When I was first introduced to steemit I wasn't writing that much. I had in the past but let life get in the way. I had a day job that took up a lot of time and to be completely honest held off from joining for six months!
Once I started writing the flood gates opened and I have written a lot for the platform and for personal as well. It's been a great process for me and I've enjoyed it. I still do.
The money (crypto) is secondary for me really, although it helps of course. To date I have taken none in cold hard cash and so I see it as play money. For me it's about the writing and the rest will take care of itself.
I agree with you in that the people left here are the ones that should be and are the ones to engage with. I hope one day to see the platform really take off and hope to be around to assist people to fly with it.
It's only now that I've really been stepping up my game in the past few months. Posting more, engaging more and getting involved in the discord but the more I do here the more that I like what we have. There is so much to be part of that you just get drawn deeper and deeper into the sites.
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I don't have time to Discord much. I certainly respond to messages though and I get a few there every now and then.
I have a day job and reckon I'd lose it if I spent all day steeming...😜
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I'm the same. I work about 45 hours per week before my other commitments but have tried to fit the other bits around my schedule. I work a variety of shifts so it's all about timing but it's nice to be more involved and chat to some of the people who can teach me new things. If nothing else i've learned a lot from my time on here and that's invaluable.
My brother is in the chat rooms a lot but I can't seem to find the time of volition despite knowing there's great benefit in doing so.
Between work, (I'm in management at a large real estate company) my hobbies, wife/social commitments and looking after my mother in law through her cancer thing...Well, I just don't have the ability.
Besides, I have to say that I prefer one-on-one contact better. I'm a bit peoplephobic in a way I guess and those chat rooms with 30 people all talking about different things in a linear fashion doesn't help that.
Phew that is a lot of work to keep you busy everyday and I'm not surprised that you don't have the time. For me all of this is an interest and a hobby but there are far more important things in life. Health and family being two of them and obviously a priority for you which is only right.
I never liked the chat rooms previously and only really started in them lately. Just because I was invited into @helpie and found such a good group of people there that dragged me along. I had pretty much the same feelings as you before that but I've changed my position in the last couple of months. I still prefer one on one but have to say how much fun I find those crazy people in the chats too.
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