First Step on the Steemit Road

Hello Everyone

My name is Tristan Carmickle, I am a 17 year old high school senior. This is me!

Although I am still technically in high school I haven't been to school in roughly 6 months since the ~45 college credits I took my junior year covered nearly all of the credits that were left. I currently reside in Spokane, Washington with my parents and my step brother, who's the same age as me. Things here are quite underwhelming if I'm going to be honest, I wish I could say I enjoy the nature and irregular climate present here, but consequently with the low population and perpetually fluctuating climate there is almost never anything to do. Either that or because I would prefer to play video games over any of the potential alternatives.

My all time favorite of said video games would have to be League of Legends. I've played since I was 13, or Season 3, and recently my time played has ceased almost entirely. However, I do like to pride myself on the fact that I hit Diamond 2, 28 lp in Season 7. For those that don't play, that means I was roughly the top .1 percent, or ladder rank 4,000, of the ~2 million players in NA servers. Here is where I would include a screenshot but I was pretty confident I would be able to surpass that rank, until I plateaued and fell back to Diamond 5, so I guess you'll just have to trust me!

What Occupies My Time

If my time were a pie chart, it would look a lot like this.
I would like to think this pie chart isn't as depressing as it looks, because quantity of time used, doesn't effectly convey the quality of the time used. So even though writing is a pretty minor part of my life at 11.5% I still get around 2 pages of relatively high quality writing a day, and the time on YouTube is often spent on productive subjects involving other topics I'm interested in, which I'll elaborate on in a bit, as well as what I mean by "Work Related Things". Albeit the disproportionately small reading section is quite untenable, I just like to play video games more than I like to read, and since both are leisure activities I almost always go with video games (if you couldn't decipher from the pie chart).

Things I actually DO

I mentioned there were topics of interest for me outside of video games that one could argue as productive. A prime example of this would be real estate, which is a bit more work-esque than the other example which is my interest into philosophy, and psychology, and things of the sort -- so I'll go with the former. On YouTube there's a plethora of knowledge as I'm sure most everyone is aware, and within the platform I watch various people but mainly the two creators, Graham Stephan, and Meet Kevin. Both of which are realtors, both incredibly successful, and both put out incredibly actionable information. So within the roughly 20% of my time, a good portion is spent on apperception of the information given by the two.

Now on the whole philosophy and psychology bit, I'd argue this aspect is productive but significantly more recreational since it's a bit less mundane. Among those two incredibly vast subjects, the main thinkers I focus on would have to be Jordan Peterson, Carl Jung, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Of course I could go into the whole reasoning behind why these subjects interest me and one might even say, the philosophy behind it (here is your cue to laugh). But those subjects are far too vast to cover even a fragment of it in this introduction, but I can promise you I'll get around to it in the future.

And for the significantly less productive, albeit arguably necessary aspect of my life -- video games!

I primarily occupy my time with the game I'm sure practically everyone knows by now, Fortnite. I would like to think I'm relatively okay at the game, maybe like top 30% of players, since a large number of people playing haven't ever tried a game before. But there are also plenty of people better than me too. Either way, I really enjoy the game, since it offers the same dynamic League of Legends does, high skill ceiling, low skill floor. Which for those unfamiliar with the vernacular it pretty much means: if you're bad you can play, and if you're good, you can always get better. My in game name on both Fortnite and League of Legends is "Cooliofashizzle", feel free to add me I play quite frequently and I'd love to meet some of you!

"Work Related Things"

As a 17 year old, work isn't typically on the top of the list of concerns, but for me I would much rather hit the ground running instead of expect things to unfold in my favor. And anyone who knows me, knows that if in any situation something is left to chance, I'm the one with the short end of the stick -- but I won't let that stop me.

For now, I've currently purchased a drone, and a wide angle camera and the relevant accessories for the purpose of starting a business. The business is for real estate photography, primarily revolving around residential homes and commercial properties. In the future I would like to expand into wedding photography, or perhaps photography for events, or really anything that is potentially lucrative. But since this field is in its fairly nascent stages, drone photography I mean, the demand for it is quite high and the opportunities to be had are nearly everywhere. So for a 17 year old that would like to become a real estate agent, and move within the next couple years, and learn some new things, it manages to kill a lot of birds with one stone.

Another thing worth mentioning is that I'm going to purchase the relevant real estate course in order to become a real estate agent, as soon as I make enough from the business start up. And as I have a fair amount of connections in the field, and some necessary gregariousness, I'm hopeful for what is in the making regarding my "Work Related Things". The main reason I ended up choosing the fields I have is due to the flexibility it provides, which leads me to the next topic.

Why Steemit

My understanding of this platform is pretty minor even though it's been explained in great depth. I'd say my understanding is quite limited due to the lack of experience I personally have on the platform. But in what I do understand, I would say the potential of the platform in and of itself being based in cryptocurrency, and the efficacy of the UI and interactivity of the community, show quite a promising future for both the website and the community.

For me personally though, I would say that this would allow me to explore and learn a bit more about cryptocurrency, and provide me with a writing outlet which will likely help me to articulate my thoughts effectively. Also I more or less already write every day. Although my writing is generally pretty disjointed, I figured this kind of platform and community would enable me to put a place for my thoughts, but in a more articulate and reviewable fashion. Since usually I'm my only and quite frankly worst critic, I figured it might serve a purpose to expose my writing to the world, and potentially add some value to it -- ideally.

To You!

To everyone who ended up reading this far, I appreciate the time out of your day spent doing so. Hopefully this little introduction paints a decent picture of who I am, and who you'll see writing more posts in the near future. I would love to see some comments below from anyone who feels inclined to do so, discourse is always welcome. Also a shoutout to @shello for telling me about this website in the first place and helping me to get started! Anyways, I look forward to being a part of this community, and I hope you all have a good rest of your day!