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Am I making a mistake? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by queenofwands37@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Hi Everyone,

The past few weeks I’ve been hyping myself up to quit my staff accounting job. I’m 26 years old and have about 32k in savings. I work remotely at a public accounting firm with an O.K. workload. Regardless of the hours, it can be stressful and tedious. I have firm boundaries not to work past 6pm when need be.

I feel the workload right now is manageable after a discussion with my supervisor, but my manager keeps talking about giving me more work for my “development”. I love accounting work to a degree but when the deadlines and monthly closes approach all at once I find myself holding my breath the entire time I’m working and even when I’m off I feel tense and burnt out.

I landed this job after graduation but I’ve had various jobs before this and even some managerial experience. It’s been about a year and half at this place. I live at home so my expenses don’t exceed a grand a month. I make around 70k w bonuses and such.

Now here’s my dilemma. I have a YouTube channel which I started when I was a teen. I’ve had several videos go viral reaching upwards of 15 million views. I have over 100k suscribers but I make practically nothing from the channel at the moment. Over the years, I have been uploading but pretty infrequently. I get tons of comments telling my videos have been helpful etc and to keep uploading (I make tutorials-don’t want to reveal too much on here). It’s truly my passion and I love it and have a ton of ideas.

I understand that I could do both and I have been lately, but it comes at a sacrifice (not spending time with family/friends, skipping the gym, not eating etc.) To be successful, I feel like I have to dedicate more than full time hours on youtube and branch out to other platforms. I want to give it my all for once because over the years school and other obligations were my priority.

I feel like the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward but I can’t help thinking I’d be a big idiot by leaving my “cushy” 9-5 job in this market and dwindling all the money I’ve worked hard to save.

Please give me your honest opinions 🙏

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[–] Gamernomics@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'd have a hell of a plan built before you pull that trigger. Content schedule/plan, monetization channels, drop dead date, and ideally the blessing of your employer to do this and come back if it doesn't work out. It's cool, it could be a lot of fun and you could make some money but as I'm sure you know there's a lot of folks that do this and crash and burn.

You're young, just have a budget and a back up plan.