Being a content creator can be pursued as both a full-time or part-time job, depending on your goals, circumstances, and level of commitment. Let’s explore the considerations for each option:
Full-Time Content Creator:
Dedication: As a full-time content creator, you have more time and energy to invest in creating and publishing content consistently. You can focus on building your brand, expanding your audience, and improving your skills.
Income Potential: With more time and effort dedicated to content creation, you have a higher potential to earn income from various sources such as ad revenue, sponsorships, brand collaborations, merchandise sales, and affiliate marketing.
Flexibility: You have the freedom to manage your own schedule and work on projects that align with your interests and passions.
Challenges: Generating a stable and sustainable income as a full-time content creator can be challenging, especially in the beginning stages. It requires consistent effort, creativity, and adapting to the ever-changing digital landscape.
Part-Time Content Creator:
Flexibility: Creating content as a part-time job allows you to have other sources of income or pursue other professional commitments alongside your creative endeavors.
Reduced Pressure: Since content creation is not your sole income source, you might feel less pressured to produce content on a strict schedule, allowing you to focus on quality rather than quantity.
Skill Development: Part-time content creation can be an avenue for you to explore your interests, improve your skills, and experiment without relying solely on it for financial stability.
Limitations: With limited time available, growing your audience and monetizing your content might take longer compared to being a full-time content creator. Balancing your commitments can also be challenging.
Ultimately, the decision to pursue content creation as a full-time or part-time job depends on your financial situation, goals, and willingness to dedicate your time and energy. Some creators start part-time and transition to full-time once they have built a solid foundation, while others prefer to maintain it as a side passion. It’s essential to evaluate your personal circumstances and make a choice that aligns with your aspirations and lifestyle.
From my last blog “Content Creator vs Regular Job”, I mentioned the difference and its similarity and it turns out being a content creator is not a job but a career. Now can a content creator be a fulltime job? Yes it can, but like any other career there are cons and pros. Let’s try to list down the cons and pros base from my POV experience and know how.
Income or Salary:
We all know that having a regular corporate, factory or the like job also has a regular salary. Maybe more maybe less but still you have a regular salary every month, week or day depending where you are employed at. Now I’m talking about here in the Philippines, it may differ from your country or the job setup you have. You might be in the Philippines but your employer or client is in the other part of the world.
For example, I have a regular day 8 hour shift 5 days a week work, salary is good with government mandatory benefits (that for me is not enough to call benefits to be honest). But having a family of 3 children it’s not enough even though my wife also has the same job setup but a little less salary compared to mine. Still I have to side hustle to pay other liabilities and expenses. You might think about our life style, no were not that lucrative and luxurious about money, just imagined if 3 of my children went to school at the same time (Senior High, Grade school and Kindergarten) and let say they are all in public school still the cost of fare ride, the money they need going to school (we call it bacon in Tagalog), there morning breakfast and snack needed to bring and many more that we you can think of if you have children or nephew or niece going to school.
So, you need to consider having a good salary or income to make content creating as a fulltime job. Starting to be a content creator is a little bit easy as far as my experience is concerned but maintaining it and keeping it is another story and that will be in our next list “Time”
Time:
Let me ask you, who has time? We have 24 hours a day, then you need less hours in there to live, like sleep that is 6 – 8 hours at least, then eat let say 15 mins to 1 hour depending what meal you eat (Lunch, Dinner, etc). So you have less than 9 hours already in 24 hours. Now how about work, let’s say for example for me, 6 hours ride back and forth from home to office and vice versa, and the 8 hours work shift. In total I burned 23 hours already in a day, I did not include family time and time to myself, for that I sacrificed my sleep. I will take 2 to 3 hours of my sleep time and that will leave me 4 to 5 or less hours of sleep. Still enough as most of you will say but hey this is my regular routine 5 days a week, not mentioned the weekends. Some will say you can be with your family on weekends. It’s true but as mentioned about Income or Salary I don’t have the luxury of that. I need to do my side hustle on the weekend with the same routine as the weekdays.
So, consider managing time before getting into content creation. Because for me being a content creator is more of a challenge rather than hard work. Effort is one thing but keeping it level up from the others is another. If you become stagnant in your content creation, in due time your audience as your client or employer (As I mentioned from my previous blog) will see it as boring or repetitive, eventually they will stop enjoying what you’re doing or uploading on the internet. Now do you think you have time for it?
Know how or education:
Before you can lift your eyebrows or smirk a little, hear me out. Just about any other job you need a know-how in this field, that is why some jobs need at least days or months of training before you can start on your own. Education for high paying or professional jobs like doctors, engineers and the like. Being a content creator, aside from ideas, skills and experience at least you have education or know how about your content. You have ideas but how can you elaborate or expand those ideas? You have skills, but how do you earn those skills? And experience, but how do you go about your experience? They don’t just pop-out out of nothing, either you watch videos or content from other content creators or inspired from it. You read books or read articles and make out of it or experiment on it to gain more experience.
Content creator as a full time job? Yes, is it for everyone? Yes, but you really need passion and dedication for it. Because you might always hit a wall before you can hit the jackpot. Don’t take it from me, I still hit the wall but take it from another successful content creator that already hit the jackpot. There is a lot of trial and error in this field and there are no published books or manuals that can guide you in the right direction. It’s all up to you.