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RE: 600 Published Posts Later: I Guess I'm Here to Stay - Even If I Go Away
Eight hours would probably be selling myself short. I produce the art, I write the words, plus I hang back and attempt to respond to the comments after. There were days here when I'd spend four hours straight continuously responding after I spent however many hours working on the post. It's hard to pin point or even average the amount of time I've spent on this. Thousands upon thousands of hours. Far more than a full time job.
Ok, so using 10 hours per post (allowing for the comment replies) that would be 6000 hours. Broken down into 22 months would be 272.727272 hours (I had to carry the decimal out so far to show it was a repeating angel number) per month.
That comes out to an average of 62.98 hours per week. I better never see anyone complain if they compare your post payouts to theirs. It is obvious you love what you do, and I applaud you have found a way to monetize it, especially since you are underpaid for it.
Some did complain and to add insult to injury they buy votes so my work isn't seen. It's much like flagging. Instead of flagging to make my work invisible, they buy votes and push it down the list. I could get a job doing this and earn more but I'd be creating for someone else and their ideas. Being independent and no middleman, getting this far; phenomenal. Things would be better though if others didn't step all over it.
I really get this. Being self employed much of my life, I have had many weeks I put in 70-80 hours and averaged less than minimum wage. But it was worth it not to be degraded and pushed to some inhumane level of production. Hopefully Steem will one day really break out and you will find a handsome payoff worthy of the time you invest here. I know everyone is talking SMT, but the latest thing I have been hearing about will do great things for Steem if it works out well.
Steempress is connecting Wordpress sites to the blockchain, and this could be amazing if they make sure to get hacking bugs out of it. Much better than Disqus where you don't get paid. This could revolutionize blogs (and Steem) if bloggers decide to do away with the ads (that get blocked by most anyway) and allow commenters to pay with upvotes.
Anyways, am rambling now. Have a nice night.
I'm saving up and hoping things take off. This account and my efforts seven months ago were worth over 200k Canadian so here's to hoping!