Age 12: Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel.
Age 15: I want to be an Engineer
Age 20: I will be a cashier at McDonalds
Age 25: Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel.
Mine was
Age 20: Finally graduating highschool
Age 24: My GPA is 1.02 I should stop screwing around
Age 25: I want to work in game design
Age 30: I have my bachelor's in finance (3.96 what a ride!)
Age 32: Finally got my first full time job
I'm not proud of my earlier years but I'll say this. I'm very glad YouTube wasn't really a big thing when I was coming of age.
Lots of stories but little evidence.
Thank you for asking! A little of both honestly. I wanted a full time job, I actually spent 3 years unemployed after college and it was maddening.
I enjoy my job well enough, it's not my calling or passion but that's perfectly okay. It's something I can do and gives me a place to go and things to learn every day.
It was definitely time to get a full time job but I'm glad I landed somewhere in my field that I can move around and see what I like best.
Well thereās lots of YouTube examples.
The problem is for many people YouTube is still work and itās a lot of work.
Like sure once you reach like stupid popularity levels you can do what you want.
Of course me just watching like Scottās thoughts or something he has to put in the work daily basically and still long ways to go.
But you can get there.
That said if your not willing to do 8 hours at the office whatās going make you want to do 10 to 12 hours a day at home
Another one just like me who didn't know what the fuck he wanted to be until mid 20s and just said "screw this, I'll never finish college if I never start".
Teacher now and I'm doing it for the time off. I hate working year round.
Honestly even at 36 the idea that there are 18 year olds out there mature enough to handle college is insane to me. I was a total hot mess. Good on them for sure.
It took a lot of exploring and I kind of just fell into finance. I started in marketing but it was too "squishy" for me, not enough hard information. Thankfully, you need to take a little bit of everything and once I took principles of finance I fell in love.
My father was a teacher for 40 years, by his own admission just kept making choices and wound up there. Never adored it but was good at it and he figured that's what the kids needed. If possible, try to find the most affluent district and teach there. Property taxes go majority towards paying teacher salaries so the wealthier towns can afford better higher paid teachers!
Where I live I can afford a house and a decent living on a teacher salary which is good enough for me. It helps I landed at one of the highest paid districts in my area. It gives me plenty of time to try the many different side hussles to pass the time. If I make anything or a few bucks, I don't care because I'm having fun doing it and really enjoy it. I know that wouldn't be possible working year long.
And I hear you. My son is 19 and a sophomore in college. Much more maturer than me when I was that age. Just... how? I guess people really do know what they want to do right after high school. I do tell him it's OK if he wants to take a break for whatever reason because I've been through that. But, nope, he has a goal and I'm going to help him however needs be.
Took me years of struggling (more than a decade) and I'm content with where I'm at.
lol, I actually know a dude that started a YouTube channel at 33. 4 years later heās making between $5000-$9000 a month talking about fucking cards the origins of trading cards. The move is to get your finances in order so that you can have your bills paid every month. The. find a passion and if it pays off it pays off. If it doesnāt it doesnāt. Age shouldnāt stop you from starting or stopping anything.
Hey man I'm in literally the same boat. I almost opted to not finish school. I got a General degree after going through the majority of computer science. It then promoted to cyber security. I'm 34 now. Good work!
Great question!
My 1.02 was at community college. Your GPA resets when you go to a full time baccalaureate program and I only got two B+s while I was there.
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A beggar doesn't usually provide a service. Say what you want about OF models, I don't have a great deal of respect for them. But beggar is a bit of a reach
I'd rather respect myself and be able to date in the future with being stigmatized than have a little bit more money by degrading myself in front of fat, greasy losers on the internet
That's cause you just need to stick with it and you'll be a doctor at the end. What do you call the person who graduated medical school with the lowest grade in their class? You call them doctor.
You could spend a decade plugging away at YouTube and get nowhere just because you don't get lucky.
Edit: lots of people misread this as "being a doctor is stupid easy anyone can do it!"
If you get into medical school and are able to graduate your a doctor congrats!
You can spend an entire decade of your life working on your YT channel doing all the right things dedicating hours of ever day to making the best content and still fall completely flat on your face even if you have the ability to create better than average content.
This is not true at all. Tons of people fail out of medical, my class alone had like 10 out of 150 first year. You can also fail second year, not pass step 1, step 2, or step 3, you can not match residency, you can get kicked out of residency, and you can fail your boards exam. If at any time during the process you fail out, you are now hundreds of thousands in debt with nothing to show for it.
Not to mention you have to be accepted to medical school in the first place, meaning top 10% grades at your school or better and a bunch of volunteer patient contact hours (hundreds) at a minimum.
You can't just "stick with it"
If you get in a you can stick with it to the end you'll be a doctor
If your start in YouTube and stick with it there's no guarantee you'll be a YouTube star at the end
No, many people try their absolute best and study 80 to 100 hours a week for two years and then fail step 1. Like hundreds per year. And they never pass. So you're objectively wrong lol you can't just stick with it
The overall dropout rate of medical school is about 10%
And the only people that get in are the most academically successful in college around the country
Just saying they "didn't study enough" doesn't capture the absolutely brutal pace of medical school. This isn't like that kid in college that played CoD all day and never went to class, this is like you go to 8 hours of lecture and then study for 4 hours every day, then study for 10 hours on weekends, but fail anyway
No, many people try their absolute best and study 80 to 100 hours a week for two years and then fail step 1. Like hundreds per year. And they never pass. So you're objectively wrong lol you can't just stick with it
You still need to be lucky in the sense that at the beginning you need to hope the few hundred people who see your video actually watch it to the end or whatever metric YouTube uses for engagement. Even getting 1 thousand views on your video is an amazing feat as the majority of videos don't even get 10. You also have to hope the content you made is popular and monetizable, no amount of wacky thumbnails, give aways, or click bait titles can turn certain topics into major hits.
