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 ( ,
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?