Man, read the room...Another lovely down to earth video from Ali in the middle of one of the most difficult economic years for many very tasteful
I get the polished vibe too but I don't think I will label his life as "balanced."he seems a bit too polished and perfect. Like even with a fever he's still being pRoDuCtiVe?
(Maybe I'm just sounding jealous since he has such a seemingly balanced life )
Not surprised.He said in some video a while back that he doesn't actually care about kids dying in Africa and now he contradicts himself while simultaneously taking the moral highground over people who choose not to donate to charity but do charitable work nonetheless.
I don’t religiously watch his videos, but didn’t he do a “what I spend in a week” video where he openly admitted to ordering takeaway/convenience food/food at the hospital because he doesn’t enjoy cooking?View attachment 340322
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Preach! As a vet nurse, I can confirm none of the vets I work with got into the job for money and they’re all criminally underpaid for the hours they do - you’re only into decent money if you own the practice. This is such rubbish narrow minded thinking!Am a doctor, can confirm you are an idiot if you do this job to get rich. 50+ years ago this may have been the case, but things are different now and we are underpaid and overworked. I work 48 hours a week and earn less than a train driver working 35 hours a week. I also have to do huge amounts of unpaid work taking exams, courses, volunteering with teaching and research etc because otherwise I can't progress in my career. But sure, I just wanted an easy way to make money
"a doctor in the NHS will only ever save around 8 lives in their lifetime and I can save more by donating at least £24,000 to this charity, hence why I wanted to stay on YouTube"I used to be subscribed to Ali back when he was still at Cambridge, I thought that he was just a really knowledgeable passionate guy who loved medicine and knew some great tips about the medicine application process and studying. But over the past two years.... I just can't stand his content. Not just the fact that his company charges hundreds of pounds for courses that directly contribute to the classism in the medicine application process but oof... His most recent video? Hit the nail on the head.
The fact that he indirectly said; "a doctor in the NHS will only ever save around 8 lives in their lifetime and I can save more by donating at least £24,000 to this charity, hence why I wanted to stay on YouTube" just really disgusted me. I don't understand why if he wants to stay on YouTube and do his business thing why he has to lowkey attack medicine? Why does he have to use these BS reasons to justify why he wants to do something he's passionate about? Just own up to it! Also, the fact that money seems to be a huge thing in his life; showing that he has it, is worth it, while that's not a bad thing; why can't he just own who he is. I just couldn't believe that he tried to use the fact that because more people watch his YouTube videos than however many he may or may not be able to help on the wards as a reason why being a doctor wasn't worth it to him.
Not just that but also all that stuff about "oh, but there's locums and the hospitals will always find someone to fill the gap". Dude, just own what you did. The whole country knew that the NHS was struggling. It was an unprecedented pandemic.
I'm just so disappointed in someone that I had previously perceived as quite genuine.
He was only a doctor for 2 years before he quit, and it looks like he's at least going back part-time now. I'm a doctor and it's strongly recommended that you finish the first 2 years of being a doctor (the foundation programme) first before quitting, because then it's easier to go back to being a doctor if you ever decide to come back to it. So even if he had quit he made the sensible decision to stick it out that long IMO. It's also pretty common for doctors to take a year out or at least have more of a chilled year after finishing the foundation programme.I don't really blame Ali for deciding to take a different path from his 16 year old self, but I do kinda blame him for pursuing the career for so long, making bank off it, and then deciding to bail to make irrelevant click bait. I do feel like he'd have done better going off and becoming a data scientist like his brother did.
Well he's advocating for free work and bending over backwards to appease the employer like a good slave, while in the real world there's a crisis of labor and people prefer to get money from the state than bother to work. I guess it's telling of what kind of people he hires. They probably are so brainwashed they think this is the career of a lifetime or something. I will never forget the interviews with two of his slaves where they said they'd be willing to work for him for half the pay. Zero fucking self worth from these people. So many people and so much busywork for such mediocre results.Ali's amateur businesses hiring practises are not a good model for applying to like every other job ever.
Ah, sorry I literally translated it from my native lanaguage. In Polish a "banana person" is a person from rich background which has plenty of cash, acts badly, shows off, and thinks he/she deserves everything, plus treats people like a c...p.I'm probably misinterpreting you here/something lost in translation or different slang but are you talking banana as in an Asian person "acting white"?
The problem is he doesn't know what "fun" is. He's read so many self help books that now he spouts the daily grind of work as being "fun", going to Harvard as being "fun". He rents a $15k/month office just to have people around him cause it's "fun". When you lack meaningful relationships and spend your entire time buried in self help literature while serendipitously ending up making a few million pounds with no risk, it's sensible to think his view of life in general is highly distorted—from the way he approaches money, work and love to wacky shit like watching movies at 5x and wife email address. He's literally never had to worry about paying bills and debt. There's some degree of mental gymnastics going on there that neither of us is able to comprehend BUT at the same time he fully rejects input from anyone else who tells him "Hey, this is wrong" because it doesn't come from a self help guru. He waxes on and on about enjoying the journey and loving the process but from the perspective of a coddled schoolboy with money pouring in from all directions. Someone with so much lack of perspective has no place trying to carve out a niche as a guru in anything.I haven't seen LinusTech. But I do think if Ali was just around people who he was having fun with, his vlogs would be more watchable. The Monaco vlog is a good example of how even being in a great setting to make an interesting vlog, you can end up making a really boring vlog because it seemed unrelatable and like an informercial for himself about how cool he is being in Monaco. Whereas a vlog like the vagabrothers did in Monaco shows that being relatable to your audience and having fun in your videos makes the vlogs watchable.
apparently, as mentioned in some of his videos, most of his family are doctors, and he sort of felt 'pushed' to follow that path (his brother jokes about how in family reunions, his relatives look down on him for being a computer science graduate instead of a medicine graduate)Do we think he’ll return to medicine after this years break to focus on YouTube?
I wonder if he’s highly intelligent but deeply insecure. Maybe his channel gives him validation that he doesn’t get as a doctor (just spitballing here).
I like Soony. Although I do not watch him frequently (I do not follow anyone on youtube and I only watch him if he gets on my feed and I am interested in the title). He is right. This toxic productivity is becoming so mainstream. I like to be productive myself but it is better to not get lost in the oversaturated content.saw this in the Ruby Granger thread and felt like it was relevant to Ali too.