It strikes me that in order to create what I’d like to create I need to be able to generate passive income. Or at the very least, minimal effort, high return income. The best way of doing this appears to be starting a youtube channel. To monetise your videos, you must have 1,000 subscribers and over 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months. I already had a channel with over 1,000 subscribers, so i’ve just rebranded that one, taken down the old videos and uploaded the first new video. The videos will just be funny clips with a voiceover. I should be able to upload every two days fairly easily. Regular uploading, I’ve heard, helps you rank higher in the algorithm. All I’d need to get in 4,000 watch hours and I could start monetising the videos. If I work one hour every two days to make the videos and they eventually become monetiseable, any effort made after that point wil slowly be making me money. In theory, the channel should slowly grow and the each video will make me money in the background. These videos never stop making you money, and are have been dubbed ‘evergreen’ income streams. The more videos I upload, the more money I will make each month because of compound interest. Editing is a skill I already have, and it’s not completely bereft of creativity, so this may be a viable strategy moving forward.