Yesterday I wrote about the completion of my 7 years on Hive, well I did not want to share much about the past but I still want to write something about why I joined the platform. When I joined it was not for money, I was jobless at that time. When I say I was jobless, it does not mean I was running out of finances. I had moved to a new Country, I had given up on my very brilliant HR job, where I was in a lead position and then I was sitting at home jobless not doing anything much with my life. It was daily hitting me and I was feeling useless about everything. I had a little work at hand which was on the Crystals, Healing part, but that was not on daily basis and not a full time job, so I had too much time at hand and not really knowing how to make it productive.
Hubby had got a job in Oman and it was a lucrative offer. There was no way that I was going to send him alone, so I quit my job and joined him. I thought I could get a job easily with all my experience and leading positions back in India, but I was wrong. For 2 years I tried desperately reaching out to almost every corporate in the city but I could not get a job, the ones that were offered were full exploitation and I did not want to compromise. The problem was that it was not my incompetency but it was the law of the land that stopped me from getting a job. Expat women do not get work visas very easily specially in HR and other administrative jobs not at all. Majority of the expat women face this problem, either they compromise and take up anything that comes their way, or they sit at home and join kitty party clubs. For me both were not acceptable.
At that point of time, hubby got to know of Hive (then Steemit) and he told me if I would like to take a look at it. The platform was about writing blogs and writing is something that I always enjoyed doing. I have quite a few hand written diaries, some of them from my school days. If I want to share any thoughts I would pen them down in my diary or if I have liked any article, I would pen it down in my diary. I enjoyed writing more then typing, so maintaining diaries was like my hobby. Initially I did not get much interest on the platform, one was because I was not writing, I was typing which was not much of a pleasure for me, secondly there was hardly any visibility.
Once in a week I would write something. Hubby would support me a lot, in the initial days he did a lot of work for me, I would write and he would do the engagement part for me through Discord and commenting. If not for his support, I would have really quit long back, because I was really not developing much interest. I was finding my efforts going waste, because no one read my blogs. When I write in my diary, One day hubby told me, that think as if I am writing in my diary, because when I write in the diary it's exclusive for myself and no one reads it. I did start taking his advice, but my frequency did not increase. For the first 2 months it was like that.
Then I came across some contests and I started participating in them, I joined some communities and from there on things started rolling for me. I started getting some votes with a value of 2$ to 3$ and then it gradually started growing. In the first 6 months I did a good amount of networking and started getting to know a lot of people on the platform and then I started writing once in 5 days, which later on became once in 3 days and then alternate day and since the last 3 years everyday.
Couple of people have been instrumental in my growth, After almost 6 months of joining, I had one big time supporter who started giving heavy votes on every blog and that was the time I got the kick. I remember on one of the blogs I had a vote of almost 400$ and majority of the blogs had vote value of 150$ to 200$. Numbers do matter right? Then there was no looking back, and who would want to look back with that kind of vote. That person supported me for 6 months and my account statistics drastically improved in that time, after that he withdrew his stakes and then I was on my own, My vote value went down but I was still doing good.
I started spending more time on the platform. I have big goals in life and I realized that the Universe has sent this gift across to me as a means to fulfill my goals. So what started as a disinterested activity has now become an important part of my life. It filled up my empty space and gave me a sense of hope of doing bigger things in life.
Later on I also started doing HR consulting on my own as I was missing that part of my life. Now I am at that point of life, where my hands are full and I am juggling between my jobs. There are times when I am unable to manage blogging and other activities of life all together on daily basis, but I have made a commitment to myself that I will not stop till I achieve my goals.
That's my story of 7 years. Do share with me your story, even if it is for a shorter period.
Thank you for visiting my blog. 👼🏻👼🏻💖💖🌹🌺🌸
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