but you cannot do both at the same time.

At least not at 100% :)

Being a non native english speaker, and with no prior experience of writing before joining hive, I was quite bad at content creation.

Have you improved a lot? I imagine that from your effort here, you would likely have some more opportunities IRL.

and might learn coding and practice a few small projects in the future here.

It is funny how many people weren't coders, but have created stuff for Hive. I like it :)

Out of curiosity, what does 10 dollars buy you locally?