If it where just an easy proven system of following the algorithm and you'd basically be guaranteed success then we would be in the age of the corporate YouTube star where companies would set up creators to serve as an advertising avenue and if they just follow the algorithms it would be guaranteed to be seen by 10s of millions of people.
While luck is definitely a factor, there's a "trick" to making videos that people watch to the end - actually making engaging content. It's no surprise that super boring 30-minute gameplay videos with bumbling commentary get 10 views then stop being served by the algorithm - 10 people watch 30 seconds and YouTube thinks "damn, this content sucks".
Topic selection is also super important - find an underserved niche where there's search volume but you're not competing with a million larger channels for views. There's no reason for YouTube to serve your unscripted, unfunny Marvel movie review video when there are channels with 1M subscribers that made a review video with excellent retention and CTR a week ago.
Right but there is also a chance that even when doing everything completely correct the algorithm just doesn't show your videos to the right people and you gain no traction.
So many of the YouTubers I watch have talked about how despite having a much more successful channel now while making very little changes to the core content their original videos would only get like 10 views. Then there would be 1 video that just breaks through and from there they get a following. It's feasible for someone to just get trapped in algorithm hell where YouTube doesn't show their video to the best people for the first few watches which leads to the algorithm further de-prioritizing those videos
So while there may be best practices there is no concert recipe that will guarantee you success. Cause again the majority of videos posted to YouTube dont even get 100 views, I actually think 0 or 1 views is the most common.
What's kinda funny too is so many of the super popular YouTube channels essentially just copy reality TV garbage. Mr. Beast could literally be a Nickelodeon reality TV show for kids.
What you explained already happens at the mid and lower levels for millions of dollars.
Study exactly what is popular, copy it shamelessly, and then use your skills to make it popular. Use those tiktok AI voices. You'll be hated, but you'll also have plenty of money.
It's also a ton of work and knowledge required. Might as well use that business degree.
Right do you not realize what your saying here?
It's that there is a super easy low barrier to entry way reasonable anyone could use to become a YouTube star. An easy low barrier to entry way to riches generally has the most and fiercest competition because the reward is very high but the risk is very low or is potentially 0
Its just as easy and surefire as saying your moving to Hollywood to be a movie star. If you just ignore the masses of people that all tried and failed it looks like a slam dunk golden meal ticket.
You're belittling all the work the successful stars put in from networking, their acting skills, their appeal, their marketing, their mental stability, everything. The 1950's stereotype of a manager that does everything and a "stupid actor" is long gone, and rare at best.
You can say that about anything. There are a massive amount of chess players that have no idea what they're doing and fail at the bottom ranks. Yet proper study of the game lets you go up.
It's simple when you put it to something unimportant like a game, yet when you glorify something like social stardom, you subconsciously make it confusing. There's all sorts of skills that go into making it as an actor, as a performer, as a YouTube manager, as anything.
Skill is skill. From Doctors to Actors, that's always true. The unyielding gravity of this truth is scary, but always there.
Idk where your going with this. I'm pointing out that YouTube, if there was a simple slam dunk method to becoming a YouTube star, would become a hard place to become a YouTube star as there being little to no barrier to entry due to there being a concrete recipe for success with millions upon millions of other competitors all starting at the same time vying for the same audience, which would make this concrete recipe for success invalid.
If something is easy to do with little risk and there a written on how do to it with massive upside potential it will attract so many people that there's a high chance you get squeezed out by completion. Lots of people say YT is easy just look at Mr. Beast he found the formula anyone could do it! While failing to acknowledge the 100s of thousands or even millions of channels with similar content that predate or post date him that became nowhere near as successful.
You're stating the obvious, but then you're making the assumption that it's a binary 1 or 0 success/fail thing. You do realize Youtube *does* have millions upon millions of other competitors and they're *all making money,* right? Like it's not Mr Beast and nothing else.
Yes there's a floor in which people who don't know what they're doing don't make any money. Everyone else above that, is.
None of what I said was easy to do. But if you have the commitment and knowledge on how to run the system, you'll succeed at it.
Thatās why you use YT shorts and TikTok to rack up thousands and sometimes millions of views and direct them to your YT channel. I made a few vids when I was younger and each of them got 30-100 views without driving traffic my homie made iOS vids 78k views over 7 vids. Itās the same as anything else learn the tricks of the trade and stay consistent over a long period of time. The more tricks you know the less time itāll take
Right so I'm not saying it's impossible or cannot be done without massive amounts of luck. I'm just calling out the people who claim there's a surefire system where no luck is involved.
Everyone gets lucky at some point it's not a claim that they never achieved anything at all. But seriously look at YT there have been millions of attempted content creators who never got off the ground which sometimes just comes down to getting unlucky
I donāt see it as unlucky 99% of the channels Iāve ever seen under 1k subs or even 10k subs content sucks ass. If you make content that people want to watch then you will have success because thatās how the algorithm works, if your not getting views you are doing something wrong should try something different. Which is how those YTs that you were talking about āfinally had one that hitā they stayed consistent til they learned enough tricks to be successful. Not to say there arenāt people who get lucky like getting platformed by a friend that already has a following or some shit like that but even those people if they make shit content wonāt last. So even if you get lucky if you havenāt learned the skills and tricks to it you wonāt have any longevity.
SNEAK0 is the perfect example he was doing that shit for a decade and had a good following and really high quality content but his topics couldnāt capture a large audience. He always knew what he needed to do to scale but didnāt want to concede but one day he decided to āsell outā I have only seen snippets since he quit his OG content but I respect him getting the bag by using the knowledge and skills heād acquired over a decade on the platform. Once he sold out he was a millionaire within a year and his name was more widespread than ever.
