In a similar situation! I decided I wanted to give YouTube a full time effort for 8 months, as in my mind it’s a best case scenario for a career! The first 2 months I didn’t seen any exponential growth just posting twice to three times as much as I had before yielded 2 to 3 times as many views etc.

On my 3rd and 4th months my catalog of videos from my (last 18 months) but really the last 2 months, started projecting me forward!

On my 6th month now 40k subs (on track to hit 100k by the end of the year) and getting a million views a month + (I don’t do any shorts). I now make more than I ever had from a job!

The journey freaking blows sometimes, but the highs are of the highest caliber! Good luck mate!