I joined steemit on new years eve 2017. And in six months I gathered 1500 stem power (which is still neglectible - but hey I started with nothing :) ) but the things weren't that promising in the beginning. Just like in life everything in the beginning is hard. I was drifting around, checking trending and hot pages. I wrote some nice stuff without any rewards and in search for advices I stubmled upon @Sykochica's tutorial where I was introduced to steem(it).chat.
On general I met @Sykochica and @Suesa as well as few other nice people but these two girls were a game changer. First of all while my post rewards were about $0 Syko invited me to play a quiz trivia and in a night I got 10 steem for two correct answers - my first double digit reward! :)
After about 10-11 days I wrote a really big article(link) (3-4k words, 50 photos and 7 videos) and nothing happened... rewards were zero, until steemit counter went crazy... payout went to $600 - firing me in the trending page if you are a bit curious about that article now you can read it here. I was the boss of this game - trendsetter, well until next post which again earned nothing, zero... shown in numbers 0. Then I realized that some cool guy @Curie upvoted and resteemed my post and gave me really nice reward(which dropped a bit in the end but still my highest payout ever. Thank you Curie!
Back to wandering and no rewards dispair this lovely girl @Suesa introduced me to steemSTEM community and explained me what they do. Since I know a thing or two about astrophysics and physics I decided to give it a try... We... My first STEM article was a massive success, and the next one, and every that followed - Thank you all from @steemSTEM.
I felt like I found my purpose here, writing about AP and mixing pleasure with joy (well someone was reading it at last and that brings joy to every scientist). Sometimes in these posts comments start to drop and conversation about particular topic can be larger than post itself.
Few weeks later @YU-STEM was founded, branch of steemSTEM for people who writes in serbo-croatian language. Allowing me/us to cover more ground and users and variety of topics. Thanks steemSTEM and @alexs1320!
At this time I was still active on general chat , and somehow I popped into this strange group called Danger Zone.
What the hell is this? How did I get here? Well it was some secret society gathered from general chat but why - just for fun bunch of loonies taking it on each other and producing great quality posts. @m31, @beercake, @erodedthoughts, @nelyp, @saywha, @rubencress later added @eveuncovered, @escapist, @celestal, @greddyforce and one yellowy guy :)
Captain of this group Acid sometimes visited my blog blowing some steemy wind into my sails, and not to forget Eroded's faithful support and @anomadsoul as well as OCD curation team. Thank you guys ) keep being crazy and continue to break monotony of the steem.chat.
Then another curie upvote came in! Well this time it was much smaller reward but it was a pleasure again. I realized that these guys are doing terrifying and really important job for newcomers and undiscovered authors in this deep ocean. Having that in mind I joined a training program for curie curator and after about a month I got a role of curator (thank you @laniakea1 and @milosm2302)!
The best quote that describe curie reviewers and curators I can think of is:
We work in the dark to serve the light.
We are closing to the end, but bear with me for a bit more. I must say curating is going pretty well these days even with really low number of posts there are some true gems out there.
Amongst Serbian Curie curators started an idea about Serbian curation group. Well what started as an IDEA was realized very fast, and now we have - Serbian curation team - and we are growing every week - @teamserbia( whitepaper) We support authors from Serbia, newcommers, posts about Serbia and try to popularize steemit amongts plebs here. So far so good!
I must say we have great authors, who cover whole variety of topics: art, science fiction/horror writers, sport reviewers, photographers, scientists, historians, world wanderers... With this great basis we are bound to grow.
Our plan for the near future is to start a witness node but there will be time to talk about that when the time is right.
Having said that I think it is the right time to end this long post But I just can't enjoy these 1500SP on my own without shouting out some thanks and gratitude towards all the people that helped me get where I am now.
Once again @curie, @steemSTEM, @, @teamserbia, you all rock!
And also all the great individuals @m31, @suesa, @rubencress, @hidden84, @escapist, @eveuncovered, @eonwarped, @lemony-cricket, @fknmayhem, @erodedthoughts and many more.. Cheers! :)
