[Self-Introduction] 9 months since I started note. The story of how I semi-retired from my job.

"You can only make money on note if you're one of the talented few, right?"
"There's no way paid articles will sell."
"You have to be a famous creator to make money, don't you?"


If that's what you're thinking, stop for a second and listen to what I have to say.

To get straight to the point, you don't need even a millimeter of talent, sense, or a track record to monetize on note.

All you need is a little bit of knowledge and a little bit of know-how. There are just some simple techniques for selling within that.

After that, you just have to keep going without giving up.
That's really all there is to it.



Nice to meet you.
I'm Yuga.



Let me give you a quick self-introduction.

I'm in my 40s. A single father raising a daughter in the 4th grade and a son in the 2nd grade.

Coffee and cigarettes are essential.

I work in a factory.
Currently, I've semi-retired from my job and live by writing on note and working as a freelance writer.

I started note last August.


Currently, I've launched a separate account from scratch with zero experience and achieved five-figure (tens of thousands of yen) earnings in one month.

My follower count exceeded 3,000 in 35 days, and my current note earnings are consistently over six figures (hundreds of thousands of yen) every month.

That's it in a nutshell.

"Is that for real?"You're thinking that, right?

Most people don't believe you unless you have a track record, right?
It's pointless to just talk, so I'll post the proof.

But let me say this first.
Track records don't matter on note. After all, when you start something, nobody has a track record yet.

Originally, note's terms of service prohibit posting sales figures, but let's do it even if it means getting my account banned.

My current earnings.

A screenshot from when my articles were purchased 1,000 times.

Looking only at this track record, you might think, "You were good at writing from the start, right?" or "Aren't you a marketing professional?"

But about a year ago.
To be precise, maybe 9 months ago. There was a version of me that was 180 degrees different from now, struggling at the very bottom of despair.


I'm going to tell that story, but if you're not interested, you can close this page.



Until 8 months ago, I was just a "humble factory worker" who could be anywhere, or maybe even less than that.



Every day, from morning till night, I repeated the same work inside the factory.
Amidst the smell of oil and the ringing sound of machinery, I just kept selling my time, receiving a salary in exchange.
That was my daily life.

I don't have a degree. I don't have any special skills or qualifications to boast about.
I just had to move my body to survive every day.



The only and greatest reason for me to live, and the existence I absolutely had to protect, was,

"My greatest masterpiece. My two children."


From the day I decided to part ways with my wife and raise my daughter and son as a single father, everything in my life began to revolve around my children.



"I don't want them to feel lonely."
"I want to let them do whatever they want, just like other families."



But reality isn't that sweet.



A factory salary is only so much.
As the children grow, food costs, clothing sizes, and future education expenses all balloon at an unbelievable speed.



My daily life as a single father was an unimaginable struggle.



I wake up earlier than anyone else in the morning, make breakfast for the kids, and send them off to school. Then I head to my job and work until I'm exhausted at the factory every day.


When it's time to clock out, I rush to punch the time card while worrying about what others think, and run to pick them up from daycare or after-school care.
Even after I get home, there's no time to catch my breath.

When work is busy and we're short-handed, I have no choice but to work overtime.
The guilt of asking my sister-in-law to go pick them up.


Preparing dinner while running the washing machine.

While responding to my children's

"Dad, check my homework!"

I check their homework while they're in the bath.



By the time the kids finally fall asleep at night, my energy is completely at zero.

I prepare for tomorrow and collapse into bed to sleep. And then, when morning comes, I head back to the factory where the sound of machines awaits.



I was just desperately keeping that daily life going, like a bicycle operation on the verge of collapse.


My heart and body were wearing down. And the reality of "having no money."


As I continued that life, little by little, surely, something was wearing away.

My biggest worry was, after all,
"An overwhelming lack of money."

And the
"lack of peace of mind"that came with it.

Even when payday comes, the numbers in my bankbook just flow from right to left.

Rent, utilities, food, and other payments. Monthly tuition for the kids' lessons. All that remains is a tiny bit of pocket change.



"We might not have enough for living expenses this month either."



Every time the end of the month approached, I was gripped by a heart-wrenching anxiety.



Even when I went grocery shopping, I would spend several minutes seriously agonizing over whether or not to put the snacks the kids brought over saying "I want to eat this!" into the basket.


