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My First Job Nightmare: Toxic Banking, Guilt Trips, and Career Red Flags Why your first professional experience often teaches you exactly who you don’t want to become After I graduated from university, my first job was a boring job as a loan officer for a bank. The training was terrible. Only three days. They gave me a bunch of theory, and showed me only a couple of times what to press in the program for practice. The program was not intuitive. You had to press random buttons in random places, which made the process of memorizing how to work with the program very difficult. Plus, the lack of practice was scary. We heard this phrase during training: “We must do everything possible to make the client take from our bank.” Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash The workplace was in furniture stores, and you had to constantly change places. The schedule was inconvenient, 4 working days and 2 days off. So meeting with friends was an option, since they had normal regular sc...

My $4.93 Mistake: Why Writing 80+ Articles on Medium Nearly Broke Me My honest journey through burnout, viral stats, and the fatal mistakes that cost me thousands of dollars in potential income What if I told you that for 80+ articles and tens of thousands of views on Medium, you can make… less than $5?  This is the reality many content creators face when they ignore the technical side of the platform. If you’re looking for "how to make money on Medium " or "Medium partner program tips," you’ve come to the right place. I’ve lived through the flow, the burnout, and the crushing disappointment of missed monetization. Do you dream of making money on Medium? Me too. However, I made mistakes that could have cost me potentially thousands of dollars. Don’t repeat them.   I started my blog on Medium because I admired the people who wrote about making money online. I thought it was a really interesting niche, so I decided to become one of them.  At the very beginning, I...

Does Trendy Music Help YouTube Shorts? Testing Viral Growth Hacks The ultimate experiment on why viral hacks like trendy music, 1-second loops, and "evergreen" topics might be killing your reach In my previous two articles, I tested 10 YouTube promotion tips that proved ineffective. But I still have some examples left — this time from more creative (and failed) experiments. To grow a channel, you need to know what to avoid as much as what to do. Myth: Add popular music That day, I chose a song that became popular on the day my video was released. A song called “Pretty Little Baby” was in almost every short I scrolled through. For the first time, I caught a trend on the fly: the song was playing everywhere. But other bloggers inserted it simply “for the background” , and I tried — I chose a suitable video: a cat’s chin is scratched, and he melts with happiness. Let’s check the video analytics. Video analytics showing that trendy music didn't boost reach This vi...

From 0 to 4 Failed Channels: My Honest YouTube Journey and Mistakes An honest look at the struggles of a multi-channel creator and the hard lessons learned from low engagement and zero monetization How many channels have received monetization? How many subscribers do the channels have? What niches? How many hours of views per month? These are the questions every beginner asks, but the reality of YouTube growth is often much harsher than the success stories we see on our feeds. After two years of experimenting, I’m ready to share the raw numbers behind my "failures." Photo by   TheRegisti   on   Unsplash First, I’ll show you the analytics for my channels. Transparency is key to understanding why some content hits the mark while others stay in the shadows of the YouTube algorithm . Channel One: The Origami Niche The first channel I started was an origami channel. I wanted to do something without showing my face. As a result, I only have 563 subscribers and 1,16...