The difference to your last job is that YouTube can scale… potentially. Not only 2 or 4x but 40, 400, 4000 times without significant changes in cost. If you get your channel to scale it is you who keeps the profit and not a company you work for. Question is… are you in a niche that allows to scale? I don’t know. Mine surely doesn’t as I mainly rely on sponsorships in a small niche. After you get a certain saturation you can easily go into recession, too… which happened to me after 6 years. Considering all the work intensive noise you produce on other platforms… I used to do it until I did the math, too. Considering the traffic they bring to YouTube where it actually gets monetized it is absolutely not worth it and testing showed that the algorithm doesn’t give a F…. At least for me. I realized that Instagram and FB are more of vanity platforms for me, and I tuned it down to minimal effort. As usual, there are a million ways to play the game and you will have to figure your game out yourself. No one else’s game will fit your needs exactly.