I have Had A Long Journey On YouTube

I been on YouTube since 2012, I didn't really take it serious, just uploaded random videos when ever. Then last summer, when I saw that YouTube can be a potential career. I started to take it seriously.
I set a schedule for what day I will post what. I did mostly gaming content, tutorials and vlogs. I did not know anything about how to produce good quality content. When started my channel. I have the worst equipment ever. PC is old, and can't run games well, the mic built into my laptop sucked, webcam sucked. I got A LOT of back lash for having a bad mic. I also made some mistakes when growing, I thought sub for sub was a way to grow.

As a small YouTuber, the one thing we want is views and subscribers. But you have to ask yourself, are those subscribers watching. I learned that I have to wait, it takes time to get subscribers. When I learned sub for sub is awful for your channel, I started a new. But I decided to make a channel for each thing I did. A channel for vlogs, tutorials, gaming. it took me 3 months to pass 20 subscribers on my gaming AND vlog channel. I didn't have a good webcam when I made vlogs. I didn't know a lot about vlogging. When I learned more, I decided to re film vlogs I didn't like the quality of.

it turned out that running 3 channels was a lot more work, promoting them all, posting on them all.

I went back to just having one channel. I may have a split audience. But running one channel is calming. But most people do not know this, and they are caught off guard. I want to stay on this path and not rebrand.

I don't expect to get big. if it happens, cool. I am in the process of finding a part time job. I would rather have YouTube to keep my a float, for extra money, the same with Steemit.

I hope this can inspire some new YouTubers. Think of it like a job, you could have worked a job for so many years, but unfortunate events causes you to quit your job/ cause you to find another.