I tell myself I've been too busy these days, it has not been easy at all. My final exams are fast approaching in school, so I am bound to trying more to reading than thinking and documenting my thoughts.
But then, I earn money from my thoughts, money I need to keep my start-up dreams alive. So I cannot afford to slip up in any way. Yet I did slip up, I lost focus for a Lil bit after the market crash, I felt too disappointed and weak at what I felt was a betrayal by the markets.
You see, my little "startup" is still stuck in developing an Alpha product, and with 3 highly skilled programmers working for me, I require just a token of just $500 monthly to keep things alive
$500 is small for most people here, some even earn that in one post, but some of us are stuck with lack of patronage by whale votes. I'm not complaining tho, Steemit has been more than generous to me, I've been paying my staff very regularly, without much hassle.
Let me digress a little bit, I know you must be thinking $500 pays 3 programmers in a month. Sounds ridiculous right? 馃榿. Welcome to Nigeria peeps. Our currency is so bad and so good at the same time.
It's bad if you're earning Naira, a high school principal earns at most 100,000 naira monthly, which is approximately $273. Which sounds bad. But really isn't, except you have business outside Nigeria, 100k per month is more than enough.
If you earn in dollars on the other hand. $1,000 per month is way above most civil service salaries. And can keep a tiny business like mine alive. So yeah, come and invest in Nigeria, the population is highly skilled and the wages are unbelievably affordable.
So I had more than enough money to keep my business going for almost 4 months pre-crash, then woke up one morning and saw that all of a sudden, my more than four thousand dollars worth of crypto had shrunk to just a little over $500. There is really nothing sadder.
I am supposed to have paid my workers since the 5th of the month, but selling off all my crypto would mean I would be surrendering 4-6 months juice in one fell swoop. The markets will rebound with vigor. It always does. But it's so sad having to keep my workers waiting when they have mouths to feed.
I'm sad. But all I can do is keep calm and keep busy.
