- Joined
- Sep 21, 2014
I get it. Most professionals are in average positions earning average money in their field and if they can find the right audience they can make a lot more money streaming, at least for a while. It's not generally a long term proposition, though.I generally take a very dim view of people who have professional degrees or implied expertise, but rather than work in their field, they are doing social media or whatever.
Whether it's a doctor, lawyer, engineer, contractor, plumber, etc and they are doing the streaming shit instead, I question their ability.
Nick was surprisingly honest about his intention to make enough money from streaming to be able to give up practising law. It was always clear that he wasn't someone who loved law. For a while it worked. He was never going to be a million dollar a year lawyer but for a brief moment he was a million dollar a year streamer.
Nick failed adapt or to recognise that it was his content, rather than him, which drew viewers. He failed to recognise that the audience appetite for frequent, long streams was gone and that people would much rather watch several streams from different creators.
Precious few professionals will ever have a long term streaming career just like precious few ever become media legal or medical commentators and even less get their own show.