I mean it seems cute. But the second an app or trend dies so do most of the influencers who made their bank with it. And the pay isn’t even from YouTube or Tiktok or any actual content they create, it’s from ads, products they promote etc. Not a very fulfilling job once you get down to it if you ask me.

Your degree doesn’t go “out of style”. About 4 million people graduate with either an associate’s, bachelor’s or masters degree every year. Have you even seen 40 new and flourishing influencers this past year? Those are the odds…not to mention the obvious bias some platforms have (tiktok came out and pretty much admitted to suppressing content from and underpaying black creators lol). So even the social media world ain’t a leveled playing field.

I’d much rather take my chance out here where, a lot of the time, your skills win over much else.