Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 65: What if I didn't know Steemit?

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM

_{I am @shadow04
From #bangladesh🇧🇩}

🥰 Dear Friends 🥰

How are you all Hope you all are well by the grace of Almighty Allah. Alhamdulillah, I am also very well. Today I am here to participate in the ongoing Steem4Nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 65: What If I Didn't Know Steemit? contest in the Steem4Nigeria community. At the beginning of the contest I would like to thank @steem4nigeria so much for giving us such a beautiful contest.

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✳️ Before you were introduced to steemit, what digital or physical work did you base your income on?✳️

Before I got to know Steemit I was involved in many physical and digital jobs to earn money.

The physical functions.

• All the people living in the village work in different seasons to earn money from a very early age. I am no exception. I remember the first time I went to work in the fields when I was only 9 years old and I was a 4th standard student at that time. The job was to plant onion seedlings, then I used to do simple tasks like washing jute, planting garlic seedlings regularly.

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• Also after growing up I used to work with my father on our threshing machine. Where we used to thresh and thresh the crops of people's fields such as rice, wheat, pulses etc. and take a certain proportion of our remuneration from there.

• Another source of my income is tutoring. I have been a very good student since my childhood and have taught young children as a home tutor from a very young age. Even I still tutor a few students. First of all I charge only 300BDT or 17 steem per student for tuition fees. I used to take money every month. But now I get 3000BDT or 177steem equivalent salary from every student.

Digital Works :-

• After buying Smart I first worked on a site called web pay in Telegram where my job was only to preview ads. I used to get max 0.75 BDT 0.0044 steem for every 3 second ad preview. And sometimes they paid 0.017 steem per add.

• After that I worked for some time in an online marketing site but I didn't get paid there.

✳️ Have you been a victim of online scams? Is steemit a breakthrough?✳️

Yes, I have fallen victim to online scams quite a few times. In most of those scams I didn't lose that much but in one scam I suffered a huge loss.

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In the scam they first lured me to fill a form and take them to Mitil. In that meeting there were about half a hundred other people like me who joined them that day because of their desire to earn online like me. In the meeting they explained their activities very well which made us all impressed with their site. However, finally they told us. That is to pay 2100BDT first to work on their site. I was so attracted to their site that I don't have any money so I give my tutor's one month salary to the scammers in online payment.

Later they taught us Kooz with some classes. I tried hard to move forward accordingly. But, after four months of hard work, I lost my patience as I did not get any benefit from that site and after some time I came to know that the site has stolen money from all the users.

✳️ Do you prefer writing on Steemit for a month in your home to working under someone for a month under duress? ✳️

I'd rather work at home for a month on Steemit than work under someone else.

Steemit is a social site where I write freely, I can work as per my convenience. And here I will determine how much work I will do and there will be no interference from others or I will not have to wait in front of anyone. I can organize and share my own creativity according to my own will.

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But, working under someone means living a life of servitude. Which I never support. Working under someone else means prioritizing someone else's creativity over my own and working accordingly. Also, I have to work within a certain time frame. And they will fix my working hours too which is really painful thing.

So, I want to work like an entrepreneur on Steemit without anyone to dictate to me if I stay within the law.

✳️ Has steemit made you a bit independent financially than how you were? If yes or no, how and why? Explain with reasons. ✳️

Yes, Steemit has made me financially self-reliant. I am a student and a student, I didn't have any money to support my own expenses before, I even had to ask my mother for money to buy her mobile data, which is really embarrassing at this age.

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However, after Steemit came into my life, I am financially backing myself. Now I don't have to go to my family to buy data for my mobile. Because I know Steemit is there to support me.

Although I haven't received any financial support from my Steemit ID yet, because my account is new. However, I have put my account as support and now I need support from people I know. Which might never have been possible without Steemit.

Hopefully, in the future, I will get better support from my own Steemit account and move forward on the road to self-sufficiency, just like the big Steemians.

✳️ Imagine your life without Steemit and tell us in 3 sentences as the concluding part of your post. ✳️

Spending my life without Steemit is really painful. Because I am addicted to it. It is also painful for me to spend a day without posting on Steemit. But, in the morning when I prepare post to share on Steemit. Then I miss the beauty of the morning. So, even if my life isn't better without Steemit, I think every morning will be spent in touch with nature.

I want to invite @imranhassan @akbarmia @zisha-hafiz to this contest. Here is the contest link.

🔰Thanks for your valuable time 🔰

• Best Regards,,
• @shadow04