"Sign up on steemit and make money creating great contents." He said for the umpteenth time. His enthusiasm is infectious as he becomes animated whenever he discovers a new thing. I could literally see the likes, sorry, upvotes in his eyes.
First, I have to charge my phone. I rushed off I to Bathx Barbing Saloon. It is the only place "guaranteed" to have electricity by this time. As I walk toward that salon, I silently pray he has customers. You may be wondering the correlation between charging my phone in a salon and the salon's customers. I would put you out of that misery. Bathx's electric generator only stays on if he is giving a hair cut.
I was over the moon to see the long line of people waiting for Bathx's super hair-cutting skills. But this mood did not last long as I notice about fifteen phones all plugged in the only socket available.
I noticed there was about three power extension socket. Different phones of shape, year, age and color all piled into an ugly heap there. There was no space for me as it did not occur to me to come with my own extension power cord socket.
Then I realized another thing, those guys I saw sitting in the shop are not there for a haircut, they were all providing security to their plugged devices! I waited for an opportunity to present itself so that I could charge my phone. It came sooner than expected when one of the phones rang. The owner hurried to it and unplugged it to answer. I quickly plugged in mine. Wheeew!!
That joy did not last for long as barely thirty minutes of charging had elapsed the electricity went off signaling that Bathx was through with the haircut. A glance at my phone's battery revealed it was at 32%. Well, it's not a full charge, but it's better than nothing.
While waiting for the next customer to come in, I logged into steemit and started blogging in earnest. After about three hours of painstaking effort, I posted. Here come the upvotes, I smiled inwardly, and the next thing I heard was that beep signaling the end of my battery's life then my phone went off.
Ten hours later, with the battery charged, I rushed straight to steemit and checked my blog. I saw $0.00 and that, my friend, is the life of the minnow.
The zero feeling is what I have as I glanced helplessly at my first blog post.
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This post is making a green ($$$) run, and i just fueled it to go for gold. This minnow is eating up its cousins to become a hammerhead shark. Accurate capture of that despairing feeling
True that :)
you're a very talented writer because you write about the gritty reality. I have been looking for writers to show me stuff like those phones charging. This is so good
Thank you very much, we still have an issue with power here. So scenario such as this do play out on daily basis. I appreciate your dropping by and commenting, it means a lot to me.
Oh. Oh. This is brilliant. So Nigerian yet so universal to the minnow experience yet so hilarious -- like a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down lol
Thanks for such nice words
You are a good writer, I wish I could be you...
Upvoted!!
Thanks a lot for visiting my blog and upvoting.
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for your motivation,
https://steemit.com/money/@iamzainshahbaz/15-funny-and-inspiring-money-quotes-from-famous-people-to-make-your-day
Aiit. I'll check it. Cool
Doone
Thanks a lot.
I think there are a lot of people on here that happens too. Anticipation,* (like the song goes) *, i"ts keeping me waiting." Nice story @greenrun.
You are right, that is the life of a minnow...lol
give me a follow thank you for your interest
I really enjoyed reading this.
Thanks a lot.
wow love this
Those feelings
nice post
Thanks for visiting. I appreciate your comment.
Bro. @greenrun what time exactly did you summit this post
Yesterday evening can't remember the exact time.
keep posting and earning brother! following you now
Thank you.
So accurate, that zero feeling. I haven't really evolved past this yet, a recent post did make $10 though, so that was a big boost from the usual 0.00
Steem on friend. It's a feeling that would eventually disappear.
Nice post
I rushed my phone a while ago to use here but it is Saturday means not to work because tomorrow is a Sabath day.
All good <3
Hahaha. Trust I can relate with the zero feeling. We all seemed to deal with it. And the power too. One Nigeria! for real 😉❤
The power situation is something anyone here can relate to :)
Youre not alone with that zero feeling. You put yourself out there and that 0 $ makes you feel helpless BUT.. dont give up and just try to be in it for the fun of it and im sure you heard this alot but just be yourself and im sure youll do great (which, by the way, I see you are!)
Enjoyed reading it, thanks for sharing .
Upvoted and following🤗
Thanks a lot.
Hahahah
I can relate to this my friend. However, you now have a decent usd on this post. Be encouraged.@greenrun
I'm very grateful at the turn of the event. Thanks for your kind comment.
bruh! you are a senior man
Following your footsteps sir :)
this man, you are a senior citizen o.
nice one fam
Loved it. Real and funny.