There are many options to explore, none of them might be perfect at the moment but you have to make a choice.
Powering up is still a good idea. You might wait a bit and hope the price of sbd fair a bit better than Steem but to hope that you will get back to the days of $0.07, I'm not sure that will ever happen.
You might also want to diversify a bit. I haven't really put in much in bitcoin as other altcoins seems to perform better than bitcoin. You may consider one or two ERC20 tokens. EOS looked good but with the current Marathon, I don't know if it's good to buy in now or hold on a bit till it achieve stability. Well, that's one thing with investment, be ready to put on your risk cap.
You can also engage in community support. I haven't followed you long enough to know if you run any charity support. But it's just a suggestion. To me, Steemit has offered me a source of basic income which I'm grateful for, so I usually extend the goodness to those who are not privileged. With less 40sbd you can get a budget android phone for someone in your neighborhood who has to potentials but not the means to be on Steemit. You can provide a little meal for a few people. You might not have the chance to do these yourself but there are some projects and communities around this platform that are reaching to people. You can extend some supports to them.
About the bidbots services, personally I'm not in support of them but that's my opinion anyway, so you can choose as you desire. All the best man.