I have a problem.. With people around me.

Does your father have any hobbies? Does he watch sports, fish, hunt, wood work, crafts, garden work or anything similar? If so perhaps you could make him understand that this is one of your passions/hobbies as well and that its healthy to have hoboes... PLUS theres the experience you're gaining and the possibility or making money is there as well.
 
I get taken the fun out of by my work colleagues!

Once I went to a pretty large meeting at work, walked into the meeting room where everyone was already present, to find one of my videos playing on the large projector at the front of the room! Everyone laughed as soon as I walked in! Was pretty embarrassing!

However, they soon pipe down once I tell them I'm making some money out of it! Once they hear that they are all pretty interested in asking me how I got to where I am so far! Lol

Bear in mind youtube is something I do on the side when I get time at home, outside of work, and away from the kids!
 
First, let me just say don't give up doing what you love. If you love making videos, then continue to follow your passion on YouTube regardless of what people say or think. At the end of the day, you are the one who is in total control of what you do with your channel. Your mother supports you, you have more support here on YTtalk, and your subscribers too. It's better than no support at all. Keep going and have fun. After your hard work, the money will come soon.

With my story, I did not have much support either when I first started my YouTube channel. My mother and family on her side, thought YouTube was a waste of time making beauty tutorials, haul videos, and talking into a camera in public. My dad and family on his side love what I do. They enjoy my videos. As well as my godfather, and my little cousins. My godfather even bought me my first vlogging camera, because I used to do all of my vlogs through webcam.

Now, that my mom and family on her side see how well I am doing, they support my channel. They see that brands are interested in my channel and my blog, beauty brands contact me to review their products, and I am gaining support from the beauty community here on YouTube. They see that I am happy and passionate about what I do, thus they want to support me.

Things can change in an instant once people start seeing how happy you are
 
Making videos is a lot of freaking fun. I don't think that most people on youtube that make videos do it for the money. Unless they have really started to get a lot of people liking their videos that is.
 
Alot of good storys/advice here. i have to say that im happy so many of you answered on this post, and its gives me some relief that hopefully one day more people will get better understanding of what im doing and what i love :)
 
Nobody in my entourage knows what I do, I know my parents very well and they'll start bothering me and joking around about it in family reunions and such. All my recordings are done whenever I'm home alone. I guess eventually I'll have to tell them, but not for now.
 
I prefer not to tell people around me that I have a channel in Youtube and upload videos there. Nobody, except my parents, know that I'm gamer.
 
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