How many of you have gone Full Time by doing YouTube?

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How many of you have gone Full Time by doing YouTube?

I'm curious just how many of you have gone from making Yotube a hobby to a Full time Career?
Just how man Subscribers did you have before you made the switch?
 

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I am just replying for not to left this post with "zero" answers!
:) XD :p

I think the problem is that most people want, desire this
"full time" youtuber job without spending some time to research:
a. benefits
b. rensponcibilities
c. counting their powers.

I do shoot and edit product videos 9-5 in a small company.
There is no schedule, 9-5 can easily go 8:30 - 19:30
excluding driving from / to home in the other side of the city.
The money are not big. But I pay zip for gear, software, bills etc.
Plus having the basic health insurance. Plus leaving problems at work when I leave.
On weekends I can do my thing, play with my gear, test things, have fun.
(EDIT: or even take a job as a second shooter in e.g. a wedding for some extra cash...)

Why on earth should I want to be a full time youtuber?

:)
 
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Not I. Of course, to replace my regular income, I'd have to be at Pewtiepie levels, which I would never be, so no.
 

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I resigned from the Post Office with 23 years of service to do YouTube full-time. I was already earning more from YouTube anyway. I wasn't going to quit early unless I had great confidence in getting at least five more years out of YouTube.

You asked about 'how many subscribers'? Subscribers don't necessarily pay the bills. Views do.
 

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I would say that I became a "content creator" full time but not YouTuber. YouTube is how I garnered the capability of going full-time in the first place, yes, but if I want to continue to grow my brand, YouTube is just one stepping stone to get there. Even then, I don't think I'll be a content creator for the rest of my career. The growth of the brand is more important to me.

As far as when I was able to transition to content creator full-time, it was about the time I got 100,000 subscribers. Even then, I think people, especially those with a strong niche, can get away with only a few thousand views per day and 30,000 or so subscribers as long as they start learning about sponsorships and brand deals early. I was a late bloomer (and still trying to bloom honestly) in working with other brands and sponsors. The money is much more lucrative in this space than it is to rely on adsense to pay your bills.
 
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I work on it full time but I sure don’t get paid like it
 
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I am just replying for not to left this post with "zero" answers!
:) XD :p

I think the problem is that most people want, desire this
"full time" youtuber job without spending some time to research:
a. benefits
b. rensponcibilities
c. counting their powers.

I do shoot and edit product videos 9-5 in a small company.
There is no schedule, 9-5 can easily go 8:30 - 19:30
excluding driving from / to home in the other side of the city.
The money are not big. But I pay zip for gear, software, bills etc.
Plus having the basic health insurance. Plus leaving problems at work when I leave.
On weekends I can do my thing, play with my gear, test things, have fun.
(EDIT: or even take a job as a second shooter in e.g. a wedding for some extra cash...)

Why on earth should I want to be a full time youtuber?

:)
There is an old saying my friend
If you do something you enjoy
You'll never work a day in your life.
 
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I definitely sink in a lot of time into my youtube channel, but I'm not even relatively close to going full time, sadly.
 

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I gave up on that dream late 2016 early 2017. It was at that moment I saw it as a hobby only and started treating it that way. It leaves me with free time to do other things, catch up on shows and even reboot my gaming channel. All for fun. I get a little money from my work on the automotive channel. The gaming channel has like 30 subs, far away from where it needs to be to start generating any type of revenue, and then there is the fact no one watches any of the videos, but that is the pain for all creators starting out. As mentioned before, hobby. I expect nothing out of it, but I would love for it to grow to 100 and then 1000 subscribers.

Could I do it full time? Without a doubt. Will I ever get there? No. And that is not a defeatist attitude, that is being a realist with years of growth data under my belt. I don't have what it takes to become a 100K sub and 1M views a month YouTuber.