Good morning all,
I've been here before with a previous channel I had a couple of years ago. Due to work commitments I had to drop it, it wasn't that successful.
However, due to my new job I fell into something I loved doing not only in my work but as a hobby too which I turned into YouTube channel.
It's gone pretty well since March 2019 when I started, I had a video which got hugely suggested and gained a lot of subscribers. I didn't jump on what was happening at the time and it peaked and died out until I committed again at the start of this year, I post pretty much daily content and with my life, "real job" and YouTube it can be draining and not sure I can sustain all indefinitely.
However, it's built a community around it which I love, I want this as a business but I don't trust YouTube, if I did trust them I could quit now, post more videos and double my real work wage perhaps even more with putting extra time into SEO and social media, streaming etc
I'm trying to utilise the membership system and Patreon which again are great but I wouldn't earn enough to really keep me going.
What do I do? Do I risk quitting my real job and put all my effort into yt?
Are network partnerships viable if YouTube did decide to remove my partnership for any reason?
My real job:
I work as a content creator for a company, I have no degrees in what I do, no proper training. I got into content creation teaching myself. I'm certainly no professional but I can certainly work with the whole Adobe suite, Pr, Ae, Ps, Dn, Id and Ai and some 3d programs. I say this because I consider my self incredibly fortunate to have my job, however over time I'm starting to lose the passion for it. I've built their youtube channels with new videos, web images, product packaging, manuals for their products and more.
I couldn't see myself walking into another content creator position due to my lack of college/uni training, and let's not forget Covid, surely I'm just lucky to have a job at this point?
My channel:
Approaching 50k subs and around a million views a month.
I hope any of this doesn't come across as bragging or anything, I just wanted to be open with my situation and get some outside perspective.
Thank you for your time!
I've been here before with a previous channel I had a couple of years ago. Due to work commitments I had to drop it, it wasn't that successful.
However, due to my new job I fell into something I loved doing not only in my work but as a hobby too which I turned into YouTube channel.
It's gone pretty well since March 2019 when I started, I had a video which got hugely suggested and gained a lot of subscribers. I didn't jump on what was happening at the time and it peaked and died out until I committed again at the start of this year, I post pretty much daily content and with my life, "real job" and YouTube it can be draining and not sure I can sustain all indefinitely.
However, it's built a community around it which I love, I want this as a business but I don't trust YouTube, if I did trust them I could quit now, post more videos and double my real work wage perhaps even more with putting extra time into SEO and social media, streaming etc
I'm trying to utilise the membership system and Patreon which again are great but I wouldn't earn enough to really keep me going.
What do I do? Do I risk quitting my real job and put all my effort into yt?
Are network partnerships viable if YouTube did decide to remove my partnership for any reason?
My real job:
I work as a content creator for a company, I have no degrees in what I do, no proper training. I got into content creation teaching myself. I'm certainly no professional but I can certainly work with the whole Adobe suite, Pr, Ae, Ps, Dn, Id and Ai and some 3d programs. I say this because I consider my self incredibly fortunate to have my job, however over time I'm starting to lose the passion for it. I've built their youtube channels with new videos, web images, product packaging, manuals for their products and more.
I couldn't see myself walking into another content creator position due to my lack of college/uni training, and let's not forget Covid, surely I'm just lucky to have a job at this point?
My channel:
Approaching 50k subs and around a million views a month.
I hope any of this doesn't come across as bragging or anything, I just wanted to be open with my situation and get some outside perspective.
Thank you for your time!