"Sorry, Daddy will make you a snack instead."


Saying that, I would just fry bread crusts coated in sugar for a snack.
Every time I saw the kids' faces cloud over, I was filled with feelings of misery and regret.



And then, there was another problem:
"I have no time."That is.



Work, housework, raising children. These alone perfectly filled my 24 hours.



"If I don't do a side job and earn at least a few more tens of thousands of yen, my life will fall apart."



Even though I understood that in my head, where else could I cut back? Should I reduce my sleep to 3 hours? Or should I cut back on time with my children?



It was physically impossible to increase my working hours any further.



While sweating in the factory, I often found myself thinking:



"If I were to collapse from illness, what would happen to these children?"

"Will I end my life just working like this, like a part of a machine, only ever seeing my children's sleeping faces?"



I was at my limit.
My heart, my body, and my wallet—everything had reached its limit.



One night like that, after the kids had fallen asleep, I was searching on my smartphone as usual for terms like"side job beginner," "earn from home"Up until then, I had only seen suspicious information products, businesses that required hundreds of thousands of yen in initial costs, or AI-based earning schemes, and I had given up from the start.

I only have a smartphone. I've never even really touched a computer. There's no way I, a factory worker, could do it.

But that night, while searching, a note article happened to catch my eye.

It contained a real story about an ordinary person with no special talent who put their experiences into writing, sold them as paid articles, and was earning tens of thousands of yen a month.


"note...?"


I had heard the name, but I just thought it was "something like a blog."

But without having to go through the complicated process of posting affiliate ads like a blog and gathering tens of thousands of hits...

That night, I was greatly shocked by the mechanism that "you can put a value of several hundred to several tens of thousands of yen on the article you wrote itself and sell it directly."

Above all, if you have one smartphone, you can write anytime, anywhere—on the train to work, during breaks at the factory, or for a few dozen minutes at night.


"If it's this, I might be able to do it without disrupting my current life."


note has no initial costs. The risk is zero.
Even if I fail, all I lose is a little bit of sleep.


"For the sake of my daughter and son, if I don't change here, I'll never be able to escape this bottom-tier life."


I first created an account.
That was exactly 9 months ago.

Of course, not everything went well from the start.

The first month, I didn't get any traction.


The first article I posted had view counts like "3" or "5." Naturally, I didn't get any likes. My followers were 0.

The article I tried to sell for a fee didn't sell a single copy even after a week. Thinking about it now, that's obvious.



"As expected, nobody reads or buys writing from just a factory worker."

Just when I was about to give up, I thought:


"How do people who make money actually make it?""

Learning on my own takes a huge amount of time. I don't have that kind of time.
It's faster to have someone who is successful teach me the method.


So I paid a high price to learn.



I just didn't know 'how to earn'.

Not being able to earn isn't because you lack talent or sense.
To earn, roughly speaking, there are"ways to get read" and "reasons to be bought."that exist.

My actions from then on were surprisingly fast, even to me.
I used all my spare time on weekdays and a few hours at night to thoroughly analyze the articles of successful creators.

I, who hated schoolwork, used my brain more than ever in my life to study the logic behind the "backside" of note.


And I just practiced what I learned on my own account.


The results appeared surprisingly quickly.
First, I deleted the account I had created, started a separate account from scratch as a complete beginner, and poured what I had learned directly into it.



The result

0 to 1 breakthrough achieved in 3 days.
Successfully monetized in the 5-digit range (tens of thousands of yen) right from the first month.

The trembling of my hands when

"Your article has been purchased"

the notification appeared in my email is something I still can't forget.

It was the moment when the words I wrote became useful to someone I didn't know and were recognized as having value.

Furthermore, as a result of packing it with my own unique operational know-how, I achieved over 3,000 followers in just 35 days.


Since then, my earnings have continued to grow, and I am now able to consistently earn six figures (hundreds of thousands of yen) per month.

By mastering 'how to structure sentences' and 'how to solve readers' problems' on note, I have also become surprisingly smooth at landing freelance writing gigs.

And, a few months after starting note,
I submitted my resignation to that oil-smelling factory.

However,"Please don't quit."



People don't join factory jobs.
We are short-staffed.
It's a company I've worked at for decades. I owe them.



I really want to quit, but I'm working just two days on busy days for now. It's like I've semi-retired from my job.



