Vol.22 Can you eat with a drone pilot? Part 1 [Shu Kobayashi's DRONE MANIA] | DRONE

Current status of Kobayashi

In April 2021, one year passed as an independent drone pilot for a sole proprietor. His first tax return is over and he is seeing sales for a year. In 2020, partly due to the influence of Corona, it was not going well, to be clear. All the work related to the Olympics was blank, and the plans for commercial shooting continued to be changed and reduced.

The reason why I eat rice at the moment is that I leave the Showa gag of bowls and chopsticks aside and eat only for drone-related work. Isn't it unique to Japan to replace the earned income that you can live with with food as "you can eat"? Do you use that kind of expression overseas? I feel that it shows the Japanese people's commitment to food.

Vol.22 ドローンパイロットで飯が食えるか？その1 [シュウ・コバヤシのDRONE MANIA] | DRONE

Returning to the story, in April and May, when I just became independent in 2020, I had no work, and I couldn't make money on Youtube, such as delivering food by bicycle, registering Jimny for commercial use, and taking care of home delivery. I searched for various things such as whether I could have an online salon.

Various movements started in June, and as a result, even if I was an office worker from January to March, I earned an average annual income in the mid-40s in total, so despite the fact that there was a month when my income was almost zero for several months. I have the impression that something has happened. By the way, the salary when I was an office worker is a little lower than the average. You didn't get the final bonus either.

Vol.22 Can you eat with a drone pilot? Part 1 [Shu Kobayashi's DRONE MANIA] | DRONE

Earn with a drone

What kind of method is there to "earn with a drone"?

Drone aerial photography
Drone school
Drone inspection
Drone surveying
Pesticide spraying, investigation
Drone production
Drone racer

Is it such a place? I think there are other things such as security, disaster prevention, pest control, animal ecology survey, etc., but I omitted it because it is not suitable for starting a business individually and getting compensation. I think there are various methods. Let's take a look at the contents and the current situation one by one.

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