Good read. Thanks for posting

I totally keep pinching myself to make sure I am awake. I have been searching as well. I have given Steemit it a little test and now I am ready to really try to provide some value and earn some money. I like what I do at my regular job, but there are definitely days where I wish I could have the flexibility of blogging about my interests and still be able to pay all my bills. I really think this could be that opportunity for a lot of us!

Thanks Chris!

Now do you believe that for the beginner, attaining enough income is possible at this point in the game?

For me the key is : Will be capable steem of be sustainable?  if we get it, the way will be done

The main problem that i am seeing is the whales who have so much voting power and the new people that will join this platform. The whales can just comment once they have 100,000 steem and just upvote while getting their payout.

So many good posts that never will come to fruition ever because a whale didn't see it. I see it getting harder to the point where you need to have some outside influence like a well known youtuber or blogger in order to get traffic to a story.

Now you can tell your buddies about this opportunity and that you got over $1000 from a post.

Ahoy matee, I daresay you snatched yerself some upvoting whales, seeing as how in 3 short hours & a tiny sputtering of replies, your post nonetheless garnered itself $2.8k, hehe..

So, indeed Steem might seem a bit miraculous at times - great innovation that was long-coming, undoubtedly.

The wee bit of caveat one should keep in mind however, [outside of the two elephants in the room - 1) The altcoin token's ever-dizzying price gyrations and massive crash risk ; 2) The fact that no one except the most massive SteemPower whales have practically exclusive access to the vertiginous big bucks upvotes that we see on the front page lol] - is the fact that, well..

..Blogging, let alone quality article writing, isn't for everyone.

Of course, not every human is a capable author. But, the skill barrier of entry, when it comes not to writing prose, but to simply posting make-up video tutorials, or thinly veiled promotion of one's NSFW camgirl channels, well.. that would be much more plausible to realize on a mass userbase scale, in that case.

After all, one merely has to follow Facebook, Twitter, & YouTube's examples, to see this model at work.. and their lower common denominator masses ;)))

I've also been interested in doing something else on the side for as long as I can remember.  You hit the nail on the head on this one, it's great to be able to do something on your own terms.

As Robert Kiyosaki puts it and not only him everybody, "The Rat Race" . I feel you buddy, there is no point in doing the same thing day in and day out when we have just one life and it is short as older people say too. Bitcoin created a lot of wealthy people. But the point with Bitcoin here is more freedom and disrupting the banking and financial industries and federal reserves stealing the people money. They manipulate the markets and start wars with their greed. Bitcoin is money without borders and very cost efficient. It gives the power back to the people and lets them decide. Out of Bitcoin came hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and the Blockchain are going to DISRUPT and start a evolution.  Thanks for your great post friend.

they do not think about you

Thank God we can now stop being restless knowing our lives are trickling away  like sand in an hourglass while knowing we were meant for greater things. Not arrogance - just that we all have gifts that are worth sharing with the world. Creativity is an art and it's about time it gets appreciated and seen. I can only see a better future for us all!

I love this! I feel like this is the opportunity of a life time! I just hope people dont run to quit their jobs too quickly. Hehe. I feel like we need to wait a bit and get a rhythm financially on steemit first, Before it can replace our jobs! 

I love/hate that you mentioned the 168 hours thing, I hate doing the math on that because it makes me absolutely sick, It'S YOUR LIFE yet we are slaves to our employers and it's really sad.

This is the future.  They tried to make us slaves, but we will not have it!

This gunna be me soon:
http://i.giphy.com/l0K4hO8mVvq8Oygjm.gif

Good post @chriscrypto

Steemit really has hit the scene with a bang, the growth will continue to be awesome. Extraordinary is the only way to describe the potential!!
http://infoselfdevelopment.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/inspirational-quotes-change-your-life-self-development.jpg
Long live the "revolution"!!
https://toughmotivation.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/quote-best-motivational-quotes-photos-hd-hq-for-1016830.jpg

only completly fucking retarded posts get paid on here, i would be carefull going all in on this steemit, firstly because the website is nt decentralizeda nd its easy fr anyone to clone this crap and run this on his own blockchain and if you not a fag making a makeup tutorial i dont see you making anything.
I wonder why you earned so much on that post, thats irritatig aswell so im not trusting this system how posts are rewarded at all