My main sources of income are the earnings from note and my fees as a writer, which I earn by tapping on my smartphone while drinking coffee on my living room sofa and smoking a cigarette whenever I like.

What has changed most in this life is the time I spend with my children.



Now, I can welcome my children home in the evening when they say, "I'm home!"


I can listen to them say, "Dad, today at school..." with a smile, without worrying about the time.


I can put things my children say they want to eat into the shopping basket without looking at the price.



Nine months ago, I was able to obtain everything I wanted so badly:"Financial leeway" and "freedom of time"all through the single platform called note.



I run a separate account that isn't about making money.
You might even know it.


So, why did I launch this account?
It was triggered by a message from a reader.

An excerpt

"Why do your paid articles sell so well, Mr./Ms. XX? Even when I publish paid articles, they don't sell at all. I started note to help with living expenses because my income isn't enough. Is there a method? If there is, I want to know."

That was pretty direct, wasn't it?

But I can't write about that on my other account because the genre is different.

There are people out there just like I used to be: "people who are busy with work, housework, and child-rearing and are worried about not having enough living expenses," or "beginners who started note but are in despair because their paid articles aren't selling at all."


So, I thought I'd launch this account.


That's why I did some research to create an account about making money.

*All of this is my personal opinion.

"SNS is unnecessary to earn money on note"
(There's no way it's unnecessary)

"There is a template for earning money on note"
(What do you mean by template?)

"Don't use AI for profitable writing, use your own words"(Are you a Showa-era literary master? Use AI)

There are so many people saying the same thing.
Is there some kind of cult leader?

The way to earn money on note isn't about things like that.



There are people in the world who have wonderful experiences or knowledge that could help someone, but...

"Because I don't have writing sense"
"Because I don't have a track record"

aren't there too many people giving up without earning a single yen for these reasons?
That is truly a waste.



90% of the reason your paid notes aren't selling isn't because you lack talent.

For example,

It is just that there is a clear 'cause' for this.

The fact that there is a cause means that anyone can improve if they know the correct way to deal with it.

40s, single father, factory worker.

I managed to do it, even though I had no knowledge, talent, skills, track record, or free time.
There is no way you, who are reading this article, cannot do it.



There are various side hustles in the world. Blogs, video editing, SNS marketing, reselling...


Among them, why did I choose note as a side hustle?



The reason is

'It is the most lonely, kindest to the busiest people, and easiest platform to earn money on.'That is why.


You don't need to spend hundreds of hours building a site like a blog. You don't need to buy a high-spec computer like for video editing.


With just one smartphone and the 'life experiences you've had so far' in your head, you can start from this very moment.


Especially for those who are busy with housework, child-rearing, and their main job and 'cannot find a block of time,' note, which can be done in the 15 or 20 minutes of spare time during a commute or while children are watching TV, should become a unique weapon.

'I have no money, no time, and no one to rely on.'

I hope this reaches people like my past self, who are clutching their smartphones alone in the middle of the night in despair.

For the few years since I became a single father, I was truly lonely.


I couldn't show weakness to anyone, I forced myself to smile in front of my children, and I spent my days terrified of the monthly payments.
I still vividly remember that feeling of my chest being crushed at that time.


If there had been someone to teach me the 'correct way to earn money on note' back then, I would have been able to escape that hell much sooner.


That is why I believe it is my turn to take on that role now.

It might sound cold, but in the business world, you won't get results just by trying blindly.

However, if you have 'correct knowledge' and make efforts in the 'correct direction,' the results will not lie.
It is too early to give up by blaming it on a lack of sense or talent.

The life you have lived so far, the things you have worried about, and the things you have overcome.

All of that becomes 'value that someone else who is struggling with the same things would be willing to pay to read.'

On this account of mine, I will not be sharing the common, pretty-sounding methods found elsewhere,

but the reality of 'how to create a note that actually sells'

from now on.

I want to help change your life in a cool, but serious way.



Let's stop worrying alone.
Next, it is your turn to turn your life around.



Let's take a step forward together.

First, if there is anything you want to know, please leave a comment. I would also be happy if you could follow and like my posts.


Regardless of whether I write about it or not, I would like to hear everyone's worries.

I would be happy if everyone could grow along with this account.

I'll be waiting.

Yuga.