A registered nurse with 20 years of experience weighs leaving her job for content creation. Her online earnings often exceed her nursing salary, and burnout is pushing her toward the switch. She started a Substack in February for meal planning and notes most creators in her niche film with just an iPhone.
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I, yeah, about that comment. I think that there is a misconception that you have to have fancy equipment, fancy studio. There are lots of cooking creators in my niche that film on their iPhones, and they just have a lapel mic, and it works great. So I would say, don't let that stop you. Kind of where I'm at right now in my business is that I work full-time as a nurse. I'm an RN. I've been an RN for 20 years. And this is really the first year that I have seriously thought about leaving my job, my day job, to just go all in on content creation and all of the other things that I offer my audience. It's a really difficult decision for me, I think, because I tie so much of my identity to being a nurse, but I'm very burned out right now. And so, um, I know I can do it. You know, I have, I have made more online than in my day job most years that I've been doing YouTube. So that's kind of what I'm struggling with right now. And I started a Substack, like, I think in February earlier this year. I've always wanted to have a community around meal planning, and I've never really found the right place to do it. Until I did Substack, or until I started Substack. So