Mid life crisis?

Two points on the comparison

1- we should be comparing like to like... Top 1 %le influencers earning potential and top 1%le corporate jobs earning potential. The gap may reduce considerably when we look at the right cohorts :)

2- progression and longetivity: For influencers the progression might be exponential in the early days and then after a few years (5-10) might drop off from a cliff. Corporate progression gets refined like wine :), very linear in early years, can become exponential later on. Also you can earn for a longer duration (so better on longevity).

That being said the choice is ultimately about more predictable progression in corporate (some downsides are covered) versus having a larger risk appetite to venture into being an influencer (going all in). Both will appeal to different personalities.

This gives younger generation more options to follow their passions. They might need guidance and exposure to different fields to help them make up their mind. Ultimately the 10,000 hour rule should be used as a guardrail. Is it fun enough for you to invest 10,000 hours?

Mid 20s but feel the same way. The whole "focus on education will make u rich" seems like a scam. Tier 3 college chapri making bike vlogs are making 20-30 lakh a month easily with a 200%-300% growth potential while we sacrifice days and night for 15% hike which gets denied because of "macroeconomic conditions"

Ignore influencers, less than 20% of them actually make money from vlogs and YouTube. Even when they earn, it's usually not at par with any decent salary.

Economics of being a creator is skewed and very risky. Most successful creators end up starting businesses because their content earnings reach a ceiling eventually.

😔 not reached mid life but yea

I have same questions and can only hope that time restores some balance which is good for humanity

Many of the top so-called social influencers on insta/yt are making good money because of their quality content. For example, carryminati despite having less formal education still invested time and money to perfect his acting and mimicry skills. If you have seen his content, you can see him copying voices of Shinchan's hindi dub voice so well. BB ki vines is a good voice artist too, now he is giving voice for Takeshi's Castle on amazon. Chhapri content on the other hand, sometimes makes good money out of luck but at the cost of their dignity. Oftentimes they end up as a meme on the internet which can get them fame, yes but if they don't utilize it with marketing and management skills, they will end up as a joke. For the rest with average quality content, they make enough to continue or sometimes replace a job but not much. I find it similar to software engineering. Top tier engineers in top companies producing good code earn a high salary, average engineers earn average salary, others can survive with enough skills. I once read somewhere, "If you think education is costly, try ignorance." and I think this quote applies to every field very well.

Once a chapri always a chapri, personally seen some rando guy with iphone vloggin commanding vistara crew to allow him record videos of business seat without booking, when denied he had the audacity to call out this incident and say bad stuff on the face of crew, creating noise and giving bad vibes.

Impeccable quality dumbfuck indeed, without a single working brain cell.

Kids are exposed to online content very early which gets them hooked. Also, I believe the no. of well educated professionals with decent pay is significantly higher than the no. of influencers making the same amount of money. Just that they get more visibility

The success rate of being influencer on SM and earning something meaningful < the success rate of being good software engineer.

Donkey should be the king of jungle because they work super-hard compared to any other animal?