Random Friday Financial Thoughts
I got the chance to do some catching up with @cryptoandcoffee the other day. It was nice as we haven't chatted in a while. Working in a school district, August and September are notorious for being hectic and crazy.
Teachers start coming back and needing help getting their classrooms in order. On top of that, @iikrypticsii and I have been working on getting Chromebooks distributed to all of our students. Okay, mostly @iikrypticsii on that last part.
In any event, it is a nutzo time and I know my posting and engagement on here have been suffering because of it.
I happened to mention to @cryptoandcoffee that my post rewards seemed to be much lower than they had been in the past. I nearly had to kick myself when he mentioned about the curation delegation being removed from several accounts. Duh, I read about that, I knew that had happened. I guess I just didn't expect that it would impact me.
It actually makes me a little sad, but probably not for the reason you think. Sure, the rewards were nice, but I know those are never guaranteed. What bugs me the most is now I am questioning the quality of my work. I have seen many people comment that the curators were just circle jerking and things like that.
What does that say about my content then? They were just upvoting me because I upvote them no matter the quality of my content? Sorry, I don't buy that. It might have been happening in some cases, but I've gotta believe that isn't the case here. Otherwise, where does that leave me?
Being honest, I don't really pay much attention to who upvotes me. Sure, every now and then one of my posts will get some impressive rewards and I am like "woah", so I go and see where the votes came from. For the most part though, I just do my thing and comment on what I like. Sure I try to target my curation a little towards posts I think might earn me some money, but I am pretty lackadaisical about it and still vote on stuff that isn't as highly rewarded.
A far cry from those who micromanage every detail of their curation to eek out every last reward possible.
Like the title says, these are just some random thoughts. I'm not saying I deserve more rewards, what I do ask is that I don't be labeled as an "abuser" (I haven't by the way as far as I know) for something that likely happened by chance, not intentionally.
As part of that conversation above, we also got talking about our investments and crypto portfolios which is usually the case. We were a good deal into our conversation when a bit of an epiphany hit me and I was struck by the words I have heard @taskmaster4450 say over and over again.
"Age of Abundance"
As @cryptoandcoffee and I were talking, I realized that three years ago when we first kind of "met" and started our conversations we would talk in terms of tens and hundreds of dollars. Occasionally we might have a token that pushed us into a range a little higher than that (most likely HIVE), but it was pretty rare.
Those conversations have definitely shifted in the past three years. Now when we discuss tokens and portfolios, we are talking thousands of dollars and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars. I can only imagine what our conversations will sound like in another three years.
Crypto feels a lot like a giant snowball rolling down a hill. We would be the snow on the ground. Some of us get picked up at different points in the journey, but the important thing is that you are on board for the ride!
That's all the random thoughts I have for today. Okay, that probably isn't true, but that is all that you are getting from me in writing.
Have a blessed weekend my friends. Take some time to not watch the charts. Instead kick back, relax, and enjoy the fact that you are riding the snowball!
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