So you want to earn consistently on Steem through your content? Take a seat.

Once you have an earning expectation you have just changed the game you might have wanted to play because most likely to reach your expectation, you are going to have to do things differently than what you might have been doing so far. There is a simple reason for this, community. What I mean is that in order to earn through content, it is reliant on the community that will vote it and if they don't like your content enough to get it to that goal you set yourself and you still want to reach that goal number, you are going to have to change your content and approach. 

Or, change your expectations. 

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Earning on content requires having the type of content that people are willing to vote up and, the relationships with people who are willing to consistently vote on your content which means, building trust. You post in a niche? Stop. You don't like socializing? Too bad, you have to. Once you built an earning expectation, you simultaneously built yourself a job and, you are an employee, stake is your boss. Don't have stake? Those with stake are your boss. 

Sounding like fun? This is your fantasy expectation, not mine. I am not going to tell you about the large amount of work it takes but, assume that it is going it take a lot more than you are likely wanting to put in. The reason that I know is because I have done the work and the reason that I am still here as unlike some snowflake, I am not afraid of doing the work in fact, I *enjoy* doing the work which means, I don't have a job on Steem, yet I earn *Steem.* I find it amazing.  

But you are not me, I am a skills trainer and you are unlikely in possession of the right set of skills. Get them, no one is going to grant you your wishes when you tap your heels together three times, Dorothy. What skills do you need - What are you daft? The ones that are going to get you earning that goal of yours, find out what they are and get learning - your chosen job demands it.  

This is the thing that people don't get on Steem, it *is possible* to get consistent earnings and potentially much, much more but, most are unwilling to do what it takes because they want to both do what they want and get the results of developing a structure and process that satisfies their desires, without developing it. They sit at home fat and greasy dreaming of fucking a supermodel. Unless lucky, you are unlikely to have it both ways so grow up and make a decision, are you here to have some fun and potentially earn a bit or, do you want to get serious and earn *consistently* to pay your bills each week?

If you want to earn you are going to have to be good at what you do for much longer than a post or two but, what you do is not what you *want* to do, it is what you *have* to do. You want to earn on what you supply which means, you have to satisfy the demands of the consumer, your customer, your boss. If the genre you like to post in is a niche one that few people (especially those with stake) care about, you are going to have to burn that house down and piss on the ashes. You have a job to do, there is no time to play around. It doesn't matter what you value, it only matters what the people who are voting you to your dream number value.

Oh, you wanted to share your voice and get paid for it? *Your voice sucks ass.* If you want to do it for the love, people will tolerate it and throw you a bone occasionally but since you want to earn on it consistently, it is best you choose another field of expertise. What *can* you do that people are willing to actually pay for? Remember, you need more than one person, more than ten, you need hundreds and you need to be able to produce something compelling enough to keep their interest *forever.*

Yes, forever. Why...why... forever? Because you don't have stake. Unless you power up your earnings for the next few years to consistently grow to a point where it starts to attract its own earnings through interest, delegation, curation, selling or resource credit creation in the future - you have to make sure that every day, every week, every month you are producing just what the people want to vote on. Too risky for you? Oh, you need the 'money' *right now?* Back to work employee. 

This is what people seem not to grasp here and that is that consistent earning will *never* be on the cards for content producers *alone* long-term because even the 'Material Girl' Madonna runs out of ways to reinvent and shill herself - and gets old. To keep earning consistent income when one can no longer be on point with the latest trends, one has to have *invested* into a position that can provide it or, live off a government pension - That is consistent too... in some places, at the moment...probably not for long.

But no, people want to have it all now without building a network or foundation suitable to support their position long-term but want the long-term position also. Unless extremely lucky *anywhere,* it is impossible. I live in one of the richest countries in the world and has been for generations yet, there are still people struggling, still people getting further and further into debt. Many of them in debt now were born into plenty. It was their own damn choices that led them into the cycle of consumerism, their own desires, lack of self-control.

They lived the lives of hedonists without consideration of developing an ongoing supply to keep the game afloat. Fools. Then they come into Steem and assume that this is their savior, their way to get back on the hedonist's horse at the expense of a community without putting in, just taking. 

Oh, you think your *content* is your buy-in? How many people demand what you do, how many care about your thoughts, how many connect with it? Where is the value to the community then, where the hell is your network? You haven't built one yet, no one trusts you, you keep doing what you like yet have the gall to set an earnings expectation that requires relatively specific actions and behaviors from *others?* What kind of plan is that?

This is the thing with expectations, if you do not know what is required to reach them, they are likely to go unmet. If you do know what is required and do not act in that way yet still assume the expectations will get met, you are fooling yourself. Many people are on Steem earning consistently and enjoying their experience here in varying degrees. Many more are on Steem not earning anywhere near to enough to live off but are not expecting to so, are enjoying themselves also. 

The strength in Steem is that it gives all users a chance to earn *something* in *Steem* and develop a position in the future that may or may not be valuable or useful as an investment vehicle at all. However, it is a chance, and while some people think that it isn't worth posting because they can't pay their bills with it, others think *it is* worth posting because they are able to build a community and network that has a *possibility* to do some pretty phenomenal things in some unknown length of time forward. 

To each their own though isn't it? Everyone is willing and able with varying degrees of success to take whatever approach they want to take, to expect whatever from life they want to expect and buy, sell, upvote, flag, shitpost or rant as much or as little as they want. Some might even earn a little on it, others might earn an obscene amount. It is the way of the world, equality of result is a farce, just as equality and quality of investment is too. Just because you don't get what you want, doesn't mean that you are doing the right things to get what you want. Just because you are bitter in your experience, doesn't mean everyone has to be in theirs. 

Obviously this is fairly sarcastic.

Do what you want with your life, your results are yours. Take responsibility for them.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]