Introducing Moondrop to the Steemit community.

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)

Hi everyone!! My Steemit handle is Moondrop. This is my second Steemit post. My brother Stuntworks introduced me to Steemit last week. I am an ex elementary school teacher, turned graphic designer / entrepreneur.

This is a little about me and my story. I am a mom to two wonderful kids. I have a brilliant daughter Nicole who is 23 and my son Jonathan who is 20. I worked as a teacher for 13 years and really disliked it. I liked the students, but the pay was awful. I always had a side hustle because the pay just wasn't enough. My first side hustle was selling stuff on ebay. I did ok but it just wasn’t enough money to quit my teaching job.

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With my brother in Mexico.

When my daughter turned 18 she told me she was moving to NY to purse a career as a Web Developer. I was shocked that she was leaving as I always thought she would go to college. My daughter did very well and worked for large companies as well as startups. I asked her what I could do to leave my teaching job. She told me I should create graphics. I had never drawn with a computer, so I was very skeptical that this could be a career. My daughter gave me her old Mac Book Pro and a book on graphic design. She told me to read the book and start creating.

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My daughter Nicole, Me and my son Jonathan.

I spent that summer that she left to NY teaching myself Illustrator and Photoshop. By the time school started up again I had an online store and I was selling a good deal of items. I continued to create items and work my teaching job for one full year. After a year with my graphic design business I was able to quit my teaching job to purse my graphic design business full time.

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The day I quit my teaching job.

My daughter recently quit her full time job to freelance and travel, to be a digital nomad. Sometimes we travel together. Basically we can both work wherever our computers are. Lately we have been traveling a lot to Mexico. We love to travel, see new things, meeting new people and great food. I plan to post a lot of our trips on Steemit.

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My daughter and me in Mexico.

We liked Mexico so much we purchased a building, along with my brother, in Tulum, Mexico. I will be posting on running my business while traveling and on running a business on Airbnb.

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Our new property in Tulum, Mexico

That’s a little about me, I hope you follow me to read my future posts on travel, food and trying to live the digital nomad lifestyle.

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Welcome to Steemit! I can't wait to see your content, it sounds like you will have some interesting posts. I have followed you & please follow me as well if you would like. Have a nice day & Steem on!

Thank you, I am now following you.

Welcome to the community! Glad to have you here! Follow me at https://steemit.com/@bitgeek

Welcome to Steemit, @moondrop!

Hope you will enjoy Steemit, and looking forward to your posts, especially the ones on travel and living the remote working lifestyle!

Thank you so much. I will be traveling soon and posting.

Welcome to Steemit, @moondrop!

Hope you enjoy being here!

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