There are niches that are pretty secure, look at this https://www.youtube.com/c/WickedGamerCollector/videos it's a 5 years old channel, and all what that guy does is product review, that's all Video views range between 2.5 and 920k -> for a 11 months old video (click on "popular videos") On his latest video he made 3.2k views in 16 hours On another, he made 15k views in 2 days It looks like he makes 10k views a week on average, per video, and makes a video a day https://launchkit.io/youtube-earnings-per-view/ You can reasonably expect $3 to $5 per 1000 views So the lower estimate is something like 30$ per video, with a video a day it gives us ≃ $200 a week, so $800 a month With the higher estimate ($5) it's $1400 a month And again that's for 10k views, I'm not getting into the videos getting a million or half a million views accumulated over a 11 months period ... Now regarding "job security", it's not less secure than burger flipper So, between that and flipping burgers, what's your pick? /s