@jackandchill 4 August 2020

My HIVE Confession: My First Encounter with HIVE

March 16, 2020, it was the first day of Enhance Community Quarantine in our place, I was informed late in the afternoon. We are almost ready to open the bar for regular operation but there was a man who came in and informed us for the compulsory temporary closure due to covid-19 and he added that if we would not follow the order from the Mayor we will be penalized for violating the executive order. I was hesitant to believe him because first, he did not able to present his ID proving that he is a government worker and second, he did not bring letter from the mayor or a copy of executive order. Even how hesitant I am during that time I still followed him. I don’t know what to do during that time because I was concerned of the large stocks that I had (from meat to vegetables). On the next day, I called the office of the Mayor to confirm if the information I received was valid and someone confirmed it. I asked him if until when and he answered he also didn’t know. So that time, I started to panic, I didn’t know what to do. I do not have an alternative for a living. Last week of April 2020, I got a message from one of my friend and he recommended many legit applications to earn money. I grabbed it immediately. I installed it, studied it and started doing the game/task immediately. After a week, he sent me a link of coins.ph, I asked him about the link and he answered that I could have a daily income if I will use **hive.blog platform** and he added that I needed **coins.ph** for the money transaction. At first I am not interested of the idea because I am not the type of person who loves to embrace the new technology. I was hesitant at first because there are lots of scam incidents happened recently in different platforms. But because I wanted to have a daily income I created an account of **coins.ph** and in **hive.blog**. I had a hard time creating my **hive.blog** **account** and it was my friend who created an account for me. He is so kind. He asked me to also install an exchange platform, he recommended 3 platforms during that time but I chose **Binance** as my exchange platform. I also had a hard time in binance at first because of 2FA. I do not know what is 2FA during that time. And I also have to install **google authenticator**. Sometimes I complained to my friend because of the long process but thinking to quit was not my option. I pushed myself everyday. I studied the process of money transaction from **coins.ph** to **binance** to **hive.blog** account. When I already familiar of the money transaction I tried it immediately. At first, I had a long time to process because I was afraid of committing mistake because it is money matter. May 2020, I officially started to operate my h**ive.blog account**, since I was new to the platform I don’t know how to operate it. I had a hard time and sometimes I stopped using the platform. My friend recommended a **peakd.com** for an easier way to operate the platform. I was happy because it was indeed an easy way to use. I posted everyday in my account. Sometimes there are disappointment of the vote value because I only have a small amount of hive power. So what I did when I have an extra money I keep buying hive and and powered it up. I was happy because I never quit in studying hive.blog, from money transactions to operating the hive.blog until I am fully aware of its process. It was not an easy journey as saying goes “**change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end**.” So grateful of my friend for he recommended me this platform, I really love it eventhough I had encountered many hard times but as **Robin Sharma** said in his book “The Leader Who Had No Title” “**no discomfort means no growth**”. So grateful that I embraced the discomfort that the hive.blog gives me  because I learned new things. When some of my friends asked me how am I during this pandemic I told them that because of this pandemic I was able to graduate a new course of BS in crypto currency major in hive.blogging (just kidding).