The news about the future! (Patreon)

Some exciting news! I haven't told this to many people yet, but I quit my job!

I submitted a resignation letter at the end of the last month. It was a long time coming. I'm an IT support specialist by profession and have been with the same shitty company for the last 3 years. It is a funding/financing company which I find incredibly not interesting. I was really unhappy for quite some time and towards the end, I really hated it there mainly because of the company itself and a weasel supervisor, and the day I put down my papers was one of the happiest moments in my life.

I have a 3-month notice period which means that I am officially free at the end of February. But! I stopped working last week and will continue to receive my salary until the end of my period. That is a nice thing you can work out with your employer in Germany.

After that, I am on my own. I already opened a small business for YouTube and now I need to apply for work permits, tax... and other typical German bureaucratic stuff. Not looking forward to that.

Bit of a backstory, prior to this job, I worked for a news agency in Berlin for 6 months, and before that, I was living and working in Santa Barbara, California. I'm originally from Serbia and I went to CA on a student exchange program, landed a job in IT and stayed there for a few years.

Santa Barbara is my favorite place on earth and I had, what I now consider, an ultimate gig. I was maintaining the IT infrastructure in an oceanfront, 5-star luxury resort: Bacara Resort & Spa. The picture above is with my best friend taken during business hours, lol.

Putting the incredible workplace on the side, the IT director I worked with is one of the nicest human beings I ever met in my life. I learned a lot from him and we are still friends to this day. Lots of fond memories there and that's where this crazy adventure with BMWs began. I was buying cheap broken bimmers, fixing them up and flipping them. They are stupid cheap and easy to sell there.

My work contract was coming to an end and my girlfriend, at the time, was studying in Germany. I had a choice of staying in the US, but break up with her or come to Germany and be with her. As you can conclude, I chose the latter. One of the hardest decisions I had to make, living in Santa Barbara is my dream and I was so used to that life. The first few months in Deutschland I was a nervous mess, but I landed a new job quickly and fast forward to now, things worked out wonderfully. I'm still with her and now I get to do what has become my dream job, travel and save BMWs, and make videos about it. Something that makes me incredibly happy and fulfilled.

Anyway, I never properly introduced myself in the videos as I always wanted them to be about cars, but the damn thing grew so quickly and that's my story. We'll see how this journey goes, YouTube revenue is a roller coaster, but I'll try to pump out more videos often and hopefully get some sponsors aboard.

The support from you good folks is much appreciated and will go a long way! Hopefully, the channel grows even more and results in a lot more junk getting saved.

Ramble over. I actually bought another dead car yesterday and then today, a subscriber offered me a free car. That left me speechless. I'll share that in the next post.

Thank you all for being here!