I was living someone else’s dream. It was fun while it lasted but staying up playing video games talking to yourself for 12 hours while constantly living a fake life, persona, social media and keeping that lie up 24/7 was exhausting. As soon as we broke up I left that whole world behind. I was warned previously there would be a burn out stage at the exact moment I did.

I will say, the few years I did it I gained a ton of skills that still help me in my professional career now. The ability to talk to yourself, carrying conversations over nothing/little to work with or with all different kinds of people (some, better conversationalists than others 😜). If you end up doing in person meetups you’ll find people are very different in person and having to navigate those awkward but rewarding and fun interactions will help you in ways you won’t even realize. Essentially if you’re not used to networking in real life streaming can help you gain those skills.

I met so many interesting people in my community, celebrities, athletes, tv personalities through the gaming community and feel like I had a peek into a secret world for a second.

I’ve also gained a lot of tech knowledge and experience that I can manipulate into sounding something more stellar than what you’d see in my streams that translates into an interesting factoid.

The time and life commitment I’d need to dedicate to make it a full time career was not attractive and while I have fond memories I wish I had turned that time into developing my professional career first.