Recently, I had a chat about the "vida laboral" (I have to improve my Spanish, so I will add a few words in posts to not forget it 😃), which made me think about the jobs that I had in the past, and about the choices that I made in life regarding work... So, I will use this space to share it with you, and maybe to remind myself of how did I get here...
I have to go back to my roots and my childhood... When I was a kid, my grandfather was still working as a self-employed tailor... I remember his stories when he was living in Paris for a couple of years, working in a big tailor shop, and later, working as a boss in a big local firm in my hometown... In the end, he opened his own tailor shop! His clients were mostly wealthy people as he "specialized" himself in men's suits, jackets, tuxedos, etc. Because of him, when I ran my own company, many people would recognize my surname and ask about him...
On the other side, my father was working in a construction company, as one of the wheels in the machine... I remember that he was repeating over and over again how he would quit his job, and start his own company... Unfortunately, that didn't happen, but those continuous words were somewhere stuck in my head, subconsciously moving me into the entrepreneurship world... I would say that the combination of these 2 figures in my life sculptured my future...
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When I discovered the world of computers, I knew that I would do something around it... Maybe I recognized that they would be important in everyone's life, I don't know... But, I had a huge problem... Computers were extremely expensive (at least for me) in those days, and I couldn't afford them! There were a couple of PC magazines that I wanted to read, but even they were expensive! I remember that I was able to buy one cheap magazine, maybe every 3-4 months... As it was the cheapest, it was full of ads, classified ads, and paid promotion articles... I would check out the prices every time a new magazine was issued, creating a plan in my head for how to reach those numbers...
That reminded me of the story that I read somewhere in those days... One of the wealthy guys (I think it was Trump, or Musk, or Gates,) stated how he got 1 million from his parents and how he invested them to earn 2, and doubled to 4, etc. Well, that's great, and it's an amazing accomplishment, but how can the rest of us get to that FIRST million? 😃
There are pros and cons of working in a factory or a big corporation, and there are good and bad sides to being an entrepreneur, but... Sometimes, we have to accept the first job, to accumulate some savings so that we can start our OWN company! I suppose that was the idea of my father, but unfortunately, he never got to the second step and never got enough to start his own business...
The moment I started my company wasn't the best one... The country was in poor condition, I had some savings to pay expenses for paperwork needed to start a company and left almost with 0 in my pocket... As the country was down, the other businesses weren't in good shape either, which was in some way a good thing... As nobody was doing extremely well, or having a monopoly in the industry, or something like that...
I remember that we were selling computers by showing catalogs with PC components to our customers... They would pick what they wanted, they would order the machine, and in the next 3-4 days, I would be running around trying to collect components, building up the machines, and checking if everything worked fine... You get the point... There were no MILLION dollars on my account and I literally began from ZERO...
Someone on reddit asked people: "How long did it take you to go from 1mil to 2mil?", and one of the answers resonated well with me...
Answers will be very year dependent. Hit $1M in 2017. $2M in 2020. So about 3 years...
$100k to $1M took 10 years.
As you can see, this guy doubled his million in 3 years, but to get to that million from 100K, he needed 10 years! Building wealth from zero isn't a linear line, it is rather a slow growth line, which could be exponential... But, to get to the "banana zone", you will have to invest something... Usually, if you don't have money, you will have to invest more time, more thinking, more creativity, etc.
Darn, this post got too long, which wasn't the idea at the beginning... What's the point of all this? The point isn't to demotivate you to NOT go into the entrepreneur world... I'm happy with the place where it took me and if I didn't pick this journey, I wouldn't be here with you on this chain and this blog... 😃
Did I get to my million dollars? I didn't... yet... Will I get there? I have no idea and I don't put too much importance to it as I did when I was younger... Is it possible to go from zero to a million? I'm sure it is! But, you have to "SEE" where the world goes, invest yourself in the research of "disruptive" technology (or anything that COULD change our way of living), and go for it! If nobody did it, you have to LEAD... If you are certain about it, when everyone says that you are crazy, you should push even more!
What do you think? Is it possible to get from zero to hero?
Let's see the WorkerBee Pool numbers for this week...
This week we have mined 108 BEE tokens in total!!!...
This week we didn't have new delegators, and 1 Hivian undelegated his WB tokens... On the other side, we did get more delegations from old members... Thanks guys! Appreciate your support!
This POOL doesn't have fees and you get up to 20% MORE by delegating to it!
What about the bonus tokens?
As HIVE did some crazy moves in the last few weeks, many tokens have gone wild too... BEE and WORKERBEE included, but also some well-established tokens lost value indexed in HIVE, while they kept the USD value... One of them is the LEO token that went down from 0.26 HIVE to 0.16 HIVE which is now the highest BUY order... It lost almost 35% of the previous value... Should you freak out? If you are convinced that LEO is doing a good job and the fundamentals are the same as they were before, you should ignore the noise and continue what you were doing before! As someone said, wealth is built in the bear market, when the economy is bad, when everything looks like a tunnel without an end...
There will be distributed 42 LEO tokens to the delegators of the pool as a bonus reward today!
As always, in the end, let's give the exact numbers for this week... 108 BEE tokens and 42 LEO tokens will be distributed as a bonus... The APR (without the bonus) was 8.759%, and when we added the bonus it went up to 10.652%!
I have calculated the ROI approximately with medium prices for all tokens at the moment of creating this post... So, those numbers are valid if you bought WB and sold BEE tokens at the middle HiveEngine price...
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