Making money from Twitch or blogging is very difficult. I think youāll enjoy the process of blogging/āstreaming a lot more if you arenāt doing it with revenue in mind, at least until you reach a reasonable following.
For perspective: Twitch streamers make ~$3.50/āmonth/āsubscriber. If your job pays, say, $50/āhour, youād need 100 Twitch subscribers (which Iād guess would take months to accomplish even if your stream is polished and highly watchable from the beginning) to pull in revenue equivalent to working seven more hours each month.
(Of course, you may not be able to āadd hoursā in that fashion, but I still find the comparison helpfulāand you may be able to do some freelance consulting or something like that.)
This seems like a classic case of it being okay to have more than one goal. Your hobbies can be hobbies without having to be impactful; your work, if it is your primary source of impact, seems like a better place to focus if you want to boost that impact.
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All that aside, if you do build a strong following on a blog or stream, that can be a good opportunity to advertise effective giving, and it probably wonāt hurt donations if you mention that they go toward really good charities.* Iāve considered doing this if I ever open my own Twitch stream up for donations.
*...although, come to think of it, many people probably donate to streamers/ābloggers in order to support their work/āthe cool person behind it. So perhaps the charity angle would hurt more than it helped?
I think you hit the nail on the head about being okay to have more than one goal. Itād definitely be more effective to just increase donations through my day job.
An added layer on this is that Iāve enjoyed gaming since I was young, but have had conflicting feelings about it now that Iām older: Does this give me fulfillment and satisfaction anymore? Itās fun in the moment, yet itās fleeting.
Hence why Iām exploring Twitch and donating any profit from it. In hopes that I can make an impact through gaming, and feel fulfilled from it. Perhaps I just need to start and see how I feel as I go...
As someone who returned to a game from childhood and then began to stream it, I recommend the strategy of āstart and see how you feelā. Feeling obligated to do something regularly can suck the joy out of it if you arenāt careful, and it would be really sad for that to happen with, of all things, video games.
Making money from Twitch or blogging is very difficult. I think youāll enjoy the process of blogging/āstreaming a lot more if you arenāt doing it with revenue in mind, at least until you reach a reasonable following.
For perspective: Twitch streamers make ~$3.50/āmonth/āsubscriber. If your job pays, say, $50/āhour, youād need 100 Twitch subscribers (which Iād guess would take months to accomplish even if your stream is polished and highly watchable from the beginning) to pull in revenue equivalent to working seven more hours each month.
(Of course, you may not be able to āadd hoursā in that fashion, but I still find the comparison helpfulāand you may be able to do some freelance consulting or something like that.)
This seems like a classic case of it being okay to have more than one goal. Your hobbies can be hobbies without having to be impactful; your work, if it is your primary source of impact, seems like a better place to focus if you want to boost that impact.
*****
All that aside, if you do build a strong following on a blog or stream, that can be a good opportunity to advertise effective giving, and it probably wonāt hurt donations if you mention that they go toward really good charities.* Iāve considered doing this if I ever open my own Twitch stream up for donations.
*...although, come to think of it, many people probably donate to streamers/ābloggers in order to support their work/āthe cool person behind it. So perhaps the charity angle would hurt more than it helped?
I think you hit the nail on the head about being okay to have more than one goal. Itād definitely be more effective to just increase donations through my day job.
An added layer on this is that Iāve enjoyed gaming since I was young, but have had conflicting feelings about it now that Iām older: Does this give me fulfillment and satisfaction anymore? Itās fun in the moment, yet itās fleeting.
Hence why Iām exploring Twitch and donating any profit from it. In hopes that I can make an impact through gaming, and feel fulfilled from it. Perhaps I just need to start and see how I feel as I go...
As someone who returned to a game from childhood and then began to stream it, I recommend the strategy of āstart and see how you feelā. Feeling obligated to do something regularly can suck the joy out of it if you arenāt careful, and it would be really sad for that to happen with, of all things, video games.