Besides YouTube, do you still follow through your career in a regular 9-5? Or has this YouTube channel and convention production become your business?
ASKED BY · Eduardo Augustine · PANAMA CITY · 03 NOV 2026 · ▶ 00:51:01
He works a nine-to-five as a marketing manager at Teradek while maintaining YouTube and convention production as side projects; YouTube channels are not yet profitable businesses for most creators.
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50:52kids unless they lived on that rim of a canyon didn't get a chance to do as much yeah it's perfect perfectly sensible to me let's go on to our next question eduardo augustine in panama city asks besides youtube do you still follow through your career in a regular nine to five or is this YouTube channel and convention production become your business? I wish it became my business.
51:17No, I work a nine to five. I work as a marketing manager. I actually work for the company Teradek. And I'm still very heavily involved in the broadcast space, just not creating content in the broadcast space. So, yeah, I'm still doing the old nine to fiver. That's what life is now. Now you get to you get to do this thing, but you also get to do the thing if you can figure out the time and the mental bandwidth to do it.
51:45Yeah. Let's talk about YouTubers being rich. They're not rich. I don't know where that that started. Well, don't tell that to PewDiePie and a couple of people who got there really early and set up a whole thing. But, yeah, you're you're right. Suddenly, when there was 500 of them, that was pretty easy to do. when there was 50 million of them. A little different an environment.
52:09Let's go to the next question. This one's from Josh Kaufman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Which supposed must-haves can you drop from a show without much trouble, and which creature comforts have you found surprisingly necessary? Ooh, that's an interpretable question. How do you interpret it? I think he's asking about what things in the production should I drop. and what things am I, uh, like I'm comfortable with that.
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