Happy New Year 😆 @cryptoctopus, a great start of 2018 for all of us steemians. 

Full-time steemit is literally the dream of everyone here I suppose 😏 and able to live off life just using cryptocurrency is truly amazing.

Sounds like you know it's time to go full time. Working from home would be a real blessing for you with the new bride and when your child comes. If you really like the work you do, maybe you can do it from home too, but in less time?  Or ditch it entirely of course, but I get that you have to be completely mentally in the game to do that. It's a hard habit for some to break.

I don't have ideas for your steem power use, but maybe some questions will make you come up with an idea. Is there a way to use your SP to help get the communities function implemented? Combining your SP question with your photography quality concern, could you create a site that is an art gallery of sorts? 

I don't know how people create all these outside sites that are linked to steemit, but using that concept, and creating something like steemgallery.com where the goal is for quality work to be presented, whether it's photography, painting, or drawing etc. Does that make sense?

good post, I really like it
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I love your idea to launch a project for new users. I wish you success in 2018!

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love you @cryptoctopus
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First, the image with the wooden room looks absolutely amazing. Would love to stay there!

To your question: It depends what your intentions are. Do you want to make more money with the project? Do you want to support a social project? Do you want to support minnows and new users? What are your core values? In what do you believe in general? How do you want to make a difference?

I think the tags could benefit as you mentioned, maybe one for original content as I see many posting things they copy from the internet. Happy Thursday and enjoy you vacation!

Some thought provoking stuff here, man. Especially with your job. Because on one hand, you don't want your family to rely on something that changes so often and is so new. Cryptocurrency is treading on new ground, and while the future looks bright for Steemit, it's kind of scary to fully rely on it. That being said, nearly every big decision has risk involved, and looking at a lot of the "successful" people in the past, they took  risks and are where they are now because of that. I've seen the way you handle your "power" here on Steemit, and how you're trying to thoughtfully grow the community here. While I'm not saying you should quit your job, I will say that I think if Steemit does grow to whole new level, it will need people like you working at it to help it get there. Best of luck while you ponder of these questions, and enjoy your vacation! Looks awesome.

Just go full time on Steemit. You will vacate a spot for a work for other people and you will have more time for what is more beneficial for you. Also the Steemit community needs as much involvement of any individual as it can get to grow. win - win.

Go full Steem!

Honestly don't quit your day job but seriously invest more time into steem. Just do it for a few months and you'r going to see serious gains. You'll be pushing yourself a bit more and it will be hard at first but you will eventually get into it. You will be that much closer towards retiring as well! Plus you can honestly steem about work, your day to day living etc like you just did here making it a rather effortless "job" lol

Great plans. Regarding going full-time, I believe everyone should do, what they are most inspired and passionate about and this comes from your heart and you feel it, not because it makes logical sense to do it. Whit SteemPower you can support users on Steemit, who wants to change the world in positive way and yes, this year is going to be amazing.

You've got lots of great ambition there, and I hate to be discouraging, but discouraging is what I will be.

The things you want on Steem / steemit will require a huge change to the back end.  Every once in a while, I try to talk to the developers... which falls on deaf ears, or talk to the people who are keenly interested, where I get lots of support, but no feedback.

The five tags system isn't even fully supported on steemit.
Such as, you cannot go to someone's blog and then sort by tags.

You cannot search by tags.
You cannot really search at all.  That has been outsourced to boogle, which doesn't know a thing at all about searching blogs.

Discovering content on steemit is a pain.  I used to scroll through all the new posts looking for things and upvoting.  It is way to hard to do that now.  I can't even scroll through looking for larger (something to read) posts.

Anyway, the structure of tags, communities and searches really needs to be talked about, and executed.  Then, they need a complete overhaul.

Cozy retreat. Shame the snowstorm has to fall during your vacation. Best part though, you might be snowed in and given the time to think of the future. Best of luck! It’s great that you are thinking of your fans and trying to make Steemit better.

Definitely a good conundrum I would think for a lot of people on Steemit / etc that have benefited with this latest bump, good problem to have!  I'm work-a-day but enjoying this STEEM ride on this side / Peace

How are you imagining *communities* to work? Is this part of the dev plan? And is it a change to the blockchain or just a client-side feature?

I have an only half-baked idea that a Steem browser that allows you to look at all the posts tagged with A and B and maybe C, etc would form some kind of communities automatically. Maybe I want to read about goats but only from the homesteaders so I look at the posts with those two tags and if other people are doing the same, a community forms. I've seen this happening around the #steemitironchef tag, so it's not like multiple tags are needed, but it seems like narrowing things down would help. Also, a group of friends could make new tags for their use as a throwaway just to help filter other subjects -- like your #photography example, maybe.

