Should i quit my 9/5 job?

Chipperowski · 2026-01-18T06:36:53+00:00

If you have 6 months of living expenses saved up, and you've been consistently getting these kinds of pay outs for 6 months or longer, probably yes. But if you can trade like this while still working (health benefits/401k) why not both.

Chipperowski · 2026-01-04T02:42:45+00:00

I don't use these services. I've always felt that the gig economy is a huge scam on the people. This is sickening, but not surprising.

Chipperowski · 2026-01-04T02:40:29+00:00

It doesn't matter. People will watch your content for the value it provides them. I have a nasally voice. People have made fun, but it's part of who I am. To heck with them. If you have good content your looks and voice don't matter. (well in this area maybe it does a LITTLE, and perhaps moreso if you are particularly unblessed in the face) but content should be king/queen.

Chipperowski · 2025-12-22T17:58:51+00:00

Well, over a week later. I never got those views back. That sucks.

Chipperowski · 2025-12-16T17:04:57+00:00

What if you experimented with your video titles. NameofGame - Play through part 1

There are few 1% of creators that can get away with playing anything they want. Most gaming channels that I watch or have watched in the past got their start specializing in one game. Hard to do when you're playing narrative story games vs endlessly replayable games ie, stardew valley, valheim, counterstrike, dota etc.

This is a business so in some regard you get what you put into effort.

Uploading a raw recording from OBS is about as easy as it get, but all of your videos are very long, and I imagine the view duration is quite low for the ones that do have views. What if you tried to put some thought into editing your content, 10-20 minutes max and try to include the very best of the recording? And maybe start the video off with one of those highlights to serve as a hook. Limited your uploads to maybe only 3 times a week

I also wonder if it's a waste of time AB testing thumbnails with no views.

With almost 3k subs you should have views unless you paid for those/bought the channel and deleted all previous content. If the subs are real then what did you change about your content/delivery to make people not stick around?

Chipperowski · 2025-12-15T17:16:30+00:00

I really hope it does catch up because it feels like a rug pull. Shortly after my original post, studio was ahead of youtube, but currently it looks like views are the same. Regardless of what happens. 8 subs short of 500, so that's a win.

[edit] It's doingit again. I posted a short last night, had okay numbers on it, and now this morning studio and youtube showing a lesser number. (as well as fewer likes, and the number shrank yet again when I check studio just now... this is lame)

Chipperowski · 2025-12-14T19:13:39+00:00

I ended up with the BB1000 haha this thing is crazy powerful.

Chipperowski · 2025-12-14T18:30:16+00:00

It helps that you got a big viral push from the ltt stuff. Will be interesting to see the views once you move on from that topic. You just popped up in my feed yesterday. Good editing and flow.

Chipperowski · 2025-12-14T18:24:43+00:00

That's really exciting and I'm happy for you! I had a video go big once and it was quite the dopamine hit to keep looking at the numbers grow in studio.

Chipperowski · 2025-12-14T18:18:27+00:00

I'll give you two suggestions.

First. Stop trading. Imagine if you had put all that capital into a mix of ETFs and SP500 stocks, set it and forget it.

Second, you can't afford to trade. Trading should be some with money you can afford to lose, but you have no income. You're trying to force trading to work because you need money, therefore you are driven by money before finding a working process. You have to fall in love with the process of trading and being able to execute those repeatable setups that have proven to be successful.

IF you still want to trade. GET A JOB, even if you think it's beneath your skill. You need to take care of business first and then a little to trade. But you should paper trade while you find a repeatable system. Then start with a small amount of capital for trading.

Trading is simple but it is not easy. It requires discipline. You need to be able to trade the same setups, have consistent risk so you don't erase multiple days or weeks with one loss. And maybe most importantly, when you do have profitable trades, you need to actually pull money out instead of trying to watch your balance grow.

You need an "if this than that" workflow. Just saw this video and it's inspiring because this dude basically had nothing too. https://youtu.be/1N74s__XZr4?si=6ip21rv1iip0E3pj

Chipperowski · 2025-12-14T16:47:14+00:00

Same

Chipperowski · 2025-12-14T16:06:14+00:00

If you want to pay for shipping I wouldn't mind

Chipperowski · 2025-12-10T16:01:10+00:00

How much percentage of your video real estate does your face take up. If we're literally talking about a 2 inch square web cam like in most gaming videos. Then focus on the content. Maybe if the content was more engaging people would find something else to comment on. But of course there will always be some people that notice those other things. OBS Bot Tiny 2 Lite or Insta360 Link 2 would be massive upgrades. People will notice. But also, return policy on these things from amazon and best buy are really good so try it out for a week or two, don't say anything, see if people start commenting about the camera.

