I loved Boston, but I wasn't making enough to live on my own, so I moved back to Japan in 2014. I landed a full-time job teaching English at Toyo University in Tokyo with health insurance, a pension, and housing subsidies.
Instead of returning to the US, I booked a one-way ticket to Vietnam. I stayed in Vietnam for three months to keep my expenses low, traveled around Asia and Europe for nine months, and continued to build my YouTube channel and online course. In 2016, I moved back to the US and signed a lease on a two-bedroom apartment in New York City.
I again had two bedrooms and listed one on Airbnb. But this time, it was my own damn house and I could do what I pleased with it. This made me an extra $1,000 in revenue a month. Shortly after, I decided I wanted to be a real-estate investor and realized Kansas City was a great place to do that. By 2017, I had language-learning and online-tutoring companies buying sponsorships on my YouTube channel, and some language-learning apps paying for ads. Half of these companies reached out to me, and I sought out half of the other deals. My largest contract was a yearlong, $40,000 sponsorship deal. From 2017 to 2020, I averaged $250,000 a year in revenue from my online businesses and two rental properties.
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