Do you YouTube for a living?

The monthly revenue is sufficient for several burgers, but I'm still hoping on growing my channel as I'm sure at some point it'd grow on its own.

Until then, I'm still on a 9-6 job.
 
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I am currently doing Youtube full time, but it is not enough to make a living off (about half way there). Hopefully it works out in the long run.
 
I do youtube for a living! But it's the back-end of youtube, not the creative side. And it's not for myself. ;) I'm a social media strategist and production assistant for a tv media company. I was working in an unrelated field, but I decided to change to something where I can use my skills.

I'd be happy to just be able to buy my groceries with money from my channel, although even that seems unattainable right now. But I'd love to one day do it full time!
 
Mirandapanda said:
I do youtube for a living! But it's the back-end of youtube, not the creative side. And it's not for myself. ;) I'm a social media strategist and production assistant for a tv media company. I was working in an unrelated field, but I decided to change to something where I can use my skills.

I'd be happy to just be able to buy my groceries with money from my channel, although even that seems unattainable right now. But I'd love to one day do it full time!
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Do you like it? Does it give you an insight into helping grow your own channel?
 
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Do you like it? Does it give you an insight into helping grow your own channel?
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Yeah, I do like it! It's a fast-paced, but interesting job. I like being able to be creative, and I like having almost total freedom on what I do, which are both things I've never experienced in a job before. :)

It's more the other way around. The insight from growing my own channel has helped me be very good at my job.

The biggest insight I've taken away so far is that even when you have all the resources and funds to build a popular channel and brand, it's still hard to grow and get noticed. It takes a lot of time, strategy, and work to stand out in the crowd, even when paying for promotion. There's not really an easy way out in this day and age. Which is both good news and bad news for small creators, in that as long as you can consistently put out quality content, the playing field is almost level (this is in regards to startups, not for established companies like Buzzfeed obviously).
 
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Technically, I am. Not on my personal, but I'm working with some investors on developing gaming channels over the next few months. Hopefully within 2-3 months I can turn my personal into a full-time job if I were to put in the right amount of effort and hustle. And by that point I'd also funnel traffic from the gaming side to mine a bit. I've worked with channels over the past couple of years mostly for fun, however there were crazy times. Having multiple channels worth 5 figures at 15 was the peak of my success, until it all came falling down to my own greed, but hopefully I'll be able to surpass that in no time again. I was stupid and spent a lot of money on partying and pointless designer goods to show off. YT's a great stepping stone to further business if you're able to squeeze enough juice from the fruit. It's definitely long term investing. I think I'll even go voluntarily homeless in a few months to just travel around the world and backpack for very little to save more money. The more you reinvest in a channel, the faster it'll grow. There's an insane amount of benefits that comes with owning multiple large channels.
 
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