How do you balance YouTube life with your regular life?

Do you manage another Job alongside YouTube?

  • Nope, doing it full time baby!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yeah it’s a pain

    Votes: 9 47.4%
  • Yeah its not too bad

    Votes: 10 52.6%
  • Kind of, YouTube is my job but I still have a small part time job

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    19

BrettTaylorYT

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I want to eventually make YouTube a job. I know that is the dream of many and it’s rarely obtained. I mainly just want to make enough money that I’m able to commit A LOT of time with it and only need to have a small part time job with it.

My big question is how do you make the balance work before you get there? I’m in college so I have classes, a job, and YouTube I’m balancing and it’s incredibly wearing. How do you manage both your regular life and your YouTube life?
 
That's just adulthood for ya. No time to do anything. I know when I upload, I sometimes have to stay up all night (even when I have work the day the morning after). Most of the time, though, I'm just too tired to do anything. In business, you have to take risks. A lot of people forget that, and their success is limited. So in order to succeed on YouTube, you'll have to take risks to some extent, as well. But at the same time, it's really stupid to risk anything for YouTube when you're not making money. Especially, as you said, there's a very low success rate. It's all about figuring out your life decisions and seeing what sticks. Taking each day one at a time. That's my take on it.
 
I do study, work and do youtube at the same time as well, which makes my uploads very irregular! But as long as I have ideas for youtube, and have the time for it, I will continue to upload videos!
But it´s hard to manage all three, no doubt about it!
 
i think there is no such thing as balance especially when you are growing the channel. Like any business / startup the first few years are the challenging ones, probably when it reaches a certain size / revenue then i'll engage ppl to help out in the editing or other aspects of the channel to free up more time for myself
 
I’m in college

hey, you should have fun at this part of your life, not struggling!
Anyway, the only way i can see it is to make youtube an option in your future work schedules
but without dropping ayn "regular' work alternative that you might like to work on except youtube.
:)
 
I'm a high school student which is about the same hours as a full time job, but I don't have very much trouble balancing school with YouTube. I upload videos once a week (every Tuesday) and here's what my video schedule looks like.
  • Saturday and Sunday: film the video for next week
  • Saturday/Sunday night: edit the video (2-3 hours)
  • Monday night: create the thumbnail and upload the video and schedule it to be uploaded Tuesday at 4pm.
  • Tuesday: reply to comments and see how well the video's doing
  • Rest of the week: find video ideas for next week,
  • REPEAT.
If you do it this way (adapted to your schedule) then it's not too hard to balance uploading once a week on YouTube with another job/school. Luckily, school ends in two days so I'll be uploading a lot more during the summer :)
 
I’m a full time dad, full time job with 20 HRs OT, and full time husband.

Some how I manage to post at least once or twice per week depending on the content. It is working so far, but sometimes I feel it getting in the way of family life. When I realize this I tend to slack off a bit.

The more I optimize and become efficient at editing the more I can post. I find the time to make the uploads work with my schedule and I am happy with the results, but there are always room for improvements.


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You have to balance it IMO. Even though Youtube was your fulltime job there are still other things in life (family friends etc.) This goes for any job:) I have a job beside YT and I dont ever think running a channel will be a full time job for me. I sometimes wish that I had more time for making videos but with job and kids I dont at the moment
 
I work full time and have a wife and children that take my time also.
So I tend to spend time in the later evenings or on the weekend to produce content. I tend to produce block content when I get the time and schedule them for release every 2 days.
 
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