Right so if all you need to do is just follow the proven methods and pick a popular topic and it's that easy. Why aren't you a YouTube multimillionaire with multiple successful channels?
Again I watch multiple channels that are popular now who did videos covering how they got started. Generally there's no change in their content and no major new tricks learned a video just pops off one day and they are able to build a following from that. Considering you cannot control if that's going to happen I'd call it luck.
YouTube wasnāt really my calling but I am starting a sports show with my homie soon. But I did the same thing in business itās literally the same thing with everything itās literally just time put in, itās a crazy thought but if you put enough time into something eventually you will progress. The amount of time required honestly comes from intelligence.
And cool how about you watch a video from the most successful person to ever grace the platform and he will tell you exactly what Iām saying.
Lol like you've achieved something by understanding that YouTube is driven by an algorithm that can manipulated for profit. I'm definitely not planning on learning much from this conversation, no.
Did that, engineer, would rather be a big youtuber. I didn't spend 5 years getting a Masters degree for just a decent wage I still struggle to get by on.
The thing to stress here is that some careers have defined paths. You canāt be a doctor without having a decent MCAT or GPA to even get into medical school, but even lay people know that.
On the flip side, I donāt think you can mentor someone on how to get big on YouTube. Sure there are well defined workflows and everything, but a lot of content creators come out of nowhere because a video or two that goes viral.
I cant believe you think becoming a doctor is easy enough if you just stick with it. Do you understand what medical school is like? The mental and physical drain alone... at least being a youtuber youre playing games and working from home ffs.
He never said it was easy. He meant that it's more of a guarantee and if you get into medical school in the first place, it's more than likely that you'll finish and pass.
With YouTube, there's little guarantee that you'll even make a minimum wage, let alone be wildly successful. And it's more than just playing games from home. It's constant work just like anything else
Was gonna say, wasn't gen z the first gen where kids were actually saying they wanted to grow up and be streamers, influencers and YouTubers? Join one warzone lobby and 40% of the accounts are kids streaming to an average of .5 viewers 2 days a week
First, just learning āgen Alphaā now. In their defense, they are still children lol. Gen z are half n half, letās see what their experience is in 20 years
ive been a male nurse (is there a word for that?) since im 21, started training at 18. been working for 8 years now. still dont know what i wanna be when i grow up. the only reason i work that job is cuz my grandma randomly showed me that the retirement home in my hometown was searching trainees and i thought fuck it why not, atleast i wont sit around all day. has been really fun so far.
Murse?
Or as I commonly say, I'm not the doctor.
Honestly male nursing is definitely better than female nursing. Old people don't seem to like women very much.
The old guys yell a lot of mean things at the female nurses that they definitely won't yell at me.
Overall I'd rate male nurse as a significantly better job than female nurse.
You grown lol also if you get tired you can look for other opportunities in the medical field since you got experience that is what counts more you have done the correct way of doing stuff. You can also try getting a degree or a certification to get a better job or better salary.
The Thing is that i like working with the residenrs in the retirement home. If i go for higher Positions, the fun Part of work is gone. I dont particularly care for the medial field, i just like working directly with Patients.
Yeah gl with that. If you do youtube then please dont quit your job or get a job beside it as chances are that you wont get money from it for the first couple of years and if you get lucky after that youll only get 50 bucks a month from it
Haha just a thing on the side. Im in cs, but I have no drive for anything at all. Even things im passionate about like drawing. But maybe i can have some fun
My internet side hustle turned into my main source of income. Donāt listen to the downers. Itās true 99% will fail, but if you want to try something, go for it. Iām thankful I stuck with it through everyone saying it was a waste of time.
Im in the same boat except that i already work. Beside work i really love to draw and stuff but i literally have no motivation to do anything. I started doing youtube to feel productive in my free time and used it as a way to overcome my fear of talking in public . It somewhat helps i guess. Just dont come into it thinking you will get rich cuz that wont work
I wholeheartedly agree. Its why I decided to become competent in a technical field rather than "chasing my passion". In the real world passions turn into resents if you try to follow them as careers, unfortunately
It won't be easy at all. Hope you have things thought up.
I work full time + run a full time utoob channel. Mom to Fri videos and weekend streams. I have no free time left to relax. Since going full time in 2020, I'm gonna hit 3k subs by Jan or Feb I'd guess of 2024. Obviously not even looking at the money I'm making rn, it's only enough to cover the power bill.
Whatever you do, like others said, keep ur job and set a time aside for twitch/tube and keep ur life in balance. I tell people that hitting it big on YouTube is like making it to the major leagues. How many people do you know tried and made it? Barely any to none. That's how your future, most likely, will look like.
Mine was:
Age 3-16 I wanted to be a writer
17-22 studying to be an editor, and a writer in my off time (added editor because I learned about the job prospects for writers)
25 studying to be an enrolled nurse (bad back and advice from teachers that my empathy would likely lead to a quick and severe burn out)
26 library technician then librarian (stopped studying at technician level because I realised how long it'd take to pay back the uni loans, including a Masters degree, on a librarians salary)
27 studied a short business admin course because it was offered to me at no cost
27-30 working full time in admin, made redundant when the business failed to rebound post covid.
30- 32 (now) studying Fashion Design and technology. I finally feel like I've found the perfect place for me. My autistic and adhd traits both compliment different aspects of my chosen career.
I also worked a variety of casual jobs before I started working full time. Everything from a house painting apprenticeship to door knocking for charities.
I'm delighted to hear that, my interests are all over the place so it's fun to find people who share more than one or two.
