I have a very similar story. I started blogging in 2017. Started with nothing. Zero. Just blogging on Steemit in June 2017. I Did not make very much the 1st year. One day I had a nice upvote from @blocktrades … and then another nice upvote from @roelandp … then I started to learn that people made most of their Steem from Curation… so I started powering up all my Steem and then used Steemvoter to upvote the best posts at the 5 minute mark. Before you know it I had accumulated 12,000 Steem. Then The Hive Hardfork happened and I suddenly had 12,000 Hive. I did the same there. Earning almost all my crypto from Curation. I earn practically nothing at all on my Steemit and Hive posts. Who cares. Curation is the key.
Then the Blurt Fork and suddenly I had 12,000 Blurt.
So I powered that up and started earning from Curation here on Blurt. I just let my Blurt Power build and earned more from Curation. The key is Curation.
However, it is good to convert a little Blurt, Steem and Hive to Bitcoin on Ionomy.com and buy some Silver Maple leafs with your Bitcoin on https://SilverGoldBull.ca
DIVERSIFICATION is the key ….
Hold Blurt, Steem, Hive, HBd, Dtube, SRY, APX, Dogecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum.
Never sell everything to buy one coin. Collect all cryptos. Be Crypto agnostic.
Ignore the haters.
As far as growing Tomatoes… I would recommend you plant 10 Empire Apple Trees. Grow them organic, no chemicals, pesticides and you can sell them for $55 per bushel (120 apples) to any nearby dairy cow farmers. Hunters will also pay $20 per bushel or you could trade for venison, caribou,.. Some dairy farmers will also trade Empire apples for organic milk, butter, cheese.
"used Steemvoter to upvote the best posts at the 5 minute mark. Before you know it I had accumulated 12,000 Steem"
This is bad curation, though. I choose not to act that way. I'm too much a team player that way, I think I got it from my grandmother.
"DIVERSIFICATION is the key …."
This is trading 101, and I could teach the course. But I am not a trader, so once again your advice is pointless. You have a habit of suggesting things that could never possibly work for the person. That's unhelpful at best. You're smart, you know this.
As for "empire" apples, I did not realize they were so popular and highly sought after. If I plant apple trees, I'll check out empires for sure.
By the way, you started blogging a year earlier than I did, and that 1 year made all the difference. When I started, people were no longer making those big gains like they had been, and years later I was still near zero worth. It wasn't until 2021 that I finally built up enough momentum to grind out decent regular payouts.
Sorry to hear you too were homeless in 2017. Housing/rental market to blame, I assume? I documented some of my experiences:
To this day, we've got planeloads of people flying in from North Africa and the middle East, all given paperwork and money and guaranteed safe rental situations. But Canadian citizens (including those on disability) are left literally to the streets. I don't want handouts, but some equality would be nice...
Yessss diversification! :) Thanks for the suggestion about Empire apple trees. Luckily we're finally in a place to put down roots if we so choose. We had three years at the yard here, but most of it was under heavy, toxic construction, and the yard is small and very uneven and nasty from the previous owner's dog and laziness. We have a big yard at our new place, so I think we'll plant some trees and berry bushes at the new place, and we'll put some garlic in this fall and in the spring we'll get a green house.
Empire apples are an awesome cash crop here in Eastern Ontario…. They say money doesn’t grow on tree …. But they are wrong. You can make a good living with 10 Empire apple trees…. Money and trade for food.
Also, on Blurt, Hive, Steemit and everywhere else on the Web you need to absolutely ignore the haters and Downvoters. You don’t need to mute them, just ignore and avoid them. If you get attacked on Hive with downvotes it’s easier to just create a new anonymous blog with Ecency.com and post anonymously from there. Don’t get involved with downvote or flag wars. Avoid the haters and start over. You can have 100 blogs with 100 emails if you need. Try different things, but definitely earn all the free Crypto you can and convert to Bitcoin and Silver and Gold. You can earn a small fortune with hashtags on Hive …. #pob #vyb #cent #waivio #hive-engine and many more. I’m trying to help my fellow Canadians here. 🇨🇦 … we need to all help each other here. Even if I took the stupid vaccine.
Absolutely. Diversification and always having several income streams has allowed me to live free and travel the world for almost two decades now.
Nice! I'm curious, almost two decades ago, what were your several income streams, and where were you traveling?
Philippines, Bali, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos....basically South East Asia for the most part.
I sold my Private English Teaching business in Seoul South Korea and made good money to buy a house at age 22 in Orlando Florida.
So I had rental income, trading stocks, selling options, collecting dividends, online English teaching, and online surveys. Meanwhile I kept my living expenses down in these parts of the world as low at 500 bucks a month some times.
Yeah… my free crypto (all from blogging on Steemit) will put my kids through University. And that ain’t cheap here in Canada.
That's impressive. I'm sure there is a lot of time to be inside blogging during those long Canadian Winters. Best thing is that I can see that you enjoy it. I do as well. I also like the independence it gives you. You get what you put into it, and there is nobody to answer to other than yourself.
Exactly correct. We get 8 months of snowed Inn blogging here in Canada … then another 4 months of Mosquitoes to stay indoors and blog … we get a few brief weeks in August to go camping and kayaking out side …. Lol
Sounds very much like where I'm from, but maybe worse! haha I'm from, Up-State NY. My favorite part was setting the clocks back and suddenly it was getting dark at 4:30...bit different from here in Thailand.
Upper New York is beautiful… we try to make it down to the Finger Lakes area every summer… Corning, Ithaca etc etc …
That is awesome. My dad had a summer house up near the Addirondaks for a number of years. Now he is west coast Florida year round.
Hopefully not Fort Meyers .. or Sanibel