I was thinking...

I was thinking a few days ago about these kids that start their careers on YouTube. The ones who have never worked outside of the YouTube realm. The ones who didn't continue their schooling. The ones who if for some awful reason or another YouTube shut down, would be left having to go out and find other work outside of social media. Many of these kids and some adults that don't qualify as kids anymore don't have anything to use as references for jobs.

Employers will not be able to accept an uneducated person who says that they have worked on YouTube for X amount of years. There would be no way of proving that the maybe employee is telling the truth or not. And if YouTube failed to exist any longer an employer wouldn't be able to go and see for themselves. The only thing I could think of to solve this problem would be tax returns as proof. But what about the smaller influencers that don't have the 5,000,000 followers? There are so many people on YouTube paying their bills from that platform that have never worked outside of it a day in their lives. What are they going to do?

Now there are many YouTube influencers that do have schooling to fall back on and some with outside jobs. And some who are married with spouses who work outside of the home and make good enough money to get by without a problem. But I am talking of the ones that do not fit this category. I find myself worrying about the ones that do not fit into this category. There will be a surplus of people unemployed and searching for work. Causing unemployment to go up and up and up. People losing their homes because they will not be able to find work.

Some individuals have put all their eggs (so to speak) in one basket. And if that basket was to fail them, would they know what to do? How to go about living outside their sanctuaries behind the camera.

I think I started thinking of this because my daughter asked if she could start a YouTube channel. After much thought, I told her she could, BUT when she was old enough to go to work no matter how well her channel was to do or not do, she would have to get an outside of the home job. Even if it is just part-time. That way if YouTube were to fail she would have outside of the home, work experience. And it would be mandatory for her to continue her schooling. Which she didn't have a problem with being that her end goal is to become a doctor. YouTube is just something for her to do to pass the time.

Back to employers, I use to be an employer. If I had three possible employees for a job, one is a person that was on a platform with no past work history outside of that platform, or a person that had a work history from a different employer, or a person who had an education and past work history outside of social media. I wouldn't give the person with no outside job history or education the job.

When I was a kid all you had to really worry about was graduating high school. Now you have to have some kind of college degree to run a cash register. It's crazy there are barely any jobs that a person qualifies for now if they don't have a high school diploma with two years of college and a work history (outside the home).

But people want to judge the poor because they are not doing as well as others. That's because the way things are done here in the U.S. is really messed up. Did you know that in most Europian countries college is free? If not free extremely cheaper than it is here. There was a whole life insurance policy put on my daughter, not in case she died but in case she lived. I know that sounds really screwed up. But, I can't afford to put her through college. I'm a single mom on disability, I will not live in low-income housing while I can still afford not to. Not that I have the nicest house in the neighborhood, I don't. I don't even have central heat.

Before I became disabled, I was middle class and never thought that I would be below poverty level again. I raised from below poverty level when I was a kid. Unfortunately, I didn't know to invest my money wisely. So what back up I did have, is long gone. I don't receive child support, that's because also, unfortunately, my daughter's father made a few wrong choices and ended up in prison after I left him. He will be there for a very very long time.

All I want more than anything else in this world is to be able to go back to work. Realistically that will never happen. I miss work so much I stupidly cry about it...every day. I loved my job, I loved it until the final day. I wish there was a job I could do. Unfortunately, there are no jobs that I can qualify for.

But on a positive note. I didn't do my taxes last year (renters rebate, lol) that way I could add them to this years and be able to buy a car. Which then gives me the opportunity I need to be able to start up an eBay store. I have one now but I don't have much inventory because I don't have a way to leave my house. And I don't know anyone within 100 miles of me. So for the last year, I have been studying about resale. So maybe next year if I'm lucky enough I'll be able to make enough by the end of the year to get myself off disability and make enough to pay taxes again. Then move into a house that has central heat...at least, lol.

At least that is my goal. It is just realistic enough it might just work. Fingers crossed!!!

But while I am waiting and doing everything that I need to, to accomplish this goal, I will be on here uploading my thoughts about anything and everything. Till next time, keep on keepin' on!!!

Oh!!! Remember today is a voting day, so those of you that vote go out there and do it. We all have opinions and as of right now in the United States we have the freedom to state them. So let us keep that freedom!!!