1. Being a successful YouTuber will interfere with your professional life
I’m sure there are Youtube personalities out there that manage both a professional career and a popular YouTube channel, but for the most part what I’ve seen is that successful YouTubers will not be able to hold a “real job” — at least not a full-time one. Freelancers and nurses with many free days seem to be the best at juggling their YouTube obligations, as are students and part-time workers.
But let’s be honest: Most people will not choose a 9-5 when you can literally make your own schedule every day of the week. Whether you specialize in making cute animal videos or dancing around in underwear a la Melanie Iglesias, your YouTube channel will take up a lot of your time. Perhaps not as much as a traditional job, but it may be hard for you to balance real life employment and the obligations of your YouTube Channel.
Every type of YouTube channel is different. While some of the points in this article are true, they don’t really apply to all channels. Networking is extremely useful for gaming channels. It allows the user to reach out more thanks to the ‘share’ button, keep in constant contact with their viewers and to give bonus content.
This article seems to be discouraging people from uploading regularly to YouTube. If you’re passionate about your channel and its topic, and you do it because its what you enjoy doing rather than for money, then you shouldn’t have some of these problems.
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