Hello, I’m chloe! I want to go to Harvard and become a lawyer but I also want to do YouTube. Any advice? I also want to have A fun lifestyle but still become a lawyer.
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2 answers
Ken’s Answer
Congratulations on being interested in finding the right career to follow.. It takes a special person to enter into a specific career field and meet the demands which that career area presents. The first step is to get to know yourself to see if you share the personality traits which make one successful in that area. The next step is doing networking to meet and talk to and possibly shadow people doing what you might think that you want to do to see if this is something that you really want to do, as a career area could look much different on the inside than it looks from the outside. When I was doing college recruiting, I encountered too many students, who skipped these important steps, and ended up in a career/job for which they were ill suited.
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Dan’s Answer
Those are two pretty diverse career paths, but perhaps there is an opportunity for you to do both. I follow a lot of YouTubers and do some video game streaming on the platform sometimes. One thing that I have found is that the most successful YouTubers are the ones who have a channel which is something they are passionate about. While you may not want to have a channel which gives out free legal advice, you could possibly start one that covers different aspects of the law.
Or perhaps you want to YouTube to be more of an "escape" from your intended career, in which case you can choose your niche to be another hobby or passionate interests of yours. Getting started in stream has become a lot easier, and there are some great sites and services that will walk you through everything you need to get started from soup to nuts. Some of the more important aspects include being savy with technology, have experience with marketing and photo editing software as well as video editing/streaming software, in addition to your personal experience that you will share with your viewers.
I wish you the best of luck in your journey!
Dan