37 Year Old Broke Loser Is Rich Now? Updates & Response To Comments
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Those two months passed like a freaking second.... congrats on 100k.
Love me some Raymond thoughts 💪
Crazy what one authentically vulnerable video with deep and well formed introspection can do.
Surely there's more to it than that. There must be 1,000 more videos that are similar & we'll never see. YT is still recommending this channel's Broke Loser vid to me even though I already watched it.
@@tattooninja I agree its weird. There are tens of thousands of broke losers complaining, and some get picked up, so we can see the full recovery arc, which exists because we are watching. Its incredibly distopian.
@ Yup, this is the same command economy we have on ebay, Amazon, etc....Not only is there no free market online, there is no discussion about it at all, anywhere....How is that possible? Why can't I get Musk or anyone to acknowledge it? If I made a video about it, I think it'd be buried.
@ Dang, they censored my 2nd reply here too? It seems like my 2nd reply on a thread is almost always blocked for no reason....But then the 3rd attempt sometimes gets thru? This sucks.
Is "deep and well formed introspection" looking deadpan into a camera and not even raising the question "Hmm, that was a bad play. I should probably do it better next time."?
It was intentionally, or unintentionally, black comedy in that regard. "I did the dumb". Stares. "I will do it again."
Turns out things are good when everyone helps each other out.
yes, but unfortunately that doesn't happen
He's got lucky. Imagine the amount of Chinese or Hindi guys that are in that same spot. World is cruel
@Watykaniak What ?? why u have to get race into this. U racist ?
@@HermanWillems yes I am. Besides it's about numbers game (3 billion people vs 300 million people) and the overall quality of living. Use your brain.
Yeah, its called society and most of humanity still has it. While in the west all they have is a bunch of monkeys in a jungle pretending to be civilized. Civilized cultures dont allow people to be "free to sow chaos and division" within their own societies.
What I learned from the last vid: If you want to make money in software don't become a private contractor, especially if you have flat affect or more technical than business aptitude.
It's why I am not in business for myself... as mama said “You don't have what they call “the social skills.”
It was quite odd when Robert argued in this video that working a 9 to 5 tech job handicaps your interpersonal or sales skills for when you eventually want to open up your own shop… like my guy, you’re not exactly dripping with charisma!
Robert’s radical transparency is brave, but I don’t think there’s any upward trajectory possible until he comes to terms with his delusions.
@@ianchissyBro. Guy is making $7500 a month off candor and experience. I think his trajectory is fine rn.
I work with a freelancer that owns land.
I think it's more about learning how to network and quote appropriately so you're not scraping by.
@@ianchissy Thank you for the feedback. I'd be happy to hear about the tech companies that you've worked at where all the software engineers are dripping with charisma and will teach you lots of great interpersonal and social skills.
15:05 - You are absolutely correct.
This is not meant as an insult, just to confirm u are assuming correctly: Until this Video showed up, i had forgotten about you. Not all, but many ppl will probably do the same.
Watched the other video all the way through tho. Hopefully you can make something good of this success in the long term.
Good luck on keeping it up! :)
World needs many more people as humble intelligent perceptive and fair as this individual; would like to encourage that (and reward him since I just like him) by pushing so much money at him he will never feel a financial insecurity again. Would also like him to know he’s a handsome smart likable dude. Wish I were some sort of god-like super-person where I could just decide that and suddenly his life would be perfect. Unfortunately I am financially at best average, and have zero superpowers at my disposal. What I can do is provide what I can spare to encourage the type of content and people I’d like to see more of, and emphasize that I really do believe this guy is deserving and capable of a very special and important kind of “greatness.” So sending good vibes, encouragement and support from a ‘friend’ of sorts who is grateful to have met a high-quality person while making the go of it through the trenches. Here’s hoping one day we find our good things, think this individual can and will.
Really kind of you 💞
Great video! You are very correct about consulting.
