Steemit was the reason why I graduated college, living normally. I used to be working and studying before (both full-time) to sustain my needs. Because of Steemit, it became an aid for me to support my needs as a student, a person, and as a member of a family.
But its never an easy journey. I used to be blogging before with few cents in every post. For two months, I have been earning cents but still I continued to find opportunities in Steemit. Along those two months of wandering Steemit, I realized that you should only not "blog" but also "interact" and "participate" in the blockchain.
That's when I found opportunities and a reason to Steem. Since Steemit became a blessing in disguise for me and I've seen its potential to help a lot of Student earning while studying (and learning). I hosted University campaign aiming to promote Steemit and at the same time what the platform is all about.
Then that became a stunt into my career. I started to get recognition from people with the tremendous effort we've put to promote the platform to the university which was fruitful. Many student-steemians are now blogging in Steemit and has been earning in the platform to support their needs.
Steemit can be more than that - Empowering communities. Once everyone Steemit Inc. planned will be set upped (both Hivemind and SMT's), the true value of community/blogging/opportunities will exceed beyond expectations.
So even the price has been dumping really hard, I still have high hopes of Steem as a currency that will revolutionize the social media industry and give opportunities to people tokenizing their own businesses.