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Well, other than the pay I don't think it's a horrible situation. Seemed to work out well for the PhD student adjuncts at my college, but they were in an area where cost of living was dirt cheap.

I have a few videos with 10s of thousands of views and it does precisely jack.

You need a lot of videos with 100k+ views to really think about making decent money at it anymore. That's why so many creators have gone to patreon, twitch, etc. It's easier to get someone to agree to $2 every month than to get 500+ ad views(plus all the watched hours required to even monetize the account).

We've gone back to a period where it's better for a person to host their own site and generate money from the google ads on the site.(still hosting the actual videos off site ofc)

What are your most favorite interactions in Fictorum?(Any particular unintended interactions you feel were the best?)

Seriously, this is the biggest question I had about McFarlane, but I think it's mostly answered by his wiki entry.

In 95 his senior project 'life of larry' got him hired on at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked as a writer and storyboard artist, mostly on Johnny Bravo but also did work for other shows like Dexters Lab and also freelance work for disney on the Ace Ventura cartoon.

Anyway, about 2 years in to that is where the pertinent info pops up:

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Although MacFarlane enjoyed working at Hanna-Barbera, he felt his real calling was for prime-time animation, which would allow a much edgier style of humor.[2] He first pitched Family Guy to Fox during his tenure at Hanna-Barbera. A development executive for Hanna-Barbera, who was trying to get back into the prime-time business at the time, introduced MacFarlane to Leslie Kolins and Mike Darnell, heads of the alternative comedy department at Fox. After the success of King of the Hill in 1997, MacFarlane called Kolins once more to ask about a possible second pitch for the series. The company offered the young writer a strange deal: Fox gave him a budget of US$50,000 to produce a pilot that could lead to a series (most episodes of animated prime-time productions cost at least US$1 million).[2][20] Recalling the experience in an interview with The New York Times, MacFarlane stated, "I spent about six months with no sleep and no life, just drawing like crazy in my kitchen and doing this pilot".[21]

After six months, MacFarlane returned to Fox with a "very, very simply, crudely animated film – with just enough to get the tone of the show across" to present to the executives, who loved the pilot and ordered the series immediately.[2] In July 1998, the Fox Broadcast Company announced the purchase of Family Guy for a January 1999 debut.[22] Family Guy was originally intended to be a series of shorts on MADtv, much in the same way The Simpsons had begun on The Tracey Ullman Show a decade earlier. Negotiations for the show's MADtv connection fell through early on as a result of budgetary concerns.[2] At age 24, MacFarlane was television's youngest executive producer

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So basically he had a producer connection at hanna-barbera along with people he met(such as Adam West) that became resources and then did a huge amount of solo work on a pilot which rode King of the Hills coat tails a bit.

few different minors

As an Eagle Scout with a minor and siblings with double majors, I'd recommend avoiding getting caught up on minors or double majors. Minors are basically merit badge level of value post college but require way more money/time. Doing double major pales in comparison to doing a combo bachelors/masters degree that some universities have. If you want to take that many extra classes without getting a masters, identify course requirements for masters degrees, state professional certifications(Like CPA), or job specifications on USAJobs.gov and take courses for those. The personal value of undergrad courses gets pretty redundant fairly fast though, especially when reality hits that you don't actually have to be in school anymore and can be accomplishing major life goals instead of being in the education hamster wheel.