The success, struggle, and hustle of Tanya Khanijow - Travel Vlogger and Indian YouTuber.

 Introduction

"Travel, trek, tour" three words that completely unfold Tanya Khanijow's passion for traveling. From engineering to traveling, from photography to film making, from quitting her 9.00 to 5.00 job to choosing YouTube as a full-time career, Tanya Khanijow's success story and life journey is the inspiration for a lot of young hustlers. Tanya Khanijow is a Travel vlogger, Indian YouTuber, filmmaker, content creator, and social media star. And here is Tanya's journey of converting her passion into a profession.


Early life And education 

Tanya Khanijow is based in the Indian city of Dehli. Being an army kid she has completed her school education from 9 different schools. So since her childhood, she was exploring different people and places.  However, due to this, she has to face a few challenges like when Tanya moved to a new public school during class 11th she has to struggle a lot to find new friends and that was a very difficult phase of Tanya's life. After that, she completed her engineering from Dehli College Of Engineering. While growing up Tanya was very fascinated by the idea of being independent and this somehow driven her to choose solo traveling as her career. 


Tanya's Travel Tale

Tanya started traveling during her college days when she was just 19. Tanya is a girl who has always loved adventure, new cultures, and different experiences. Even during her college days she enjoyed traveling a lot but being a pragmatic girl Tanya thought that she must need to have an action plan for her life because traveling cannot be her career. So she got placed just after her college in an advertising company as a business analyst. But she didn't stop traveling. Even during her cooperate job Tanya always manages to travel to new places at least once a month. That's how her passion for traveling remains alive. Gradually Tanya started posting pictures of her traveling on Instagram. And from here the whole idea of sharing her travel tales on social media came up in Tanya's mind.

 


The onset of Tanya's YouTube journey- The tale of taking a calculated risk.

Even though Tanya was sharing pictures of her trips on Instagram she was not satisfied. She has the urge of sharing the whole process of her traveling on social media. So while Tanya was on 4 days trip to Pondicherry she shoots her first-ever YouTube video. Well, it wasn't as easy as it sounds. It takes weeks of hard work before Tanya manages to edit and post her first YouTube video "Solo girl in Pondicherry ". That video received a good response and then Tanya realized that there are people who are interested in her traveling content. 

            Tanya Khanijow's first vlog

So after expending one and a half years at the cooperating world Tanya decided to quit her 9.00 to 5.00 job to follow her passion. She did save some amount of money from her job so she could survive the initial months at YouTube and afford to travel for her videos. And with her consistency, hard work and calculated decision, Tanya manages to replace her job salary with YouTube revenue in just 6 months. 

Today Tanya has 545k subscribers on YouTube and 164k followers on Instagram. This girl is an inspiration for all the people who wish to convert their passion into a profession.


Tanya's Advice to Social Media Beginners

"Once you start with anything on social media like blogging, Instagram, YouTube, first try to understand who you are and what kind of content you would like to create. Don't follow internet norms, popular tags, or sensational videos. After you start with who you are, the second phase is geeking it out and learning a few things about how the internet works. Get down to understanding the norms of the internet, like SEO, Instagram aesthetics, YouTube branding, thumbnails, photo editing, video editing, camera operation, graphic designing, marketing, etc. The internet is full of resources, don't ever be afraid of learning." 

- Tanya Khanijow

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