If you want this to be a hobby, then that is great. If you want it to be a career then that is great too! Nothing wrong with believing that.
The trouble comes when we listen to friends, colleagues and loved ones who pour scorn on our efforts.
Most of all, try to enjoy it if you can!
Best of luck!
I think it can be nice for side income. But I've noticed it's not just friends, colleagues and loved ones who pour scorn on small YouTubers who want to get even a little money from the site.
I recently spoke to a bigger Youtuber who's reached some of my goals and makes money off of YouTube, told them I admired their channel and was a long time subscriber, noted which of my goals they had achieved, but when monetizing came up, they were so upset that I'd already monetized my channel (over 15,000 views but only 36 subs (Some of my old videos are at 1-4k, I uploaded them 2-4 years ago) that they went from giving me tips to improve, and completely changed what they had been telling me.
They got really pedantic, which I've noticed they do often "we didn't get this big overnight, it'll take you years!" - yeah, I know that, most smaller YouTubers know that, I've been at it for three years (actively, though, just two, I've taken a few breaks out of necessity). "You should only do it for fun" when I never said I wasn't...
They really act like just by admiring their channel to any degree (or even alluding to the possibility of getting paid for the same things they're paid for) that we think they started yesterday and /or were already super rich. I'm so sick of that attitude.
They did a 180 and started telling me there's no hope to get the same amount of subs they had (one of my long - long term goals) or to earn money making videos, basically everything short of telling me to delete my channel.
Of course, I'm using that as motivation, but I don't see why they would have an attitude that "YouTube isn't big enough for the both of us". Thing is, it's big enough for anyone who wants to join and put in the work...
All that said, for me, I don't see YouTube becoming a career, and I have a real -world job that I like. YouTube is just a hobby for me.
I know that someone else making money on YouTube doesn't hurt my chances to do the same. Some of these big YouTubers with this attitude need to get over themselves. If you want to make it a career, do the work and I'm sure you can.