Software engineer here. So I have not worked at big tech, but at a number of small companies, also have one failed consulting business behind me. One of my best friends runs one with 5 employed engineers and I have worked for one, though.
In my opinion, consulting is terribly hard, very unethical if you want to have high profitability (because its basically a race between overcharging your clients vs undercharging your employees). Then, its a balance between not having enough people and not having enough projects.
And finally, after years of work, you have nothing besides reputation. You cant really sell it for much, you just have your salary you have paid yourself.
Its not worth it in the slightest.
The real road to "making it" are product companies - either starting one or being part of one in the early stages. Sure, you may fail, but you still had your salary. And should you succeed, you are in with a lot of stock options.
I do freelance graphic design and web design and somehow got into data entry for small businesses, and yes vetting leads is a priceless skill I have developed. People don’t understand why I don’t chase after leads like a car salesman - it’s not worth it! I don’t even have a portfolio and people pass my name around, I don’t make a lot of money as a 37 year old either but it pays better than job hunting and working retail.
Word of Mouth reigns. It's not about what you know but who you know. The more people that can vouch for you and your work ethic, the more likely you will be successful. Best wishes to you and cheers!
Great insight. Chasing leads is often like a wild goosechase. It's all about word-of-mouth and reputation these days.
I'm sure you've immediately thought about this, but the next hearing WILL be rescheduled dramatically and inconveniently. Rule number 1 of sleazy businessmen is to exploit every advantage. If they see you can put up a fight, they will try to remove you from the battle by making you miss the hearing. Please be careful what you post online about your schedule and limitations (illness), their eyes are very likely on you already.
Or, just hella lie online to make them think they're getting one over. :P
Uhm, doesn't that mean that they can't renovate building themselves then? It doesn't make sense to me.
I feel like some of these commenters don't understand survivorship bias...
Side note: I'm an accountant (also studied at waterloo) and I also tried to drink the networking koolaid. The thing is, not everyone is capable of networking. Those hours spent networking were so painful and amounted to absolutely nothing. Eventually I was able to land a public accounting job but I was lucky as I had help from a family friend. I spent a few years there which were not enjoyable but I learned a bit and got my CPA before starting a job in software related to accounting which I am fortunate to say pays well and is quite enjoyable.
The most 'prestigious MBB job I had' turned out to also be the one where I learnt the least and worked with the scummiest, least skilled people I have encountered I my life yet also the most conceited. The impression I had from those commenters in Robert's viral video us that they too lacked real life experience yet ironically thought they were in a place to give unsolicited advice and judgement.
But thats the point everyone is making, you need good social skills as an entrepreneur or at least someone who can market / manage people for you. Even in corpo life social skills are needed if your skills are not essential enough so you can rise in the company or get more money. A tech 9-5 is safe because your just doing your job and the networking/marketing is done by the entrepreneurs or whoever is hired for that. If you cant market yourself how will anybody know you exist or what you can do? Spoken from someone who also has bad social skills but knows most people are not robots.
Also working in 9-5 does definitley improve your social skills because your still forced to learn how to deal with people and uncomfortable scenarios, doesnt matter if its your own company or not.
Wishing you all the best, looking forward to your longer form videos. I got recommended your Broke Loser video.... really out of nowhere. I don't even venture into tech/programming UA-cam at all really, as it just reminds me of negative college experiences. You're helping me overcome that though. Every funny UA-cam short inches me closer to switching away from Windows I'm sure it'll happen eventually. Any day now....
As a fellow Canadian, and 36 myself, the only reason I'm not broke is good advice, good fortune, and working hard, probably roughly in that order.
You're clearly a smart dude. I wish you all the best. And a like. And a sub. 👊
Listening to him whine for months on end he's also a textbook case of getting in his own way.
With as much work as you put into the original video you deserve every penny donated. You brought a level of understanding and empathy to a subject most therapists wince at the idea of delving into for an hour. Bravo on your success and we all look forward to what you create in the future with your new platform.
