Hello,
This is my first post here in the community, and I would like to share my story. My first bitcoin experience was purchasing this new found gold for around $1 dollar per bitcoin. My last experience with bitcoin was selling it at around $10 per bitcoin. At the time I had 1000 bitcoin and this same 1000 bitcoin would be worth over 5 million dollars today!
Crushing quite frankly. The reason for the sale of my bitcoins at the time was a job loss and the loss of my fiance. I was working 60+ hours per week on the treadmill of work/life trying to keep up with everything around me. Society told me I needed a car, a house, a wife, children, and so many other trappings that essentially made me a slave to the system.
I LOST IT ALL. I lost my house, my car, my fiance, and eventually sold everything I had in an effort to start over, but this time I was going to do it differently. I decided I was going to release myself from everything that the world was telling me I needed: INCLUDING THEIR MONETARY SYSTEM.
So I had to get back on my horse and I would like to share with you how I did that so that others may benefit. When you drive a fancy Mercedes, have a large home, and a beautiful fiance and have had to work for all of these things often times they do not come easy without some sacrifice on the work side. Unless you are wealthy by inheritance you will have to work for what you achieve and often the work is very hard and a huge struggle that you end up losing other things in effort to keep up. You are in the rat race. Nothing is never enough.
So How did I learn to get off this treadmill of society? Here are the core steps.
- Get your housing situated as a first step. This is the most critical of all costs in everyone's life. My old mortgage was $2,450 per month USD, plus taxes, plus upkeep, ending up costing me closer to $3500 per month in total. THIS IS CRAZY. If you make over 100k per year in the US you will still feel poor paying this out. This is before food/travel/fun/ and any other expense.
Here is how I fixed my house situation. I rented the front of my home for 2 years and lived in the garage out back that was 600 Square Feet. I had no running water for 2 years (very rare in US) and saved up until I could covert my garage into a small real home. The cost was roughly 18k for a full conversion with kitchen and bathroom and I helped do much of the work myself.
Budget - Now I have renters in the front of my home who pay my mortgage and give me a small income each month of around $400 USD. This is a godsend. This means now I don't have to stress over work and making so much money I simply have to live lean and live on less. After housing food becomes the next big expense. Rice and veggies go along way and I feel much better without a heavy meat diet.
FIND WORK YOU LOVE - In the US near New York City $400 is not enough to live at all. So you have to supplement with some odd and end work here and there. But now that I have found this community I'm really committed to working here more and more. I can contribute my knowledge to the community and get paid out in bitcoin for doing so. I'm a huge fan of decentralized social media and plan to close my FB account and Reddit account because they have never paid me 1 nickel.
Find the finance who is willing to live with you on the floor of your garage! Find a woman who doesn't care so much about material things and loves you for YOU. Any man below will know that the power of a real woman who is behind you can help propel you to large heights.
I invite you to follow me and to join me as I embark on making contributions to this community. I want to share my experience, passions, stories, and life with others here so that I can leave my mark on the Crypto community. I want to prove we don't need this terrible system we have to survive and that we have been often sold a bad bill of goods that essentially has made us slaves to the system. I WANTED FREEDOM, and now I have that. My goal is to support the crypto community to no end, and ensure that people of the future can live freely and trade among each other WITHOUT THE BANKS HOLDING US AS SLAVES.
Please join me in my journey and befriend me. I'm just a guy living in a garage!!
-- WhatSnap