OK, three questions:
What would have to change in your particular situation to make Steeming full-time be more valuable than your "day job"? The stuff you recently wrote about needing six figures to fulfill your role as a husband and father made it seem like you might be not so far off.
People keep looking at your 'net worth' here and asking variations on what can I, as a newbie, do to reach your level of success? And you basically keep answering "find a way to be valuable". But how much of your situation is just first-mover advantage and n00bs simply won't ever reach your SP? (I'm genuinely not sure what my own account will look like if I keep this up over the next two years, but it's on my mind that maybe I missed the golden days.) ((OTOH, I agree that the value of Steem is going no where but up, so maybe the silver days ahead will be sufficiently rewarding. :-) ))
I have the impression that you're a pretty straight Libertarian, what do you think about the UBI trend in real-world econo-politics?
Thanks man. I wouldn't want to go full time in steem for now and be completely dependent on that source alone since the price is so volatile. I don't want my family to be stressed about the price of steem. Who knows? A major bubble could pop anytime. So having a steady baseline from a job is a nice place to stand on.
For sure I had a first mover advantage but I can't stop thinking about all the people I told back then to get in who just wouldn't. Not only was I at the right place at the right time but I also was the right person for it. Still, adding value was always in the equation. I've seen people who were there when I got started and didn't build a large SP holding like I did.
The golden days will always be relative. The day STEEM is at $100, people will still say that they missed the boat when it was at $3.
I'm puzzled about UBI to be honest. People need function...for non-conscientious people it may prove to be a disaster since they naturally don't have the inclination to work.
I am glad to see you mention that about being the right person.
Over the last few months I wrote some posts about the "whales" being lucky to take advantage of 6 or 7 cents STEEM and being able to load up.
I recall writing one post stating that the same people complaining were not loading up on STEEM at $.85.
Today we are at $3 and those people who were complaining missed the boat. Now they can whine about how "lucky" I was to have been able to buy at $.85.
Being in a place is one thing, pulling the trigger is another. That is what most fail to realize.
You might have been lucky to be in the right place at the right time but the fact you took advantage of the situation had nothing to do with luck.