Are you scared? Can you pay your bills? Why don’t you get a real job?
Those are some of the questions I get from both people in my real life, and you guys here. I’m touched by the amount of consern regarding my overall wellbeing during bear market, but sometimes I wonder why people keep asking that. If you are working a normal job, nobody asks you questions like that!
Of course I am scared at times, I don’t think I would be human if I weren’t. There are no guarantees about any of this, not the upvotes, not the price of Steem and not about the crypto mass adoption. We can hope and speculate but nothing is certain. The career in blogging I now have, is anything but easy and stable, but this is what I chose for myself, instead of ending up in a battle I don’t wanna fight in.
There are days when I feel like saying FUCK IT, fuck all of it, and cashing out everything I have in my humble portfolio of cryptocurrencies. I would take out everything (in 13 weeks), get out of the space and vacation until my money runs out, and then worry about having to get a real job. Luckily this feeling only lasts for a little while until I get back to my senses, and back to creating.
During last year, while I was still working on a normal job, I had the opportunity to stack some extra cryptos, which come real handy these days. In current prices, and the lifestyle I live, I am not making enough on posting that I could cover all the costs, so I have to dip into those savings to pay my bills.
I used to live a life where I was always thinking ”when I have the money/time etc, I will do this and that” but I am learning how to live life now! Part of that is in relation to money and using it. Sure I could get back to the kitchen and keep stacking cryptos for when they boom and then I would have a life of luxury, but I was so miserable in a normal job! I really do think if I were to do that, I would have nothing to give creative wise, and I would drive myself into a deep dark hole, which I couldn’t crawl out of if/when the cryptos finally land moon.
Steemit, other cryptos, and fiat are all meant to be used, that is my opinion. Currency is just a tool, if everyone just hodls, nothing good will happen to the economy. Using cryptocurrency as much in my daily life as possible and normalising them, is my way of trying to help mass adoption.
But what do I know about any of this, I’m not an expert in anything having to do with numbers and finance. I’m only doing what I think is best for me.
You’ll be the first ones to know if I deside to go back into the kitchen, but I will avoid like the plague for as long as possible. I have plan A, B, C and D before that, if the crypto well dries out. Wanna know what they are?
A. Get a job as a stripper B. Work as a high class prostitute C. Hook up with a random guy and get pregnant D. Move back home to live with my parents
I might be kidding, or I might not, you’ll never know until it happens.