ULOG #4; Steemit, a Promise of the Blockchain Technology Delievered through Steem(Read&Be Inspired)

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What other ways could the Universe got your back?

I don't know about you, but where i am from, the region which i find myself; i have seen steem pulled out dozens of people out of the quagmire of extreme poverty. Right in my country and in my city is where the disruptive power and ability of the Blockchain Technology is felt immensly, of which i am a living witness!

HUMBLED AND BLESSED BY STEEM

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Life seems to be very hard if you are not a born fighter, it gets easier when you have fought several times, days of eating craps to survive, days of dropping out of college to source for funds, days when you loose that someone so dare to you and you become lonely in the World. Steem helped get through some of these travils, Bitcoin didn't!

There was a time, few years back that i had to quit my job as a Remote Support Specialist, A Trainer and a Logistic personnel; A Three-In-One Job i never applied for but ended up doing, funny thing is that i applied as a Business Development Expert with this IT firm who specialised in Database Management Services for Federal Government High Schools across the Country. I studied Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and i have worked in diverse industries while growing up to support myself and my sweet mom(of Blessed Memory), so this gave me an edge in most of my Job applications, even though if the pay are not so superb.

Where i live, the country is messed up and in an employement chaos, maybe other countries have that in common but i strongly believe it is not as bad as here. Employers takes advantage of this situation and give multiple-roles to you once you pass a job interview and pay you for just one of the job discriptions while the rest is tagged "Multitasking"

In the name of Multitasking, i adjusted to the Many-Job-In-One i had gotten in late 2014 and this job took me over dozens of perilous journies through out the states of my country without even a life insurance. So on a particular trip in 2016, after i and my partner had escaped an ethnic blood bath up North in Nigeria, which claimed hundreds of life in Plateau State, i got back to the city safely and had to rethink "Why waste my life for a job that never cares about my life? At least if my pay package was making up for all those thousands of hours, weeks on the roads into the nooks and crannies of the Country, i would have managed a bit longer. Even to get my "Widow's Mite" travel allowances was a war!

So, by late 2016; i had to quit that job for my safety and then i started a similar Services rendered by the firm, but to private schools. My big Brother @peman is my partner, even though the latter part of 2016 was a living Hell and the Early part of 2017 beforing colliding with Steemit was not so palatable.

Startup companies rarely thrive and survive in my country, i am a living witness; except you have someone willing to invest millions into your business and who won't give up on you.

A TREASURE FOUND IN STEEM

Fast forward to March 2017, i found Steemit through @postit. Apparently, some people notice your talent while you grow up, i guess @postit remembered me and my die-hard curiousity, so he made me research on Steemit.

Viola!

By April ending, i was getting familiar with steemit and i blogged twice per day for almost the rest of 2017. I would have been more ferocious in my Blockchain Blogging scheme, but i was also the Author for @technology-trail, and it was not a piece of cake to post crap for the Trails back then. I spent days on reserch on Techological topics at least four times a week, i get 50% of liquid rewards and i was constantly using my small rewards to power up my little account. By June 2017, my first payout was used to clear some of our startup company's bills(A huge one) and onward, my life became somewhat advanced by steem.

Literally, i could make my full month salary in two weeks back in 2017, and when Steem was in the Bull, i could make my whole monthly salary in few days. Comparing my salary while i was still working to when i was self employed and became a Blockchain Blogger is like "taking a Knife to a Gun fight"

Sadly, i tried bringing some of my friends in, some didn't last a month because they believed in a "Fire Bridgade Approach to life". None of them could excercise the type of patients i had, many of them could not hold on for months to make some earnings, extreme patient made me stayed from March till June 2017 to have my first tangible payouts, that was after building my SP to some extent. Even though i wasn't earning much, but someone in person of @surpassinggoggle kept encouraging me to look beyond rewards, and then i persevered to keep myself motivated to Steem On!

With all the Hype around Bitcoin the Apex Altcoin and some other promising ones, Steem seems to have solve majority of my financial woes and many others like me around the World, and this is because of the Amazing humans i have met on Steemit!



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This post is so inspiring... Just before i saw this, i thought of quitting steemit and trying out some other business entirely, because lately, My posts are rarely visited though i use the right tags, i haven't gotten up to $1.0 in my posts, although i'm so grateful to @stach who has been of help most times.. But, you know responsibilities/ human needs are just so unlimited... , but if you can make it, i believe i'll make it too someday.
Thanks a lot for this post, i really appreciate
U just gave me a reason to keep up the hustle.
I'm very grateful, God bless

God bless you too my friend.

Sincerely, your achievement was because of what you put yourself thought to do here, if actually you're here and you didn't bother to be curious about this platform, i doubt if you wont be on the way to where you're now.

Good to drink from your water of knowledge @oluwoleolaide

Thanks for reading bro.

You are right dear .....steemit is a life saver...
I know that am not earning much now for my earnings can still solve some of my needs.....
Am greatful that i found steemit. I know my latter days here shall be greater than the former.
Thanks for sharing your experience and your testimonies with us.....Am happy for you....will reach the height you have attained for yourself soon.

That's the spirit my dear friend, stay positive.

Bro I get really inspired reading this post. I will take your words, which is that patience pays. I hope that one day I will look back and see how far I have gone. Full STEEM ahead.

Cheerrrss!!!

Cheers mate!

I commend you for being brave and I hope things change around your country for the better. My prayers to the people who are still suffering and does not have a worth it employment. Patience and creativity is the key to success here in steemit. Thanks for inspiring us all. I am still learning things around and I love it. :)

Thanks for your encouraging words dear @robiney...following you now.

thank you. Just celebrated my 1000th followers, you may be the 1000th. Take care. :)

Inspiring...... Patience really pays. Steem on my dear.

Thanks @oluwoleolaide for sharing your experience STEEMIT to us specially like me a beginner. Voted, resteemed and commented. Pls do follow me and I'll do the same. Thanks

Followed back my dear friend.

Steem has attained so much in just a short span of time and yes, it has a potential to save a lot of people out of poverty. I hope steem blockchain will continue to develop for greater good and more doors of opportunity will be opened for everyone!

After hitting 1million users, my faith in Steem Reached beyond the stars...

@oluwoleolaide, what a post - detailing a life history. Yes, this will not only encourage but will certainly inspire many whose background is similar. I have a similar experience while growing up; even at some point, more excruciating condition than yours. But I pulled through by God's grace. And I have a story to tell today.
Steemit has come to change the life game for many and I'm sure the serious minded here has a living testimony out there.
Lets keep moving as we build Steemit so that Steemit will keep touching lives.
Bravo to you Oluwole

Bless you brother for the encouragement.

Nice one. Keep it up friend!amzing to have someone like you here.

Many Thanks mate

Welcome bro!