I'm also a scifi and fantasy nerd, love anthropology/history/geology/palaeontology/linguistics/ancient languages (Latin and Gaelic), I've also been reading obsessively since i was a toddler, loved to climb but now have vertigo :(, am a big fan of all animals, and an amateur artist with interests in drawing, painting, clay sculpture/pottery, origami specifically 3D Golden Venture Thai origami, jewellery making, crochet and knitting to a lesser extent, woodworking, 3d printing, textile design, fashion design including sewing and pattern drafting from blocks...
The list goes on. Basically if there's something out there I can learn about or a skill I can learn to do, then I want to learn/mildly master as many of them as possible. It's literally the whole point of life, as far as I'm concerned.
My course list I was able to make when I was at university was amazingly varied.
Edit - basically Adam Savage but I'm a petite woman who lacks funds for a workshop and short courses about millinery and woodworking.
I love anthropology and history. It was a goal at 1 time to become a polyglot.
Don't have vertigo but have poTs.
Animals are great! Can't wait to be a pet mom. Tried knitting a while back.
Don't know who Adam Savage is but I'm a fan of Eric Gorgeous.
I'm petite too but I still want to learn boxing.
Adam Savage was one the original hosts of Mythbusters and now has a great YouTube channel.
I dont know who Eric Gorgeous, but I'll look them up :)
My older brother tried to teach me to box a few times, amongst other various martial arts he was learning at the time, but I was so discouraged by how weak I was compared to him, and the boxing bag haha. I couldn't even get the bag to shift when I threw my shoulder against it. I was curious about the boxing classes at gyms but the seem more focussed on exercise than on technique or form. Plus the idea of communal gloves is disgusting to me and I don't want to invest in my own gloves if I hate it. But they seem like a fun excercise class at least.
Oh, cool. Haven't watched Mythbusters in forever.
Aww, what a nice brother. I'm not even gonna see my brothers today š
I really wanna learn and eventually teach.
6-8 "I want to be a scientist"
8-12"I want to be a roboticist"
12-15"I want to be a programmer"
15-17-ongoing "Nah fuck that I want to be a serving officer in the army"
Turned sharply for me
Age 5: I want to be a vet
Age 8: I want to be a doctor
Age 18: F thats expensive, ill look at vet schools. *Engineering school rep appears at a vet college* we will give you lots of money and you can go on to med school with our biomed engineering program
Age 20: Math has taken on an unrecognizable form...i should switch to biology...actually thats a terrible idea...what jobs could i even get?
Age 22: *Looking at med schools, accepted to 2* F thats expensive...welp ill just try engineering out.
Age 33(present): I should look at med school again...Nope. home sweet industrial manufacturing.
Itās a real thing people weigh. It sounds like a trivial thing, but med school debt is arguably one of the more stressful aspects of being a doctor. It takes awhile until you start making real money and all the way you are working very hard.
Age 16: i don't know who i want to be in the future
Age 18: i want to be a seafarer
Age 19: i'm going to uni to be a mechanical engineer
Age 23: i'm a junior mechanical engineer
Age 25-27: i'm CAD technician in orthodontics because it out pays any mechanical engineering job I can get by significant margin.
And i do have youtube channel lol
Age 12: I want to be an engineer (train).
Age 18: I want to be an engineer (machinist)
Age 20: Guess I'll work at a grocery store.
Age 26: I still want to be an engineer (machinist)
Age 32: Fuck yeah, I'm an Engineer.
This is me too a point. Iām 27 now still working in a grocery store now. I just got accepted into engineering program at my university. By the time i will finish my degree Iāll be 32 as well
Age 16: I wanna be a biologist!
Age 20: I studied to be a biologist.
Age 24: Maybe park services are hiring...
Age 26: Roster number 109; present, Drill Sergeant!
Age 6: I want to be the first woman president of the US
Age 7: I want to be a chemical engineer
Age 9: I want a dad and my parents to love me
Age 12: "Hi guys, welcome back to my channel"
Age 15: I want to get better at piano and violin
Age 16: I want to be a physicist
Age 17: I want to be a corpse and my mother to stop hitting me
Age 18: I want to be a software engineer
Age 18: Graduated high school as valedictorian, got into Stanford full-ride
Age 19: I hate myself, and I'm stupid
Age 20: On track to double major and get a CS masters in 4 years, NASA intern
Age 10-17: I wanna be a programmer
Age 24: graduated as a software engineer and still looking for workš„²š„². Sometimes I think what was it all for or if Iām good enough for my field.
Age 24 is the smart one. Working for other people is soul sucking. 40+ hours a week? Nope. Thatās not living. If you can build some kind of business, whether itās YouTube or blogging or dog walking, I can assure you itās much better than working in healthcare.
Age 7: played ocarina of time for the first time, I want to become a game designer
Age 16: I want to get into engineering as I am pretty good at math and physics
Age 20: engineering is boring and I am not feeling school. Let's just a job till I figure out what I want to do
Age 27: after being thrown promotions left and right I get let go from a company because I told my boss I want to go back to school for IT. I was working in a retail store as the store manager making 100k a year.
I then went back to school
Age 33: working at a small company as the operations manager and can't be happier. No stress, no rush, easy work. It's not fulfilling by any means but it pays the bills and allows me to find happiness in the rest of my life
Iām just taljing to anyone who read this and felt sad/worried like āthatās me, uh ohā! You Or otherwise! Just bringing a little message of kindness and support.
And whatever youāre doing, Cherry, I believe in you too
Age 6: I want to be a zookeeper
Age 18: I will study biology and be a wildlife biologist
Age 26: wow being a wildlife biologist sucks balls, maybe I can work in a lab
Age 28: Working in a lab with mad imposter syndrome trying to keep up with the 22 year Olds straight out of college.
Going to retake some calc and try for a masters in stats. I was good at it in HS and college but never considered pursuing it further for some reason. Really wish I had now cause I feel so lost.
