JoblessGarrett
Name Origins
The YouTube channel that he and his friends created was called ‘JoblessGamers,’ with each of them taking there name and tacking on 'Jobless.' However, his friends eventually became bored with it over time and left the channel, leaving Garrett as the last of the Jobless team.
Gaming Origins
JoblessGarrett first played a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game when he was about 13 years old on his PC. He only moved on to the console version when GTA V was released and one of his friends encouraged him to buy it because he would enjoy the tps aspect of it. He did so and fell in love with the game and started creating video content of it. when his friend invited him to try it out on his PC. He had a lot of fun and bought other
He spent a lot of his free time playing video games with his two best friends as a teenager. In 2011, he heard about the Athene’s YouTuber movement called ‘Together to the top’ that emphasized bigger streamers helping smaller streamers to grow. This inspired him to encourage his friends to create their own channel for fun, which they did. Unfortunately, his friends eventually dropped out of content creation, but he continued to do so.
Professional Gaming
JoblessGarrett switched to fulltime streaming as soon as he graduated from Florida International University in December 2013 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Marketing. His family were not initially excited about this decision, as he had completed his degree and they were expecting him to go into the corporate world. However, as his channel grew and became lucrative, they began to accept his decision. While he is a variety streamer, his main game is GTA V, where he plays Garrett Jobless in Lord_Kebun’s Chang Gang.
He switched to streaming on Facebook Gaming in March 2021.
Income
JoblessGarrett has around 2,900 subscribers, which should earn him at least $7,250 USD per month, excluding additional revenue from merchandise sales, sponsorships, tips, advertisements, tiered subscriptions and Twitch cheer bit contributions.
Streaming Hours
He doesn’t have a set schedule, but he tends to stream several times a week for between 3.5 – 13.5 hours per session.