Tales of a Steemian!

Once upon a time, (three months ago), sitting at a computer with nothing productive going on, I found myself looking for productive ways to waste my time. With accounts on paid to click websites, and pennies to trade I started off on a journey. I signed up for MinerGate. I fired up the miner, with bench marking completed I set out to mine a fortune.

The CPU was running 3 of 4 cores. I say back to wait for the coins to roll in. Slowly, ever so slowly they started to come, while I was waiting, I set up an account at Eobot for the daily faucet claims. I signed into my Poloniex account, and sat down to look at the charts. With no clue what they meant, nor how to read them ...

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Feeling like everything was heading in the right direction! Every bit of my free time was wasted, and when there was a little bit of extra time I would spend it simply trolling. If you don't believe me this is the corner I would sit and chat with others. Simply a digital troll, looking for time to waste! Everything I did was working out! But still there was something missing! One day I ran into someone who lead me to SteemIt. By the time I arrived there was a vibrant city, seemed like such a friendly place. Everyone was sharing their unique and creative stories with others in the city! I was received with such a warm welcome!

A Steemian was Born

It took a little bit of time, looking and trying out all the cool little tools needed to be apart of the growing city! As I have been using these tools and learning about other fun and unique tools that are out there, I been doing my part in helping others along the way.

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Much Needed Tools

• A great place to start looking for tools is SteemTools!
• For starters if your looking to upload an image, SteemIMG is a great place to go!
• If your looking for account statistics there seems to be a few great places.
  • SteemWhales you can also add just your /username no @ needed
  • Steemd just add /@username replace username with your account name.
  • Steemdb also just add /@username replace username with your account name.
  • SteemStats simply add you account and follow your activity.
  • Steemb just learned about today but has some great features.
  • Steem.Cool also just add /@username replace username with your account name, or type it in!

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Life as a Steemian

With the journey now fully underway, and just learning to swim. Found several other minnows in the same place. We have been fighting the currents, and working together, looking for any little bit of help we may be able to give others. With the evolution process in place, and the new challenges on the rise. Learning ways to find, create, or invent a unique post can be daunting, and hard.

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When I had arrived there we other who had arrived ahead of me, thus further along in the evolutionary process. When one looks at the chart and realizes how far they have come, yet how much further you have yet to go. The first step from "Man to Minnow" is now fully completed! Now I'm simply swimming around, my time is no longer spent wasted away. Now there are new tasks and thing I must do, and have found they are fun!

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So the things one does while swimming here range from the simple of curating, which is finding good posts to vote on. Next in line would be simple comments, ways in which we can interact with others here. And then the more complex, creating or own unique content. Now I have keep this basic as each of these areas does have and bring about its own unique set of complications. This is just the beginning, and the question now is simple: "To Steem, or not to Steem!"

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Thank you for reading, if you like the post please upvote, follow, and resteem!

Image Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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Thanks to @son-of-satire for this gif.

Thanks to SteemVerify.com and @elyaque