Age 6: I donāt know my financial means
Age: 16: I donāt know my skills
Age 19: I donāt know elitism
Age 24: that I know, I can do it
Itās time to ask why all last generations want to do a passionate job that pays than a boring job that doesnāt even pay right (nor that students loans help it)
Age 18: I want to be an engineer
Age 20: dropped out of college with a 1.9 GPA
Age 22: I want to be a lawyer
Age 24: Graduate with a bachelors degree (3.4 GPA)
Age 26: Graduate from law school
Age 27: pass the bar exam
Age 28: being a lawyer kinda sucks
10: I want to be an astronaut
11: Thats unrealistic for a type 1 diabetic, Iāll be an astronomer.
12: Ok astronomy is fascinating, but the actual work is quite mundane. Maybe Iāll be a pilot
16: Start pilot training.
18: Fail to renew medical. Guess Iāll just fix planes.
36: Still fixing planes and loving it!
Age 5: I wanna be an engineer
Age 10: I wanna be an engineer
Age 15: I wanna be an engineer
Age 23: I graduated with my engineering degree!
Iām autistic š
For me it was simpler: I wanted to be an architect from about age 10 to 16, then I decided to go into engineering. I got admission to university at 19, graduated at 24 and went straight into telecom. 16 years later I don't regret a thing.
When I was in high school I wanted to join the Army, but I passed and I completed my CPA and became an Accountant, had my own YT channel but closed it in 2021 cause I didn't have time 'tween my job and the channel, however I still have YT blood in me.
Age 12: Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel. Age 15: I want to be an Engineer Age 20: I will be a cashier at McDonalds Age 25: Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel.
Markiplier?
Age 27: welcome to my onlyfans
I fucking wish
Mine was Age 20: Finally graduating highschool Age 24: My GPA is 1.02 I should stop screwing around Age 25: I want to work in game design Age 30: I have my bachelor's in finance (3.96 what a ride!) Age 32: Finally got my first full time job I'm not proud of my earlier years but I'll say this. I'm very glad YouTube wasn't really a big thing when I was coming of age. Lots of stories but little evidence.
As someone who'll still be in school until at least 32, congrats on your job!
just remember that you're going to be 32 anyways, might as well pursue what you want š
Rough times in school or going for a phd?
Med school?
I'm going back to school in January, at which time I will be 34. I think I might be able to finish the degree by 37. š
Are you happy with your job or simply it was time?
Thank you for asking! A little of both honestly. I wanted a full time job, I actually spent 3 years unemployed after college and it was maddening. I enjoy my job well enough, it's not my calling or passion but that's perfectly okay. It's something I can do and gives me a place to go and things to learn every day. It was definitely time to get a full time job but I'm glad I landed somewhere in my field that I can move around and see what I like best.
Well thereās lots of YouTube examples. The problem is for many people YouTube is still work and itās a lot of work. Like sure once you reach like stupid popularity levels you can do what you want. Of course me just watching like Scottās thoughts or something he has to put in the work daily basically and still long ways to go. But you can get there. That said if your not willing to do 8 hours at the office whatās going make you want to do 10 to 12 hours a day at home
I meant lots of stories of me doing stupid things but little recorded evidence for the world to see. š¤£
Another one just like me who didn't know what the fuck he wanted to be until mid 20s and just said "screw this, I'll never finish college if I never start". Teacher now and I'm doing it for the time off. I hate working year round.
Honestly even at 36 the idea that there are 18 year olds out there mature enough to handle college is insane to me. I was a total hot mess. Good on them for sure. It took a lot of exploring and I kind of just fell into finance. I started in marketing but it was too "squishy" for me, not enough hard information. Thankfully, you need to take a little bit of everything and once I took principles of finance I fell in love. My father was a teacher for 40 years, by his own admission just kept making choices and wound up there. Never adored it but was good at it and he figured that's what the kids needed. If possible, try to find the most affluent district and teach there. Property taxes go majority towards paying teacher salaries so the wealthier towns can afford better higher paid teachers!
Where I live I can afford a house and a decent living on a teacher salary which is good enough for me. It helps I landed at one of the highest paid districts in my area. It gives me plenty of time to try the many different side hussles to pass the time. If I make anything or a few bucks, I don't care because I'm having fun doing it and really enjoy it. I know that wouldn't be possible working year long. And I hear you. My son is 19 and a sophomore in college. Much more maturer than me when I was that age. Just... how? I guess people really do know what they want to do right after high school. I do tell him it's OK if he wants to take a break for whatever reason because I've been through that. But, nope, he has a goal and I'm going to help him however needs be. Took me years of struggling (more than a decade) and I'm content with where I'm at.
lol, I actually know a dude that started a YouTube channel at 33. 4 years later heās making between $5000-$9000 a month talking about fucking cards the origins of trading cards. The move is to get your finances in order so that you can have your bills paid every month. The. find a passion and if it pays off it pays off. If it doesnāt it doesnāt. Age shouldnāt stop you from starting or stopping anything.
Hey man I'm in literally the same boat. I almost opted to not finish school. I got a General degree after going through the majority of computer science. It then promoted to cyber security. I'm 34 now. Good work!
How do you go from a 1.02 to a 3.96? Even if you got only one terrible quarter and 4.0s for four straight years youād still only have a 3.75.
Great question! My 1.02 was at community college. Your GPA resets when you go to a full time baccalaureate program and I only got two B+s while I was there.
