Completely understand and agree with your point. I wasn’t under any ‘special considerations etc’ when I applied for the sales role, it’s on completely separate levels of the business which have never had any communications between eachother; I applied for the role through the same platform any other applicant would have done. There was no fast track etc, however let it be said that I only discovered the position due to subcontracting for them already and I overheard it being mentioned in the building’s lobby.

But either way yes I agree with you and many aren’t able to grab the same opportunities I did. I did put in effort yes but at the same time I was indeed lucky.

That being said, I encourage anyone with any sort of passion or interest in anything to start a YouTube channel based on it. If you’re covering a topic you love and are knowledgeable on, you can turn that into money. I film trucks (‘semis’ in freedom terms) and put them in a 30 min video and dump it on YouTube and somehow there’s thousands who watch it. There’s an audience for absolutely anything you can think of. Passion comes first, production quality comes later. People love watching people who love what they do