Ever since I joined the blockchain, it has been a steady growth. At some point, it was slow and there were times when I just wanted to quit and do something else. However, I kept pushing.
Things were not always like this for me and I feel that was a good thing. Back when I started, there were many times I made posts that didn’t even get a single cent. So many of them. However as I learned more about the blockchain and how best to navigate, I started focusing on learning the best places for my voice to be heard. And even at that, many of my posts went unanswered.
Thankfully, I didn’t stop. I kept finding my way around until I stumbled on Freewrite, and then later on found my way to Inkwell. And that was when my posts started making some money. This was months after I joined. Like, a lot of months!
Even at that, the money came in trickles at first. By the time they paid out, it was just too meager to do anything of value with it. So, I usually had to save them up till the end of the month, like a sort of salary. The first time I did this, all it amounted to was somewhere around N3500. Which would currently be in the neighborhood of 5-6 HBD.
However, that was long ago and I’ve come so far since then. When I look back at how my early days in the blockchain were, if I was someone who wasn’t determined or willing to keep striving, I would have run off long ago. Although I had my onboarder who was always encouraging me to never give up and keep on striving. I kept at it and after a lot of work, here we are.
I’ve never kept Hive a secret, anyone who knows me personally knows that I’m a hiver. I’ve brought in a few people to join and only one of them is active so far. Every other person either abandoned their accounts when they saw that it wasn’t as easy as they believed it would be. Learning that you could make posts and not get a single cent is something they find hard to understand and work with.
Almost everyone now looks for instant gratification. They want to work now and reap the fruits the next minute. However, that’s not how Hive operates and I let them know from the get-go. They think it’s just about writing, if it was, I would be a billionaire by now. No cap.
However, they come on here and realize that every single person is a writer, duh. So they have to bring a whole lot more to the table. And many of them are not willing to accept that. So, when they realize they’ve not made as much as they expected, they run. Some even begin to plagiarize and spam.
These days, if I’m pitching the idea of Hive to someone, I first of all take them to some random community and the posts there. Many times, there’ll be lots of posts with zero cents on them, I’ll show them all these so they’ll know that it’s possible not to get shi shi from your posts. After that, I take them to the trending page, and show them that it’s also possible to make big bucks from your posts. However, I let them know that the distance between both ends can be long and hard for a lot of people, and you have to be willing to work for it.
Hive is a platform that rewards those who are genuine to it, as long as you keep at it, you’ll surely earn. If you’re doing it at first and get nothing, by the time you start earning, it’ll become second nature to you. While the money will be great, it won’t be your sole motivator anymore.
After showing them this, and letting them know that they have their work cut out for them, I let them decide. Some of them insisted that they could do it, well who was I to stop them? They opened accounts and not long after, they japa’ed. As I said before, only one person is active now and she’s doing okay considering everything else she’s juggling with at the same time.
So, talking about how Hive has blessed me, it is kind of beyond measure. I’ve talked about it a lot about how Hive has affected my physical life, my career, and my style of writing in general. I would love to be a philanthropist and help out those around me, but sadly the economy is not fair to us right now. The cost of living and schooling is pressing my neck and I just have to hold on to every little thing that comes my way. But all in all, I help out wherever I can.
Hive is going places, and I’ll keep talking about it. If people are interested, I’ll happily tell them and let them know that they’re coming here to work and not just to cash out. If you take the time to learn the ropes, you’ll get the hang of it and see that it’s not so difficult to begin with. There’s nothing that gives me more joy than seeing someone I brought in flourishing on the chain. It warms my heart indeed.
