Hello everyone!
I am a newbie here, so first of all I would like to introduce myself and tell the short story of mine, which I hope will be interesting to you, maybe even beneficial to some extent.
Let me start from the very beginning. I have always been a bookworm, so I did not hesitate a lot with the choice of my future profession. Literature and languages were the natural choice.
So I decided to study foreign languages which included English, French, Greek and Latin (just in case you are curious my native language is Ukrainian). These were exciting years of student life. And when telling “exciting”, I mean not only crazy adventures which each student has, but also I really enjoyed the educational process as that was the sphere I really liked.
All these years were really nice but after my university was finished, I understood that real life is quite different and reading novels is not going to feed me, it can rather be a hobby than actual occupation. So, then I started to try myself in different spheres where my knowledge of foreign languages could be useful.
I think you already guessed in which sphere I was working, of course it was tourism. During that period of life I was working in airlines, travel agencies etc… and I must say it was good. Each of these jobs had some pluses and minuses but what I liked the most, I could travel a lot and for free, meeting new people, learning a lot of new interesting facts and just developing myself.
Why did I move Turkey?
After a year or so another big change happened in my life. I met my husband. He is originally Turkish, so after some time we decided to move and live in Turkey. Mostly, is was dictated by economical condition as he could get much better job in Turkey.
So, I moved to Turkey and I started to search for a job too but due to the fact that I am foreigner, it is was not that much easy. Yes, of course, there were a lot of job suggestions but there was nothing what I could call interesting or at least acceptable. That time I actually got involved into deep ocean of freelance business.
A little bit about my freelancing career...
I heard about freelance during my student years and I even created profiles on some websites but I really did not keep too much attentions to that. So, I updated my profiles, passed some tests, created some samples and sit down waiting that millions of suggestions will fall on me. But it was not that easy.
My each day was starting with a cup of coffee and checking all freelancer sites I was registered at. Each day I was applying more and more jobs but no answer, no any single sign of interest in me, no any single interaction. Months passed and I got really discouraged and disappointed. I almost gave up. I was checking my profiles more and more rare.
But then, one day, it appeared like a ray of sun among the clouds. I opened that website and saw a message, it was a job offer. It was really small job, I had to make short translation for one company. I do not remember right now what was the exact budget, I think it was something like 3 USD more or less. And no, it is not a misprint, it was really around 3 USD but you cannot imagine how happy I was, like I won a million jackpot in the lottery. I was as diligent as never, I checked and rechecked that translation dozens of times.
This job gave me new hope and inspiration. It was like a push for my freelance career. In a few days I got one more job from the same company and some time after I started to get offers from other companies.
I am freelancer for 7 years already. During these years I worked with different companies and performed different kind of jobs for them, I had small as well as long-term contracts. The most outstanding and the one I am actually so proud of is the contract with world’s largest search engine Google. It was really great experience for me. It was not only good source of income but also their team showed me different world, they showed me internet life from different side, they helped me to grow professionally. But that is quite different topic and we will not enter into it today.
How I got involved in cryptocurrency
Let me make the story short as I believe you are not that much interested to read about all my employers and what kind of job I did for them, so I will skip that and move directly to the point. My main specialization is translation. I was making different kinds of translation but then I noticed that cryptocurrecy topic got very popular and I was getting more and more crypto related translations. Of course, there were a lot of unknown terms which I have never met before, so naturally I had to make some research to understand what they are and how they should be translated.
Slowly slowly, I even did not notice when but I got involved in cryptocurrency. My husband was interested in that topic too and actually he started to learn about it much earlier than me, so that gave me another push to study and investigate this topic more.
After we got some knowledge, we tried ourselves on exchanges. I cannot say that our first experience was very successful. Well, the only thing I can advice here is: make a trial with small amount of money, just to see how it works, just to understand the process. After few trials, you will get the system and maybe even earn your fist money.
Of course, it is not that much easy, you have to be very careful and read a lot of information before, watch thousands of videos and follow all crypto related news but as soon as you get into the process, you will understand it is worth all your efforts.
We actually spent a lot of time on exchanges and after we earned some
money there, we bought our first RIG.
I'm glad I started to learn about cryptocurrency, it is great to be part of it. I have learnt how exchange works and how you can actually trade, what does it mean digital currency and so on.
But the most important thing is that it helped me to be more financially independent, as thanks to RIG I get passive income each month. Of course, it is not as smooth as you may think and it has some issues too but we will talk about it in the next articles.
