A few years ago, I was working from home. It was somehow liberating to be able to work anytime you want. I worked even when I haven't had breakfast yet. I worked until I'm too sleepy to get anything done. And I made a lot of money, relatively speaking.

Of course there are challenges when you work from home. Not having a schedule, your family and friends think that you're just playing with the computer and they can barge in anytime to interrupt whatever you're doing. They seem to think that what you're doing is not that important.

Compare that to having attending a meeting. You may not be able to accomplish much by attending a meeting but it sounds a lot more important than sitting on your ass in front of the computer all day. Doesn't matter if you managed to finish a hundred pages that day. You're a bum in their eyes who's making more than they are.

I Had to Get Out

Then I got tired. Man was I so sick of working from home. I loathed sitting all day. I hated doing the same thing day after day after day. My brain wanted something different.

After a lot of consideration, I decided to go back to my old work as a field salesman for a feed company. The boss welcomed me back with open arms. This time, I'll be traveling. A LOT.

They gave me a nice car. And it was pure pleasure do drive it. I control my schedule. As long as I hit my quota, they don't bother with how I spend my time.

But Then the Company Grew . . .

And I got promoted to manage a feed mill. The pay is not that different. Just more work. More responsibilities. I had more say on how things should go but I'm not sure if it's all worth it.

Now I miss working from home. I'd give anything to be able to stay at home and work whenever I want to. But it seems that it's too late now. I'm too deep into this new company and I was also the reason the feed mill was built here near where I live.

Discontent

I don't know why I get bored so easily. I feel trapped thinking about doing the same thing over and over again. Maybe I'm suited for project-based work.

So I'm doing this steemit thing on the side but sometimes it's so hard to continue. With the price of steem still below the price I bought them for. It's quite depressing honestly.

Add to that the fact that Steem Inc. doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. Or at least not communicating very well whatever they are doing to improve the platform.

I know it's a complicated issue. This entire social network/blogging platform mixed with crypto-currency. Sometimes it just gets so frustrating.

Not sure how long I can keep this up. Right now, it seems that EOS is a better prospect even with all the problems they are faced now, at least we know that they are actively doing something.

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PS

I just realized the topic EOS is not allowed. How petty can we be? I thought this was the platform for free speech?