Hello, #untalented steemians!! Okay, that doesn't sound good. It feels as if I am undermining steemians, but I know you know what I mean, right? Anywho, let me talk about the main subject at present, me, myself and Steemit.
Before
I have always had dreams, sometimes my dreams were big, other times they were humble but dreams have always been there. I read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad and it messed up my mind, or did I mess up my own mind? It taught me some invaluable lessons, yet at the same time, it did not give me a good blueprint, at least in my own opinion, for financial success. Could it be that I misunderstood the concepts? possibly. For example, I focused on the part that getting good grades does not necessarily entitle one to be rich, in fact, the opposite can be true.
When I focused on the :
One does not need a college degree to be rich
and I forgot the life experience of the writer. I just told myself that Instead of wasting money and four years on a college degree I should rather focus on building a business and then study later for knowledge. For that reason, I set out to save money to start some form of business and the journey was not easy because I had no specific business in mind. I just wanted to save money and start my own business because I did not want to waste a lot of my years making other people rich by slaving away for them.
If someone had reminded me that Robert Kiyosaki had worked until he was in his forties and gained experience in selling, a very important factor in business, I would have sacrificed to get the college degree, get a good paying job and started on my quest own my own business while I was having a steady job. Instead, I spent years trying out small and failing businesses, and I was not patient enough to wait it out for them to be successful. I was always quitting too early when the going got tough, go back to working for someone, then raise a few hundred bucks and start it all over again.
Then I heard about making money online, I joined the craze, joined a few MLM programmes, tried my hand at blogging, unfortunately, I can't find the link to my blog posts, It would have been nice to have a look at the posts I did 7 years ago.
Moving on, I joined a ton load of online schemes, PTC, surveys and all. I thought these would give me the freedom that I wanted, but sadly they either paid peanuts or not at all. I found out about forex trading, studied the strategies and played around with multiple demo accounts from different brokers. When I felt confident that I could trade, I invested my own money, a couple hundred bucks and I started trading live. I actually started off by betting on markets, predicting if the markets were gonna fall or rise.
On my first day, I made about $30 and my confidence was boosted. I went on to real forex trading with real brokers and my first trade made me money initially, double my investment, then it turned around and I lost everything because I had not put a stop loss and I felt the trade was gonna turn around and I kept adding money in the account to avoid getting a call out but I eventually ran out of money to add and I got a call out thus losing all my savings in one trade.
I even lost money that I had borrowed. With this experience, I decided forex was way to risky for my inexperienced brain. I left it and continued my search for better things to do. After many years of not finding the magic formula, I decided that a college degree was needed if I were to achieve my dreams. I signed up for college and shifted my focus to web development, started a web design company and signed up on a few freelance websites. The sad part is that it is a flooded market, competition is very high and if you are new, it's almost impossible to get paying clients... fast forward to today...
Then I met Steemit!
I knew about bitcoin, that it is a cryptocurrency that is based on a blockchain. I had heard about altcoins, but I had never owned any of them. I had heard about bitcoin mining and it all seemed so foreign to me. When I heard about steemit, suddenly a whole new world opened up to me. It's like I was given a new set of eyes. I started seeing things I had not seen before and hearing about things I had never heard of before. I have watched tones of videos on Youtube about anything and everything, but strangely I had never really watched a video that spoke about blockchains and cryptocurrencies.
On steemit I read posts, watched videos about cryptocurrencies. Then I watched a video about bitconnect and while I was investigating bitconnect so I could write a post about it, I became aware of ICOs, I had heard about ICOs, but I had no idea what they were all about. Thanks to steemit, I am now an active investor in promising ICOs after having seen how lucrative this goldrush can be. A couple of months back I was like this:
Now my blockchain snapshot looks like:
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