Hello all, It's been just over a month now that I have been working as a full time steemit! This has been one of the most exciting and rewarding ventures I have ever had the privilege of working with. Today I am happy to talk about how I found steemit, got involved, bettered myself and how steemit has changed my life!
My journey with crypto currency started about three years ago when I found virtapay.com hunting for a way earn money after being retrenched. This is interesting because, although Virtapay eventually became Virtacoin, it was not originally a crypto currency. Virtapay launched around the same time as bitcoin but had a different system, a stupid credit card system and there own credit based currency called VP. Anyway eventually they got with the program and created there own coin, it was actually a scam in the end! However I am grateful because this is where my journey began with crypto and how I ended up were I am today earning a living on steemit. It's probably worth mentioning I managed to survive the whole GAW miners, Hashlet trend, anyone else have any Hashet's? Now that I think about it, GAW Miners had Paytalk.com with a up-vote system very much like steemit, interesting.....
Since then I have been making money online and doing part time jobs here and there. Currently BEE in my country prevents me from being employed because I am a white male, It's the law in South Africa believe it or not. I currently have qualifications as a Motorcycle Technician and in web design but cant get work. No worries I have steemit now :-)
Just over a month ago I was struggling with bitcoin affiliate programs, mining and HYIP just to survive. On the day I discovered steemit while I was visiting coinmarketcap.com. I noticed steem at the time, it was third on the list, so I investigated and the rest was history.
Very quickly after my firsts few post I got hooked, steemit became my new home. Then I made some cash for the first time and the effort really kicked in. Over the next week I spent most of my time learning, posting and experimenting with steemit and made more cash. By the second week I have stopped putting effort in the mind numbing repetitive tasks I had previously been doing and focused more on steemit.
From that point this is all I have been doing, I now eat, breath and sleep steemit! I cant help it!
I would like to say special thanks to @cheeta, @anyx @steemit @steemcleaners for all your support and a big fat thank you to the steemit community for reading and support my posts, I could never had done it without all of you.
Cheerz
That's awesome news, @bitminter Congratulations!
My goal is to work in Steemit full time. Right now my results are less than stellar but that comes with growth and time...and not necessarily because the quality of my work. It definitely helps to be on the radar of people who have the Steem power to boost one's post :)
@merej99 Thank you very much for your support! Just hang in there and keep on keeping on. I am following you now and will support wherever I can, cheerz :-)
Thank YOU @bitminter May the whales grace you with their presence after my whale song:
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LOL thanks you made me laugh!
Well done pal, I have following you for all this time. Keep it up I am happy for you and thanks for all the great content! Cheerz
Thanks I appreciate all the support you have given me much appreciated!
How do you survive on $0.01 cent posts??
@mindhunter Thanks for the great question. I really can't survive on what I have made this past week. After they incorporated the promote feature things changed around here and I am still working on figuring things out. Fortunately I have had a few posts that have earned a couple hundred $$$, I power-up as much as possible and I cashed out my SBD only, and have been surviving on this. I live in South Africa and with the exchange rates my family and I can just survive on $50 a week around R700.00. I currently have enough to survive for another 2 weeks so my hope is I will earn again soon.
Cheerz
Dude, you're not earning a living on steemit.
@ban485 Sorry I don't understand? Do you think I am talking shit or are you saying I cant survive on what I have earned so far?