Nomad

Young generation is developing skills around AI, automation, digital skills like content creation, marketing, etc. I think old generation do not know how useful these skills are. I think a lot of skills are being lost such as photography (because there are AI tools to correct any flaws in your photos) or writing (because AI does it quick).

Frankly speaking, I haven't felt burn out much. That's because I work on the projects that I am passionate about and I take as much assignments, or as much tasks, that I can handle without stressing myself. However, if I ever feel overwhelmed, I engage in activities that I find relaxing, for instance, watching movies and TV shows, playing games, etc.

I have a simple rule, write what people are searching online, write on topics that are not much available but a lot of people try to find them online. However, I don't write to impress algorithm. I write for humans. Interestingly, if your content can attract human readers, search algorithm will also start pushing up your content.

I have been on a lot of writers' community and the one that helped me find some success was a Facebook Group dedicated to the writers writing on Hubpages. It not only helped me improve my work but also gain engagement. However, when I stopped writing for Hubpages, I also became inactive in the community.

These days I don't write a lot of articles as I am more focusing on forums and short form content. However, in the past I actively maintained a lot of blogs and I was also writing for many websites and clients. I was producing 2-3 articles every day. It was overwhelming.

Creating for algorithm rarely works, I learned my lesson hard way. When I built my SEO skills through an online program, I started writing SEO content. Few months later I found, none of my SEO content were raking well, they did not even appear on top 5 pages. However, most of my content that published before I learned SEO were performing well on searches.

I am not sure about groups as I haven't used them in a while, and when I was active on facebook groups they were either heavily controlled by admins or was being spammed by the users. However, based on my personal experience I can cay Facebook pages are still very useful provided you have a huge following.

The best option is to use Etsy. It specializes on hand made items. Etsy is also one of the top ecommerce markets based on traffic. Selling on etsy is also relatively easy if you invest in advertising.

It depends on what you are crafting. The material you use depends on what you are making. Also, your skills to make it. For example, you can make home made soap with few ingredients, it is sustainable method as there is a great demand for hand made soaps, but if you do not know how to do it, it becomes useless on your hands.

There are a lot of things that I did not do. For instance, when I started publishing on youtube generating 10k views was the only monetization rule but sadly, I did not pay much attention to publishing on youtube. I was using video editor back in 2013 but I did not pay attention to mastering video editing. I wish I learned video editing and devoted my time and effort on youtube. Maybe I would have become a big creator by now.

I use ChatGPT extensively, and I wouldn't call it underrated as it is widely used tool. From doing research to creating outline, content planning and even generating script, I use ChatGPT every day.

Frankly speaking, there is no one in particular who inspired me to create content. Well, I was inspired by my father to pick writing as a career but he mainly did journalistic writing and I did write for newspaper for a long time. However, as an online content creator I started on my own, without any inspiration.

Many years ago, I was an apprentice on Hubpages where I was paid to write. Since I was paid upfront I had a content calendar in place. I was writing at least 2 articles every week and it tool a lot of planning. When the apprentice ended and when they stopped paying upfront, I no longer had a content calendar. These days I create out of necessity and through a planning.

A lot of people tell you that reaching monetization threshold or monetizing is the most difficult path and once you reach there money will pour. Sadly, no one tells you ever after monetizing, making money is still difficult. A lot of people cannot simply make decent money as a creator.

I am at the age where I do not have interest in learning something just for pure passion. When I want to lean, I will see the commercial value, whether I can use the skill to make money. I have learned a lot o skills that are helping me to make money.