RE: My Quest for Creative Financial Freedom Pt. 2: Gawk at My Pathetic Finances!
i have a funny story about my email i sent to Ramit Sethi. He was wrong. I explained my situation in detail, about how I'm an entrepreneur, but at the time wasn't making enough money. His advice to me was to quit all my entrepreneurial pursuits and go get a 'real job'. He was harsh too.
I didn't take his advice. Instead, I busted my ass and found a writing job that paid peanuts...but I was writing science articles, which was pure joy for me.
Right around that time, i found steemit. The day i found steemit, i quit all 'my low paying writing gigs', and started blogging on steemit full-time (well actually more than full-time.) Soon it took over my life. i am in the best financial situation i have ever been in now.
I am glad i followed my passions and ignored the advice I received from Ramit Sethi.
That's an interesting story and I'm thankful that you shared it. Ramit seems to suffer from the same issue that a lot of "gurus" in any field suffer - basically, overconfidence and thinking they have the answer for EVERYONE.
I'm glad that you didn't give up on your pursuits, since it's clearly working out so well for you!
One question - when you say full time on steemit, you mean this is the only way you earn money right now? I ask because I've also toyed with that idea - what if I put 100% of my effort into this platform and truly went all-in? - but right now, I'm doing a diversification strategy of trying to maintain a wide variety of income streams.
Curious to hear what you think about risk diversification - do you just accept the risk and roll with it, or do you have some safeguards in case (unlikely as it is) steem crashes or even dies?
no, i have 4 different income streams, but I make most from the Dash DAO and Steem.