hive price stayed lot stable in the bear market let's hope for the bull I know the feeling of being in a hospital now we have our phones but back then it was tedious and painful  as hell passing time 

Some want to communicate and others want to be informed. There are also those who want to show their art and others who seek the beauty of nature in their art. The balance between work and vocation is essential. I am not sure if this balance exists in HIVE, but what is certain is that it concentrates an infinite number of people from all over the world, each with their own skills and their own needs, some to show and others in their search.

If possible, I would be fine earning $0.25 on my own and then $1.00 working for someone else. But, given that life is expensive and not getting any cheaper I don't really have a choice in the matter, at least not yet... 

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This is one of top articles I have read from you and so many points that we are in agreement. And I feel I am at that stage of finding relevancy and not sure if it's an age thing or Covid or some other excuse. Reading [holoz0r's post](https://hive.blog/hive-13323/@holoz0r/caught#@holoz0r/re-boboman-rzoitt) the other day where he feels he is stuck in a runt sort of hit close to home.

I think I always had a decent relationship with money and have always said I don't always work for the money, but I am realistic enough to know how important money is for everything. So for me the job is always just a job to pay for the things that I **want** to do. I do not identify with it nor wish to be. What my true identity is, that's the question that I am not sure of as well.

I still hold out hope for a day when hive could be a supplemental income to my pension and other investments. It would still take a lot for it to be sustainable, but the potential is there. We just need to take advantage of it.

Yeah I hear you man. I could certainly earn more “money” working my second job instead of hive but I think hive is a different environment. One of the things is like it’s remote work, where you can do it wherever whenever you’d like. A physical location job you can’t do that. It’s good when you can be working your full time job, hop on hive for a few minutes, curare, drop a few comments and get back to your job. You wouldn’t be able to do that flipping burgers. It feels very 2023 to be able to do these types of things and that’s pretty cool of a feeling. Most people are working jobs that are 30-40 years behind technologically but being on hive we are on the cutting edge of a lot of this stuff so it’s pretty darn cool. 

I hate when my voting power gets to 100% as well as my resource credits lol I always feel like I’m missing out on something! With voting, usually following Curangel allows me yo make sure that I never make the mistake of getting to 100% since those curators are out there 24/7. Just a thought!

It is interesting to think about living off the hive earnings themselves. I was jotting a few thoughts down the other day about that and I don’t know where hive has to be for me to feel comfortable extracting some to do something. Paying off a mortgage would be sweet though with it lol

> A lot of people are struggling for relevancy in this world, and they are looking for a place where they have meaning, where they feel like they have a purpose.

This is one thing I talk to my wife about often. She even has said since I retired from the military I seem to lack purpose. Yes, I worked at other IT management jobs, but non ever gave me the sense of purpose I had when in the military service all those years. Now that I am completely retired medically, it has become worse. Blogging on Hive has helped me cope with that. I am still looking for ways to find more purpose within the blockchain and off. I am sure I can, but just haven't found it yet.

> Making money isn't that hard, though it seems incredibly difficult. 

Imagine I learned about compounding and the dividend stocks in my early 30s. Haha. That is too late for my judgment and growth. I kind of realized that life would be lot different if I had invested into the dividend income based stocks. Making money gets harder now that automation and AI is going to hurt the white collar jobs too.

> jobs can give meaning and purpose

I think this is why I try to be more selective with the work I choose to do. At this point, it is to a fault. But I'm even having trouble finding service jobs willing to take me on. I wonder if they are skeptical about someone with 2 masters degrees working beside them in retail. For what it's worth, I think I would be a badass budtender! 🥦💨

>Wouldn't it be nice to have a button the keyboard that printed money whenever you needed a bit extra? 

It is a shame that if everyone would have lots of money it would lose value. The world where everyone would be rich would be interesting.

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Investing is hard and I tend to think that a job as a stable income source is way better. I just prefer it that way and I leave open Hive as a way to earn an income in the future. It's not impossible but it might take a while before I can even get close to that level.

It's really important to find the balance between spending time on worthwhile work and finding meaning. It's nice to think that the Hive platform can contribute to this balance

I feel that we all should practice the attitude of balance. Almost all of us here have offline jobs so we should find time to attend to our offline jobs and also find the time to come on here so to earn from curation and all...

Some people may think of their activity on Hive as work, but I see it as pleasure. When dealing with pleasure, you do not care about getting paid, it is just the pleasure of doing what drives you. Of course as there is money involved, we tend to forget about ONLY pleasure every once in a while and analyze it as work or yield, but if we take a look at accounts from "old" users, we realize those that succeed (if we measure success by account size) are the ones who enjoy Hive.

I get a sense of meaning when helping people. Hive has helped me to unlock creativity, when it made me feel it actually valuable for somebody what I have to say. When you have the "money problem" over your neck is hard to be creative. To let go. So we bound ourselves, as if in the Kierkegard dilemma: Wrap ourselves on ropes to not fall to the siren's song, as in the Odissey. 

Here, I can fall on the Siren's song. Earning a bit, and even saving at the same time to support people who also need to know they can fall to their siren's too. Brilliant isn't? I have another siren. And that's psychology. When I fall for that one too, and I am professional, I would like to believe sharing about it in here will also help someone. But I guess that's my fancy dream too.

I've also started to delve into the world of having more than one stream of income. Not easy but it certainly isn't impossible at all too.

Consistency is the real key. Although having Hive pump up enough to live off curation rewards, well that would be splendid right! If you can only replace your salary with something else that generates more or less the same, more would be better. But if so then you've got more time on your hands to make even more money with.

But getting that extra income without having to put in a lot of extra effort is the thing.

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Income from curation is about 10% per year, which is a good income. Income from HBD rates 20%. The most important thing is to diversify your assets at a good HIVE price. The time will come to sell HIVE for HBD. And the time will come to sell HBD (and buy Hive). Done right, it will be good for your personal account and the Hive ecosystem.