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Yeah, ask my 8 year old what he wants to be when he grows up and without

skipping a beat he says, "YouTuber!" At first I was like, get outa here with that garbage! but the guys that do it at the highest level make way more money than I can dream of... there is a guy whose gamertag is Ninja that supposedly makes $600k+ PER MONTH. Some of that direct from streaming revenue through twitch and some through endorsements.

We've held off but I will probably get my son into some kind of video production workshop or something. I explained to him that YouTube may not even be a thing when he's ready to make money but if he can learn skills that will have other uses, why not.

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Posted: 06/28/2018 at 3:45PM

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Yeah, ask my 8 year old what he wants to be when he grows up and without

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