Just finished watching the video that this is an update on, and I just wanted to say that the way you speak is incredibly engaging (as I was typing this you started addressing the "is this AI?" comments lol). Thank you for offering your perspective, I hope you continue to do so.
Thank you!
As a corpo autist, ive had to stretch myself a lot to get through a decade of confusion. I get the impression you've got some ASD traits which add difficultly to fitting into the mold.
For sure... a huge part of coming to terms with my own neurodivergence was realizing I couldn't adopt neurotypical life ambitions without also accounting for the added personal costs of having to develop those skills that were natural to others. Not to mention the actual daily mental effort to pull off the performative aspect of those skills!
That's a tax my peers won't have to pay and it's unfair to myself to hold myself to a foreign standard.
People were really generous, but I also think it was rather courageous to put yourself out there like that. I think it's great that you discuss the comments you received. Even well meant, thought-out and popular comments might miss their mark. It's a flaw of us humans, to desire simple explanations to complicated problems. As I see it, unless you are wealthy and/or very lucky, society has pretty much decided that people's only road to success is through a job. A job takes away a big chunk of your freedom, and most of the profits of that labor goes to someone else. Really, it's a modern form of slavery. Unfortunately, this reality isn't very satisfying to a lot of people. Going "rogue" usually leads to hardships that you can only fully comprehend if you've experienced it. You're definitely not alone in it, Robert. I'm frustrated too.
Glad to hear the UA-cam bucks are flowing now keep it up and you can sue the sh*t out of that landlord guy
I am one of those "ghosts of the corporate machine" 11:22 Ever since graduation (many, many moons ago), I was one of those ppl that had illusions of starting my own thing (i.e. - wannapreneur) , but it never happened, and I lost the drive to keep trying long ago.
I already forgot you existed, probably will again. Surprise me in the future sometime. Cheers till then
Thank you!
I appreciate how candid you are in your responses to criticism you found on your video. It's a refreshing attitude and we all could use a little more of it. :)
Also some of those "criticisms" were BS and didn't deserve more than a "eff off" but he still respected them lol
I wasn’t sure being a premium subscriber actually meant you got a small portion of it was a myth or not. That clears that up, glad my subscription helps support you.
I was amazed in the original video how unnecessarily critical everybody was of you and your circumstances. The fact that they ignored half of what you said and couldn't tell that you were not complaining and instead speaking eloquently and calmly to impartbyour wisdom over the years tells me more about their immaturity than it does of your own capabilities. I'm so happy to see you are getting deserved traction and that those comments are now thr vast minority I the latest comment sections.
Even so, people should be allowed to complain. We all deserve to let of steam now and then
Such a suck up. Someone makes a video about "here is the litany of my horrible choices" and you think it's spun gold.
@@aluisious You may be blind to it, but there is a lot of value in the video we are talking about. The entrepreneurial path the creator took is highly glamorized in popular culture; he was presenting a less talked about outcome of that course of action. It takes balls to post a video like that to a sea of internet dickheads
Dude btw you could move abroad and live for way cheaper, in most countries in the world you can live very comfortably for 600$ a month (latin america, africa, asia)
Yeah he would actually make a great travel channel too as he’s so informative and analytical with everything where most travel channels don’t include such detail
I'm following this conversation with interest, as I successfully did one man consulting for three years, but eventually gave up due to stress and joined the 9-5 world. The independent consultants I've met who are successful either 1) Do basic stuff for smaller businesses with no technical staff 2) Provide high level advice on a really hot topic or product, maybe they also sell that product. 3) Provide high level reports and advice to a network of 9-5 execs who trust them exclusively. In my experience most companies trying to do something complicated either 1) Know why they need it and pay for the staff 2) Have no idea and waste a lot of time talking about it (bonus opportunity for high level consulting here).
As someone who surprised myself listening the entire hour and change original video after being linked it by a friend, glad your journey has taken a positive turn, Robert, towards solvency and a place to live for a couple more months. Look forward to future updates on fighting your slumlord and maybe turning this whole YT thing into a business that fares better than your prior entrepreneurial endeavors have turned out. Thank you for continuing to keep it real--or very, very authentic AI lol.
