Introducing Moondrop to the Steemit community.

Hi everyone!! My Steemit handle is Moondrop. This is my second Steemit post. My brother Stuntworks introduced me to Steemit last week. I am an ex elementary school teacher, turned graphic designer / entrepreneur.

This is a little about me and my story. I am a mom to two wonderful kids. I have a brilliant daughter Nicole who is 23 and my son Jonathan who is 20. I worked as a teacher for 13 years and really disliked it. I liked the students, but the pay was awful. I always had a side hustle because the pay just wasn't enough. My first side hustle was selling stuff on ebay. I did ok but it just wasn’t enough money to quit my teaching job.

With my brother in Mexico.

When my daughter turned 18 she told me she was moving to NY to purse a career as a Web Developer. I was shocked that she was leaving as I always thought she would go to college. My daughter did very well and worked for large companies as well as startups. I asked her what I could do to leave my teaching job. She told me I should create graphics. I had never drawn with a computer, so I was very skeptical that this could be a career. My daughter gave me her old Mac Book Pro and a book on graphic design. She told me to read the book and start creating.

My daughter Nicole, Me and my son Jonathan.

I spent that summer that she left to NY teaching myself Illustrator and Photoshop. By the time school started up again I had an online store and I was selling a good deal of items. I continued to create items and work my teaching job for one full year. After a year with my graphic design business I was able to quit my teaching job to purse my graphic design business full time.

The day I quit my teaching job.

My daughter recently quit her full time job to freelance and travel, to be a digital nomad. Sometimes we travel together. Basically we can both work wherever our computers are. Lately we have been traveling a lot to Mexico. We love to travel, see new things, meeting new people and great food. I plan to post a lot of our trips on Steemit.

My daughter and me in Mexico.

We liked Mexico so much we purchased a building, along with my brother, in Tulum, Mexico. I will be posting on running my business while traveling and on running a business on Airbnb.

Our new property in Tulum, Mexico

That’s a little about me, I hope you follow me to read my future posts on travel, food and trying to live the digital nomad lifestyle.