Do you remember your first time.. ?

The perfect clickbait title :) Everybody remembers the first time of .. just about everything. The first kiss, the first love, the first success and why not? The first money ever earned. The first job or the first time that something you did was monetized! Selling something in the flea market? Selling cookies to your grandmother?

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When was the first time I made money?

I think it was when I was 18 or something, I took my first part time work in a cafeteria.. I had no idea about how to make coffees, but I had really fun doing it and I was happy spending my first money.

Before that, I used to not eat anything at school - my parents used to give me some coins in the morning to buy something but I saved them and then I was trying to buy something I really needed.

I have had a weird relationship with money, but it is a theme for a different post..

This one was inspired by @acesontop who yesterday posted a nice #askleo post asking Where and how did you earn your first money?

This question actually reminded me of this post by @trumpman which is another great post idea ;)))

But that's not what I wanted to talk to you about

Actually the post by Adrian reminded me of the first time I earned money from digital activity...

The first money I made from my digital activities

I will never forget it.

I was struggling after I had quit my job and I was trying to find out ways to use my digital expertise in developing my own activities. I had been doing digital tasks for many years, but for other businesses.

I tried out many things, I tried blogging, creating content about things I cared etc etc and I got into steemit! I felt so lucky but also intimidated...

Receiving tokens? But what were they? I could see the $ sign but how could I ever make it real money and how could I spend it? Was the time I was spending on the platform, well spent?

It was 2017. There was enough information online but not as much as now...

After gathering some steem, I decided to check out a tutorial and transfer my steem to an exchange and to make it real money.

I first tried a small amount.
It worked!

Then I tried a bigger amount, I think it was around 60 euros at that time :)

I withdrew it from steem, and into the exchange - and then withdrawn into my bank!

But then I had to wait for 3 days till I saw them! I was so amazed by it, I would go outside and could not help smiling!

People would ask me, why are you smiling? I replied "I made the most amazing discovery!"

I used that money to pay for electricity. I still remember that. I felt ... grateful. Grateful to this technology that could reward us for the time spent, while at the same time learning and shaping the technology itself!

Since then, I have only cashed out when I absolutely had to. I consider myself a hodler and someone who tries to make the most of the crypto space, while sharing the experience with the rest of world who happens to follow me or to find my posts.

Do you remember when you first cashed out from your blogging/digital activities?

Let me know in the comments or write a post about it and tag me!

Thanks so much for visiting my post!

Who am I?

I am Katerina from Crete, Greece. An enthusiastic content creator with a passion for photography. Interested in the blockchain technology, in new social media platforms and in trying to educate new users who wish to explore the blockchain social media world and its possibilities!