getting gigs, August 16th

@kryptik makes a great point in his last post. A post on the HIVE blockchain is an advertisement for it. So what exactly do I promote? Today, I speak to my skills with a camera. The determination to innovate within your means makes you valuable. Your value reaches a certain threshold, then it becomes desirable.

For example, I got this opportunity through my father’s friend, but I still may not have been considered had I not shown inimitable skill. Anyone can wield a camera, but creativity and technical skill with the device must be learned.

I feel the same about AI, Twitter, you name it. I learn things to improve my skills, sure, but I’m torn between investing my time into opportunities less valuable. I could have even 100 fans delegate some stake to me, let’s say 500 HIVE. That alone would go much further than receiving payment for a piece of art I create or a one-time work opp. Yet, my communication of the opportunity hasn’t translated well.

I’m in a project that’s willing to do anything to make money except for post their content on this blockchain. Donations, selling more NFT’s 😑, and all types of convoluted mechanics.

My advertisment for HIVE, despite introducing people to good people like @rubencress and showing newcomers more 100x returns on their investment of time, has not succeeded yet.

Why? I think it’s largely political. Driven by beliefs, people will think themselves suffering from an affliction when all they have is an overactive imagination. Hypocondriacs are a proof that belief is a powerful tool. If you believe writing, formulating thoughts, and organizing and sharing them to be too much, you’ll tune out. If you think you deserve things faster, you’ll quit before your effort pays off.

What do I think? I can manage a decent group of supporters on this platform if I switch up the language I use to recruit. I believe “stake and delegate” is a much more profitable avenue then “make and sell”. Twitter is cool for micro-thoughts, but macro-ideas need more room. Everyone is a writer scared they have too much to say. And, I believe that people hold their beliefs too firmly, to the point of failure often times.

What do you believe?