Hello @cryptoctopus,
HNY, j'espère que vous comprenez le français sinon faites moi le savoir ! Concernant votre questionnement pour arreter votre travail, je n'ai qu'une seule réponse : etes-vous célibataire et sans enfant ? Alors foncez ! Mais je sais comme j'ai lu votre article :-) que vous attendez un merveilleux bébé ! Alors je dirais non :-(
Pourquoi non ?
Parce que Steemit, STEEM, SBD... et les crypto en général sont trop récents. Que se passerait-il ne serait ce que si la fiscalisation se durcicait ? Combien pensez-vous que les impôts vont taxés nos STEEM ? Pensez-vous que ce soit 100 % de plus value ?
Même si vous êtes très reconnu sur Steemit, si j'étais votre femme (et je sais ce qu'elle ressent car j'ai des twins baby de 19 mois) je serais effrayée car je pense que ce n'est pas le bon moment avec le bébé qui arrive. Peut-être attendre un peu ?
Qu'en pensez-vous ?
A bientôt.
Christel

You have great influence on this platform and with great power comes great responsibility. Use your Steem power to upvote undervalued, unnoticed content and help in improving Steemit.

Dear @cryptoctopus first of all thank you for writing this article.

What I can suggest you about the judicious and productive use of steem power is that, you organize a channel and let yourself and others get engaged through this channel in a meaningful way.

Because you have got the resource in the form of steem power, so it is quite easy for you to open a new channel, let the community know it and let the community post in the channel and i am sure not only you be recognized but also in overall the environment in this community will also get healthy. People like us will get a way to engage in this community in a meaningful way.

Thanks

woooow seriously It is a hard choice for you.
I dont have any Idea actually to tell you, because I believe you are the best at what you doing, and your success in Steemit proves that.
But I could say you can leave your job once you feel that you are psychologically much more attached to Steemit, and If you love Steemit more than you job, why not being on Steemit full time.
I can see this 8k followers you have turn to 20k very soon.
just keep up the good work you are the best

Hey :D Awesome to see more and more people becoming interested in development and blockchain technologies! It's a ton of fun developing stuff and it's a great way to become more creative when it comes to problem solving.

I started with web development in primary school and stuck with it as a hobby until I turned 19 when I got a job as an web developer / consultant. I think the blockchain technology is still in it's infant state and a lot of cool projects will be developed with it from here on out :)

I have followed you and hope you will be posting about your "journey" to becoming a web developer :D If you have any questions about or get stuck in your code, I'll be lurking in your post comments ready to give you assistance with HTML/CSS/JS/PHP, if needed :D

Since steemit will probably grow a lot maybe you could create a new community of curators like @curie or @ocd . What do you think of that?

Good prospects for the new year. It seems like you knew my mind. I am planning for the new year too, and I am thinking of making Steemit my everyday website.

This year, I will visit any rural area and provide at least one basic amenity that could be in lack in the community.

With time, I will possibly improve to other communities. This is my new year resolution, and I am looking forward to it.

Interestingly, imo, the tags concept on Steemit is floored. The fact anyone can make their own tag out of any combination of letters means that a lot of the content is not easily and readily available. Tags such as #photography #travel #sport are obviously easily discoverable although searching those does not always produce full results. For a lot of the other content that's produced people have little idea how to tag it properly anyway. Ideally, I'd like to see a fixed Category system adopted where stories can be submitted after selecting a category from a dropdown list. Should be fairly trivial to implement although housekeeping what's gone before would be a nightmare. :-D

I think you should go full time. People love reading your articles (clearly you get a lot of rewards). And with 45 hrs a week on steemit and web dev you could make a lot more. Good luck with the choice!  I know it would be hard. Even dreaming about it sometimes is confusing.

I think that you shouldn't quit your job but definitely continue to improve steemit. You are one of the most valuable steemit members . Maybe start some tag to promote  new users since its hard to get our posts seen :)

Hey, these thoughts at the beginning of the year shows how how you feel for the platform, back from the vacations with a boost. If we say about the planning, you have 5 hrs, if you can't manage more time no issues, work life balance comes first. But , i would like to suggest one thing. Hope you are aware of sndbox project, i think they are doing smartwork. They recognise few people who are doing awesome and give a small part of responsibility on their shoulders, they suggest good posts and when the new posts are selected then their authors are analyzed for a month or 2 and if it appears good to them , they inherit him/her in the team and work as a team. Its my analysis about how they work, might be bit different. But its my perspective, hope it helps you. Feel free if you need furthur explanation on my idea