To sum up, I may say, one of the benefits of being a freelancer is that you are getting involved to all new trends, tendencies and revolutions, does not matter to which sphere they are related. Just do not give up!
Hope you enjoyed the article and my experience would be useful for you. Nowadays I am trying to learn more about cryptocurrency to educate myself, so I'll be glad if you can suggest me some other sources.
Hello @kbasali
I welcome you and your husband (if he has a profile please share it so I can follow him as well).
I encourage you to communicate with @irastryzhak who currently lives in Ukraine. Sometimes people become successful if they join a group of people who provide encouragement as well as suggestions. I would offer my assistance but I never have anything of interest to read anyway so perhaps is not a good resource.
I would also mention @sweetsssj who is wildly successful on STEEM. Not only is her content well written but I have found her to be very friendly when she has replied to me. Personally I think she has to have a large staff to accomplish what she does...
Thank you so much for welcoming. I will definitely communicate and follow them. Your article about yoghurt is interesting and useful, so I cannot you have nothing of interest to read. I did not check all your content so far but I will. It is really nice to meet you. You were the first one who put the comment here :)
Welcome to Steemit @kbasali!
I wish you much success and hope you find Steemit to be as rewarding and informative as I have.
Yes, I love Crpto too! Lots of detailed analysis on my blog along with some predictions
Here are some links you might find useful.
Your stats on SteemNow
Your stats on SteemWorld
Your stats on SteemD
How to use Minnow Booster
How does Steemit actually work?
Let me know if I can help.
Many blessings! @bycoleman
Hello @bycoleman. Do you anything about SteemTracked it has some interesting reports but hasn't been working properly for a while.
Actually, I did not know about it at all. I'm pretty new myself.
I see you are a gifted writer. You should checkout our 45 SBD contest.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@bycoleman/usd45-sbd-steemit-writing-contest-writer-s-needed-the-more-writers-the-more-winners
Thank you so much for your welcoming! I looked through your articles and they are really helpful. I actually would be very happy if you can help me more with Booster.
@bycoleman have you ever use minnow Booster?
WELCOME TO STEEMIT!
@kbasali - I look forward to your crypto posts...
*Welcome, I wish you all the success on Steemit. I will be following you...
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Thank you so much for welcoming. I am so glad to finally join Steemit. I am already working on my first crypto article but do not expect form me too much as I am also just learning about it. But I will try to make it interesting and useful, not just general info. So stay tuned, I will be really happy if you red it and especially if you find it useful.
You are most welcome, I hope to see you on steemit often.
Hi how are you? Really nice intro, i love it ! I’m a new steemit user as well and would like to connect with other cool steemians, artists and musicians. I’m posting music tutorials and other things related to music (and bitcoins:p). I’m the founder of the free music school communicasound. I'm really pleased to meet you. So i give you my vote, follow you and i will be happy to read your next posts in the futur. If you want, you can do the same and follow me. It’s important to have a family in Steemit :) Greetings from Paris. Peace.
Thank you so much for your welcoming and your support. You are right, it is really important to build nice open relations with people not only here in Steemit but anywhere else. I will definitely follow you and will wait your new articles and hope we can really become Steemit family :)
Same here ! Thank you for the kind words and we will keep in touch for sur. I will be happy to support your work as well. Peace and welcome on my Steemit family :)
Welcome to Steemit @kbasali. Surprised that you moved to Turkey. I'm trying to find ways to get out from Turkey :D
Thank you. Nice to meet you. I am not sure why you want to get out from Turkey so much. I agree that nowadays it is not the best time around here but I hope and I wish it will get better. Also when I moved here and it was like 8 year ago, the situation was much better.
I agree that Turkey was a much better country in the past but nowadays the situation is getting worst. The first reason is that the people are generally rude and uneducated. Secondly, I don't like our political standing and as a third we are actively in a war with Syria.
That is true that there is problem with education around here but I think it is mistake of people themselves as they do not want to be educated. Concerning political standing you are right too but it is really long topic to discuss. Actually I want to write some article about Turkey too but did not decide so far what it can be. Maybe you may help me and give some suggestions?
I'm aware of it and I think this is a really big problem :) I guess you can write about history or local foods. There are huge materials. I don't suggest you involved in political stuff in your posts but it is up to you :)
Yes, that is for sure that I will not write about politics as it is too complicated topic and I do not want to be involved into it. I would like to write about something neutral and what will be interesting to everyone.