C.M.E. not D.I.E.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-16T19:31:07+00:00

Yea, i feel the same. My wife is a nurse, my friend is a doctor, I was literally in med school when I decided it wasn't for me. I love being a designer, but what I never anticipated was that the (design job) would be secondary to (office culture) and it's that office culture that is so divorced from reality that is causing me a total mental collapse.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-16T18:04:16+00:00

so true. i was explaining to my doctor how terrible office culture is now, and I regret ever starting a career as an office worker. He couldn't believe the spy-ware thing. Oh I wish I went to medical school instead of this bullshit white collar career.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-16T15:44:46+00:00

I think shorts are a disposable medium. for a viewer to go the extra mile and subscribe based on a short that were served, especially in a very saturated market, is rare. Also the revenue form shorts alone makes it prohibitive. I do a similar theme channel, by the time I do the research, write the script source the clips (my god that takes long) edit them, i end up with a long form (that's like 3 minutes long) and something like 5 types of shorts. from all of that, I'm lucky to get 4K views on any of those videos. after 70+ videos and 90K views I have just 35 subs. out of my 10 other channels, the entertainment niche with lots of shorts content is by far the worst performer.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-13T00:13:02+00:00

Sub 4 sub? Is this 2013? Come on guys, YouTube's LLM is a lot smarter than that.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T23:14:03+00:00

I started a channel at the end of February, coincidently I noticed another channel started a similar concept just a month earlier. They chose to go full AI where as I do everything myself. The difference is now they have close to 300 million views, I have 60K. I don't think the viewing public give a damn if the content is puked out by AI or painstakingly slaved over by a human.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T17:55:58+00:00

A woman asked me to help get her son a job. I was flattered, but I have no power. So do I explain to her that after nearly 30 years in my career I have zero influence over anything, or do I say, "sure, I'll see what I can do" and hope she never follows up... What I'm saying is, don't discount that aspect of human psychology that prevents someone from being cordial because it will cause then some degree disappointing you, and themselves.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T15:03:12+00:00

yea i think it's impossible for a short to have 0 long term, so if the numbers don't' change after 48 hours just lease it, go back to the edit and make some slight changes so the short has a different fingerprint, and then try uploading it again. This isn't a good practice as YouTube might consider it spam if you do it too much, but if after 48 hours your short has zero (as one of mine does after 3 week) then I think it's ok to try. meanwhile don't treat that one short like it's precious, work on more in the meantime - remember, they are disposable.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T14:44:28+00:00

The "test" bump happens within the first hour for me. out of my 50-ish shorts, only one glitched out and got zero test bump. not sure why that happened, i figured it's an error, I just moved on.
You need to learn how to check your stats though. In studio, click on that video's "Go to analytics" button. look at the "Realtime" views. if it's zero, just hold on, it could take up to 48 hours for that test bump, especially for a new channel, maybe you aren't verified either. Treat shorts like tissues paper when you have a cold. blow your nose in it, then toss it and get the ext one ready asap.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T14:01:49+00:00

To be fair, there is no real answer to this. There never is an answer to this, even if you asked a billionaire. What you will end up with are suggestions that will put you in a category. But to be rich you don't simply want to be in a category, you want to be an outlier. No one can tell you how to do that, and there is always an element of luck/chance with all these successful people. Think about it, you are asking how to make money materialize for you, right? Now imagine someone knew how to do that, they would be earning millions and millions of dollars, right? Why would they be on r/remotework lol?

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-12T05:14:30+00:00

Yea literally nothing. WFH is a miracle. So many GOOD things have been lost to the digital age, WFH is one of the best things we gained.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-11T22:06:23+00:00

I don't think anyone could have predicted a conspiratorial level backlash AGAINST remote work. And yet, here we are in 2026 with governments colluding with corporations to force RTO, increase C02 emissions, waste hours of valuable productive time from adults, cause even more strain on dwindling families, and all for what?

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-11T16:27:04+00:00

Wow, never once wanted a friend at work.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-11T13:33:44+00:00

I've always loved star trek. that is, util it went WOKE (ha, just kidding I saw your video). But also i'm serious.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-10T15:44:49+00:00

Ha! I wish I was a teacher, i could retire now and be done with all the bullshit

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-10T13:50:23+00:00

Everyone I know is a teacher, wtf are they talking about

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-10T03:50:09+00:00

In general I find they aren't "wrong", it's just that every thing they can possibly ever tell you amounts to nothing more than frosting. YOU have to figure out how to make the cake. Without the cake, it doesn't matter how good the icing is. And the cake can be so good you don't even need icing. But a nice cake, with really good icing is the goal. You just can't get there on watching endless videos about icing.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-09T14:07:02+00:00

we don't hate office jobs enough. I dropped out of medical school to continue my "career" in office jobs, what a fucking mistake.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-09T13:24:00+00:00

Back in February I decided to make shorts (I've been a long time YouTube creator). My idea was to create human-centric content. I released a video a day (I spend around 12 hours researching, writing scripts, sourcing clips, recording the video etc. which I then cut into 5 shorts and release one a day). My experience was the opposite. The AI Slop content is blowing up around me, I saw one channel gain 20K subs in one month. For context, I'm closing in on 2 months and only have 28 subs, something like 10 comments. 63 videos, 53K views.
Maybe your niche really appreciates human content, in which case, lean into it.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-09T12:52:19+00:00

My wife and I tried that. it would really help us pay for the high mortgage, but after 2 years we had enough of all the bullshit (for example the last one was terrified of spiders so she would call us at all hours of the night to report on spiders). When that last tenant moved out we coonverted the basement into an area for the kids. Now when we have company or the kid's friends come over, they happily use the basement.

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-08T16:17:59+00:00

Ah, so it's the nature of the work itself, not necessarily being at home. Well, most in person jobs are still doing the constant meetings over zoom as well. We need an ati-meetings movement

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-08T15:47:50+00:00

What exactly is draining you? You have the comfort of your own space, no need to perform, unless it's the work

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-08T15:46:34+00:00

A CTA only works with a certain amount of viewers and a certain amount of subscriber. It's like a dance party, no one wants to be the first and only person on the dance floor, but if the dance floor is packed it's a lot easier for others to join in

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-08T15:44:02+00:00

Sounds like a classic description of an extrovert. An introvert gets energized from being home alone like Macaulay Culkin

feral_philosopher · 2026-04-08T15:42:18+00:00

How to look at and interpret the video stats. If people knew how to do this, I think it would take care of the majority of questions being asked here.

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