A Filipino Canadian nurse started making short, funny skits about nursing on TikTok. By August 2025, by my estimate, he was pulling in closer to $200,000 a month. He did it without giving up nursing for good.
This estimate is from August 2025, when this was first written.
How it started
At first, the skits were just a fun thing he did between shifts. Then the videos started blowing up. He got millions of views and thousands of new followers a day.
Pretty soon, he was getting offers most nurses will never see.
Where the money comes from
- Brand deals with companies paying top rates to reach his audience.
- Merch sales that move fast and make good money on each sale.
- Payouts from TikTok, YouTube and other social apps.
- Sold-out comedy tours that bring in tens of thousands from ticket sales alone.
Put it all together and he is pulling in closer to $200,000 a month, while still being a nurse. I used ChatGPT to help break down the numbers, so treat that total as an estimate.
What nurses can learn from him
He shows that when you build the right platform, doors open that you never knew were there. He started with something small that he enjoyed, and he kept at it.
You don’t need millions of views to start. Plenty of nurses build smaller businesses on the side. See the most profitable nursing businesses and the nurse who lands $20K clients for more ideas.
In my YouTube video, I break down every part of his income, run the numbers and show how it all stacks up. You can find it on our YouTube channel.
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Written by Jason, RN. I went from $37 an hour in New York to $143 an hour in California and paid off $128K of debt in under a year. I share our numbers in the Nurses to Riches newsletter and on YouTube.