Hello folks, if you are reading this, then I am already 20. So, what is this article about? It’s about what I love to do, what I am doing now, and how I ended up where I am today.

Well, let’s start from the beginning.

Where It All Started: YouTube

So the year was 2018, before getting into programming and coding—I was just a boy who all knew and loved was about gaming. One day one of my friends told me about the game Minecraft, and yeah, I loved it too much.

That time I used to have a Jio keypad phone, and I remember it gave me 100 MB of data daily, I guess.

So as soon as I get back home from school, I love to see BeastBoyShub videos and love his videos, and somewhere in my mind I always think that one day I will be YouTuber too.

So in 2019, covid started, and school classes were going online. That time I got my first smartphone. So I started gaming on that 4 GB RAM and 32 GB ROM phone. and made a channel and named it Om Tiwari Let’s Play.

At that time I was so obsessed with gaming that I just did daily uploads of videos. Even though my videos get 5–10 views, I still upload a daily video, but one day a video got a good response that made me more motivated to make videos. At the age of 14, I was deeply involved in gaming and YouTube. But that doesn’t mean I ignored my studies. In fact, I was also pretty good at mathematics. I don't know if you have heard of the math book by RD Sharma; I solved it completely for 9th and 10th class.

Time passed, and I got 50 subscribers in the first 3 months and reached 1000+ subscribers in the next 3 months. By this time I had monetized my channel and started earning from it. I had a strong audience that time.

In 1.5 years I had earned more than $250 from YouTube at the age of 15. When I got my first payout, I bought a mic and finger sleeves. That's all I needed for myself that time.

The Decision That Changed Everything

When I was in 11th grade, my channel was at its peak, and it was increasing continuously. But one day I got a call from one of my coaching teachers, and he advised me to focus on my studies, saying that for the sake of earning a little money now, I might end up losing something much bigger in the future.

And I, a boy who respects his teacher too much, followed it and stopped uploading YouTube videos and shifted all my focus towards studies.

Looking back today, I feel that was one of the biggest mistakes I made.

At the end of the day, it was my decision to stop, and I was the one who implemented it. My teacher is simply giving advice based on what he thought was best for me.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had continued creating content. Would I have crossed 100K subscribers? 500K? Maybe even a million?

Nobody knows. All I know is that I walked away from something I genuinely loved.

From JEE to Computer Science

After leaving YouTube, my main focus shifted towards studies. Like many Indian students, I entered the JEE race, hoping to get into a good engineering college.

Those two years of preparation were very different from what I have experienced. Those late-night solving of physics numericals, waking up early to revise chemistry, classes, exams, pressure, and a lot of preparation.

But things didn’t exactly go as I had planned, and I scored the 96.3 percentile in JEE Mains. Still didn’t make it to the good college I expected.

Eventually, I joined MBM University, Jodhpur, to pursue Computer Science Engineering.

And that’s where a completely new chapter of my life began.

Here I went from making gaming videos to learning software, websites, and applications, still late-night grinds, but this time it's not a competitive exam.

My programming journey is still in progress, and I’m enjoying every bit of it.

Some people ask me now why I don't upload videos on YouTube; the answer is that now priorities have changed. Now I can’t spend my hours thinking about content, recording, and editing because there are a lot of things on the plate right now to do.

Sometimes, whenever I feel demotivated or feel down, then I see my own YouTube videos that make me realize how energetic and motivated I am. That gives me a spark to focus on my work again.

Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But one day I will continue uploading videos on YouTube.

The Creator in Me Is Still Alive…