How has Steem impacted my life: learning, growth, evolution and friendship.

Almost two years ago, I was one of those people who were browsing through the common social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), networks that undoubtedly have their usefulness but that, in my case, did not meet all expectations, feeling that something was missing. I never considered myself an experienced or professional writer. In my teenage days, I used to write thoughts and inspirations in what we called a diary (there were no computers or smartphones back then), it was a time when communications were more physical than technological. However, I always collected ideas in those notebooks that I took everywhere.

The time of technology arrived when I was almost thirty years old and I had to ride the bus of evolution and learning in the cyber world. It was time to learn how to use computers and cell phones, immersing ourselves in a different world that was both fascinating and intimidating, but which needed to be addressed to move forward. I got on and learned and started surfing, the conventional networks were coming out and one was just taking pictures and uploading them to the networks, socializing in a world that was starting to adapt to this new change.

I'm a bioanalyst, Venezuelan, about to retire from a job I've been doing for almost thirty years, with not very good expectations when I leave this working life, but with a lot of hope for the future because, I already know and am inside Steemit, that, changes my whole panorama. In Venezuela, generally, when you retire from a job you have held for many years, you start earning a very little salary, which, with the current economic situation, is not enough for a person's decent survival.

At the end of January 2020, I will be two years old since I arrived at Steemit. Like most people, I came motivated by the economic income offered by your content. I was not convinced that I could serve this purpose, however, I created an account and started to write, or rather, to try. My writings at the beginning, like many, did not get any kind of attention, I never fell into discouragement but, if it is true that, not knowing the handling of the platform and sail alone .without any known or defined course, made me lose some confidence in what I was doing.

It was then when I met @pavelnunez and its dynamic Twelve daily votes for my readers, where I began to interact and receive advice, converging later in a community known as @club12 and that was created by Pavel. There I started to interact in a group and improve my knowledge, all framed within a climate of teamwork, solidarity, constant learning and much evolution both group and personal.

Steemit is my passion, so much so that I practically abandoned the other social networks to dedicate myself to writing. Hand in hand with many good people, I have acquired knowledge and put it into practice, observing much improvement in my work. I love writing, I do it from the heart, and despite the great changes that Steemit has undergone in the last two years, I have remained faithful to it, here are great things and much future, good people who want to help and give you the hand on the road. I trust this platform and its future, so much so that I want to develop even more to make it using work and sustenance and so support me when the time comes to retire from my current job.

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