So do you want to have a creative carrier where you are your own boss, and you'll touch the lives of other people directly.
Or do you want to train you whole life to sit in LEO half a summer to push buttons.
Makes sense to me.
Or do you want to train you whole life to sit in LEO half a summer to push buttons.
Makes sense to me.
Just like a career in sales. And while nobody really likes salespeople it's a generally accepted and potentially very lucrative career choice.
While there are definitely a lot of channels whose main purpose is to push products, there are tons of YouTubers that only do so to earn money and the value of the videos is elsewhere.
Numberphile does have product placement but calling them a drug dealer would be quite misguided.
"Youtuber" doesn't mean being your own boss at all. It means being a pretense for advertising, and having your sole source of income depends on the whims of a gigantic monopoly.
"Astronaut" doesn't mean "space adventurer" at all. Most of the time is spent in training and classes on the ground. Moreover, once you go out to space -- supposing you ever get to go, not likely -- you find that there's nothing there (that's what "space" means), most notably, no bars, movie theaters, or hot young people of your preferred gender. And the whole deal might be scrapped if the wrong political party gains power and slashes NASA's budget by 50%.
I'd put that as significantly more likely, not that either one is very likely at all.
You may not technically have a "boss" per se, but you are 100% beholden to Youtube as a company, their platform, and their advertisers. You absolutely cannot do anything you want, and you have little to no control of the primary means of accessing your content. The fact that people in this thread are trying to compare Youtube "influencers" to astronauts is absurd