Ever since hitting 30,000 SP and gaining close to 600 followers on Steemit, I've been asking myself - Why am I having a following? What am I doing here? And what do I hope to achieve here?
Maybe those are not the most pressing of questions. Something is definitely working for me in some ways, and I will be here regardless of what I think I want to achieve. Okay, maybe I want to achieve the following:-
Getting to know myself better
Steemit is really the first time that I'm getting involved with a wider community on a daily basis. It's somewhat different than business networking IRL, in which I'm not a big fan of. It's unspoken but I feel that everyone's here for a better tomorrow, so I guess that perception helps. Having built a considerable following for the past 70+ days has been giving me useful insights about myself as I started interacting with those following my account. At this moment in time I'm still figuring out what makes Steemit special when it comes to creator-consumer relationship.Getting out of my 9-5, embrace my love for learning and writing
Somewhat of a risk, but I've tendered my resignation letter and currently in the midst of my 3-month notice period. Got a little lucky being an early-adopter before July 4th, so I have a decent buffer even if my business ventures do not make much returns. As much as this sounds like a first world problem, my dayjob has been quite a nightmare for me for the past few years. I couldn't relate much to the corporate world, and you may laugh if I say that I'm being discriminated by the mainstream employment regime.. for being nocturnal. Being forced to wake up in the morning is destroying my soul. I would love to keep learning, acquiring new skills, and continuously work on my creative expression.Make the world a better place (give me a cookie)
Steemit seems to be an interesting place for presenting leftfield, offbeat ideas, compared to the complete tameness of my network in Facebook. And there seems to be so many intellectual, if not intelligent individuals here. Curation can be somewhat of a joy too, maybe because of the potential incentives for people to put their thoughts out in long-form. This is great because making the world a better place doesn't only come from one person, it should come from many sources. We're talking about the world, afterall. And let's not discount the fact that Steemit is a convenient, low-barrier mutual-aid society!
I'm grateful that I've made quite some friends here on Steemit. I've had help from others since the early days, namely @rok-sivante for writing better, @andrarchy for focus / simplification, and @donkeypong for online collaboration 101. There are just so many awesome Steemians around that I don't even use Facebook anymore, except for business purposes (and to post Steemit links!).
Came onboard at first just to express myself, only to find out that I'm in the first stages of finding my voice, and perhaps the next stage of my personal growth.
One of the biggest steps toward growth is to stop assuming things, so I have two questions for anyone reading this -