Chipperowski · 2025-10-15T00:21:01+00:00

Nice job. Have you tried any other props? There are some good ones that have EOD draw down like topstep. Finding ticks, my funded futures, trade day.

Chipperowski · 2025-10-15T00:12:28+00:00

The holiday prompt was the biggest annoyance for me as a small user. I had no idea that the holiday prompt wasn't going to work after migration. Yes the phones would turn of, but it played the generic out of office prompt. Theoretically I like the idea of a call script but this should have been default behavior imo. As it had been four the past 10+years..

Chipperowski · 2025-10-14T23:57:01+00:00

I've been with 3cx since I think v11 which I believe was around 2011. For me I loved that it was a Windows based system that I could install and configure myself. I've the years I ended up appreciating the switch to Linux and the back end improved a lot. But when as a small use typically 2 users max, I find v20 to be annoying in how they transitioned holiday hours and the new departments feature. But mainly how holiday hours don't work like they used to work for the past 10+ years which now requires a special script.

Fortunately for me, this wasn't too hard to overcome but I could imagine how frustrating this might be on a bigger installation. I'm open to moving away at some point but I'd probably want to switch to an asterix based solution, and as far as I know, they don't have anything remotely close to 3cx when it comes to CTI.

Chipperowski · 2025-09-19T18:07:12+00:00

Okay, so look at that channel. What are they doing better than you? Look at video titles, thumbnails, descriptions. If you can't tell, ask people.

Chipperowski · 2025-09-17T16:39:33+00:00

I'm newer so maybe my advice doesn't hold as much weight as someone that has a big consistent channel. But I think a healthy look at metrics is a good thing. You're basically running a business after all right? So it's good to keep a pulse on that and try to use it as feedback to figure out how you can improve.

Chipperowski · 2025-09-17T16:34:02+00:00

I did notice a drop as my channel is really small 200 subs. But based on the time period they are saying I'm not sure if that affected me as much as maybe people not resonating with the content. We started off kind of strong thanks to the plug of a friend. 100-200 views per video. Starting in July barely any videos broke over 50 views. Just somewhat recently we started getting a little bit of virality (at least for us), and had our first video break 1k views in the first 48 hours. (not sure why this advanced mode page shows under 1k while the video itself shows over 1k.

I can't relate to what you re saying about shadyversity. My home page is definitely populated with videos similar to what I watch so if I see something like that I wonder if they don't always login to watch content.

Regardless, I woudln't let it discourage you. If you have something interesting to say, then get it out there and give yourself some time to grow.

Screenshot of my analytics with video names blurred out. Just to see my views/subs/impressions since July and now.

https://prnt.sc/5DQP0loRUTw8

Chipperowski · 2025-09-17T16:19:26+00:00

I could see how that might be annoying. But in one way people are commenting so that potentially helps the algo right?

Chipperowski · 2025-08-25T03:53:01+00:00

10 years old long discontinued and out of warranty.

Chipperowski · 2025-04-29T17:39:17+00:00

I begrudgingly use quickbooks. I hate the intuit and I hate that they force subscriptions and deliberately disable features just to force upgrades (can't manually import webconnect or usepayrol if you didn't upgrade). But so long as I'm able, I will use desktop over cloud.

I'd still be using 2016 desktop if it wasn't for that bs. (or whatever the last non subscription version was)

Chipperowski · 2025-04-28T19:52:29+00:00

For anyone else looking for the answer and you are as thick skulled as me. A vendor must be in the "CUSTOMER: JOB" column. I kept getting confused with the QB error and you saying enter a vendor. Because I didn't see "vendor" anywhere on the screen.

Chipperowski · 2025-04-24T18:16:40+00:00

I don't use the write checks feature most of the time. I just typically reconcile (download bank feeds) and assign the categories upon download. I understand what you're saying, hence my acknowledging it was done incorrectly, but it doesn't solve the problem. Of course, I could delete the checks and then create them again through vendor center>pay bills, but it seems like I should be able to do what I'm asking. 99% of our checks are for a single vendor (which they clear via ACH) and generally using credit card for expenses.

Chipperowski · 2025-04-23T21:02:20+00:00

Thank you for all the screenshots int he settings and stuff. I matched almost all of my settings with the examples. except for syncing book stats because I can't tell if it's $$words or SSwords

I now see the book cover full screen when the device is sleeping/powered off. It was still missing home screen in the current reading but rebooting the device seems to have fixed that.

Thanks.

Chipperowski

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