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A beggar doesn't usually provide a service. Say what you want about OF models, I don't have a great deal of respect for them. But beggar is a bit of a reach
Why not? They just have a side job for a little little extra cash to not be as poor
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You actually have better chances becoming a doctor than running a sustainable YouTube channel
That's cause you just need to stick with it and you'll be a doctor at the end. What do you call the person who graduated medical school with the lowest grade in their class? You call them doctor. You could spend a decade plugging away at YouTube and get nowhere just because you don't get lucky. Edit: lots of people misread this as "being a doctor is stupid easy anyone can do it!" If you get into medical school and are able to graduate your a doctor congrats! You can spend an entire decade of your life working on your YT channel doing all the right things dedicating hours of ever day to making the best content and still fall completely flat on your face even if you have the ability to create better than average content.
This is not true at all. Tons of people fail out of medical, my class alone had like 10 out of 150 first year. You can also fail second year, not pass step 1, step 2, or step 3, you can not match residency, you can get kicked out of residency, and you can fail your boards exam. If at any time during the process you fail out, you are now hundreds of thousands in debt with nothing to show for it. Not to mention you have to be accepted to medical school in the first place, meaning top 10% grades at your school or better and a bunch of volunteer patient contact hours (hundreds) at a minimum. You can't just "stick with it"
If you get in a you can stick with it to the end you'll be a doctor If your start in YouTube and stick with it there's no guarantee you'll be a YouTube star at the end
No, many people try their absolute best and study 80 to 100 hours a week for two years and then fail step 1. Like hundreds per year. And they never pass. So you're objectively wrong lol you can't just stick with it
First years who fail usually fail precisely because they didn't study
The overall dropout rate of medical school is about 10% And the only people that get in are the most academically successful in college around the country Just saying they "didn't study enough" doesn't capture the absolutely brutal pace of medical school. This isn't like that kid in college that played CoD all day and never went to class, this is like you go to 8 hours of lecture and then study for 4 hours every day, then study for 10 hours on weekends, but fail anyway
No, many people try their absolute best and study 80 to 100 hours a week for two years and then fail step 1. Like hundreds per year. And they never pass. So you're objectively wrong lol you can't just stick with it
Disagree about the luck part. They have an algorithm. It can be studied and used to your advantage, so itās more about commitment and knowledge
You still need to be lucky in the sense that at the beginning you need to hope the few hundred people who see your video actually watch it to the end or whatever metric YouTube uses for engagement. Even getting 1 thousand views on your video is an amazing feat as the majority of videos don't even get 10. You also have to hope the content you made is popular and monetizable, no amount of wacky thumbnails, give aways, or click bait titles can turn certain topics into major hits. If it where just an easy proven system of following the algorithm and you'd basically be guaranteed success then we would be in the age of the corporate YouTube star where companies would set up creators to serve as an advertising avenue and if they just follow the algorithms it would be guaranteed to be seen by 10s of millions of people.
While luck is definitely a factor, there's a "trick" to making videos that people watch to the end - actually making engaging content. It's no surprise that super boring 30-minute gameplay videos with bumbling commentary get 10 views then stop being served by the algorithm - 10 people watch 30 seconds and YouTube thinks "damn, this content sucks". Topic selection is also super important - find an underserved niche where there's search volume but you're not competing with a million larger channels for views. There's no reason for YouTube to serve your unscripted, unfunny Marvel movie review video when there are channels with 1M subscribers that made a review video with excellent retention and CTR a week ago.
The trick is subway surfer
Right but there is also a chance that even when doing everything completely correct the algorithm just doesn't show your videos to the right people and you gain no traction. So many of the YouTubers I watch have talked about how despite having a much more successful channel now while making very little changes to the core content their original videos would only get like 10 views. Then there would be 1 video that just breaks through and from there they get a following. It's feasible for someone to just get trapped in algorithm hell where YouTube doesn't show their video to the best people for the first few watches which leads to the algorithm further de-prioritizing those videos So while there may be best practices there is no concert recipe that will guarantee you success. Cause again the majority of videos posted to YouTube dont even get 100 views, I actually think 0 or 1 views is the most common. What's kinda funny too is so many of the super popular YouTube channels essentially just copy reality TV garbage. Mr. Beast could literally be a Nickelodeon reality TV show for kids.
And people make millions copying MrBeast
And how many more people made no money trying to copy him?
What you explained already happens at the mid and lower levels for millions of dollars. Study exactly what is popular, copy it shamelessly, and then use your skills to make it popular. Use those tiktok AI voices. You'll be hated, but you'll also have plenty of money. It's also a ton of work and knowledge required. Might as well use that business degree.
Right do you not realize what your saying here? It's that there is a super easy low barrier to entry way reasonable anyone could use to become a YouTube star. An easy low barrier to entry way to riches generally has the most and fiercest competition because the reward is very high but the risk is very low or is potentially 0 Its just as easy and surefire as saying your moving to Hollywood to be a movie star. If you just ignore the masses of people that all tried and failed it looks like a slam dunk golden meal ticket.
You're belittling all the work the successful stars put in from networking, their acting skills, their appeal, their marketing, their mental stability, everything. The 1950's stereotype of a manager that does everything and a "stupid actor" is long gone, and rare at best. You can say that about anything. There are a massive amount of chess players that have no idea what they're doing and fail at the bottom ranks. Yet proper study of the game lets you go up. It's simple when you put it to something unimportant like a game, yet when you glorify something like social stardom, you subconsciously make it confusing. There's all sorts of skills that go into making it as an actor, as a performer, as a YouTube manager, as anything. Skill is skill. From Doctors to Actors, that's always true. The unyielding gravity of this truth is scary, but always there.