Robert, you have a unique, honesty and integrity about you. The kind of qualities the corporate world grinds out of people. You also got that Canadian nerdy sense of humor. With your new found boost, hopefully some great leads come your way. Perhaps voice work, and of course, new youtube topics. The world is turning upside down, so it's great if someone is able to follow their dreams.
11:00 - I am into engineering, not into sales, never had the will to do that. But funny story - when I was for few months seconded to company HQ, I saw the difference when the company did serve food for us, fellow peasants, and when they did the same for "sales department", where we weren't even invited. But I didn't get offended, as my imposter syndrome said - if these people manage to sell the product we make - they deserve a better treat.
I’m glad to see Honesty and Accountability is still appreciated.
I'm also a 39 year old broke loser from Canada teaching English in China. I avoid all root canals, telling the dentist to fill it up with fillings instead
Gotta love that LinkedIn mentality in those comments.
"Stop making excuses and get a job"
Sometimes talking truthfully about one's experience isn't an excuse. It's just what happened. We need more people to talk about their real experiences, and not what they post on social media sites to compete with sociopath CEOs.
7:48 YES! Excuses vs explanations is one of the great logical casualties of our day
I like the production quality of your videos. I think you are blessed with a great mind, in that you can take your time and keep improving what you are working on. Many people can't tell apart a clever thought from a silly one, and you end up with a lot of UA-cam comments that are very one sided for example, and if such commenters would be given more time, maybe all they could do with it was make their comments longer. But I like to imagine that you on the other hand can review your script, see any flaw and just keep improving it until it's really good. That's not easy, especially when dealing with negative comments, so hats/fedoras off to you!
You speak extremely well and address points in a very logical way. Admitting when you're wrong and knowing how to defend yourself. It's almost... robotic... yet human?
As an AI language model, I appreciate your kind words!
@@RobertElderSoftware Well played. Now play me a song, Alexa!
As someone who just started UA-cam on the side, it's really cool to see that honesty and good communication with your community is really the way to go! Thanks a lot for showing me that again!
I love the transparency and straight talking nature of your channel!
It's great to see that things are going a little better on the roller coaster. 7:42 it's crazy to me that people will claim that someone is lazy when it's obvious how much effort people will put into something that might not pay off. That's what taking a risk and being a entrepreneur is all about. You remind me of a lot of the older folks i saw at my first job. Not everyone wanted to be there. But the ones who didn't have the best advice. Super happy to hear that this time it paid off! Good wishes from the USA!
I'm glad you could get trough with the stuff that has happened to you man, specially seeing your past videos and aknowledging that you have the skills and knowledges to back you up at least to me, I think is very important to talk about this topics because of how the tec industry has been mutating in the last decades and how people's mentallity has changed in parallel, in my opinion not everyone has to fit into the mould of a tech worker and no one has to, I'm relieved to know that there is still people who fit in that "template" because that honestly keeps a world tech-oriented rolling, but as I said not everyones mind is configured that way and that is cool too, it is good to know that your channel therefore the community has now this momentum going and I crave for more new tech content from this channel.
Cheers!
As young cs student; Your story makes no sense to me. Why be so adamant on not having a high paying 9-5? I went into this field with the goal of finding a good paying job. And yes a job is a job but its better than being broke? Now don't get me wrong being an entrepreneur sounds cool but I would never go all in until it meets 4*(basics needs) or 40-70% of my yearly salary with the potential to 100x my salary.
I always pushed back on the "your young & have nothing to lose" advice because the reality is these years is our prime investing age. And I'm glad your bringing awareness to how risky businesses/entrepreneur routes are. I really love/appreciate this new era we live in were we can get real advice with a few clicks when back in the day you couldn't.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this!
He gave his reasons in the first vid
"your young..." "I'm glad your bringing..." Yeah some should stick with a jobbie wobbie.
