RE: Why I Think "Getting a Job" Is Already Outdated
I think crypto is opening up the whole freelance field, it’s just that a lot of people don’t have any clue where to get started, m(like your Twitter convo). It can definitely be intimidating to start and the MSM constantly bombards the public with headlines reading, “bitcoin scam”, “ether wallet hacked”, etc to scare a lot of would be users away.
I think you do a good job highlighting where people can find work in the cryptosphere and the industry is only going to get bigger over time, the only other major concern I have is volatility. It is really hard to count on any crypto as a steady store of value right now, and unless you made enough to retire on during the last bull run it can be hard to ‘dive’ right in.
At the end of the day I would love to enventually quit my job and steem on all day, but the ups and downs of post values along with the rise and fall of steems price make it difficult to depend on. Once @steemitinc put more value in curation than that will definitely be an option as you get paid for your valuable curation efforts, but right now there is still a lot of work to do.
Sorry for the novel
I think there's a difference between just blogging and providing real value that people want to pay for. In many ways, investors prop up the price of STEEM because they believe in the future value of the technology. Us getting paid to blog is kind of just a way to demonstrate how it works.
The volatility is part of all cryptocurrencies right now, unless you look into pegged assets like bitUSD. Those are a bit more stable.