The Retirement Newsletter: YouTube and Photos — hobby or side-hustle?

Issue Number: -84 — could you boost your pension income with YouTube and photos?

Photo by Author — Castle on a Loch, Scotland

Welcome

Welcome to issue number -84.

First, a big hello to my new subscribers.

I have picked up more subscribers in the last week than in the previous three months. No idea why. It must be due to my two recent ‘happy’ newsletters on getting my affairs in order and planning my funeral. Anyway, welcome, and please don’t forget to invite your friends.

This week, I will look at whether you can turn the hobbies of photography and shootings videos into a side-hustle and make some money.

Spoiler alert — from personal experience, you can’t.

Well, you can, but it is not easy.

Some background (and a disclaimer)

I have had a YouTube channel since 2012 and have been selling photos online since 2017. And that is ten years of YouTube and five years of selling photos.

So, how much have I made?

YouTube

My YouTube channel is not one of those popular entertainment channels. My channel is for students…