2. Before your youtube channel becomes popular to get noticed in a good or bad way, it will probably take a long time. Teaching code, being good at coding and being popular on youtube are 3 skills that dont necessarily overlap.
3. If you do get noticed, the (financial) benefits of it far surpass any developer job. And usually it actually help you to get dev jobs anyway.
Why? Youtube is a vast wasteland of videos, if people think that then your videos simply won't get many views, if people do find you insightful you will.
Unless you're specifically worried about the lack of low views maybe upload some random videos of you wandering around maybe even talking about random things first (because there's a trillion videos on youtube of people doing this already) so you get used to it.
I think most will struggle compared to a 6 figure salaried developer consistently bringing in paychecks.
His last php course I think he made 300k+. His latest css framework by my calculations netted him over a million.
His in previous refactoring to collections I think he made between 100-150k.
He recently down turn off all ads on his radioshow because he doesn't need the money.
Taylor Otwell has made millions from laravel ecosystem saas type sites.
Jeffrey Way doesn't disclose figured but based on user count and monthly revenue he must be pulling in at least 500k.
It's out there if you want it. Start a radio show, get opinionated, sell others on your vision. Then offer products to support your new vision.
I keep thinking I’ll come across as a failed developer who now has to teach for ad money because he can’t do anything else anymore.