This Gif speaks volumes on how I felt when I hit that POWER DOWN button yesterday...lol
Today I woke up to realize that if I just hang in there and ride it out, it may be more beneficial to keep at it with the Steem Power. So out of determination I am going to just avoid dipping off from my Steem Power and figure other routes to keep us afloat. Just took too much time and effort to get to 800 SP to let a few monetary worries take me out of the game.
So keep my crazy ass in your prayers, I am hording this SP as if my life depends on it. Gotta keep on keeping on and hope for the best that all will work out in the end. I feel like that guy in Lord of the Rings now:
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Anyways, not giving it up....I will figure it out how to juggle life and my precious SP from going south.....damn you Steemit, you have me addicted as a Steem Power horder here lol...love it!!
~sflaherty
I've been tempted too but I'm glad I didn't power down when I was struggling. I have an account that went from being worth about $800 to almost $4000 in like a month. What if I power down and then a year from now it's worth 10 times more? Hell no! Just upvoting my own publications I already make more than if I took a job writing articles. No deadlines, no pressure, and on top of that I can help other people out giving them money that doesn't cost me a thing.
Its a very torn issue for me lately. Pre-HF19 I actually was doing quite well on my posts but it nose dived bad lately due to the voting pool being a little tight on people. Not their fault but man did it dive lol. So I am in debate lately if I should pay some bills with it or not and on a rash choice I said hell with it last night and powered down. When I woke up today I was telling myself this is not a wise move and to bare with the moment lol...so I can't do it, just had to stop it. 800 SP was not easy to come by here so like you I hope to just keep going forward. Figure I will sort out the bills some other way lol. Does get addictive to save back SP lol
chart looks good here. another 2-3% with volume stepping in and the price may go up significantly from here. HF 19 will be seen to be a good thing over all, as I know it has been hard on some, but some others were getting 800 bucks for farting!! When you see that, you know people will be cashing out, they dont care about steemit. as a result the price has gone down. now HF19 seems to have calmed down to more realistic numbers. this now paves the way for the price to start going back up again. all you got to do is wait until people are getting paid 800usd for a 5 line blogging post, and then you know its time to power down, take some profits, and wait for the next buy opportunity. easiest trading strategy in the world ;)))
lol...that cracked me up but oddly put it in way better perspective for me here lol. Your right its too early and I am doing too well to go backwards. I think I can manage the bills if I bare with it for a week or so...just gets sketchy sometimes so I freak out lol. How I made it to even get 800 SP with that concern in the back of my mind to balance family and saving here is beyond me, thank god for ulcer meds lol. Thanks for that, the humor was well needed lol
Heads up! you are doing a great thing here! I see people I am working with also having a hard time as the money is not flowing in, but it will with time! I am convinced that the hardship you endure now will pay huge dividends later, especially if you are putting together such a group as in slack! its bloody awesome! it makes you a pioneer in the steemit community as far as I can see! heads up! its really not sa bad as it seems! everyting gonna be arrright!
Your officially hired on as my Mickey in my corner like Rocky had lol....because that man was the speech I needed to wake up and smell the reality lol. Honestly I do see it hitting others like myself, just a growing pain but I come to realize if I power down and it gets back to normal...I am gonna kick myself. Plus these guys in my slack could use that Steem Power I hold onto when I upvote them. I keep forgetting sometimes I do have this group growing and they do seem to have my back when I ask for help so I better just suck it up and get my game face on lol.
You are a smart man... Hoarder here also! haha
I just can't do it, I know I need it because lately my payouts have looked horrible but I get it too that the HF19 voting power issues has a lot of people not able to spread it around like they used to. I just can't do it though, that SP took a lot of work to get there so I will just try to hope that in the next few weeks things turn back to the way it was. Strange though how its hitting a lot of us lately, over night its as if I am back to being a new user out of the blue lol
Yeah have a simple goal, mine is to have at least 20k steem power by end of the year and I'm good, I can then start powering down but it will be replaced by content creation and authoring 🙌🏼💯
lol your on the same goal I am, 20K was my first target lol. I figure by then my content should pay back enough where the SP will rise and I make enough to call it true full time
I think, if I had to, I would probably starve before powering down!! (Only joking) but really, tho, I havent eaten for days!! @sflaherty, On behaf of team D5 we would really like to thank you for the promotion work you do at steemit BC Slack! its awesome!! upvoted on this article, as it really really really is really really hard to power down!! :))
Thank you for that boost my friend and no worries, promoting great content like yours is more my honor than anything. I know I think I may starve before I power down, its so hard to actually do it lol...just can't bring myself to do it lol
Lets commission our tombs stones now, 'sflaherty, known for the fact his steem power will outlast this tombstone'.
