TheKingOfRandom

Yes. I have a business I've built up over the last 9 years in real-estate, and I'm also an airline pilot.

Many many things. I was a professional motor coach operator driving luxury tour busses across the country. I worked on the oil rigs as a rough-neck, and in the seismic fields in Canada before that. I drove tanker trucks for awhile, then started a real estate business, and became a commercial airline pilot. YouTube wasn’t supposed to be a job, but it’s pretty much consumed my life. Good thing I enjoy doing it because it’s a lot of work! :)

I would recommend having a "plan B" in place before trying to make YouTube a career. It is possible, but like anything, there are no guarantees and it could all fall apart at any moment.

Did anything ever go terribly wrong with an experiment?

Things do go wrong very frequently, but I’m usually expecting them to. I try and approach every project as if it’s going to fail terribly, so that when it does I don’t get hurt. 2 months ago though, I just about cut half my pointer finger off. Surprisingly it wasn’t on a project. It was in the kitchen with a bread knife. Life is funny that way!

How do you come up with ideas for your videos?

I get this question a lot, and there is no easy answer. Some projects are inspired by dreams I’ve had since being a kid, some are inspired by books, some by my parents, others by things my kids want to do, and some from projects I’ve seen on the internet. In every video I post, the description has extra information on where the inspiration for that specific project came from, and more information and history on how it developed.