It all started 28 years ago when my parents met my sister was 2 years later they had my bigger brother fast forward 2 years I was born . my parents decided we weren’t enough and went on to have 6 more children my brothers and sisters ,my sibling are not really that relevant in this story this will be the last you will hear of them , I will be focusing on mike and to make it more awkward I will be speaking in third person, thank me later.
Growing up in a small town it was quite boring for little mike the town’s population was really small and the large family that mike hailed from made up almost 10% of the population, mike and his sibling all went to the same school (I don’t know if it was my dad’s idea to keep bullies away from us) and that was when things changed, mike met his first and current girlfriend at the age of 9. And went on to propose at 14 years, legend has it the story is still the most embarrassing thing that ever happened in the poor guy’s life.
On a more serious note the town I grow up in was really empty and quiet which led to do a lot of reading, every evening I would find a shade and read a book, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said “there is no knowledge that is no power”, this quote motivated me since then I have picked up on many fields i now know close to 28 programming languages, a whole lot of history, chemistry and physics. I moved out of my town at 20 years old I had been unemployed for long after that.
My head felt like a large library, I have always wanted to share the information and the things that I find interesting, I started a blog at one point but i did not have the resources to manage it. Since I started working three months ago and a saved up a bit to buy a computer I have been looking for a place like steemit. The machine I bought It’s really not a powerful computer and where I live in a 100$ is a lot of money I get paid 120$ per month ,that’s rent , that’s food for 30 days, that’s the money I send home . But I managed to save 60 and borrowed 20 to get me this.
and this is my DIY mouse pad it works really well (and yes thats the pocket of an old jeans )
I thought I would look for solutions to my need to express myself I joined great sites likes quora (as it says on their site Quora - A place to share knowledge and better understand the world.) .somewhere around last month I discovered steemit. And steemit is exactly what I needed all this time.
After a long day of work it’s nice to come home to a community you feel you belong in, I think what the creators of steemit and all you beautiful people have managed to do is quite admirable, I have been lurking around here for some time, I only got approved yesterday and feel a strong sense of belonging here already ,steemit really is beautiful.
I will be sharing the things that ‘i think’ are interesting thank you so much for reading this it means a lot
I will hopefully share my identity once I get used to steemit I am not very comfortable in my skin at the moment thank you for reading my story have a nice day everybody.
Wellcome to the community!
Welcome to family :)
Welcome to the community Mike! I'm glad you decided to join Steemit and take us with you on your journey. Everyone starts somewhere so it's good you decided to be with us. We're all here to help you with anything you need and will guide you every step of the way. I know times can be rough, but at least you're doing what you can with what you have. Keep working hard and constantly writing articles on Steemit, and your account will grow. It's just staying consistent, making quality content, and obtaining a loyal following. If you do that, you will be successful. I look forward to seeing your journey, and never hesitate to ask anyone for advice, we are all here to help :)
Thank you for you kindness and encouragement , I will most certainly ask for guidance, thank you so much!
Keep fighting, keep writing.
Steem has power of changing people's lives.
Thank you for your kind words !
Hello @humblebee Great introducemyself post!
I'm @andyluy and I've been here for a couple of weeks, a can tell youThat steemit is the most amazing thing I've ever seen at the internet so far. I'm happy seeing it grows every day!
I had some hard time on the firsts week, so I spent some time searching information to improve my experience with steemit, latter I've decided to make posts about those things in order to help the new ones to have a shortcut to get deeper on steemit.
here is some of my posts, I hope It mitght be helpful to you:
The Randowhale
Getting videos from facebook
Minnowssupport!
Randowhale update 1
I intend to keep posting useful info that I may be able to gather, and in a near future some give away. Feel invited to follow me and if you have any question about steemit you can ask me in any of my last posts, I'll try my best to help.
What a noble cause , Thank you for the valuable information , may God bless you
Thank you @humblebee you too ^^
Great story Mike! Greetings from Lithuania
Hello! Looking forward to more posts from you. Check out my blog and follow if you're interested.
WElcome to Steemit. followed n upvoted
wellcome :)
thank you
Welcome to Steemit, Humblebee! Thank you for sharing your background.
You are welcome, Thank you for reading it!
Welcome @Humblebee to Steemit:) Glad to see you. I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community :) Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me at @mekong
Welcome to Steemit @humblebee :)
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Welcome to steemit, happy to have you here
I am @alienposts , my real name is achraf :)
Checkout my blog posts, Enjoy your time here and let's get this party started :)
hello @humblebee
you are very much welcome to steemit,a one of its kind in the history of social networks. i will like to share with you some lessons i learnt the hard way.
First,write on your area of strength, don't strugle more to get topics to write on, but when you write based on what you know/do well at, that becomes your brand and fellow steemians will know what to expect from you on every post.
don't beg for followers.
When people follow you on a quip pro quo basis, that's the foundation of not getting upvotes and comments because many of your followers didn't do so because they wanted what you have to offer but rather they are just there as numbers. #don't go for numbers, but value.
When i joined, after my intro post. i went low kay and started engaging with people on their posts and comments and like that,i was getting people that truly liked me for me. i must note that at some post as a newbie, i outrightly asked people to follow me but that was before i learned that it was one of the unwritten rule of steemit;don't beg for followers.
Again,paticipate in contests, it will conect you to people and probably, earn you some steem/steem dollar. and always try to leave a good comment on people's posts. this dose wonders. check out this contest[clickhere]https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@literature-trail/50-word-story-contest-week-19-join-for-a-chance-to-win-1000-trail-and-40-sbd
Finally, learn to engage. Get the esteem app on your phone so that after writing and posting with your pc,you can now use your phone and respond to replys on the go. This will help you build your followers.>/h4>
I hope that this piece will be of grate help to you as it has been for me[though i learnt the hard way]. Follow them and thank me later. : )
once more, you are welcome.
@arizonawise.
Hey, wish you a great time on this STEEMIT platform; hope you'll make many friends. Once you start posting I’ll be reading them so we can exchange our different points of view.
Here a post of mine. Please refer to it and let me know some comment if you like.
https://steemit.com/life/@indepthstory/lgbtq-s-continues-to-be-discriminated-against-in-most-of-the-world
If you find it interesting, click on the FOLLOW link and let’s keep in touch.
C’ya around,
@indepthstory
Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now
Welcome to Steemit! You will rock here! Followed. Follow me back 😘
Welcome @humblebee, you will love it on here! Check out minnowsupport for useful recommendations for newbie members. Follow me if you want free banners to help build your following.
Welcome @humblebee to Steemit. Glad you’re on board. Hope you have a good time. Please follow me @dangho
