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what's up everybody J students and welcome to my ask J series which I do once like every six months it's kind of fun kind of gives me an idea of the things that you're interested in and it kind of gives me a chance to break away from the norm PC videos where I can talk about anything that you guys are asking about these questions that you're seeing today are directly from Twitter so make sure you guys are following over there if you guys want to kind of get in on the next one anyway moving on now we've got a question here from methyl methanol man what I'm gonna probably mutilate your guy's screen names I'm really bad at names I don't know why forget my own sometimes he said did you ever use pay to promote your videos that's something I'm actually very proud of everything you see on this channel I've built I didn't pay to promote I didn't pay for followers and in pay for views or even use Google's built-in pay to promote feature I've never done that I never felt like it was a smart move to dump money into either botted or just non-organic views I want the people who see my stuff to have kind of stumbled their way here on their own and if they liked it stick around that's just the way I operate this is a good one here considering the size of the channel now Tim on Twitter asks do you ever have any viewers come up to you or your family when you're out and about if so does it ever become an annoyance to be honest I'm recognized all the time now in the beginning never obviously when the channel is small then when the channel started to reach a few hundred thousand subs every now and then maybe once every couple of months I may might get recognized now I'm recognized almost every time I go out somewhere especially if I go anywhere near where there's tech or PC stuff even out of the track this last Sunday I was at a chuckwalla Valley Raceway and I was recognized twice while I was there which was pretty interesting especially since I got to run in the same run group as some of those guys and not only were they like wow Stacy says wow it's busy wow I get to race nizzy it was a really fun experience Garrett got asked how scary was it to quit your full-time job and become reliant on YouTube for majority of income it's been almost a year since I did my it's been a year since I quit my job things were almost two years into full-time self-employment and I have to say that I wouldn't change anything it was a risk it's absolutely a risk to put all of my eggs into a platform that's not mine since YouTube is not mine YouTube can change anything Google could change anything anything can happen any controversy any crazy change in dynamic could affect all of this but you know what I wouldn't change it it's scary obviously to be your own boss because any decision you make could affect your future but I'm still of the mindset that working for someone else doesn't equal security and it doesn't make you that much safer because you're still at the mercy of that business so why not at least try it for myself it's working out pretty well so far I've got no complaints but who knows what the future holds at least I feel like I'm somewhat in control of it now this question from Cory Williams kind of ties in to the last ones I think it's a good segue he says is it hard to balance the demand of the channel with family life how do you unwind after it's after a stressful project yes it is absolutely difficult to balance my professional and family time there's that saying out there that entrepreneurship is the job you spend 80 hours a week so that you avoid working 40 hours a week for somebody else I'm just putting in all the time today hoping that I can maybe have an early retirement and have a comfortable life later on but I do the best I can to make sure our family are that balanced family time I take my daughter to her diet Taekwondo classes multiple times per week I do everything I can to try to be a good family man and ice and I fail and I fuck up a lot like I just messed up right now if you're a family man watching this with your kids I apologize for that f-bomb the FCC doesn't really regulate this yet and like I said that'll blunt and forward things anyway I digress I mess up all the time and trust me where my family lets me know that I mess up but I'm doing the best I can which is why the hiring of Nick was a huge thing because it's allowing me to start the process of delegating and that will free up some time at least my naive mind thinks that it will free up time but I'm working on it hi mirco blitz asks as a us a foreigner I'd like to know what is your opinion on Trump and does his politics scare you oh boy I don't have any tinfoil in here because I feel like I should make a tinfoil hat real quick I do the best I can to separate politics from my channel is the jays two cents is about all of my opinions but there's no winning when it comes to talking about politics there's no right answer and unfortunately that might sound like a politically correct type of answer it's really not I just don't feel like I just don't feel like talking about it on my channel because I find politics stressful now what scares me most about Trump and his cabinet is not his grandiose ideas or the way he presents himself people would probably say I'm very Trump like when it comes to being a tech youtuber because I'm very direct I'm very like if you don't like me tough get the fuck out there's a desk Tom again I am and I'm kind of okay with that I feel like shake ups are good but problem I have with this cabinet as we're moving forward is it's obvious lack of experience and the fact that it's trying to now run the White House like a business and I don't think that's going to work very well so we're just going to have to wait and see anyway that's my official stance on that like I am definitely bipartisan and what sucks about that it's either side of that partisan fence hates you when you're bipartisan because you're not all in I'm never going to be all in so deal with it Maroons fear asks I recognize that name I think you've been following for a while I do remember calling that out Tech Talk a few times and I remember mutilating your name and apologizing apologizing again he says how do you become immune to negative comments on YouTube and real life love you Jay the reality is there is no youtuber who's famous on YouTube who doesn't get affected by negative comments even pudy pie gets affected by negative comments and look at him is the most popular person on YouTube with 53 million or maybe 54 million 55 million 50 so you see how fast he's growing so it affects you what was difficult is balancing how much you let it affect you and your mood on your day obviously affects how much you let that get to you that particular day there's folks that would tell me Jay just ignore it jaysus ignore I would say anyone who says to just ignore it has come is completely ignorant to what we go through and not ignorant in the bad sense is ignorant that you have nothing to compare what we experienced to you've never experienced it so it's easy for you to say just ignore it but the problem is you try and interact with people and if you're going to read comments you're going to see it and it's going to affect you in