What a year so far.
It has been a little over a month since I returned to Hive, or rather, found out about most of the Steemit community moving to Hive. A little over a month since I decided to quit my job.
I've been in this place before. Burned out, job quitter, blog starter, or in this case, blog restarter.
I'm less anxious this time around. The future, again, is wide open, but this time, I have experience.
The last time, around 2017/2018, I quit my job and wasn't sure what the future had in store for me. I wasn't sure what I would do with the rest of my life or how I would contribute to our income. I wasn't healed, hadn't regained my energy and I thought I'd never work again. I found Steemit and I blogged. I found some enjoyment in baking and some challenge in baking healthier (less unhealthy). I shared my experiences with you, about cooking, baking, gaming, photography, my life.
Some posts did well, some didn't. Some I was very proud of and hardly got notices, while others were simple, but received bigger rewards than I would have imagined. I learned about the randomness of Steemit and learned to accept it for what it was. I enjoyed the interaction and the crypto's I managed to make were a nice bonus. I traded with my liquid rewards, building up a nice little portfolio, but I never powered down. And so I slowly build up my account. Posting every day, interacting every day. For about a year.
I enjoyed this time away from work. A time to do whatever I wanted. But wasn't I supposed to work? Aren't we all supposed to work? This thought was always going through my head. It's great to have a husband, but stay independent. Make sure you can fend for yourself. That's how it's supposed to be, what I was taught. I wasn't ready for this though. Not for a year.
Then my brain screamed for a challenge and I decided to find a part-time job. I found one, I was excited and for a while, I had a good time. The job drained my energy though, and so I wasn't able to keep up with my blogging. My crypto portfolio stood still, my Steemit account stood still and I was slowly wearing myself down, again.
That brings us to now. Burned out again since december, job quitter again since last month and jobless again starting june. Blogger again since little over a month ago.
I'm not so worried this time. I'm smart, I have experience in IT, a good education... if need be, I can find a job. For now though, I won't. We have savings, hubby has a job and I need this time for myself, to regain energy. I'll feel it once I'm ready.
Hubby says I shouldn't worry about work for the rest of the year, the sweetheart!
For now, my life is about finding the joys again. My garden is my challenge. Blogging is my challenge. And this community has welcomed me back with open arms, for which I am so grateful! The rewards I receive here feel like a welcome bonus so I don't feel completely useless in providing for us. And the nice replies and conversations I find here increase my mood and confidence. So thank you or all of that!
I'm not sure what the future will hold for me. But then again, who does? I'll try to do what feels right, move with my shifting priorities and hopefully, I'll be better capable of staying mentally strong next time. Notice problems sooner, act on them sooner.
Life's all about learning and I think I've learned a lot. I also think I have a lot more to learn. How exciting!
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I'm so glad I ran into this post. When you commented on my post the other day I didn't realize you were here before and are returning. Welcome back to your blogging life! It's great that you are taking time for yourself to find the joys again.
I stay at home with my five children, homeschooling and all and I love that the rewards I receive here helps my household. I stopped working when we I got pregnant with our first child 11 years ago. Since then I've found many ways to have some extra spending money and contribute to whatever needs we may have. From crocheting, photography, blogging Ive had a great time exploring what I can do.
I look forward to reading your foodie posts and following your garden once you start posting about it :)
I hope you continue to enjoy yourself again as you pick back up where you left off in the blogging world ~
Thank you! I'm so happy to be returning :-)
It's so great that you've found so many fun ways to earn some extra spending money! A steady paycheck is ofcourse great, but if you have the room, there's so much fun to be had in exploring your own interests and qualities. Even more fun when you can monetize them!
Thanks for the reminder of my garden, I finally wrote a post about it!
Exactly!! It’s been so much fun for me to tap into different areas I enjoy and being able to make monies while enjoying it :)
You’re welcome. I enjoyed reading it!!
This is what most users cannot say about their posts.
This is why thousands of people leave and left both Steem and Hive. The real, human comments are rare on both of them.
And interacting with others not necessarily brings interaction to your own posts. I am on the 7th place of the engagement league, so I am literally in the top 10, but people still rarely care about my posts. Sometimes even after promoting the posts. And I am not alone. Actually most people can say the same. This is because most people focus only on their own posts, and they rarely care about other people's posts. And many people use automated curation. They do not even see the content they curate.
Yes, definitely, but if writing is the thing they enjoy most, why not? I do know of people who rarely post and much rather stick to the social aspect of the site aswell. I think you need a balance and to each their own I guess. I enjoy the writing aspect aswell, but I try to be active on the social side too. That's not something that comes natural to me though, so my balance does slide towards the writing side most of the time.
I do feel this is the same in any given social media space. If I check my Instagram, for example, It'll have plenty of likes, but hardly ever any kind of comment. I find I do the same aswell, I'll like a post, but rarely have anything interesting to comment. If I do, I will write that comment. Replying, on the other hand, is something I care deeply about, because I do value the interaction. I upvote plenty of comments I receive aswell, when my voting power is in a good place.
Yes, that can be frustrating, but I guess it's their investments to do with as they please in the end. Personally, I do manual curation. However, I don't always have the time to read everyone's post, so the people I know deliver good quality might receive votes without me reading everything. The people I don't know about well enough, I'll read their posts before curating. I just don't always have something to say so to show I read their post, I give it an upvote. To such an extend that I have to be aware to take it easy on my voting power, otherwise it'll drain too far and no one will benefit from my vote anymore.
You can find interaction here, but yeah, you can't force people to comment on your own posts. You'll have to find the active ones and interact there. But like I said, I think that's the same for all social media places.
You can also support them by calling various tokens.
Such as !PIZZA. Now you will get some pizza token in your Hive engine wallet.
You need to hold at least 20 Pizza to support people by giving Pizza tokens to them for free (technically the bot will give you the Pizza after this call).
This is how I can support you, because nowadays my upvote is worthless. Probably that is why people do not care about my posts. Rich people always have interaction.
I do like those extra tokens, the !PIZZA and !LUV ones are the ones I know, but I don't have enough of those tokens I think. It's those extra tokens that I haven't delved into yet. I know to check hive-engine.com for a balance, but that's about all I know.
It's really hard to have your votes mean anything here. Especially after all of these years. When I look at Steemit, my vote is still worth a little something (like 0.30/35-ish), but here, it's... 0.03 to 0.05 I think. Okay, I do delegate a bit, so at full power it's probably around 0.08/9 I think. And that's from an account I build up for about a year in the early Steemit time, when there was less competition.
Yes, big accounts get most attention. They top Trending/Hot lists, they attract people looking for a good upvote, but ofcourse many of them are active in the community aswell (not all). Oh well, again, like real life and other social media, where the big accounts get all of the attention and the 'regular folk' will have to make do with their friends :-)
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