lol great idea, because we all know there will come a time that the old SP game will be hard to boost up and obtain. Might actually outlast all of us lol
@sflaherty you had better not hit that power button again. U dont know how valuable what you have is . At 800sp and countinf while i struggle between 57sp hopping to go higher and invest more. Bro keeping and increasing your sp is the best investment you will make. Because it will pay off later.
I am with you, trust me that is why I am so torn because so much work went into this. I am getting at this stage that slow periods just hit and HF19 did kind of hit a growing pain moment for a bunch of us. I am going to leave it alone lol...wish I had security from myself when the money stresses hit lol. But your very right I really did work very hard to get this far and I should not go backwards. Thank you so much for those wise words. I think I can manage another way to sort the bills out, close call on that one but I gathered my senses about it thankfully today lol
I'm afraid I'll think about doing that in a tight situation but then steem grows soon after. :(
lol...that is my thing, I power down, then I fight to rebuild and its just gets that much harder to do. Such a catch 22 situation. I think though if I just keep at it and take that 50% earnings back I should be able to keep up with the life bills and what nots wanting in my pockets lol. Its been so rocky lately on payouts, but I think if I just keep going it should get back to normal, well I hope
I am fairly new here. Can you explain to me what it means to "power down"? Thanks!
Power down is a sort of withdrawal process for your steem power. Lets say you have 800sp and you hit the power down button so a to withdraw lets 80sp to be either converted to steem of steem dollar. So that in turn you can pull out either your steem coin or steem dollar
Thank you for taking the time to explain that to me. Makes sense now. Much appreciated.
someone flagged you man? :O
Are you talking about the flagged post down a few days ago? I flagged it myself lol. Due to a mishap. I thought I was on the @steemitbc profile creating its introduceyourself post but I was tired and did not realize I was in this profile when I posted it. Your not supposed to use the introduceyourself tag more than once so I flagged myself to not go against the way its done here. It didn't hurt me because I did it to myself lol...just to hide the mistake so no one wasted upvotes on a post that was put in the wrong place
oh ok bro! thanks :D I appreciate
Anytime buddy
Good choice, I'm with you now. For a while I was powering down sometimes, but SP seems way too valuable these days. I want all my SP for when Steem is worth $5+
I agree, it was a choice that bugged me so bad so I had to say today its not worth it. I can figure a way to raise funds if need be...your right, its so hard to grow and 800 SP was a lot of work to get to. I think I got my sanity back lol...my gut was telling me to just bare with it and don't do it lol
Stick with it and ride it out! You got this! You will regret it if you power down. Steem has nowhere to go but up.
I agree my good friend, I was thinking out of necessity in the now and forgetting about the potential I could provide for later. Plus something also hit me, I won't be able to tick up those great upvotes for others anymore if it goes down, that bugs me to not encourage others so I stopped the power down. I figure if I am that torn up about doing it then my gut is telling me this is not a wise thing to do
I hope it works out for you! Whatever you choose to do. It's a hard life, and sometimes we have to make hard choices. Only we can make those choices, for the good or the bad, and on the basis of what WE know to be true. Do what you need to do, and what you know is best.
Thanks for that, great advice. I think for now with having a few weeks to pay on stuff I should ride out the storm a little longer. I was so torn this morning about powering down that my gut tells me its just not the time to make that permanent choice. Took so much work to get this far in Steemit that its just not feeling right to go backwards and then have to build back up again. I think I will figure out another avenue to keep afloat. Just this HF19 voting pool issue has it a nose diving on me a lot lately, but I will grin and bare it for the moment, see how it plays out a little longer. I hope to God I get further ahead lol....having to decide such things constantly all the time on how you play with your money is seriously for the birds sometimes, needless stress