Isn't it easier to go FULL-TIME on Youtube when your only making $12.00 and hour

I've been making determined progress towards this as one of my own goals, but it's very complicated from my experience. It's not just the volume of videos you make. You need to have content that you know can get views and you have to be able to reproduce that success on the regular.(if adsense is a primary source of your plan) I'm not totally relying on YouTube and I still have found it very stressful sometimes constantly trying to raise the bar and raise the bar again every month. The number of YouTubers who were super popular a few years ago but can't reproduce that success now has really shocked me a bit... There are a lot of factors that are constantly changing, the demand for your niche, your ad rates, your own cost of living...

He wouldn't need 12,000 per hour, because he doesn't work 24 hours per day, but YouTube does. So assuming a 9-5 workday it would be more like 4,000 per hour average over 24 hours. So monthly you'd be looking at just under 3 million views, assuming the normal ad rates hold up .(they haven't for me)

One very real concern for you might be the backlog of reviews to get monetized if that is still a thing. Perhaps a smarter route is to try and plan your channel around a niche where you can incorporate other monetization methods heavily so you don't have to wait for adsense review. Have you totally ruled out going back to your clone wars channel? More importantly is that channel already monetized, because it looks like it may already meet the reqs? Just some things to think about.
 
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EVO said:
It is a big risk of course. But sometimes we must take risks.
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Assuming you could risk to open a store or similar and lose time and money
yes you might have to try and (re)start your channel as a profession.
It is only one life we got and we have to do what really our soul need.

The only thing that does not fit in my mind while reading you is this.
1. Shouldn't this post of yours be an announcement? not a yes/no poll.
2. What if does not go well? Do you think that you are ready
or just need to escape from your current job?
The truth is that Crown have a good point:

Crown said:
I don't think preferring YouTube over a job is a good reason to quit the job.
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There is alittle secret my friend that people tend to push away from their mind.
Whatever the joy and the fun is in anything, many times get away or destroyed
as long as this "anything" becomes a paid work.
The only trick is to love and devote this "anything" and get ready for sacrifices.
;)
 
videoeditgr said:
There is alittle secret my friend that people tend to push away from their mind.
Whatever the joy and the fun is in anything, many times get away or destroyed
as long as this "anything" becomes a paid work.
The only trick is to love and devote this "anything" and get ready for sacrifices.
;)
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Yeah this is something I've been trying to grasp for a while. When you need x number of views per month you start to really focus all of your content on getting views and it kind of really can take away from what you originally wanted to do. I can't just play any game, I can only play one that has a large enough audience to support the goals I need to meet. If I like a game but only enough people like it to get 200 views per video it doesn't work, even if I'd rather be playing that game. Takes some of the fun out of it because your hand is forced by the demand of viewers in what type of content you can create sometimes and that is a sacrifice for a lot of YouTubers who rely on views I think.
 
videoeditgr said:
There is alittle secret my friend that people tend to push away from their mind.
Whatever the joy and the fun is in anything, many times get away or destroyed
as long as this "anything" becomes a paid work.
The only trick is to love and devote this "anything" and get ready for sacrifices.
;)
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as a full time youtuber, i totally disagree with this :) i am totally in love with my job, it didn't change at all since before when it was a hobby
 
Making the same wage from YouTube will take a lot of work. I remember my crappy $9/hr job, and my YouTube channel still won't reproduce that job's paycheck. If you want to earn money outside of your job, I recommend thinking a bit more outside the box than just YouTube. Start thinking about what you are good at and build up a blog or site around it. Later you can release a product. That'd probably take you much further much faster than YouTube revenue. :eek: YouTube revenue is kind of a joke tbh...There are "easier" ways to earn money online (I mean to use the word "easier" lightly, as there really isn't much that's "easy" about building up an income from the Internet. It takes a lot of work no matter what avenue you try.).
 
It would be very risky to quit your day job and throw yourself into YouTube at this stage in your channel's growth. If you can't make enough money to live on...which is highly likely... you could end up hating the very thing that you currently love - YouTube.

My advice would be to continue with your job - only quit if a better job comes along - and continue to grow your YouTube channel as a fun hobby. However, I would recommend that you start to also look at alternative ways to monetise. Don't rely on ad revenue. Each channel needs to choose the best options for this, whether it be affiliate marketing, patreon, sponsorship, etc. In my case I was able to get a sponsor that covers the costs of my videos, and last month I experimented with my first webinar - which I charged for.

I have 16,000 subs, so my channel is not that big, I average about $200 per month in ad revenue, but my webinar brought in an additional $900.

From your comments in this thread it sounds like you don't need a huge amount to live on, so try out different ways of monetising your channel and you may get monthly revenue that works for you sooner than you think.

Best of luck with it!
 
At the very least, have another source of income. I did UberEats for a good while on top of another unofficial job b/c finding a real one with decent pay was incredibly hard, but I still focused on YouTube. Personally, I wouldn't go full-time on YT until I hit about 50,000 subs or so.
 
Ah, numbers...
$12hr 40hr work week = $24,960.00 a year before tax.
YouTube pays $1 per 1,000 views. This means you will need 24,960,000 yearly views, 2,080,000 monthly views, 68384 daily views or 2,850 hourly views.

This is a tall order. You see those hourly views? I can't even get there in a 48 hour period most of the time. YouTube is a pipe dream. Do it as a hobby, but never quit your day job till YouTube brings in what you are making. It doesn't matter how much time you spend on YouTube, you are not going to change how other people view your content. I "slave" away on videos and end up with a sub 1000 view count all the time. If I did it with money in my eyes I would have quit a long time ago. And trust me, I got close, very close to quitting until I distanced myself from that pipe dream, treated it as the hobby it is and moved forward. Could it still become my main gig or more significant? Sure, but I am not holding my breath. If people felt I was 100K material I would have been at a 100K a few years ago.

Don't quit your job. You will be shooting yourself in the foot.
 
Mark Stise said:
Isn't it easier to go FULL-TIME on Youtube when your only making $12.00 and hour!!!

Hello I have just over 600 subscribers
Don't you think i would be easier for me to go Full time on YouTube
Given the fact I only make $12.00 and hour??!!
I being really serious here, I'm at the point i hate my job and once I start earning a paycheck from my chatting channel once I can make enough to replace the current (really awesome job I had) I'm going to make the switch!

So give this information should I focus on getting my subscriber base to 1,000 and then work on my 4,000 watch hours?
What do you think?
Please leave me a comment
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If it's something you enjoy doing, carry on. But you'd only quit your primary job once your secondary job starts proving to be a reliable, regular source of income. You need to be able to know how much money you'll be making on a daily basis (an average).
 
I used to be a TV director and I didn’t even make $12 an hour!!

But I’d say keep the job until you match the same money from YouTube at least
 
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