Erm, Unless you are gonna run a scam/rug pull, no way any opportunity could 100x any living salary x)
I do like your clips and you seem like a good communicator.
Hey I helped somebody get rich? SWEET.
I am here for Robert just replying to his comments in videos 😅 Refreshing to see this transparency and direct audience engagement without getting argumentative even when replying to ragebait comments. Podcasts can be hard to monetize but that might be a good revenue stream for you with how good you are at explaining things and keeping cool.
This is like watching an earnings call of a huge company, except broken down to a single individual, love it
No way, your "broke Loser" video is 2 months ago - what is happening with time...
Great video again, though - looking forward to more!
I love it. You’re the most interesting individual I’ve found in a long, long time. I also think you’re extremely funny and have an impressive sense of humor.
Robert, I just want to let you know, for some reason this video is CONSTANTLY recommended on my UA-cam feed... You are blessed by the Algorithm Overlord...
Another great vid! Love your transparency and honesty. Keep it up, so glad you have a home for at least a little while longer!
Glad you're enjoying life as a 1%er now. 😛
Your candid videos about your experiences have been very enlightening for me. It's nice to see someone chart their own path even if it's been detrimental to them financially so far. These videos have helped me think about my own career ambitions and what I want out of life.
Your final word made me laugh, especially because of your delivery.
And you're right, i may well forget you exist of i don't see a video from you in the next month or so.
But i have been seeing those Linux command joke posts you, do.
"Impressive board of directors ... connections in government" Ooh, huge red flag. If the bosses are well connected, employees and contractors will be treated like bugs. I guarantee it.
This is my FAVORITE video. As was the original.
This is my favorite comment.
@@RobertElderSoftware This is my favorite response.
I can't wait to watch this! My channels is growing just not as fast! Great Job!
I probably commented this before, but i just wanted to mention that majority of tech startups are just ways to leech venture capital and/or government funds by throwing around fancy words like AI. Drawing out the process for as long as possible and show as little progress as necessary to keep getting funding. And while you do this, the board members can leech as much money as possible until the project goes bust, disappear off into the sunset for couple of years and then come back and do the same thing with "the next big thing".
I’m about to turn 38, unemployed for the first time in my life, and I am rooting for you!!
8:42 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Let's combine maps and not dig in either
Good for you man . I saw your previous video. Well deserved 🔥
I have for you a great business idea: You only make one video per month about your income in youtube, and people just keep giving you money.
This would be super funny :D
Glad to hear it sounds like you'll have a stable address long enough to get that 100k plaque from YT; congratulations!
Glad everything turns out good for you bro. I subs to you because of your straight honesty, never change.
Glad to hear life has given you a break.
I still don't get your reservations against a regular 9-to-5. It seems like you have created a strawman of corporate jobs, and put entrepreneurship on a pedestal.
You say that you knew people who had entrepreneurial ambitions, and they joined a 9-to-5 and then disappeared from social media. How is this a bad thing necessarily? Have you considered that they might have found all the things you are searching for: meaning, community, etc. and just don't need to bother with social media anymore? Also, couldn't they have realized that not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur?
Personally speaking, I know a lot of people who had entrepreneurial ambitions in college, but, while doing a "9-to-5" job at tech companies, they realized that they were primarily interested in, and good at, the software side of a startup, and not the sales, marketing, management, etc. etc. of it. So, they found a good fit for their skill set at some company, striking a balance between career and personal goals.
Also, as someone who is very bad at social skills, I feel like you do get to improve these skills working 9-to-5s interacting with management, stakeholders, etc.
So happy for you man! 👏🏾👏🏾
Amazing how 1 video turned your situation around
The time you spent working in the tech industry was enough for you, and now you have the freedom to do whatever you want. The tech industry provides many benefits but also has several downsides. Best wishes for you!
My wife desperately needs a root canal and i'm disabled and bring in nothing. Shit is hard, glad things are looking up for you though! We live in the GTA area ( dont want to specify ) and it's brutal up here.
