Speedcubing as a career?

Can it be a career

  • Yes, today you can make a career

    Votes: 14 35.9%

  • In 5 years you could make it a career

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • In the next 10-20 years it could be a career

    Votes: 15 38.5%

  • Never ever ever could it be a career

    Votes: 8 20.5%
  • Total voters
    39
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Cheesestick

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There’s a 9 year old thread about wether speed cubing could be a career, which at the time was a no, but I’m wondering if the answer has changed since a decade ago?
 
Not now. But eventually. Currently, I'd say the only people that could make cubing their career would be Feliks, Max, and maybe someone like J Perm who has a big YouTube channel. But right now, Dylan isn't living off of YouTube, and none of the three are adults who have a family to take care of. Feliks and Dylan both have jobs outside of cubing, and Max is living with is parents
 
ProStar said:
Not now. But eventually. Currently, I'd say the only people that could make cubing their career would be Feliks, Max, and maybe someone like J Perm who has a big YouTube channel. But right now, Dylan isn't living off of YouTube, and none of the three are adults who have a family to take care of. Feliks and Dylan both have jobs outside of cubing, and Max is living with is parents
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What does jperm do for a job?
 
Once the sport becomes large enough then maybe it could be. I think the tipping point would be getting something like worlds or nats broadcasted on television, and from there it would really pick up. Right now, speedcubing isn't a job, but I could see it happening very soon as long as speedcubing keeps growing as fast as it has been recently.
 
i agree with everybody but cubing can always be a career it just at least rn cant make you all the money you need to life but you can always do what you like and it can be a career.
 
Cubing has been making the change from pure hobby to potentially a sport over the last decade which makes cubing as a career more of a possibility in the future.

I DONT think you’ll make enough money to support a family just being fast, solving, and winning competitions. I DO think that leveraging other skills and using cubing as a platform could be a decent source of income. Examples are Chris Tran using his scientific knowledge at the cubicle, Phil starting the cubicle, people with good radio/screen personalities with monetized content, etc.

My college roommate raced RC cars as a kid, became sponsored, kept racing and then went on the become a mechanical engineer for Team Associated designing the cars he raced. He leveraged his engineering knowledge to use his racing hobby to pay the bills. I think a situation like that could be possible in cubing but you’re going to need to be exceptional at more than just solves.
 
BLCuber8 said:
I mean, there are YouTubers making enough to live off of, I know for sure J Perm does YouTube as a job. I know these are the great exceptions, but the thread is about the possibility so,,, yeah it is a real possibility.
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Isn’t he in college though? Making money on the side is a very different thing than having a cubing centered career. I agree there’s profits to be made though
 
EngineeringBrian said:
Isn’t he in college though? Making money on the side is a very different thing than having a cubing centered career. I agree there’s profits to be made though
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wether or not he is choosing to, the man gets a little under 1/2 a million channel views a day, so unless his cpm is terrible, he is making more then enough money to support a family, let alone himself. Wow. I just read this again, and I didn’t mean to come off as snarky as it sounded.
 
Cheesestick said:
wether or not he is choosing to, the man gets a little under 1/2 a million channel views a day, so unless his cpm is terrible, he is making more then enough money to support a family, let alone himself. Wow. I just read this again, and I didn’t mean to come off as snarky as it sounded.
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Not quite. He's averaging roughly 190,000 views a day according to Socialblad (5.7m over last 30 days). Cubing is going to have a very, very low cpm because of the subject matter. Even still, he's probably clearing $2-$3k a month just from the channel.
 
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