Over the years, YouTube has evolved from a platform for uploading videos to a social media platform where many have made and are making a career for themselves.
To create a career for yourself on YouTube, you need to make great contents that appeal to many. Upload high quality, informative, educative and entertaining stuff on your channel, this will drive traffic to your channel. You need to put in a lot of work to grow your channel first.
Aside YouTube earnings, once you have large subscribers and viewers, businesses will run to you to help promote and advertise their products on your channel. These businesses will pay you to do this for them. You can also advertise and sell your own stuff to your viewers which will drive in more funds for you.
What you need the most at first is to focus and put in all the work required to build your channel.