HOW HAS BEEN YOUR JOURNEY ON HIVE
The clean planet community, in collaboration with the inleo monthly prompt has given us yet another opportunity to look back and reflect on our hive journey and goals.
Personally, it's not been easy nor has the sailing been smooth, but like the saying goes, nothing good comes easy. And if it's any consolation to me, I'd say that I am gradually approaching calm waters on my hive journey.
Hive came to me at my most trying times, although my sister has been ringing it in my ears, I just did not feel the need to join as I felt it was too good to be true. But as I grew tired of my previous job, I felt I needed something else, I needed a mental escape.
I knew that I needed to put my writing skills to use and possibly monetize it but then what platform can I do that became an issue. I also need to put my thoughts out there and not get judged, you know. Judgment of which is the order of the day in web 2 platforms. I needed to write and have people relate to my experiences and also share meaningful insights... Again, what platform to express my innermost desires and passion became a thing of concern.
I joined hive in November 2023 and I didn't become active till January 2024. My first motivation on hive after my sabbatical leave of two months was coming first in the thinkers prompt. Not to mention the compliments I received from my onboarder when I took part in the inspired by music collabo challenge with Dreemport. She said that it's quite impressive for my first attempt, raking all that upvote that I got.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step they said but for me, it felt like a crawl because at a point, I felt like I wasn't growing. I remember when my account was valued at just $6, this was three months after I had joined. When my friend asked me how far with my hive activities in that three months, I didn't even know what to say because if I had told him my account was valued at $6, he would want to rank it with the growth of an average hiver and thus tag it that I'm wasting my time.
I needed no discouragement because already, another of my friends abroad already told me when I first wanted to join hive that there's no possibility of me earning in dollars without a US social security number. I didn't know hive worked then and all what my onboarder told me sounded gibberish and I couldn't explain it to the next person who was not on hive.
I guess one thing that helped me grow on hive is that for me, it was all about creating value first such that even when I wasn't getting much financial rewards, I was winning challenges and coming first in some writing prompts which served as a booster to my morale.
For me being on hive is about intellectual improvements, building connections and learning. Then you see that reward in HBD? It becomes the icing on the cake such that, if there's no icing, I'd still want to eat the cake and still would find it delicious.
In hive I found friendship, I became a better writer and more prepared for my academic journey. Moreso, in hive I found an alternate source of income.
I am not really particular about my financial growth on hive, but I still set them and a few months back, I told my onboarder that I hope to hit 5k HP by December. Well it's almost December and I'm just about 300HP away from entering 2K HP...
Hopefully, by next year I will get better. In all, I'd say that I am proud of myself... Well done @bipolar95.
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Above is my response to the octorberinleo prompt in collaboration with the Cleanplanet community. This is championed by @nwothini335. You can participate HERE or HERE