That’s what I was thinking. I hope her ‘employees’ are paid well, especially Mia… she seems to be doing most of the work at the moment!
I agree. I also think her attempts to turn her channel from a general "Youtuber/influencer/lifestyle" type of thing into an actual business- with a niche, the sex education, and employees- is pretty smart. It feels a bit weird because obviously nobody followed her originally because she's a sex educator, she just sort of turned herself into that after establishing herself as a Youtuber. But still, it seems like a much better strategy than just counting on your followers to care about your vlogs or general chatty videos forever. Becoming an actual educator (I do hope she continues her education, to give her content more substance) and running a business with employees actually opens a path for her to move into other jobs and careers beyond Youtube, should she ever want or need to.
Sorry, but being a working parent is hard, especially when you’re self employed. I strongly disagree that Hannah sounds like she resents Rowan, she’s just getting to grips with her new work/life balance.
"Pumping is fine but I hate that it interrupts my flow at work and one day I forgot to do it entirely" "I feel guilty when I'm looking at the clock counting down the time until I can drop him off and get on with work" I feel from both of these things she has said in the post that she does resent her child she seems so focused on work when her child is what 4 months old. I mean if you don't have the time for children nor the means to take off adequate time to spend with them then don't have any.
I think she’s someone who cares about her work and likes feeling in control of her work day. That doesn’t mean she resents her child. She also said she can’t wait to see him when it’s time to pick him up from the childminder.
I don't want to judge as I don't have children, but how much work does she have to do really? Someone mentioned she has an editor/scriptwriter for her videos, she is not working full (or even part I would think) time, I assume she has loads of time for him
If Hannah where a father not a mother I would say the same thing. I am also aware that in the US maternity leave if pretty much non existent and I feel for the women there who have to go back so soon after having children. I believe its unfair on the child that the child gets raised by a childminder cause the parents can't afford to take adequate time off especially for their child's first year of life which is very important developmentally. Hannah is self employed she decided to go back to work after 4 months I can't understand why she would rather work than be with her 4 month old baby.
she must have earned a lot on youtube though, someome I follow has 160k subscribers and talked about her earnings recently, they were about 4000k per month...... Hannah has a lot more than that, and even without making new videos people will be watching the old ones again, giving her passive income from that
Yeah, and if you are self-employed and have mat leave coming up I'd say it's normal to put some money aside for the months you won't be working (should your income allow for that, which hers does).
Lots of youtubers that I follow who have been pregnant and had a child prepared pre-recorded videos to continue posting content during their mat leave. Plus her employees could upload the content and keep on top of social media posts.
Empathy doesn't have to be a finite resource.Lots of youtubers that I follow who have been pregnant and had a child prepared pre-recorded videos to continue posting content during their mat leave. Plus her employees could upload the content and keep on top of social media posts.
Having a newborn is hard. I just have more empathy for a lot of other new Mums than I do a youtuber who makes what Hannah probably does
I completely agree with you I don't have much empathy for Hannah she makes more than enough off her business and now after 4 months has her child shipped off to a childminder and has multiple employees and says she doesn't have enough time to work. It's abit ridiculous.Lots of youtubers that I follow who have been pregnant and had a child prepared pre-recorded videos to continue posting content during their mat leave. Plus her employees could upload the content and keep on top of social media posts.
Having a newborn is hard. I just have more empathy for a lot of other new Mums than I do a youtuber who makes what Hannah probably does
Not sure why her comment on pumping means she resents her child? Pumping is so god damn inconvenient and annoying, for me the benefits for the baby only just outweighed the downsides. Even planning one day away from baby is a faff if you want to keep your supply up and not end up with bits like rocks.
