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I have some free time after having been laid off, and one of the things I've though about is a video series where I go around the towns that Amtrak stops in between the big cities. The two goals would be to have it make money, and the long term goal being to increase rail interest in the US especially on tracks that already exist. I worry no one would watch it and I'm wasting my time.

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

And if its not going to make money, at some point I will need to figure out income, I can only live for so long on my savings.

That's two different questions. Think about it, we all have to figure out a way to earn money, right? No matter what we like or prefer to do on the side ;)

I'll stick with my book analogy: do you think a wannabe writer has any certainty they will get any money out of sometimes the years they 'waste' writing their first book? And how much would that be? In reality, most writers don't even earn the minimal wage—not every writer is a best seller.