Well why not do what you`re good at?
plus I don`t think many people buy newspapers any more....
few years ago : news paper round
today : updating a blog each morning.
It is 2013, you need to move with the times.....
plus 10$ per partner is alot more than I`d get anywhere else...
You're young, I can't expect you to understand because you're still in school.
This 'I'll make my living online' mantra is teaching kids very lazy habits. Nobody wants to go out there and get life experience, they want to sit on their computer, playing video games or talking nonsense at a camera or fiddling around in Photoshop and get paid a living for it.
YouTube, at least in its current state, will not last forever and neither will all the YT channels/careers that currently exist. To think that this is a life-long career option, or that you'll just fall into a graphic design/video game/filmmaking job without relevant ACTUAL experience or a qualification, is ignorant.
And what then? Let's say at 13, you start 'being a youtuber' for a living. That's all you ever do because hey, it pays the bills, right? Great.
Then YT goes bankrupt or sells out and disappears by the time you hit 30. Then what? You're left without experience, without a job, and back to square one. At 30 years old. And believe me, once you get past 25, employers start picking and choosing younger people over you. I've seen it happen. Most of the people running offices and companies these days are all really young, straight out of a redbrick uni.
Obviously that's just a hypothetical situation, but to rely on an internet wage or internet success without trying to get out there in the 'real world' is a very bad idea. Times are changing. Computers are everywhere, and so is the internet. But some folks need to wake up, and grow up.
Always have a fallback plan. Be it a job, a college education or even a bit of experience volunteering to put on a CV, it's sensible. Relying solely on a life of online earning is not.