This is pretty much as off topic as I can get around here. Over the last few years I have enjoyed work about as much as I could but with having a little kid around and being married to a pretty busy doctor most of my prior hobbies (golf, first person shooters/online gaming, mountain biking) have tended to erode to the point of non-existence. I have a line item on my budget for golfing and gaming expenses and I have found I was using almost $0. During that time I also found that I was spending more time thinking about the future getting better when I should have been working more towards making every day better...so...I was on a night shift about 2-3 months ago and ran across youtube toy review channels. If you haven't heard of them before it pretty much goes like this...you obtain a toy, open it up, play with it and then edit/post all that content online, primarily to youtube. Some lucky people even make money from it (I'm not counting on this, but it would be a bonus...ok who am I kidding, I'd like to make money from playing with toys!).
As crazy as it may seem, I've spent quite a bit of time when I'm home planning videos, editing them, and playing with my daughter. I've been much happier to have something to do other than medicine and just hoping for eventual financial independence. I'm not sure about the eventual consequences of my project. We are accumulating a lot of toys and my daughter is going to grow accustomed to having new toys all of the time. We're planning to start donating toys to Goodwill, the Salvation Army and a few thrift stores that support homeless families and my daughter hasn't had much of a problem with the concept so far.
As far as money goes, I had budgeted for about 2-3 rounds a week worth of golf and seem to be staying fairly close to that mark when it comes to expenditures on toys. So I'm rationalizing that it isn't a crazy waste. I'm also encouraging my daughter to combine different toys to create new stories and to stretch beyond the single intended purpose of each toy (she's 3, so I only get so far).
I've also debated how to present myself online. We avoid using my daughters name. I'm never featured as a face. Lately though I've felt it would probably make for a better channel if I allowed myself to be included but I'm not sure if it would interfere with being an EM doc. If this thing took off, I don't really want a patient to come in and give me an odd stare and then say "You're that toy guy." What do you, financially minded, questionably youtube savvy people think?
As crazy as it may seem, I've spent quite a bit of time when I'm home planning videos, editing them, and playing with my daughter. I've been much happier to have something to do other than medicine and just hoping for eventual financial independence. I'm not sure about the eventual consequences of my project. We are accumulating a lot of toys and my daughter is going to grow accustomed to having new toys all of the time. We're planning to start donating toys to Goodwill, the Salvation Army and a few thrift stores that support homeless families and my daughter hasn't had much of a problem with the concept so far.
As far as money goes, I had budgeted for about 2-3 rounds a week worth of golf and seem to be staying fairly close to that mark when it comes to expenditures on toys. So I'm rationalizing that it isn't a crazy waste. I'm also encouraging my daughter to combine different toys to create new stories and to stretch beyond the single intended purpose of each toy (she's 3, so I only get so far).
I've also debated how to present myself online. We avoid using my daughters name. I'm never featured as a face. Lately though I've felt it would probably make for a better channel if I allowed myself to be included but I'm not sure if it would interfere with being an EM doc. If this thing took off, I don't really want a patient to come in and give me an odd stare and then say "You're that toy guy." What do you, financially minded, questionably youtube savvy people think?
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