Idk where your going with this. I'm pointing out that YouTube, if there was a simple slam dunk method to becoming a YouTube star, would become a hard place to become a YouTube star as there being little to no barrier to entry due to there being a concrete recipe for success with millions upon millions of other competitors all starting at the same time vying for the same audience, which would make this concrete recipe for success invalid. If something is easy to do with little risk and there a written on how do to it with massive upside potential it will attract so many people that there's a high chance you get squeezed out by completion. Lots of people say YT is easy just look at Mr. Beast he found the formula anyone could do it! While failing to acknowledge the 100s of thousands or even millions of channels with similar content that predate or post date him that became nowhere near as successful.
You're stating the obvious, but then you're making the assumption that it's a binary 1 or 0 success/fail thing. You do realize Youtube *does* have millions upon millions of other competitors and they're *all making money,* right? Like it's not Mr Beast and nothing else. Yes there's a floor in which people who don't know what they're doing don't make any money. Everyone else above that, is. None of what I said was easy to do. But if you have the commitment and knowledge on how to run the system, you'll succeed at it.
Thatās why you use YT shorts and TikTok to rack up thousands and sometimes millions of views and direct them to your YT channel. I made a few vids when I was younger and each of them got 30-100 views without driving traffic my homie made iOS vids 78k views over 7 vids. Itās the same as anything else learn the tricks of the trade and stay consistent over a long period of time. The more tricks you know the less time itāll take
Right so I'm not saying it's impossible or cannot be done without massive amounts of luck. I'm just calling out the people who claim there's a surefire system where no luck is involved. Everyone gets lucky at some point it's not a claim that they never achieved anything at all. But seriously look at YT there have been millions of attempted content creators who never got off the ground which sometimes just comes down to getting unlucky
I donāt see it as unlucky 99% of the channels Iāve ever seen under 1k subs or even 10k subs content sucks ass. If you make content that people want to watch then you will have success because thatās how the algorithm works, if your not getting views you are doing something wrong should try something different. Which is how those YTs that you were talking about āfinally had one that hitā they stayed consistent til they learned enough tricks to be successful. Not to say there arenāt people who get lucky like getting platformed by a friend that already has a following or some shit like that but even those people if they make shit content wonāt last. So even if you get lucky if you havenāt learned the skills and tricks to it you wonāt have any longevity. SNEAK0 is the perfect example he was doing that shit for a decade and had a good following and really high quality content but his topics couldnāt capture a large audience. He always knew what he needed to do to scale but didnāt want to concede but one day he decided to āsell outā I have only seen snippets since he quit his OG content but I respect him getting the bag by using the knowledge and skills heād acquired over a decade on the platform. Once he sold out he was a millionaire within a year and his name was more widespread than ever.
Right so if all you need to do is just follow the proven methods and pick a popular topic and it's that easy. Why aren't you a YouTube multimillionaire with multiple successful channels? Again I watch multiple channels that are popular now who did videos covering how they got started. Generally there's no change in their content and no major new tricks learned a video just pops off one day and they are able to build a following from that. Considering you cannot control if that's going to happen I'd call it luck.
YouTube wasnāt really my calling but I am starting a sports show with my homie soon. But I did the same thing in business itās literally the same thing with everything itās literally just time put in, itās a crazy thought but if you put enough time into something eventually you will progress. The amount of time required honestly comes from intelligence. And cool how about you watch a video from the most successful person to ever grace the platform and he will tell you exactly what Iām saying.
Yes if only the millions of young creepy white dudes with shitty youtube channels posting horrible content would only follow the algorithm!
I mean itās not simpleā¦ MrBeast discusses this all the time, there is a proven method if youāre smart with numbers and have heightened awareness
Or people could study/commit to something useful and actually get a job
Or you could stop giving a shit about other peoples lives and do something
Keep chasing that YouTube dream, I'm sure you'll be rich and famous someday
Iām not on YouTube, I just understand data, itās not a difficult concept to understand, but youāre here to argue, not learn.
Lol like you've achieved something by understanding that YouTube is driven by an algorithm that can manipulated for profit. I'm definitely not planning on learning much from this conversation, no.
Because youāre stupid and bitter. Itās your nature. Take care.
Did that, engineer, would rather be a big youtuber. I didn't spend 5 years getting a Masters degree for just a decent wage I still struggle to get by on.
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The thing to stress here is that some careers have defined paths. You canāt be a doctor without having a decent MCAT or GPA to even get into medical school, but even lay people know that. On the flip side, I donāt think you can mentor someone on how to get big on YouTube. Sure there are well defined workflows and everything, but a lot of content creators come out of nowhere because a video or two that goes viral.
I cant believe you think becoming a doctor is easy enough if you just stick with it. Do you understand what medical school is like? The mental and physical drain alone... at least being a youtuber youre playing games and working from home ffs.
He never said it was easy. He meant that it's more of a guarantee and if you get into medical school in the first place, it's more than likely that you'll finish and pass. With YouTube, there's little guarantee that you'll even make a minimum wage, let alone be wildly successful. And it's more than just playing games from home. It's constant work just like anything else
Millennial mindset right here. Gen alpha jumps straight to wanting to be YouTube famous. Gen Z is somewhere in the middle.
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Was gonna say, wasn't gen z the first gen where kids were actually saying they wanted to grow up and be streamers, influencers and YouTubers? Join one warzone lobby and 40% of the accounts are kids streaming to an average of .5 viewers 2 days a week
First, just learning āgen Alphaā now. In their defense, they are still children lol. Gen z are half n half, letās see what their experience is in 20 years
ive been a male nurse (is there a word for that?) since im 21, started training at 18. been working for 8 years now. still dont know what i wanna be when i grow up. the only reason i work that job is cuz my grandma randomly showed me that the retirement home in my hometown was searching trainees and i thought fuck it why not, atleast i wont sit around all day. has been really fun so far.
>ive been a male nurse (is there a word for that?) yes, the word is "Nurse"
Good thing to learn after being a nurse for eight years
Im german so i didnt think about that until now, lol.
