Again, it looks like there will be minimal earnings for me today. I keep getting screened out of surveys for the various offerwalls on crypto faucets. Bleh. I haven't figured out how to adequately market my music on Band Camp in order to earn anything from it. I also haven't figured out what my audience likes in order to do well from my blogging efforts on various for-pay sites spread over the Web, despite my best efforts.
Don't get me wrong here. I've certainly made some money/brought in some crypto from my activities. However, what I have got after a few months isn't enough for me to continue to pursue alternate income streams as a primary means of income. Oh well, it's certainly been an interesting adventure trying to see if it's worth my while pursuing crypto as a source of income (which it has been, but to a very limited extent and not one off which I can live). Regrettably, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot justify continuing to spend time on it, unless as an after-work and/or weekend activity, for a little pocket change. Sadly, the time for me to go back to traditional ways of earning has come and gone. Now I have to scramble like mad to find something before I end up out on the street begging. (Begging has actually been one of the more successful options for me, but it's not one that I like. It's too competitive and demeaning, for one thing.)
Hopefully, now that there is a vaccine out, COVID-19 will no longer be a big stumbling block that makes businesses still reluctant to hire developers. I suppose I won't know if I don't make the effort to find out. Job hunting is the primary activity to which I'm going to be dedicating my remaining time (however much of that I have before I meet my doom and sink back into obscurity). I'm certainly not looking forward to going back to living the life of a loser who never made it out, but I don't see that I have any practical choice. Who knows, after all? Maybe I might just earn enough to make ends meet? As much as it sucks and bums me out, it's certainly worth attempting, after all. Starving to death on the street isn't an option I fancy. Burning out and going nuts isn't one either, but the die has been cast.
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