"I don't want a job, I want a life and that is what I am getting now," that was what I told a guy who felt I was wasting my time telling him about a website that pays you to socialize.
A job is defined as an activity, temporary or regular and performed in exchange for payment (a living).
You see, the centralized world has made most people give up on the dream that anything is possible outside the perceived normal.
How can you wake up and go out to tell people you are on a social network that pays you to blog, vote and comment?
What do people think about you and your mentality when you tell them you are a Steemian when they ask you what you do for a living? I have been looked over by some pretty questionable eyes whenever I tell people I am a Steemian.
All the more crazy is that we have a dedicated space where we teach people to love themselves, and when I recently was called over for an interview at the Port Harcourt Pleasure Park, they asked what was the end game of the whole Steemit gaga? I told them it was the new reality!
People do not get it, in fact hey think you must be the same with everyone else and when you fail to be that person, you are not in your right senses.
I don't want a job, I want a life.
It is one thing to have a "Job" and another to get one that goes with your life. Do you get angry when the alarm sounds or do you get up before the alarm sounds?
What we do on Steemit is work and I never fail to tell everyone that; But the interesting thing about the "Steemit job" is that you get to have a life.
Working is good but you should be able to live your life while working the job. We are on the verge of creating a movement that will change the way we relate offline and so far, the results are amazing. Take a look at STACH and you will understand.
Seriously, I really do not want a Job, I want a life.
The definition of a job, points to the essence of slaving and doing everything to get your daily bread irrespective of the amount, pain and difficulties that comes.
I want more out of life and not just to do some job for the sake of a living, but to do it for love.
The shift is what makes everything find a balance either for good or bad.
Get your job and when you go out to work, make sure to try and live life, it can only get better. All you need is a mindset of living your life rather than doing a job.
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I am slowly moving in that direction. Two years ago, 100% of my income was from my paycheck-every-two-weeks job, but now it's 70% and dropping.
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No Need to slave at a JOB (Just Over Broke) when you now have STEEMIT...........
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You are right and there will be no need to do something you do not find joy in doing. Cheers.
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Hmmmm, so real to the extent that I could touch it, life was what Mother Nature offered us but the disappointment called centralized system offered us job and downgraded our minds to believe that we must play their insincere dice 🎲 to survive, @ejemai if I speak more, it's never an exaggeration but rather a deeper expression of how I feel and synced with this post of yours.
Thank you brother, wish the world can ever appreciate something good; and that's STEEMIT!
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Jobs are supposed to be fun, instead the greed as encased in human nature has sapped everything that makes for fun from it. The organizational structures as are available these days doesn't support free thinking. It is one that ties you completely to your employer for every bit of your survival. Cheers.
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I totally agree with you sir. People wake up every morning going to work with the thought of pay check and reward etc, not with the thought of adding value to the cooperation. So when they are not rewarded as planned, they get stressed, keep complaining, and at the end get frustrated .
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@ejemai
You have actually written well,working under a firm or government can be so furstrating,Because you have to dance to their tune,there would be no time to put things in order because they will consume all the time you have,but if you have a personal work no one dictates for you,life becomes easier.
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Working under a firm or a government can be frustrating but we owe it to ourselves to find a happy place in between these periods of our lives. When you love what you are dong, you will be able to live life irrespective of the limitations the job places. Cheers mate.
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Nobody wants a 9-5 but people don't realise working for yourself and not working for 'the man' takes determination and dedication, and LOTS OF IT!
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I hope, for me, Steemit will become something more in the near future. I will try :)
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Create a mentality that will help you navigate the murky waters of life so you will stay happy in whatever job you find yourself doing.
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This Wonderful post made my day :) In this post you have perfectly expressed what I feel. Spot on. Keep rocking Steemians !!!
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Thank you for reading, glad you found it useful.
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@ejemai thanks this post came at the right time, each of everyone of us have a dream and as soon as a Job is offered to us we lose the right frame of mind to focuse on our dreams. Just like people said, salary is a bribe given to us to forget our dreams. This is the kind of life i wanted and it is what am getting now. Thanks for sharing @theheralds
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Thanks for reading. Its not a bad thing to get a job, but what is bad is when we seemingly just quickly settle for anything because we want to make a living and then spend the rest of our lives regretting doing what we do. You should be able to live while doing your job.
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Thanks for this. I love every bit of this response.
It's stimulating and logical.
@ejemai
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Tittle say's it all no more
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Thanks
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My grandfather told me find a way to do what you love for a living and you'll never work a day in your life. He loved growing plants and working with animals. He ran a farm his entire life and died of heart attack in one of his hot houses.
I don't care if I die penniless and homeless as long as I got a camera in my hand when I do.
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There is some level of fulfillment one gets when they are actively involved in what they are doing genuinely. Running after what others seem to have set as a standard for happiness in life just doesn't work for everyone.
Only profound satisfaction will give a man such feelings. Cheers
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Hello @ejemai
You have jolted me in to action by this singular post. Steemit is actually the work you can do and still enjoy your self , unlike the conventional jobs where you slave for another from Sun-up to Sun-down. STACH preaches the emancipation of the Nigerian youths and the youth at heart from economic and employment slavery . Kudos
@edith4angelseu
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Thank you Edith. The whole idea of STACH is to offer a way out through the Steemit platform which we are already using for good gains. Having options is better in whatever we do especially when it comes to earnings, and Steemit is one of such options.
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Exactly the same thing I want @ejemai, and I am at the right part to success
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You are and being able to align your thought pattern to the desire to live instead of slaving helps. Thanks.
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right on
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Thanks
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It might be possible to depend on such a website but I think most people will take it as a way of second income beside one offline job. I am on the later category. Certainly there are some people who are getting handsome amount from it or other similar site but not everyone succeed here. So to be in safe side we need other job too, i think.
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The post is not about dropping your other job, it is about being about to find love in what you do. I know quite a number of individuals who work 9to5 and they love it genuinely, and also know some others who are miserable in their job. So also there are many who are miserable on Steemit because its not for them, while some are genuinely happy.
If you ask me, I do not want a job, I want a life, either here on Steemit or elsewhere. Thanks for reading.
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I have to choose to have anlife. Only working 3 days a week to have time to finally live my life and do what I love. Photography and Social Media
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You are really living the life. Hold on to what makes you happy and it will surely make your time worth its while. The world is getting more open source and decentralized.
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Job to many is defined as that 9-to-5 grind, if you do not do that in our clime, there is usually that raised eyebrow when you mention something different from that. The internet had just revolutionized job as we see it. Being a steemian is now possible thanks to the internet. I always hear people say the revolution would not be televised, but the blockchain's revolution would definitely be televised!
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Well the truth is that it is not what you know that makes you great, its what you do with what you know that makes you great. Mind task is more stressful than hard labour , while Steemit is more rewarding than other social media. I always see greatness in you @ejemai
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Well the truth is that it is not what you know that makes you great, its what you do with what you know that makes you great. Mind task is more stressful than hard labour , while Steemit is more rewarding than other social media. I always see greatness in you @ejemai
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This post has officially turned me into a Stemian. Here I am with big dreams that this platform will support and make come to fruition. I'm all in for a life.
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I agree with the overall sentiment of your article and you're right. Work towards your life; not just a job. In my case, I happen to like what I do as a job; since I get to test out new theories and undertake projects within the structure of my job. By myself, I couldn't do that. I think the key is to find a balance so that the repetitiveness of a job is balanced out by undertaking personal passions and hobbies.
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