Over the six months I’ve been active on Steemit, I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon: although this is largely a social platform, I don’t know much about the majority of people that I’m following.
For example, everything personal that I know about @abigail-dantes, who is my favorite Steemian overall, I found out during the “one beer a day challenge” she took. Before that, all I knew about her was that she’s writing lovely psychology articles and always wholeheartedly answering comments.
Also, I know nothing personal about @cryptogee, who wrote my favorite series of Steemit articles – his mind-blowing musings about the future of AI and humanity.
I understand and respect that some of us prefer to remain private. However, I’m guessing that I don’t know much about many Steemians simply because they’ve published their introduceyourself articles ages ago, while I still wasn’t following them.
To solve this, I would like to take this opportunity to promote the usage of reintroduceyourself tag and invite the users who are active here for a long time to publish a “reintroducing myself” article.
Although I’m not here for very long, at the time that I’ve published my introduction I haven’t had 90% of the followers that I have today, so I’ll reintroduce myself too.
My name is Predrag Milošević and I’m a 30-year-old guy from Belgrade, Serbia.
I have graduated on Faculty of Organizational Sciences, worked as a Project Manager and/or Business Analyst in a couple of companies, and dumped my corporate career because I didn’t like spending 8-10 hours on work + 1-2 hours on commuting five times per week.
I really felt that I desperately need more time for myself and I’ve managed to create that time by switching from a corporate to a freelance career. I’ve managed to become a top-rated business plan consultant at Upwork, which allows me to have a nice life in my country by working just a couple of hours per day from home.
Big thanks to my ex-girlfriend and current best girl friend @katarinamiliv for introducing me to Upwork... and Steemit!
I spend most of my free time on dancing the Argentinian tango. Here’s an extract from my article about tango written months ago:
I needed months of persuasion to try out the Argentinian Tango because I thought that there is no way that I would like something like that, that dancing is "gay", and that I would be horrible at it. Now I become jittery whenever I don't tango for more than one day.
Social tango has nothing to do with what is displayed in the movies. Social tango is nonverbal communication, synchronization, and relationship between two persons, music, and other people around you. It doesn’t require you to wiggle or shake your butt, but it does require (or maybe it’s better to say “helps you develop”) openness, relaxation, awareness, sensitivity, creativity, and musicality.
What makes it special is the way it is danced. It is danced in a close embrace (hug) with a focus on feeling, leading, following, adjusting, and improvising with your partner instead of doing choreographed, memorized moves independently or with a light contact with your partner.
As an interesting side-note, before discovering tango, I was mostly listening to punk music and going to punk parties. Here's my pic from a punk concert:
I hope that this has brought me closer to my followers and, more importantly, I really hope that other people will follow this trend.
Isn't it about time that you write a "reintroducing myself" article? : )
Have a wonderful day, week, and life!
Welcome to steemit @lifenbeauty.
This is a great idea @lifenbeauty. I feel the introduceyourself post gets lost in the shuffle after so many followers. I like how you share your background about you living in Serbia. Good for you for ditching the corporate grind. Also, love that you like to tango. Keep up these personal posts man!
Thank you @jfitmisc, see you around! : )
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Pretty good idea @lifenbeauty I personally consider steemit more of a blog website then a social media platform to be honest though..
I agree with you - it's more of a blog than a social media platform, but a blog with unusually high level of interaction between bloggers. : )
@lifenbeauty yes absolutely. Personally I would love to see a few more touches like a photo album on the profile page that would be cool :)
Great post! Rewelcome to the community ;)
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Dude thats great I'm also working on a reintro and for that.............
Thank you. : )
Welcome to steemit, lifenbeauty.
I agree on that as there seems to be a limitation of posts or data which are available as a backlog on one person's blog. Older articles of some users can only be retrieved via Google.
An excellent observation. Furthermore, even if it was feasible to scroll down all the way to the first article and look for the introduction, it is highly inconvenient to do that if the blogger has published hundreds of posts and you're not even certain if he has or hasn't written a personal introduction.
From punk to tango! 😃
Well, thank you so much for your very flattering words. A reintroduce yourself tag is an interesting idea indeed! Let's see what I am going to come up with ....
