Would you like to be a full time steemian?
This is a question I ask myself at the moment.
To be honest I can't answer this for myself at this moment.
Does it sound good to write or with D-Tube now speak about the things you are passionate about and make a living out of this?
Yep, sounds pretty great.
Do I trust my ability to come up with content good enough fellow steemians will upvote on a regular basis?
To be honest, sometimes I am surprised how well my posts are doing. While there is often artificial votes in it ( @boomerang , @minnowbooster fe) I get an overwhelming support for most of my posts and I am very happy and grateful for this.
My $ average is around 14$ I guess.
So the first layer of trust is already weak.
But there is a second one. Do I trust Steemit enough? Will this platform be around in a couple of years? If not I would proof an unbelievable amount of stupidity to try to make a living with it, right?
Right!
While I trust it enough to put a good amount of my money in here, I dont trust it a 100%, hell I dont even trust BTC a 100%.
Despite there are some awesome opportunities to invest your Steem or SBD it is stll in the Steem-ecosystem.
But I trust it enough that I just powered up 1000 steem and I am looking to add more in the future.
It would feel a little to all in for me.
But I am also tempted to try it. Maybe as an experiment for a month or so. I am still waiting for my TenX credit card but it will not work in Asia anyways so I need to find another one first.
I think I want to try this experiment at some point in the future.
But I am also too young here to start this. As I dont want to go into power down modus I could only count the SBD a post makes as income which would be around 7$ than. That is not so tempting....
So I would a) increase the number of my posts (I guess 3 posts a day are still fine more looks a bit spammy)
b) increase the quality of my posts (well....believe me I am trying. I am just not very smart )
c) increase the engagement with fellow steemians (already on it)
d) this post will also be an experiment. I will throw some of my earned SBD in this post and I want to see if success creates sucess or maybe more fitting "Fake it till you make it".)
Or is it more one of those would be cool but I am not willing to put in the work kind of things?
I cant answer this with a 100% convinced yes but I enjoy it to express myself, to share ideas, my journey called life and sometimes even being lucky to inspire someone. As for now this is probably my best medium.
There is one thing which is not measurable with money
To be your own boss, work wherever you like is priceless and I am willing to earn less and take greater risks just to make sure I feel free.
All this things considerd I think I should not quite my day job....yet!
But maybe in a couple of months I will think about it again.
How about yourself? Are you thinking about being a full time steemian? Or are you already one?
everyone try to do somthing with his life more than just giveup ;)
that is true
wonderful post with some great points, I honestly love steemit and im hopeful with steem as a whole but for now i just love this platform as an outlet for me with great potential. But all eggs dont sit in this basket. Thank you for sharing, upvote, resteem, followed.
Thanks a lot :-)
I probably have too many eggs in that basket though :-)
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Some of us are not yet working, so steemit is our full time job for now by default.
I have not considered that
that makes steemit pretty great actually
Well, it is still hard for some of us, because since we are not yet working, the funds to get data to browse steemit is quite difficult.
I haven't thought about that. I have struggled to find a job since 2015. And its even harder due to a disability.
Sorry about your disability. How are you coping with life?
Alright for the time being. I do wish I was normal sometimes
Peace be with you.
Hello @flipstar,
I am happy to see this interesting post. In my opinion, steem is just a social media network and we just enjoy it. It will be a very good thing If in the meanwhile we get money. But it also make us nervous if we are purposeful.
In my country , there is a proverb "just try your hard, the God will give you what you want".
Well...I would disagree there.
It is a social network for sure but some people also have a lot of money invested in it (well to be fair you can do this with facebook and stock of course also) and with that and the option to earn it becomes more as just a social network.
For most people it will and should be probably a place where you can express yourself and exchange ideas with others. But as soon as money gets involved people will do crazy shit to earn it also.
I like that proverb :-)
I would like to Steem full time. I had doubts about it as I only make pennies per post. But who knows, the price of steem can sky rocket. I have gotten lucky a few times and earned more than expected on my posts. Its a work in progress. I'll have to keep grinding if I want to Steem full time.
Steemit success comes barely overnight in my experience and as you said it is a grind.
You need to connect to others and provide good content.
As the steem prce hopefully will pick up pace in the future and more and more people come to use this site the ones who establish themselves now will have it easier though
This is very good content! I just started to follow you and i upvoted your post 100%.
thx a l ot :-)
It's good to have other revenues of income and I know there are websites that pay freelance writers. Steemit is just a good platform to blog and earn some cash and experience.
Yes, as for now it is more a side project
Great post. As you now I've had a love hate relationship with this platform. But now that I'm suddenly getting paid for my work (not much) but better than 12 cents a post; I find it turning much more to the love side, I always thought it would be really cool to be a travel writer and slowly but surely I'm feeling as if that is what I can call myself. So for me things are slowly falling into place. So much of that has to do with the support of you and others with SP to make my efforts worth while. So I owe you a debt of gratitude. What has been your traditional source of income? If not for Steemit what did you or would you do?
i was playing poker and still am but not as much anymore.
that pretty cool being a writing traveler even if it just a side income.
Yes, I remember reading that about you. Travel writer, I think professional poker player, now that is cool!
Thanks for the boomerang buddy. I didn't know such a thing existed. :)
I'm actually a full-time blogger elsewhere that earns pennies and Steemit seems to pay the bills much better. So yeah, I'm spending more time here :)
Oh cool. Where you blog?
Here: https://www.ordinaryreviews.com/