Thankyou to @radioactivities, @andrarchy, @robrigo, @thecryptofiend, @stephmckenzie
I can certainly now dress properly for the weather, and I will be heading to Amsterdam directly, where I will set about working on getting myself a benefit payment (it's probably going to take a few months to organise, based on past experience) and then sort out my living situation.
I am networking also and there is people who are talking about putting together a working group based in Amsterdam for Steem development, so maybe after steemfest I'll have a job and more formal living situation.
It's not so bad here, the landlord is nice and he just got a big load of money selling his other house in Varna. He'd probably let me stay on for quite some time yet but I got given a ticket to the steemfest and I feel it is my duty to attend and rub shoulders with my peers, and see what is going on and who wants to do what and if there's anything I can do to join that.
I will certainly be updating everyone on a regular basis, and I think I can also shine a light on the situation in the netherlands as regards to homelessness and the ridiculous housing situation they have there. I've been there before but the benefit of experience means I'll not have all the big hard obstacles in front of me that I had the first time around, a complete stranger to it all.
I am so grateful that steem exists and for all the great people it has brought together... I really do believe that is what Steem is actually for, to gather people, to build a new way of doing things, at least for us, and maybe we'll just manage to change some of the world for the better.
@l0k1 Hey mate,
I don't know what happened to you, I don't know exactly what you are going through. (Could you link me to something so that I get a better idea?)
But I think I am in similar shoes like you right now.
I've been kicked out of the place where I was staying. I can't afford to pay rent. If I stay where I am right now (Germany) I can afford to eat for a month I believe. Hopefully maybe get some contracts on Upwork (for pennies as I am just starting) so I can sustain myself longer.
And in the meantime, I sleep outside, and sometimes in the bathroom of a library :D
I have a mat and a sleeping bag, so I might be better prepared than you. (Though the temperature is dropping under 0 so that shall be interesting :D).
Though what I really want to say is, you will be fine. I even wrote a post about this recently. [And How this can shape you and how Stoicism can help)
Keep on going, mate.
You are not alone
It's odd, I have lived pretty poor most of my life and yet when I fell onto the street, I still never really felt like, I can't explain it, it's like in my mind I am just watching it and like I am a tourist, in the sense like from Fight Club with the support groups...
I have just got a few hiccups in the process, people have given me enough money that I can get the basics I need, and go to Amsterdam in preparation for the SteemFEST. I miss my old backpack...
That's it to the back and to the right... it was defrauded out of me by a homeless guy I met who was just a couple of months out of jail, just before I got off the street for a while with a job in about April this year. I don't think I have quite enough money to replace it (though I may, it's not so important right at the moment).
That photo is of the underground power distribution room that I slept in for about 3 months through the winter, temperatures in there never got below about 5 degrees so I was pretty well most of the time. No lighting in there though, and as winter was thawing out, they blocked up the whole tunnel where it was located.
I should be able to find at least the clothes I will need to get through the time between arriving in Amsterdam and because I know all the services there for homeless folk, I won't be in as difficult a situation as I was this last winter, and with SteemFEST coming up, maybe I'll even find some work in a new project.
I know exactly what you are going through man, it's rough, and it's my own experiences that make me such an avid advocate of Steem - I see this as a way of bringing a little piece of justice and freedom to the world, and people with good ideas but no assets have a chance of getting noticed and being able to get by. We have stories, and with our knowledge and experiences, the ability to tell them, thanks to Steem, and so maybe things will get better quite quickly.
I followed you and I want to wish you the best and I hope that you also can find ways to better your situation.
Yea, I understand that.
To me that says you are most likely content with what's happening to you. You don't suffer mentally. Or maybe you are just disattached, which in a way is exactly the same thing.
So where are you now? From the posts I looked into, it seems you are in Bulgaria? It should be warmer there, no?
I am thinking of going to Spain for winter.
And Amsterdam is colder, and more expensive.
So I really hope something nice comes up for you.
Thank you, I did the same. I'm curious about what's gonna happen and how it'll play out for you.
It is warmer here, although I am in the coldest part of bulgaria, but i have a ticket given to me for steemfest and while for a month or so i will be camping in a park somewhere (I know a spot the police never give tickets and the neighbours don't snitch on you - this is a big problem in the Netherlands, nosy frickin neighbours), around the middle of december they open up a shelter for homeless people in the winter, and as well as that, by staying there, i satisfy a requirement for signing on for a welfare benefit.
This is the worst case scenario, but then I could live frugally for a few months, just buy steem and power it up, and by about late february/march I could just head back to Bulgaria, with a big powerdown that can pay a rent bill with it (and I would have plenty to write about as well as some nice hash regularly to amuse myself and fuel the creativity)... Or something.
I am planning to come back to Bulgaria to settle, I just need enough money to do it. Hopefully the SteemFEST will bring people into my circle who have the capability and interest in starting up a steem developer hub and I would be able to work, I am not that great at coding, yet, but I will be working on developing that while I am hanging out at the drop in centres, and I can of course do administration of computer systems, building, running, monitoring servers, as well. I have no idea what will happen, so I just have a contingency for if nothing pans out that is acceptable...
what is your email for google hangouts?
[email protected]