All the best to you my dear. It has been very interesting to learn a little about you :)
Yes, many people (myself included) find my musical / going out transformation interesting.
I'm looking forward to your reintroduction article (on some Friday after the supernatural series is over)! : )
I totally agree with you @lifenbeauty is that the personal knowledge of our favorite bloggers gives humanity or essence, which is undoubtedly a plus that will highlight what has already been added to each article. Great your story, I started in Workana (platform similar to Upwork).
Hi @leder-lee, thank you for stopping by.
I see that you're new on Steemit, good luck and keep up with the good comments! : )
Welcome @lifenbeauty ! It's a pretty good post that you did, just happened to check around steemit and saw your post. It's cool that you have goal in what you wanted to do, to have more free time and moved into freelancing career. It's a bold move, but also an exciting one in order to focus on what you really want to pursue in life. Staying in the corporate world limits the hours you work per day, and sometimes that also means limiting on the greater and bigger ideals you have in your career. Great read, following you and upvoted. Hope we can stay connected and support each other in the Steemit journey!
Thank you, @miss.kat. I see that you've also recently published an introduction post, I'll check it out! : )
Thanks @lifenbeauty! Haha...always happy to hear your feedback too as my hope is to post art and photography related posts. Want to improve my skills with the assistance of other Steemians for suggestions how I can move my creative skills onto the next level lol~ BTW how do you find life business plan consultant at Upwork at this time?
Glad you enjoy steemit @lifenbeauty :-)
Got to agree with you about cryptogee - he sure does write some interesting articles about my one hot passion which is cryptocurrency and how it will be the means of the future.
Hope you enjoy your next 6 months here too!
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Thanks for stopping by, @georgescrypto. I see that you're relatively new here - my advice to you is don't give up, every beginning is hard, just keep up with the good comments and articles! : )
Wow! @lifenbeauty I am definitely adopting this idea. I just have to gather enough interesting facts about me to share.
I will be tagging you too, so watch out.
My few months of steemit have been interesting! the other day I asked someone his real name, and he told me I was the only one who had ever asked.
I plan to do more of that.
I also love dancing.
I will be writing a reintroducing myself article.
Thanks @djoi, I'm glad you like the idea.
I also love the fact that you asked someone for his real name - I believe that Steemit should be much more personal. : )
Very good post, it would be great that from time to time we did a reintroduction for those who follow us recently.
I hope your foray into the technological world continues to bear fruit
Thank you, @josepiamba. Good luck with the development of your blog too! : )
This is true. Many posts seek popularity and usually personal info doesn't seem to fit that category.
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How often do you recommend re-introducing yourself? I created my first post (introduceyourself) a few months ago and I liked the response.
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Thats pretty cool to know.................
Really cool idea I have only been for week but I’m reading a lot of different content and this is a cool idea
Good to know you are here.
Dancing is fun and good work and yeah, we meet amazing people on Steemit.
nice! I like tango music, salsa too!
Welcome to steemit
Hi, I think you are definitely right. That's a pretty good idea. Maybe I'll do a reintroduceyourself too, please to you.
Welcome back!
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great idea
I've been meaning to do one of these myself. I always say I'll do it when I hit X number of followers (along with the obligatory "here's all of my advice" post) but I can't decide on what that X should be. Anyway, re-welcome to Steemit. I'm going to follow you. - M
Thanks, @malloryblythe. Well, 500 is a nice, round X number. : )
Maybe that’ll be it then!
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I really liked this post. Nice to know more about someone.
excellent post Predrag..!
Hellooo!! Welcome To Steemit :D ;)
Bienvenido nuevamente @lifenbeauty. Es un placer conocer un poco de ti, ademas aprovecharé para decirte que me encanta la manera en que piensas y ves la vida, dejar tu trabajo y vivir la vida a tu manera es algo muy valiente, te felicito. Saludos desde Venezuela❤
Fun fact ! I love Belgrade punk scene. I know a guy from Jorgovani ;)
wow, I loved your article .. A pleasure, I'm new on this platform too and your article is one of the first I see and it's so good, I invite you to visit my profile, there I introduce myself.