What should I do?

[thr0ughthelenses]

So I am a student studying photography and I will be working  for other clients in the future. But I want to create content on yt like pov videos and Idk what should I do I want to be focused on only one thing so it's either go work professionally for  clients or create a youtube channel and work on it! help me??????

[Blue4130]

5 hours ago, thr0ughthelenses said:

So I am a student studying photography and I will be working  for other clients in the future. But I want to create content on yt like pov videos and Idk what should I do I want to be focused on only one thing so it's either go work professionally for  clients or create a youtube channel and work on it! help me??????

Do you enjoy a salary? Banking on a YouTube career is not realistic. At least not enough to live off of immediately. 

[wasab]

23 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Do you enjoy a salary? Banking on a YouTube career is not realistic. At least not enough to live off of immediately. 

that goes for most new bussinesses. most people who open shops or found a startup firms pay themselves no salary until their bussiness/ventures at least breaks even. It usually takes a year or more to reach this stage.

[Blue4130]

2 minutes ago, wasab said:

that goes for most new bussinesses. most people who open shops or found a startup firms pay themselves no salary until their bussiness/ventures at least breaks even. It usually takes a year or more to reach this stage.

But at least there is cash flow. With youtube, there's really isnt. Unless you have a second job, how do you pay for food and rent? If you walk into a bank for a business loan to become a youtuber, the bank will laugh at you while calling security to kick out the crazy person. 

[Totallycasual]

With YouTube, you could spend thousands on extra equipment, software and man hours, then spend months being an annoying pest dropping your links everywhere you go begging for views/subs and eventually realize you have to give up because it's going nowhere.  That's how it goes for 99% of people, are you wanting to gamble a year or two of your life trying to be the 1%? 

[wasab]

44 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

But at least there is cash flow. With youtube, there's really isnt. Unless you have a second job, how do you pay for food and rent? If you walk into a bank for a business loan to become a youtuber, the bank will laugh at you while calling security to kick out the crazy person. 

i dont think youtube requires any heavy capital investment other than camera, computer, and editing softwares and that is only if you want the professional grade. people can make youtube videos using shitty mic and camera and some freeware editing suite, spending just couple hours a week or they can go full blown wallstreet, throwing millions into it and do it as fulltime job.

 

Like everything, it depends on what you aim for just like people can sell lemonade with a low cost, kids styled lemonade stand up or set up multibillion dollar bottling factories to mass produce as if they are cocoa cola. Like bussiness do soft opening, the op can start small to see if there is an actual audience or not for his particular type of content. I dont mean he quit his job. youtube can be a good side hustle in the meantime. 

[Blue4130]

6 hours ago, wasab said:

i dont think youtube requires any heavy capital investment other than camera, computer, and editing softwares and that is only if you want the professional grade. people can make youtube videos using shitty mic and camera and some freeware editing suite, spending just couple hours a week or they can go full blown wallstreet, throwing millions into it and do it as fulltime job.

 

Like everything, it depends on what you aim for just like people can sell lemonade with a low cost, kids styled lemonade stand up or set up multibillion dollar bottling factories to mass produce as if they are cocoa cola. Like bussiness do soft opening, the op can start small to see if there is an actual audience or not for his particular type of content. I dont mean he quit his job. youtube can be a good side hustle in the meantime. 

Reread his post, he specifically said he only wants to do one or the other, no side hustle. And while the actual making videos might not need much financial investment, living does. Rent, food and life's necessities cost money. 

[wasab]

3 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Reread his post, he specifically said he only wants to do one or the other, no side hustle. And while the actual making videos might not need much financial investment, living does. Rent, food and life's necessities cost money. 

He can still do it. He just needs enough savings to ensure he can last until the business becomes profitable. You should note majority of new business losses money in their first year. In short, their revenues does not cover their operating expenses. Cash flow or not, business owner needs to pay out of their pocket to cover the shortfall of operating the not yet profitable  business and that is on top of their personal rent and living costs.

I used to work for a newly open cafe. For over 2 months, there was literally just a half a dozen customer per day. Pretty sure whatever revenue they made for these two months were not enough to even pay for electricity. 

[Blue4130]

1 hour ago, wasab said:

He can still do it. He just needs enough savings to ensure he can last until the business becomes profitable. You should note majority of new business losses money in their first year. In short, their revenues does not cover their operating expenses. Cash flow or not, business owner needs to pay out of their pocket to cover the shortfall of operating the not yet profitable  business and that is on top of their personal rent and living costs.

I used to work for a newly open cafe. For over 2 months, there was literally just a half a dozen customer per day. Pretty sure whatever revenue they made for these two months were not enough to even pay for electricity. 

He's a student. If he's a typical student, he's won't have funds to start a new business.