generate power from my RV and my
[4:51]laptop. And I'm at less than half a tank
[4:54]now. I need to drive an hour from here
[4:58]to go to a Forest Service field office
[5:01]to apply for volunteer opportunity. So
[5:03]that that would be a possible way for me
[5:06]to have
[5:08]um a stable place to stay and power and
[5:12]water. And I can also ask them where the
[5:16]free camping spots are. So maybe I could
[5:19]go boondocking in the
[5:21]forest somewhere
[5:24]safe. But I'm not even sure if I can
[5:27]afford to do that because there's no
[5:28]fuel in my RV.
[5:31]I'm really struggling and I'm trying so
[5:35]hard. If you are a viewer of mine, if
[5:38]you've been following my life for any
[5:40]length of time, but
[5:43]especially over the course of the past
[5:45]year, a full
[5:47]year, I need you right
[5:51]now. I know things are tough for all of
[5:55]us. I am very scared and I don't know.
[6:00]I don't know if I will make it without
[6:02]your
[6:03]help. I'm doing everything I can. I'm
[6:07]asking you to you not asking you to save
[6:09]me. I'm asking you to give me a helping
[6:12]hand so I can save
[6:16]myself. Thanks for listening.