RE: Re-Inventing Myself: Something Old, Renewed...
I feel ya, bro, I feel ya.
Yesterday was my one year anniversary on Steemit, and I have jackshit to show for it. Most of my blog posts rack up a "reward", if you can call it that, of 0.06 to 0.08, and the ROI on my time is just pathetically low.
I can teach English online and make 5 or 6 USD per hour, which is also painfully low for a credentialed EFL teacher of 5 years experience, but it's still several orders of magnitude more than I make for investing my time in Steemit.
If your work is good enough to get you into the Powerhouse Creatives, you certainly deserve more than you are getting, but there are many of us out here getting far less.
I am very reluctant to outright give up on Steemit, but there is such a thing as throwing good money after bad, and I do believe the same principle applies to our time and creative energy.
Just to be clear, I'm not planning to abandon this community... but I also never had any particular plans that this was going to be much of a money maker. I'm pretty happy that I get to blog here and occasionally it throws me a few bucks.
But that fact that we do get rewarded something here reminds me that I shouldn't be giving away my better instructional writing for free.
And I feel you, too. I have a couple of separate alt accounts here, too, for business ventures and my art... and getting much "traction" as a small account in SteemLand is hard. But the way I look at it is that if I'm willing to waste an hour day on Facebook for absolutely nothing, I'd rather give that time to Steem for... a couple of bucks. Besides, the dialogue here seems a lot more intelligent and respectful.
An HOUR a DAY on Facebook? Holy hell, I spend maybe 5 minutes a month on FB.
And I'm not getting "a couple of bucks" per post here on Steemit, I'm getting a couple of pennies.