Starting YouTube as a living?

[JustSomeGermanDude]

The sad thing is I actually do have FULL time to work on my youtube channel, currently unemployed and not going to school. alrite heres how my days usually go; I usually sleep in till 12PM-1PM, Editing a video takes me an hour or two (depending on the video of course) so usually done editing at 3pm. It takes another hour for PPro to convert a video into youtube format (again depends on length of the video) AND for youtube to process it when its uploading.

By the time this is all done, I FINALLY take a break to eat something/watch some youtube videos/play something.

Around 7-9PM I am promoting my videos everywhere, twitter, google+, here of course, neoseeker forums, steam, etc.

9PM-10Pm -Watch TV lol, The Voice, Hell's Kitchen, Master Chef, Netflix, etc.

10:30PM -11:00 PM - Plan out waht to play on my stream

11:00PM - 3:00 AM (Varies slightly) Do my Livestream on Twitch!

3:00AM - 5:00AM (sometimes 6am) Record videos.

Rinse and Repeat!

Eating AFTER converting/processing? You're wasting time there, buddy.

You are practical, I'm assuming I make a video like how Animals Eat and go super viral.

Most of the time those still don't get you to that point. They give you a one time spike, but not that much a steady income. The main advantage is that you have some money on the side (if you're saving it) to help you through bad cpm/view periods but you still need to get that steady money going before you run out of that jackpot money. And: Yes, I need to be that practical I'm freelancing in a tough industry, freelancers have to be practical and as a YouTuber you are pretty much a freelancer.

 

[Henrypiano6888]

As full time, I would probably spend about 25+ hours practicing repertoire to upload, at least upload once a week, then 10 hours or so polishing/editting the video and audio (most importantly the audio- especially as a musician, audio quality > video quality. Though video quality is important as well..), and finally, about a (5 hours each week) bit of the time promoting my content and answering questions, replying to comments/PM/business inquiries. Then any additional time left would be downtime for me, otherwise used for preparing for collabs or additional work if needed.

If i make a living in youtube as a musician i will upload videos once a week and at least 8 hours a day to practice my guitar, to work on my videos, to compose music etc..

Agreed. Indeed, and we musicians need to stay in technical shape to sound good

 

[ChunkeyPanda]

Eating AFTER converting/processing? You're wasting time there, buddy.

Oh should I not eat at all then?

 

[JustSomeGermanDude]

Oh should I not eat at all then?

Well YOU aren't really doing that much while stuff is being converted... On film post-production jobs with a tight schedule importing/exporting are like the only times you get sleep for a bit. Multitasking is the key and there is always room to improve ones time management. Just don't have to overdo it and work 4 days straight with a total of 4 hours of sleep like we had to do in film school once...

 

[Bhavin]

I would never take that risk.
More money is way better than less.

 

[CatsRants]

I would probably do what funforlouis does and make a vlog every day as well as one rant a week! This is my main aim with youtube! Mainly wanna travel and earn money through youtube to travel with!!!!!!!!

 

[Steven Snow]

Besides just letting your channel grow, what would you do if given full time? How would you divide your time (40 hours per week, 8 per day).. What would you do to MAKE SURE you made enough money to keep you going.

For me I would make one video a day, because it normally takes me a week..

How about you?

For those of us with full time jobs already while running a YouTube channel or two, 8 hours a day probably seems a little light. I think I would be looking at 60-80 hours a week worth of work, trying very hard to get a video out each week for my personal channel, and would still be getting out one a day on the channel I run with my friend. My vids at the moment take about 60-80 hours but hopefully by that time I will have gotten much faster with my work flow.

Other then that it would give me more time to experiment with all the ideas that I never have time for, which would probably be the coolest part.