RE: STEEM Isn't A JOB It's A Business
When the price goes down you are upside down on your investment and then you may have blogged for $0.50 / hour. It isn't a good feeling. You feel like you wasted your time on the front end and on the backend.
Well, I think there is also intangibles that go beyond the .50 payouts. For instance like building more Followers ( even though that is highly overrated..,you can get 5K or even 10K Followers and it doesn't ensure any kind of measurable payout. It's quality not quantity ).
Possibly " build it and they will come" mantra ?? I have seen a few like @denmarkguy who never has used a Bot but cranks quality Content over and over again and consistently has Payouts of $30 per post. Of course I know this is NOT full time income.
But honestly Brian, I think Content Creators who come on here and think somehow this could be a full time gig...well they are fooling themselves. Just like you say
The issue that messes with people's minds is that for brief moments content creators seemingly could earn full time incomes and that got them sucked into thinking that that would last longer than a week or two. Even when I got on in 2016 I got some pretty decent payouts and it sort of looked like maybe that could be possible and then it was extremely frustrating when it was clear that really wasn't the case.
Then again a year ago there was certainly some stretches where I earned some decent money / day and was pushing pretty hard.
I think what is more realistic to earn money is to play the investor / content creator role but not get too greedy when prices do go up and be able to move some of the funds into a dollar pegged crypto or diversify into a project you feel is up and coming.