some way there's folks that would probably say you J you get a little too caught up in the hate I find a little bit therapeutic sometimes too if someone's going to give me some sort of backhand to get it back at them it's the way I've always been it the way I'm always going to be and those those people that say J you're losing subscribers because of that I would say I'm gaining subscriber to agree with my way of dealing with that so there's always going to be two sides to it we need more direct people in this world and I appreciate it when someone's direct with me when they're like J you're an asshole just shut up every now and then I'm like you know I am kind of an asshole but I'm an asshole that cares I'm like a bleached asshole uber on Twitter accent and not the you know the driving service uber just someone their name is uber what's your least favorite part about your job honestly I think it's the fact that a huge passion of mine like computer building and hardware and stuff has become a job so I don't get as excited about new hardware as I used to I still get excited about like new launches and things like that but the excitement of going and and saving money and buying that graphics card you've been drooling over and watching videos on for six months or a year or two years and you finally have your hands on it and you're just like well dick will use the Titan here use very Titan we're just like yes this is mine oh this is mine yes thank you I don't feel that as much anymore because it's my job and there are times where I feel that way just as much as it used to because when you're surrounded by it you get a little jaded that's that's the harsh truth in Holland integer asked when's a studio tour coming when I move I I don't get to move till March there's a tenant in the studio now he moves out on the 23rd of February and I'll be moving in and then I'm not going to be moving much from here to there I'll be completely furnishing it from scratch so it'd be more of like a kind of a set up vlog I guess if you will there probably a series happening there's no way I'm be able to turn all the work I have to do there and still get work done is literally make that my job and make videos about that and you guys seem to like moving vlogs anyway so that's what we're going to do Quinn Rudolph asks do you have any more plans for nizzy upgrade wise Mannis I'm torn I'm so torn on what I want to do I want to turn it into a pure Z spec race car I do I want to gut it I want to cage it I want to do you know racing seat range racing harness full arrow I want to do all of that but I don't want to do it to this car because this was my dream car and I don't want to pack it up into a race car that I can no longer drive on the street or right now I'm not in position where I can buy another car so I'm really torn on that I've taken it about as far as I can take it now for a street car with the exception of like specific race compound tires but yeah that project is all on hold I'm just driving the car now and having fun with it and not putting any more real work or time into it which is kind of sad because that's my relief from all of the stress but hey I'm working my ass off now so that I can play a little more later hopefully so this is a good one Conrad GM says what are the things you miss from time before becoming YouTube famous I miss being able to come home from a nine-to-five kick off my shoes and go the rest of the day is mine whatever I want to do with it but this is a full-time sunup to sundown gig but I think people highly underestimate heard some folks say what's so hard about your job is turn on a computer or you turn on a camera and you talk about it that's ignorant you just don't understand what goes on behind the scenes you understand the running of the business now having employees having taxes to deal with having the legality of running a business and compliance to deal with and workers comp and and just all of that you can't just turn on the video and talk about a product of all the time you take to research the product and experiment but the products and build the computers and tear it all down and deal with inventory just making videos is literally the least amount of what I do when it comes to running the business it's the smallest portion of it the shack I think fish I could say you say your name he says any special moment that you will never forget in your entire life it says sorry about the grammar your grandmother she's pretty good oh yeah there's that there's a few of them actually the day I got married there are there's the birth of both of my daughters and then I have to assume there's going to be more favorite moments in my life I hope I create some more but right now those are obviously the three that stand out most for me I don't I don't measure like special moments in my life so far with the business I mean where did that sound the special moments in my life are always a family-oriented and not hobby or business oriented know what Mac says this is a simple one do you feel successful yes and no because I remember thinking to myself if I could only hit a hundred thousand if I hit a hundred thousand I'll feel successful when I hit a hundred thousand they know what balloons didn't fall from the sky confetti didn't shoot out of cannons I woke up and it was like wow there's a hundred thousand people here and then guess what life kept going and I used to think well half million that would be the number at a half million I'll feel super successful the half million came and went and nothing changed with the way I felt and then part of me is like wow I want to hit that million when I hit that million things are going to happen and I know for a fact nothing's going to happen it's just going to be a million subs and I'm going to keep going on about my life it's really hard to gauge success because everyone gauge is a different some people want to gauge success on why you have a million subs or Wow you're getting you know six million views a month or or whatever why you can work for yourself well you have a nice house everyone gauges success in a different way to me I feel like success comes when I die if that makes any sense if when I leave this planet if the impact I left people remember that that's what I will gauge my success on not anything I've achieved yet I don't feel like I've ever been to my told potential now don't think I will ever be to my full potential which is what keeps me going so I don't want to ever get to the point to where I feel like I've made it I'm successful because success also dictates the completion of something and I don't think I've ever done anyway that's all for today guys there were hundreds of questions and lots of good ones and I'll continue to answer some of them on Twitter and respond to the tweets if they didn't make it into video don't feel bad if you want a chance of making it into the next ask J who knows when maybe this summer sometime I don't do it very often make sure you guys follow on Twitter it's at ght says and then use the hashtag ask J's two cents and we'll go ahead and call that a day a day we're going to call it a day I swear a little on my words I'm not drunk I swear all right guys time to go thanks for watching as always I will see you in the next one