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There are plenty of people who’ve been able to quit their day jobs after amassing a sizeable following on social media. However, one YouTuber has gone the opposite route by leveraging the channel he’s decided to step away from for the time being after it led to him getting a job offer from an NBA team.
A couple of years ago, a survey of 1,000 people who fall under the “Gen Z” umbrella found 57% of them would like to attempt to make a living as an influencer, with more than half of those respondents saying they view it as a “reputable career choice.”
It’s not hard to blame them when you consider countless members of multiple generations devote a sizeable chunk of their day to scrolling through various social media platforms while consuming Content from the influencers who’ve harnessed the internet to make a living or earn some extra cash on the side.
Many of those creators rely on YouTube as their primary form of income, and while that may seem like a dream job for a lot of people, one man with close to 60,000 followers is leaving it behind for a dream job of his own.
Keandre Ashley, the man behind Hoop Intellect, is quitting his YouTube channel to take a job with an NBA team
The internet has made the world an objectively worse place to inhabit for a wide variety of reasons, but it has also lived up to its initial promise by ushering in an era of unprecedented access and opportunity while demolishing a number of barriers that previously stood in the way of progress.
It’s become easier than ever for someone who has a passion for a particular topic to not only grow their knowledge base but share it with the rest of the world, and Keandre Ashely has spent close to seven years doing that while running Hoop Intellect, the YouTube channel where he’s posted more than 400 videos that primarily revolve around his ability to scout NBA players.
Those in-depth evaluations have helped him attract nearly 60,000 followers, but in his most recent video, Ashley revealed they’re going to have to wait a while for his next upload after he accepted a new gig: a scouting job with the unnamed NBA team that hired him because of what he’s showcased on YouTube.
You have to respect the hustle when it pays off like that.