Jay: A New Face in the Steemit Community

Hi guys! So I'm trying hard to pose like an Instagram blogger here. Hahaha.

From the many things I heard about this platform (for which some are still confusing as of the moment), one thing made me 100% sure in officially joining: Steemit is a community where people welcome and support each other through the creations that they make and share.

Sounds cheesy for an intro? Haha, I guess. Despite the cliché-ness of it, that fact alone made me more relaxed and confident to talk about myself and my intentions of joining here. So, let’s start!

I am 23 years old living in Cebu City, Philippines. I am a chemical engineer by profession, but I found myself wanting to go to graduate school (Master of Science in Chemical Engineering) so technically I am a full-time student as of the moment.

My graduate school classmates who are coming from different walks of life. Despite the few numbers, we manage to be comfortable with each other and become each other's support system as we go through the struggles of studying for our master's degree.

Just to break the first impression of some of you, I just want to say first that I am not a nerd nor a fan of the Chemical Engineering field. I think most of us agree on the fact that life has been so confusing at times that we sometimes find ourselves in places that we least expect. So yes, here I am, about to be swallowed by the overwhelming level of Math that are so far from the “1 + 1 = 2” thing that we knew when we were still young (just an exaggeration. Hahaha. Actually, I just sleep it out if I don’t understand anything, which happens most of the time).

We can describe through words how the water moves once it enters inside the water pipes as we take a shower to start the day. Advanced Mathematics can tell the same thing through this equation alone. Isn't it cool? Haha. I think otherwise if I don't get things right sometimes.

Being the eldest and the breadwinner of the family, I shoulder the almost-never-ending life expenses through the scholarship benefits that I get from studying in graduate school, as well as the extra jobs that I am currently in as an online English (ESL) teacher and a private tutor in Chemistry, Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. Just like everyone, life has been challenging and busy for me lately, but I believe our attitude matters more than the issues we deal with. I love to believe that I am in an overload of opportunities showered upon me at the same time. Who am I to complain? I consider myself blessed.

My family is my treasure! <3

I am a futuristic kind of guy, so most of my hobbies and interests revolve on the idea that “maybe I can use this hobby for the future”. I like to learn various languages, cook dishes, and do household chores. I know the third one is weird for an interest, but maybe a few of you, like me, consider cleaning the house as therapeutic and relaxing to the mind.

These are my language notebooks. My fascination to learning various languages started with my addiction to anime 11 years ago. Until now I am still not fluent to any of these, but I can write some Japanese, a few of Chinese and almost all Korean characters. My focus for this year is to be able to be familiar with basic French conversation.

I would love to share more details of my life, but I believe it is proper that I begin first with how I arrived here in Steemit.

My journey to Steemit started with an invitation from a very close friend of mine, Gail (@thegaillery), to collaborate with her on a one-year project about confidence through blogging. She knew I couldn’t reject the idea, because she knew I have always been wanting to do this ever since. We initially planned to launch the project through our separate blogs, but things turned out well when Gail decided to better start it in Steemit, which I believe is a strategic one, given the nature of this community.

The Confidence Project meeting with Gail. We are working hard to prepare something good for your guys! Teehee!

The Confidence Project (TCP) Banner

The basic idea about The Confidence Project is that confidence is something that can be built, not a talent nor a special skill only given to some. We envision that through this project, more people will be bootstrapped on the notion that with consistent practice and with valid evidences, they can truthfully declare to themselves and to others that they are confident at a thing that they want to be good at.

You can check out the full details of the project here, as well as the project’s first takeaway here. For this month, @thegaillery will be the host for the first takeaway and challenge, so I hope that you find this project interesting and will support and actively participate the challenges. The whole TCP journey will be fun since we will choose winners for every challenge and reward them with SBD. How cool is that?

I hope that as I grow with this project together with you guys, we can become the best versions of ourselves in the long run.

So basically, The Confidence Project opened the doors for me to explore Steemit. Of course, when we talk about opportunities, a domino of opening doors is in store for us to show what more we do have for people to be excited about.

As one of the co-founders of this project, I will also take part in establishing and hosting the takeaways and challenges. I am utterly nervous and excited at the same time, so I hope to have more encounters with you soonest in the next coming months through TCP.

If there is one thing that I cannot forget in my Ethics class way back in the university, it is the fact that humans will always have the inner desire to improve the quality of their lives. The challenge lies on the steps that each one of us has to follow in order to improve every aspect of it, may it be on a seemingly irrelevant thing as riding a public transportation, to the bigger ones like organizing tasks in a long-term project that you are working on.

Can you guess what place is this? I will tell you more about this soon in my next blog post.

I consider myself a deep person in terms of understanding the message of the books that I read, and so it will be more beneficial to share what I realize from the chapters of information that I read from time to time.