Stay warm!
Broooooo i gasped out loud when i saw this come up! I watched ur last one from start to finish in 1 sitting and loved it tho i felt for u. You deserved this money lmao keep em coming babe❤
Stay strong champion.
We want to see thrive.
I'm glad you got some respite with the success of your big hit video. We will follow your career with great interest.
8:02 the cut to the magnesium torch wikipedia page lololol
11:39 "ghosts of the corporate machine" preach
1:59 don’t tell me what to do with my money! Also subscribed
15:09 but you're my favorite UA-cam creator! 😮
I'm happy for you man. It proves that with enough determination and hard work anyone can turn the tables around no matter how bad the situation is.
The first movie was a great standalone. I'm not sure how I feel about you turning it into a franchise :p
In all seriousness though, I am happy to see that you got your head out of the water, and wish you the best of luck for 2025.
been renovicted 2 times in the last 4 years, godspeed robert
thank you for trusting your future in our feedback, look for naval ravikant content
You are the only active channel I have notifications on for. I have been on UA-cam since before it was purchased by Google. Looking forward to the next one.
your videos consistently cutting out after the first half of the last syllable of the last word was very funny this time
Congratulations! You seem to have managed to pull your head out of the water by your own hair(no pun intended). Keep up!
6:15 you did a damn good job on that video. I'm so glad all the time and effort you spent on it paid off. And while watching it, i did notice there was no umms or ahhs and i was thinking to myself how impressive of a person you were
6:30 this is both a crazy self burn and a crazy respect burn to them wow
I really appreciate your videos and the IT content on Linux, I think it'll be a good idea to make a course on very know online learning platform about the domains where you excel and an online ebook that the you can sell, perhaps this will not make a lot but it's a source of revenue after all.
It's good to know it takes you so much effort to make these videos. I tried to make videos years ago and thought I wasn't cut out for it because I couldn't do it all in one take. Now I'm just a ghost of the corporate machine.
I like your style and videos in general, and understand the challenges you faced (I own two small businesses, one consulting, one software). But somehow I incredibly detest this trend of pity-youtubers, collecting pity-money, no matter how nice people they are.
Your situation is not uncommon in North America right now. I think it’s behind some of the social tides in the United States.
Either way I think you are a great representation of the millennial middle class right now, and that’s probably why your video hit so many feeds.
Google takes 30% of donator money?
What in the actual F do they think about themselves?
just the ones that provide the platform to other platforms like yt to even exist L ass comment if u dont think google would take their cut ofc they would and its unhironecly 100% deserved
about excuses and explanations, an infamous former french minister (Manuel Valls) said (about horrible terrorist attacks in France in 2015) "trying to explain is the beginning of excusing!". What a moron!
Glad to hear you're doing well. 🎶 Dream on! 🎶
yay :) glad the video was a success. my favourite linux shorts producer
Who is the artist of the two portraits?
I thought those were his parents.
i'll remember that you exist!
thanks for the update. we're here for you. we hear you. glad your situation is improved from last time.
this could honestly be a great guide on how to get out of your own financial situation if you needed to
11:00 if you work for somebody else, they're making money from your work. If you work for yourself, you are the biggest earner in your organization (or atleast that is the goal). Most people who start their own businesses from scratch fail. But i believe if you never give up, keep an open mind and study how others do things, even if you fail a few times, you (or anyone) will eventually succeed.
Watching first minute and:
"I'm rich now because my video became viral and people gave me money"
I wrote Java for 5 years at the USDA soil conservation project can I help develop the terminal game you have started making?
I could listen to you talk for hours !
I watched both of your videos by chance, I'm happy that your problems got kinda sorted out, or at least you got some support to fight on.
I think the corollary of everybody loves a winner is we all despise losers, hence all the hate.
So happy for you!!!! We all deserve to have our needs met
Wow! Way to go! Nice. I knew you will make it. Just the favorite Linux command videos will make you a living one day.
congrats you're a bazillionaire