It's a complicated issue dependent on everyone's situation. I've always powered up little amounts and pulled out the rare large amounts. The little amounts aren't enough to make a substantial difference or help much in my bank account, so might as well make my standing on here a bit better, but I've been in the situation where a payment from Steemit has allowed us to afford important things we couldn't afford, like important specialist appointments. I was literally stuck at one point dealing with health issues, but not having the money to get help, and a Steemit payment fixed me being in that situation as well as helped pay a few bills that we weren't sure how we were going to pay. I'm unemployed but studying and running a home business at this point, but study and my business isn't enough and I'm trying hard and have been trying hard for a really long time to get work and it isn't happening, so we are very tight and sometimes have no choice but to pull money out rather than invest. I guess if you are doing well enough to invest it, you also then ask yourself if you invest it in steem power or if you pull it out and invest it in another asset too though... It's important to look to the future, and for that reason I invest the little bits that aren't worth pulling out anyway, but sometimes you need to deal with the now so you pay bills, rent and can eat properly etc. Good conversation as we should all be talking about investing and other important things (like having multiple income streams etc). I have a payment sitting in my wallet now which will probably be split between powering up and pulling it out (still mostly towards pulling it out at this point, but idk that might change if life circumstances change by the time I do it) but I'm not 100% sure of the amounts that will be going to both. This sort of thing isn't that hard once you have a bit to play with, but when you're mostly skimp it's a bit of a hard game to play. I agree that putting at least a little into power is probably generally a good idea though - maybe a Babylon approach might work for some too (where you put 10% aside - normally refers to putting 10% into savings, but doing it into steem power would have a similar effect except it is an investment aiming to increase later income, rather than a useful, liquid nest egg for hard times).
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Everyone has their challenges and I know we have ours too. My point is that if possible, think for the future a little also and hopefully the challenges of today will be lessened tomorrow rather than always chasing.
Certainly. I actually do think about the future a lot and I know what I will do after we're doing better than this to ensure we're never in this situation again, but until then, there's not much that can be done. I definitely believe in planning for the future, investing and having multiple incomes and I will be doing those things as soon as I can, but currently thinking about the future doesn't achieve much. We need that little push to be doing better than we are currently before we can even manage to save anything to speak of. I'm hoping both a job and a semi-regular stream of income from my business (whether that be from Steemit, Patreon, Redbubble, whatever) will happen but idk how likely either of those are. I'm trying hard to make both of them happen though. I definitely agree with your point - it is just hard to justify not turning sbd into money you can use for bills etc when you are in between a rock and a hard place. I am thinking though that at least some of my current bit that is sitting in there will go to steem power though, but I can't justify powering it all up (unless another post I guess did well enough that I made another reasonable amount anyway - then that would be a different story). Good luck to you with Steemit and anything else you are doing.