Doing the things you love and being independent is the dream for most of us. Reality however is that many people stuck in a 9 to 5 job and with a mortgage to pay it is very difficult to escape from that routine.

![pexels-photo-127627.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUZFimU8RZpCY1Z6uG2kSQu8R7JW7pW6BBRgK9ZgR3svE/pexels-photo-127627.jpg)
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## Since HF19 (hard fork 19) however I see light at the end of the tunnel and wondered how much SP I would need to live from Posting and Commenting alone using Steemit.com, [Busy](https://busy.org) and [ChainBB](https://beta.chainbb.com).
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First thing I did was to specify how I want to use my daily voting power.

- Use 20% for myself and 80% for up-voting posts from the community.

Than specify the amount I want to earn per month with **self up-votes alone** (20% per day for myself) that would cover most of my expenses and mortgage.
 
- 2000 USD.

With that clarified and the **assumption** that with the HF19 changes you earn **10 USD per 10.000** SP the calculation showed the following:

## To make 2000 USD a month with 2 Full self up votes a day (5 days a week) I will need at least 50.000 SP.

![pexels-photo-195280.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXUaqXJN6AV68R5anzEFvLsHCXYoy1a9JktHgwSwP4fgw/pexels-photo-195280.jpg)


I am now at the half of that amount and will use my post rewards and part of may salary to get to that number. The good think is that I have now a clear vision of what needs to be done in order to quit my day job.

The future is bright if you look at it from the right angle.

![Steemit Wallpape.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXL9hw52gV2jtyVG25xfEvPEBmAHXoN7PdN4syRwxDmAB/Steemit%20Wallpape.png)

*Source: Created by me :-)*

## What is your goal, how much SP do you need to quit your day job and how often do you intend to vote for yourself a day? Let me know!

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Please don't forget to up-vote and follow if this post was interesting to you.

Thank you!