Intro: Searching For My True Calling

Hello Dear Steemians,

I am Sam. I am one of the two bulls in the BitBulls team.

For last several years my job has been “taking bitcoin community by storm” just for our clients. Whatever that marketing pitch means to the Steemians, to us it meant running campaigns for clients in cryptocurrency / blockchain space. I mean all kinds of campaigns, from contests, giveaways, bounties, to content designing, social media marking, so on and so forth. I’ve been amongst the early bitcoiners, starting out as a bounty hunter and building up to a sophisticated algo-trader. Trading, mining, lending, borrowing, bounty hunting, consulting, you name it; I’ve done it all.

I still mine Bitcoin and Ethereum, and stay on top of the crypto marketplace. My broad hands-on experience comes handy to my clients. I love every bit of what I have been doing for previous so many years. But should I be a bounty hunter all my life? Or keep taking the crypto community by storm for a living? Or is there a bigger purpose in life, which is still not clearly visible to me. I do subscribe to the theory that each one of us is put on this earth to do something wonderful with his/her life.

But do you actually search for your true calling, or plan for it? After going through hundreds of blogs from so called experts who teach you how to find or plan your true calling in 3 steps, 5 steps, 6 steps, or in 20 steps.

The Google search for discovering my true calling made me more confused and restless. Did Mother Teresa take the n-number of steps that experts teach, to find her calling? She was a very satisfied teacher at Loreto Convent, until, as she herself described it, "the call within the call" came when she travelled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.”

Did Mahatma Gandhi plan his calling when he left India to become a successful barrister? His true calling came only when he was face to face with the pain of apartheid that his fellow Indians were subjected to.

Contrary to what self-help Gurus teach, I came to the conclusion that, to find your true calling, you don’t have to be unhappy with what you are currently doing, and, secondly, you don’t have to plan or search for your true calling. It isn’t a success strategy or anything like that. It’s more like love.

You don’t plan or strategize love, it just happens. It’s a product of happenstance rather than a well-planned strategy. Nevertheless, you do get a hunch though as you get closer to your true calling. Like I am beginning to get that hunch. But is my true calling in evolution? Only time will tell.

Meanwhile, would love to engage in a conversation with fellow Steemians, who found their true calling or whose quest for their true calling is still on.

And, one more thing before I close this post: As evolved human beings, there’s something in our genetic code that brings us all together, if it’s not love, if it’s not caring, it is at least “sharing.”

And, I am as human as any human would expect to be upvoted, resteemed and followed, if my intro was worthy enough. I do promise a return gift though. LOL. So shall we?