During the last semester, I promised myself that I will look into more earning opportunities during the summer vacation. One of the platform I wanted to explore is Hive blog.
However due to many bouts of depressive episodes, my vacation days keep decreasing and no sign of any account made came from me. I would say that I needed the rest more than the grind so I do not regret the time that passed by.
Although I have no regrets in the days that I did not sign up for Hive blog, I am always filled with thoughts of how to earn more.
Three sources of income
As of now, I have three sources of income. One of which was slowly established during this vacation.
The first one and the one that used to give me most income is my scholarship stipend. I get P7000 every month for this. But I do not get to keep the whole money since I contribute to the household expenses.
Next is blogging on noise.cash, and read.cash. These two platforms quickly became the biggest source of income I have. Many times my earnings here saved me from insanity and other bad financial situations.
Lastly, I now have a small crochet business that I have started to manage better. My income from this before ranged from P50- P1000 per month. But it now reached its all time high of more than P4000 in this month alone.
Adding Hive to the mix
As an incoming 4th year college student, I wanted to start saving money so that the real life will not hit me as hard as it should. I already had an experience working so I know that I might have a hard time not being impulsive with my money. So I wanted to add more streams of income in my life before I even start with real work.
I decided that today is a good day to sign up to Hive. I chose the HiveOnBoard option for no particular reason. I honestly have a lot of reading to do to catch up with how Hive blog works but I will be putting it off for now. I just wanted to get through the process of signing up for it first.
I used the same username I have here on read.cash and noise.cash for my Hive account- zehrasky. In this screeenshot, I am just checking out some communities before I start writing my own introductory post.
My plan for my Hive account
The reason why I did not immediately sign up for Hive is that I wanted my account there to be dedicated to a certain niche. Well, I am not going to be strictly writing for one niche, but I wanted it to have a direction.
After all, I am already writing articles here on read.cash, what would make my Hive account different from this one?
I decided that I want to dedicate my Hive account into my creative spirits. This means that I want to write about crochet, digital art, painting, and sewing on Hive blog. I may also write about what it is like to live with bipolar disorder but I think I want to focus mainly on my creative outlet.
This decision will also make it easier for me to distinguish where I should publish an article that I want to write.
Closing Words
Making an account on Hive might not be the biggest thing ever but for me it is already enough. I just needed to take that first step for now before I start to dive in more.
Anyway, my focus would still be mainly here on read.cash and noise.cash. I just want to try out Hive blog in case I regret not trying it out.
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