Mighty Car Mods .....

[SuperBuickGuy]

I've said it before, and I'll say it here. I could do car stuff for a living, but I made an honest choice a long time ago not to screw up my hobby.
Moog articulates that idea here...

https://mightycarmods.com/blogs/news/why-we-have-failed-as-youtubers?fbclid=IwAR089Drz7GIWh3Us3x5iejrLGLss8UDnxQNi7TyphsqLHBS_JLRXw9N77hQ

as a side note, that was the thing at SEMA, there car people and their were people whose living is car stuff..... there are a few who successfully blend the two; but precious few...

Point of this, and this is this. Do what you're successful at but never screw up your first love by doing it for the money.

[pdub]

I have a thought, which is worth less than zero. It was this forum that got me back into a "car." It's Matt's fault. I did it when I was a kid but then marriage and life and all of those things got in the way. But it's back. Even when I was a kid I didn't "build" the car. So even now I know next to nothing. But I know I like it. And it's fun.

[Dan Barlow]

Yeah , its mentioned in the movie Hope Floats . A friend of mine and I when we were teenagers planned on having a body shop when we got older . Glad that never happened . While I'm not exactly crazy on being a production machinist it pays the Bill's and at the end of the work day , I am done with it . That leaves car stuff for after I get home . And when I am tired of it I stop or don't get started .

[DanStokes]

I often tell young, car-crazy guys not to ruin their hobby by turning it into their profession. I was wildly lucky in that I got a car-related job where I didn't have to make flat rate, please customers (outside of pleasing the boss, relatively easy) worry about making payroll, etc. So I pretty much got to play all day long at work then go home and play in my shop. But those jobs are not common and today they wouldn't hire me - no degree.

Given that I fell into working in automotive labs I was OK. Otherwise (and this is the advice I give young people when they ask me) - look into the skilled trades or building trades. They pay well, while there may be ups and downs there will pretty much always be work, and you can go home and play cars. I really enjoyed my time as a plumber but we had to make payroll every week (it was just me and my oldest bro) and it was usually too darn tight financially. So I got the chance to get back in the Gov't and took it.

Dan

[fatguyzinc]

Point of this, and this is this. Do what you're successful at but never screw up your first love by doing it for the money.

this would be why im not a pornstar...............

[pdub]

this would be why im not a pornstar...............

Ain't that the truth. When your mind writes a check your body can't cash. Good grief, the things I think of.....it's a great thing my mind is not online, there's not enough bandwidth on the internet available to handle that. So much stuff, just noise, most of it. But about 1% of it may actually happen.

[65RHDEER]

I've occasionally wondered where CarjunkieTV would be now if it was still going. It started before MCM, how would have it grown and changed over the years.
At the time it was falling over I was ready to pay money as in a subscription to keep it afloat, but the decision was not to go that way. I still think I would paid to have it as I enjoyed it that much. I wonder would it still be going if it went to a viewer pays, we'll never know. I also wonder what Freiburger thinks of those days now and how he may have done things differently given where he is now. Was it, as said above, mixing job and hobby a flaw in the idea.

[pdub]

...as said above, mixing job and hobby a flaw in the idea.

Wow, who are those two young guys? They have way too much fun. How long ago was that?

[RockJustRock]

The whole "job that you love" thing. It's too bad a lifetime is only long enough to completely F*** up a few career paths. I spent 10 years doing the union job I didn't give a crap about thing. Thing was no matter how well I did the hobby stuff all it did was eat up all the money and not give any back. I spent another 8 years on a "lovable" job that I understood because I had loved other hobbies, just not THAT particular one. Did well. Uh... well enough to make myself REALLY sick and not have time for pastimes. I'd like a do-over or 3 but I'm 64 now. It's just a conundrum between doing what you love or pooping where you eat.

Second people need to step back and figure out just WHAT this You Tube thing is and what it can do. It's staggeringly huge and untamed. Hot Rod Magazine and Roadkill are the big example. I honestly think Roadkill was getting a lot higher "circulation" on You Tube than the Hot Rod Magazine ever was. There are legions of youngsters who've never read the magazine watching Roadkill.

So.... what exactly IS a You Tube "phenomenon" and what do you DO with it. O.K. you get famous after a fashion, but how do you turn it into ANYTHING else? The answer is NOT coming from the comments sections so stop looking there!

[SuperBuickGuy]

I've occasionally wondered where CarjunkieTV would be now if it was still going. It started before MCM, how would have it grown and changed over the years.
At the time it was falling over I was ready to pay money as in a subscription to keep it afloat, but the decision was not to go that way. I still think I would paid to have it as I enjoyed it that much. I wonder would it still be going if it went to a viewer pays, we'll never know. I also wonder what Freiburger thinks of those days now and how he may have done things differently given where he is now. Was it, as said above, mixing job and hobby a flaw in the idea.

I think it springs from a different set of values. Freiburger never made a secret that he wanted to monetize his involvement from the very beginning - which isn't a huge thing one way or the other. It seems the confusion is when someone proclaims you should monetize it.....

[pdub]

I'm so tempted to post an episode of the Weeville Garage right here, but I won't. I don't know why I stopped doing that, but I simply ran out of material. There's only so may ways you can document that you're a dumbass.

[65RHDEER]

Youtube is a place where people can make money out of it if they wish but is also a place for to share hobbies/art, it's up to the content provider how they want to be rewarded for their efforts. The person that sent the message to Moog thinks it's only there for one reason!


Merch is where the money is at for those on Youtube, sell a $10 tshirt for $20.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Youtube is a place where people can make money out of it if they wish but is also a place for to share hobbies/art, it's up to the content provider how they want to be rewarded for their efforts. The person that sent the message to Moog thinks it's only there for one reason!


Merch is where the money is at for those on Youtube, sell a $10 tshirt for $20.

whaaaa? you mean it doesn't cost them $7.00 plus shipping and handling for a chopped sticker?

Off the Ranch has taken that to a whole new level... the guy started with animal rescue/dog rescues.... now, it's an enterprise all itself.... and it's cool, but it's not cool to be throwing crap at MCM because their opinion of what life is about is different then MCM's.... and I think that was what Moog was saying (though in a more gentle manner)

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'm so tempted to post an episode of the Weeville Garage right here, but I won't. I don't know why I stopped doing that, but I simply ran out of material. There's only so may ways you can document that you're a dumbass.

You could be the world's most interesting man and the internet trolls would tear you apart..... dumb, on the other hand, sometimes they get quite clever in the ways they do dumb things....

[Gateclyve Photographic]

There's only so may ways you can document that you're a dumbass.

If true, that's bad news for the Roadkillers, the Gas Monkeys, and the Street Outlaws . . . Just sayin' . . . .