So whilst I shatter my child's dream I sit and reflect on the whole conversation and I wonder how I got here. Discouraging my son to see ' youtube channel dude' as a career I found myself in full on rant. It went a little something like this,
You can't gamble on such a thing as fame and being noticed Charlie, it's too fickle. People get bored too easily these days. If you are not doing something new and different or ' trending' you don’t get noticed! That’s a lot to gamble with. You get 12 years ( total guess work) at school. Why waste ( yes I said waste) your time on ' after school I am going to be a youtube challenger!' !!
How about use that 12 years to learn something you can always keep. A trade. And get really good at that passion while keeping the youtube thing as just fun!
Charlie, he argued his point in a valid manner but I wasn’t listening and so I went on ranting...
Its just not worth the gamble Charlie, because then you have 12 years you can't get back, probably hundreds of pounds down from trying to get noticed by a sponsor, waiting to see if someone comes across your page or channel!
I wrote a book Charlie! ( you can hear me say that with such emotion) I have a book on sale on amazon right now! But fuck if not even my own kids ain't got my website or blog saved on their favorites! None of family look at my writing!! You don't read my blogs Charlie noone does I could say what the fuck I wanted and no one is reading! And money? I think maybe I brought even on spend out to money back! In fact Charlie and it has been 3 yearsssssss since I' ve seen a cheque from amazon! The only money I made back from that was what my family brought!!
And step out for some air.....
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