Who is EricTheCarGuy?
“…and EricTheCarGuy was born”
During my tenure at the dealership, I started to get restless and needed a “hobby”, especially after I quit smoking. It turned out to be video production. I started out videotaping my friend’s weddings on weekends, and I really liked it. I had been doing this for about 6 years when I lost my job, and thought, “Why not give that a go instead of getting another job as a mechanic?”. Trust me, I was pretty much done being a mechanic at that time, and perhaps you can understand why. But as I said, it was the fall of 2008 and there was NO business to be had at all despite my efforts. Once again, I went for the “hail mary”. While talking to my wife one night, I said, “I wonder if I could just start making videos about how 
to fix cars?”, and EricTheCarGuy was born. I had been on YouTube for about 2 years under another channel at that time, and I remember seeing a video that Davidsfarm did about the checks he was getting from the YouTube AdSense program. It was about 7K a month if I remember right. Well, this got me thinking for sure, so in January 2009, I started ETCG and posted my first video, “Episode 1, Creds”. Things were slow at first, but I started to find my wings and gain a solid subscriber base. I wasn’t making any money with it yet, but I was working a lot of freelance video jobs to make ends meet. I did more weddings, football games, some corporate stuff, plays and dance recitals. I even traveled around videotaping dog shows for a while. And then one day the email came, and I was officially a YouTube partner, and able to make money off of my videos. It was a great day, and I felt that I was on to something that just might be my future career, and, if I played my cards right, maybe even more.
