Good meow'ning sirs and madams! #introduceYourself

My name is Phillip, but here on the steemit you can call me Phlip. I'm excited that I found this forum in my ventures through the cryptocurrency sphere. I don't know how you found steemit but I did through research on how to earn BTC and using steemit to earn SBD and then converting that into BTC.

Anyway, don't let my handle fool you. It may say @cryptokat but I'm definitely not an expert yet. I heard about BTC many years ago and like many people didn't think too much of it, but last year I was working on a project using a website called blab.im (blabbers never die!) and one of my viewers tipped me some BTC. He only sent me .01 BTC and I didn't think too much of it still. After seeing that .01 of BTC was worth $7 at the time, I started thinking about how this could change my future.

Unfortunately, I had some health issues and had to be hospitalized a few times after my discovery and I didn't think about the BTC I had stored away in a wallet. I saw the news about BTC's price jump and saw my .01 BTC was now worth ~$25 and it really set my gears into motion. I have now spent the last month researching cryptocurrency and trading cryptos with the hopes I can find the next BTC, LTC or ETH like currency to invest in.

I see the Steemit platform as one of the biggest on-boarding tools for crypto. Even my ~60 year old mom is using it and getting interested in the crypto space. She is an avid user of Fbook and is excited that she might get to earn some income from her posting.

Now that you know how I found out about crypto and Steemit, I would like to share a little more about myself.

I am thirty-five years old and was born and raised in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I moved out of my parents house as soon as high school ended and went to a community college full-time while working for my parents website development company. I had a falling out with my parents towards the last couple semesters of school and began work in the retail environment of Staples.

After working retail for a couple years, I got a couple of jobs that were short term working as a school photographer and a real estate sign salesman. From there, I began working in the nightclub industry and I worked as a bar back for the next ~8 or so years. Throughout that time I developed a drinking problem and partied in excess, but somehow managed to go back to school and at least obtain my A.A.S. in Multimedia Development. Due to my lack of understanding about life, I was unable to grasp the importance of my education and the necessity to create a portfolio of my projects. I have yet to turn this degree into anything that generates revenue but I do know how to use most Adobe software.

My drinking problem lead me to have legal problems and that has led me down a road of very unique experiences. I was working on writing a book about adventures and experiences with mental health issues when I lost the motivation to finish. Steemit has now struck a cord with me as a platform where I could possibly publish my book in short posts and that is what I intend to do.

If you are interested in hearing a story based on truth with very little exaggeration, then I encourage you to follow me. I am going to be releasing updates to the story daily or weekly based upon the feedback I receive. Since the story is based on my reality, I already have how it finishes I just need to write it. In addition to that, I also plan on posting articles that focus on topics like cryptocurrency and politics.