Really Trying To Ignore These Fortunes, But...

enforcer48 (68) 7 years ago

If so, I need to consider, too, if it's challenging or a waste of my talents.

Just my two cents here. Even if writing is your profession, I think it would be wise to find an employment that offers steady pay and still keep yourself occupied on Steemit as a secondary or "productive" hobby.

Or, you need to start doing what others are doing to get visibility on the platform. Perhaps even look into other chains similar to Steemit to see if you could dip in multiple wells.

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glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

Thanks for your two cents, @enforcer48. I wouldn't call writing my profession really, since Steemit is essentially the first time in a 30 year or so attempt to make it be my profession that I'm actually getting anything for doing it. That might be a little unfair considering I owned and published two weekly newspapers for 15 years and did occasionally write something for them.

At any rate, the two cents is well taken. I'm kind of at that age where I could probably fill a number of working roles. I feel like I have more options than just the minimum wage jobs at my disposal, and I feel like I should be looking at whatever might be the best fit.

As for getting visibility on the platform, what are you referring to specifically? And which chains are you considering similar enough to STEEM that are already up and running and paying out?

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enforcer48 (68) 7 years ago

I don't know about running. I know EOS has Ono in development. YoYoW is another one in the making.

As for visibility, you have some legitimate options:

Start using bid bots
Buy votes
Get involved in different communities through Discord
Utilize certain tags to get random/consistent upvotes

I'm sure there are more, including shady options, but it's a free platform. You can do whatever, but consequences aren't guaranteed.

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docsmith (60) 7 years ago

It's kinda hard for me to give any advice about finding jobs since I've had one without break for 15 years now (fu*$% I'm old).
So, I haven't really looked for a job for a long time, but I did have a period in my life when for one reason or another I've jumped into freelancing.
It started as a joke, soon become a challenge and is still going on but with minimum effort on my part.
Maybe that could be something to look into. I've started on Elance which is now Upwork, and after a few months of hard work for pennies, I've "grown" so much that I had to get a VA just to keep up with everything and I was bringing in weekly what I was getting at my "real job" for 4-5 hours of work.
It's a hard market but if you work hard and do a good job, you can make a name of yourself and soon jobs just come pouring in.
I've dropped almost everything about a year ago or something, because, well because I'm lazy and I value my free time more than money.
Now I just have one client - who made me a partner and I don't do much and some $ do drips in every week. And it's waaay more profitable than what I get here on Steemit.

glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

Well, for someone who didn't think they'd have advice, I like what you gave me. I think Upwork is a place to check out. I'd like to try my hand at something like that, but again, I think for my wife there's an immediacy of return that is required. Something that starts paying within a few weeks of starting the work.

At any rate, I'm going to check into it, as well as to continuing looking elsewhere. I need to do something. Steemit wasn't made to crank out the earnings after 80 hours of work. :)

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cryptoandcoffee (74) 7 years ago

Forget the fortune cookies and do something that at least spikes an interest in you. Nothing worse than just doing something that you don't want to do.

glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

So, that kind of puts me here, because this spikes my interest quite a bit. It just doesn't have the same amount of income attached to it as a "job" would.

What I probably need to do is see if there's any company out there running social media in such a way where I'm allowed to get creative as well as engage with readers, and do it in a genuine way. Not like customer support, but in a more personal, exchange of ideas type of deal.

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janton (71) 7 years ago

lol! hey @glenalbrethsen...I just noticed your tags didn't list "funny" or "humor" but they should have, this was really funny stuff.

You WERE being funny weren't you? lol.
hey you gotta convince your wife that you just need a few
more months on here and things will look much better and
different!
And maybe it will be. Here you don't have to strive too hard,
just cruise along doing what you do best. easy peazy!
great post!

glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

I don't consider fortune cookie fortunes to be particularly revelatory, like the answer to prayers, but they do have a way of popping up when I have the exact things they're talking about weighing on my mind. They're not 100% accurate, but they've given me more food for thought than I care to admit.