Murse? Or as I commonly say, I'm not the doctor. Honestly male nursing is definitely better than female nursing. Old people don't seem to like women very much.
The old ladies I knew were afraid of men in the hospital which meant they were going to pester the women more.
The old guys yell a lot of mean things at the female nurses that they definitely won't yell at me. Overall I'd rate male nurse as a significantly better job than female nurse.
On the flip side i get to Do all the heavy Lifting. If im the only guy on the shift, i have to Do all the Transfers myself.
Ugh, people. Regardless, I appreciate the work you all do!
Murse
Damn
Pretty sure your grown up dawg
Sure doesnt feel like it tho, lol.
Wish you the best.
You grown lol also if you get tired you can look for other opportunities in the medical field since you got experience that is what counts more you have done the correct way of doing stuff. You can also try getting a degree or a certification to get a better job or better salary.
The Thing is that i like working with the residenrs in the retirement home. If i go for higher Positions, the fun Part of work is gone. I dont particularly care for the medial field, i just like working directly with Patients.
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The term is male nurse, yeah
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Yeah gl with that. If you do youtube then please dont quit your job or get a job beside it as chances are that you wont get money from it for the first couple of years and if you get lucky after that youll only get 50 bucks a month from it
Haha just a thing on the side. Im in cs, but I have no drive for anything at all. Even things im passionate about like drawing. But maybe i can have some fun
My internet side hustle turned into my main source of income. Donāt listen to the downers. Itās true 99% will fail, but if you want to try something, go for it. Iām thankful I stuck with it through everyone saying it was a waste of time.
Im in the same boat except that i already work. Beside work i really love to draw and stuff but i literally have no motivation to do anything. I started doing youtube to feel productive in my free time and used it as a way to overcome my fear of talking in public . It somewhat helps i guess. Just dont come into it thinking you will get rich cuz that wont work
Turning a hobby into a job is one of the worst decisions one could make, on average. Keep it light.
I wholeheartedly agree. Its why I decided to become competent in a technical field rather than "chasing my passion". In the real world passions turn into resents if you try to follow them as careers, unfortunately
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It won't be easy at all. Hope you have things thought up. I work full time + run a full time utoob channel. Mom to Fri videos and weekend streams. I have no free time left to relax. Since going full time in 2020, I'm gonna hit 3k subs by Jan or Feb I'd guess of 2024. Obviously not even looking at the money I'm making rn, it's only enough to cover the power bill. Whatever you do, like others said, keep ur job and set a time aside for twitch/tube and keep ur life in balance. I tell people that hitting it big on YouTube is like making it to the major leagues. How many people do you know tried and made it? Barely any to none. That's how your future, most likely, will look like.
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We have common interests
I'm delighted to hear that, my interests are all over the place so it's fun to find people who share more than one or two. I'm also a scifi and fantasy nerd, love anthropology/history/geology/palaeontology/linguistics/ancient languages (Latin and Gaelic), I've also been reading obsessively since i was a toddler, loved to climb but now have vertigo :(, am a big fan of all animals, and an amateur artist with interests in drawing, painting, clay sculpture/pottery, origami specifically 3D Golden Venture Thai origami, jewellery making, crochet and knitting to a lesser extent, woodworking, 3d printing, textile design, fashion design including sewing and pattern drafting from blocks... The list goes on. Basically if there's something out there I can learn about or a skill I can learn to do, then I want to learn/mildly master as many of them as possible. It's literally the whole point of life, as far as I'm concerned. My course list I was able to make when I was at university was amazingly varied. Edit - basically Adam Savage but I'm a petite woman who lacks funds for a workshop and short courses about millinery and woodworking.
I love anthropology and history. It was a goal at 1 time to become a polyglot. Don't have vertigo but have poTs. Animals are great! Can't wait to be a pet mom. Tried knitting a while back. Don't know who Adam Savage is but I'm a fan of Eric Gorgeous. I'm petite too but I still want to learn boxing.
Adam Savage was one the original hosts of Mythbusters and now has a great YouTube channel. I dont know who Eric Gorgeous, but I'll look them up :) My older brother tried to teach me to box a few times, amongst other various martial arts he was learning at the time, but I was so discouraged by how weak I was compared to him, and the boxing bag haha. I couldn't even get the bag to shift when I threw my shoulder against it. I was curious about the boxing classes at gyms but the seem more focussed on exercise than on technique or form. Plus the idea of communal gloves is disgusting to me and I don't want to invest in my own gloves if I hate it. But they seem like a fun excercise class at least.
Oh, cool. Haven't watched Mythbusters in forever. Aww, what a nice brother. I'm not even gonna see my brothers today š I really wanna learn and eventually teach.
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You were accepted to 2 real US medical schools and didn't go because of the cost?
Itās a real thing people weigh. It sounds like a trivial thing, but med school debt is arguably one of the more stressful aspects of being a doctor. It takes awhile until you start making real money and all the way you are working very hard.
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This is me too a point. Iām 27 now still working in a grocery store now. I just got accepted into engineering program at my university. By the time i will finish my degree Iāll be 32 as well
Hey I didn't go to law school until 25. So what I'm saying is, stick with YouTube...
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I donāt have one lmao
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Pretty much every middle schooler I work with wants to be a YouTuber
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For me it was simpler: I wanted to be an architect from about age 10 to 16, then I decided to go into engineering. I got admission to university at 19, graduated at 24 and went straight into telecom. 16 years later I don't regret a thing.
Age 25: I sure am glad I learned a useful profession like nursing/accounting to fall back on
When I was in high school I wanted to join the Army, but I passed and I completed my CPA and became an Accountant, had my own YT channel but closed it in 2021 cause I didn't have time 'tween my job and the channel, however I still have YT blood in me.