Hey, I'm @Jobsande! Digital nomad โœˆ๏ธ I love travel, budgets, drums, and bananas + peanut butter ๐Ÿ˜‹

in introduceyourself โ€ขย  7 years agoย  (edited)

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Glancing suspiciously at my Unicorn Steve. Steve is always up to no good.

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One time I caught him red-handed munching on my muesli. Such a disobedient Unicorn.

But I digress. Let me tell you a bit about myself, and what I plan on posting about on Steemit.

ABOUT ME

I'm American but have spent most of the last 7 years in Hamburg, Germany. I know it's sounds super cheesy, but I originally came here for love - I guess I'm a romantic at heart (feel free to roll your eyes). Although that first relationship ultimately didn't last, I came to love the city of Hamburg, had made a bunch of friends (besides stuffed Unicorns), and enjoyed teaching English.

English teaching gradually transformed to social media management, and later the software sales and support space. Since I'm "location independent", I can just as easily work on the road. Whenever my friends ask me if I'm going somewhere for "work" or "vacation", I never know how to answer that since my life is basically one big vacation. Ok...I might be exaggerating a bit, but I honestly have a hard time separating the two. I'll take a bit of time off work during my travels, and then work a few days/weeks wherever I am. I'll bounce around Europe a lot, working from places like Barcelona, Split (Croatia), London, Lisbon, Zurich, Athens...etc. Then I'll visit my family and company headquarters in Chicago a couple times a year. Gotta remind them I'm a real person.

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Beholding the glory of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

I've been a drummer since I was a little kid, but hard it find to commit to a band with all my traveling. I would love to find a portable/airplane friendly hand drum I could bring on a plane, so if you know of something I'll upvote your comment as thanks ;)

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Teaching my grandma the drums

Besides that, I also enjoy staying active with yoga, bouldering, and weird, lizard-like crawling / body weight exercises where people stare at me like I'm an alien from outer space (search "Ido Portal" on Youtube, guaranteed to blow you away).

Speaking of weird, I'm also a giant game nerd , meeting regularly for D&D (I play Trey Lamรฉ, a half-elf thief). Usually my opening line picking up ladies at a bar ๐Ÿ˜ŽA wonder I'm still single.

JORDAN ON STEEMIT

Planning on posting a combo of advice, funny personal stories, and travel blogging. Specifically:

-Money: cryptocurrency (my newest obsession), making budgets sexy, creative income strategies
-Travel: the places I work from, travel hacks, tips, budget travel, etc.
-Random anecdotes or whatever I find interesting, inspiring, or worth chatting about..it might be about music, staying in shape while traveling, or something super random like this Buddha head I found in the trash

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(from https://www.instagram.com/p/BQxvTGNFUom/?taken-by=jorsanders7)

Or hilarious street art

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(from https://www.instagram.com/p/BNOpY2jgRpO/?taken-by=jorsanders7)

In closing, I'd love to get your opinion on my latest idea. Last night as I was trying to fall asleep, I had this brain flash for a book idea. The working title: "Misadventures of a Digital Nomad: Travel Hacks Gone Wrong, Budget Backfires, and Awkward Situations"

There's such an abundance of tips and success stories on these topics.... I figured some epic fails might be a more unique and entertaining take. Your thoughts?! Be honest, all constructive feedback appreciated!!! ๐Ÿ˜…

Buuuut if you must give me compliments, I suppose I can accept.
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Anyway, I'm super excited to meet you all here. I'd say feel free to upvote and follow me, but I'm sure you're sick of hearing that at the end of everyone's post, so I won't say it. Oh wait..oops...guess I just did :D

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(Yes, I just looked through google images for 15 minutes to create this meme. Seems it's time for me to get off the computer.)

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Haha, definitely lived up to the "Sarlacc of Steemit" line. ๐Ÿ‘Œ

I've just recently begun trying to transition to the digital nomad lifestyle - so I'm stoked to read about your insights.

I'm a software developer by background, and a total nerd myself. My pickup lines going something like this: "My guild had the server first clear of Mythic Emerald Nightmare... so I'm kind of a big deal." ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Anyway, I definitely look forward to reading more!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Wow, and I thought I was nerdy.... !! Lol jk ok we both are at an equal nerdiness level, on that note, and I mean this as a compliment, you look like a jedi ninja in your profile pic ๐Ÿ˜„

Thought I already have a bunch of blog ideas - many of which relating to digitally nomading - yes I just made that a verb - I'm leaning towards holding off at least for the next few weeks or so, since it's looking like it may make more sense for us newbs to focusing on commenting vs posting initially (see my most recent post on this https://steemit.com/help/@jobsande/best-steemit-newbie-strategy-posting-vs-commenting).

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Haha thanks. ๐Ÿ˜…

And building up a follower base via commenting first definitely seems like that the way to do it - good call.

Although I can't wait to hear your thoughts on "digitally nomading" - been reading up on all kinds of stuff to try and figure out the most economical and practical ways to make it happen, so it'll be cool to see your firsthand experiences. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Looking forward to following your travels. Hopefully our paths will cross one day :)

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

thanks man, hope so! just curious what are your travel plans for the next couple months? I'll be in Germany, Croatia, London, and probably Bosnia...

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Hii @jobsande For Succses

Nice To meet You, let me introduce my name @marknst14

I come from #hongkong

Welcome to #steemit for those of you who want to succeed here, I also want the same thing.

I am also new here #eSteem Still Many Learn from The seniors.
Nice to meet you all !!

Please follow and Upvote My account @marknst14

Thank you very much everything

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

yo! I like the memes! I'm a noob

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Welcome to the Steemit Community! I hope that I can add value to you in teaching about self discovery life hacks. I am learning a lot and so will you, follow me @zimi

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Hey, nice connecting here - I just followed you back, thanks so much. Looking forward to your life hacks. Can you give me a preview and mention a quick one right now?? :-) #couldnthurttoask

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Welcome @jobsande! Gotta love the Fresh Price of Bel Air! Look forward to your blog posts!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Thanks! I gotta run now, I just whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror...

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Hello @jobsande. Welcome to Steemit. I am David. I wish you have a happy journey here.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Thanks David!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Welcome mi friend good post i am @djnoel :)

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Welcome Jobsande !! Nice to see more people like you - here joining steemit ! Becoming a steamian is a great adventure!! Here you can win money while bloging ! At the beginning it wouldn't be easy, but it isn't impossible. So just write from your heart and everything will be allright. Wish you much luck! Cheers! Wish you much luck! Greetings, @khunpoom !

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Thanks for the nice comment - totally, building a reputation / steam power here is like building up like a snowball. I get it - I've definitely got my work cut out for me!!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Welcome! Please consider checking out minnowsupportproject.com and @minnowsupport. It is a great community of individuals that will help you get started and can answer all of your questions.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Just followed, awesome thanks for the tip! Checking it out now :)

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

This was by far the most entertaining "introduce yourself" post Ive come across while impatiently awaiting to be "accepted" However... "Steve is always up to no good" actually made me laugh out loud! Followed!! Look forward to reading your posts!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Awww thanks so much, that really means a lot! Yep, I'm pretty weird...but not as weird as Steve. Followed you back!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

thanks man! much appreciated!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Hello and good luck in this platform: share ideas and your skills in pics.; lots of work if you want to make it. Here a link to one of my posts.

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@indepthstory/simple-technical-analysis-on-btc-follow-up-to-previous-post

Find it interesting? UPVOTE โ€ฆ and then click on the FOLLOW and weโ€™ll keep โ€œtalkingโ€.

Sincerely,

@indepthstory