I never really know how these fortune cookie fortune posts I've done are going to turn out, and what people are going to think of them, so I've avoided the humor tags and the like. And some people believe in them, so there's that, too. :)

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janton (71) 7 years ago

hold it hold it hold it! you tellin me that there are people on Steemit who believe
in fortune cookies? Because everyone I've met on here are hardcore skeptics about
dang near everything! lol But it IS interesting that fortune cookies pop up and give you
food for thought right when you're contemplating serious matters!

glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

It's amazing, isn't it, how hardcore people are about things that most people just take for granted. Like the Earth is round, even tough there's not really any advantage to making us think it's round when it's actually flat. Other than it's cool to say we went to the moon, when that was all staged too.

There's a lot of things to be skeptical about. I don't think you have to go to the least likeliest of things and then create an elaborate, impossible to keep under wraps conspiracy to make it possible.

Well, there's people who believe in all kinds of things, including dream interpretations and what not, so hey, fortune cookie fortunes, why not?

It is stunning how often in the last a year I've received a fortune that is exhorting me to do one thing or the other about things I'm personally grappling with. Then, there's others that are as about off base as possible. I know they're fairly generic, and handed out in random, and as far as I know, God doesn't answer me through them—it's just the timing of them and the frequency of them is a little unnerving. :)

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janton (71) 7 years ago

lol! those fortune cookies make you wonder don't they?
well if people read them at the right time, take the advice or whatever and it looks like they predicted the future a couple of times then I can see how people would believe in them, as ridiculous as it sounds.

but look at Horoscopes! gets people hooked right in.
have a good night sir and a blessed Sunday!

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glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

See, I don't know that any of them have actually predicted the future. They just keep giving me advice, or guessing parts of my personality. So, should I take the advice of the fortune cookie fortune or do what my wife wants, which can range from driving school bus to becoming an accountant (which would mean at least another 16 months of school), and both pretty much a waste of the talents I think I have. :)

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janton (71) 7 years ago

no those things don't predict the future that's certain.
but you may want to take their advice if it's better than your wife's!
No actually 16 months of school sounds horrible, driving a school bus sounds
horrible, I've been offered that also. both sound like a nightmare to me even if you'd
have job security with them both ..most likely.

So what would be your choice to pursue, if not Steemit, which your wife would
agree to?

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glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

I don't think there is anything I would choose to do that she is particularly fond of. The problem is, the times I've backed down haven't worked out very well, and then I end up being the reason why things didn't work out. It's been much better when I stuck to it.

For example, the newspaper business I ran did not get off the ground immediately. I had a pretty big hole to dig out of to begin with, and it wasn't until I became partners with another newspaper owner that the ship got righted. I could have stopped before that, given up and gone back to work somewhere, but then we would have missed out on some of the best financial times we've ever had. And, I would have missed out on a lot of my sons' growing up years, too. Because of the business, I had more flexibility in my schedule so I could homeschool them for awhile, go to their football practices and games, and so forth.

So, when it come to things like this I feel like I'm the one who has the better instincts for them, just as she knows things I won't ever know or figure out. She needs more security than what she feels she has now because she's the one who's putting in the hours at work rather than staying home and having the ability to do more of what she wanted when she wanted.

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gillianpearce (65) 7 years ago

She will also wonder why I'm turning down so many potential jobs since I'm not about to tell her it's because the fortune cookie fortune told me to.

Hilarious @glenalbrethsen. I think it would be a very wise move indeed not to tell her! 😂

You can keep all your striving though. It's totally overrated and unnecessary as far as I'm concerned. Just brings alot of stress.

Lucky I didn't get that fortune cookie because, if I did, I might have come to the conclusion that they were a load of rubbish! 😂 😂 😂

glenalbrethsen (68) 7 years ago

Well, alright then. I guess I shall keep my striving. :)

I can see where it could be stressful. When it comes right down to it, anything we do can be stressful, so I guess it depends on where we're coming from in any given moment, or how we look at things as a whole.

Believe me, I've had plenty of the rubbish, and then, there's things that have meaning to me at particular times in my life. These two just happen to be hitting at the right time. That doesn't mean anyone else has to find meaning in them, or take them even the least bit seriously. :)

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a-0-0 (-9)(1) 7 years ago

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biblegateway (-5)(1) 7 years ago

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