Re:My YouTube Earnings
by hinkley on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:30PM
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He claims $90 an hour which sounds good but that ends up being the gross income. His net is 22.5% (150/664), and the hours he's quoting for working on a video are either wrong or insane, because he's claiming to be working for 17.8 hours a day which either means pernicious sleep deprivation or sitting at the computer every waking moment except to pee and eat food that takes no time to prepare. If it's really 100 hours per video 65 videos a year he's making just over $20 an hour which is is just madness.
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It's not 65 videos per year. It's 65 videos total, since December 2017. So divide your numbers by five.
Ah, so then it's $150k a year for less than 25 hours a week. Good work if you can get it.
Re:My YouTube Earnings
by quickthrower2 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:27AM
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You can earn a similar deal by getting a part time tech job
and buying lottery tickets with some of that.
A part time tech job that paid 150k per year seems dreamy. Is this a real thing? If so, where do I look? What if I'm not risk averse, do contracting gigs that net 150k a year exist? Are they attainable to jr devs?
Only if you live in the Valley, where the house prices are so high you’ll swallow your tongue or just laugh yourself to death.
There are people who contract and then just take a few months off between contracts. If you can work the health insurance it’s okay.
I think there’s a world where contracting houses have certain specialized individuals who work 15 hours a week on three projects, but if those places exist I haven’t worked for any of them. In that hypothetical environment you should be able to get 30 or 20 hours a week if you wanted. Or 55 for that matter.
Re:My YouTube Earnings
by quickthrower2 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:59AM
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What I meant is: getting success on youtube requires a lot of luck. Instead earn $60k part time and spend half of your take home on lottery tickets to get the same success/probability distribution as youtubing!