# Steemit is my first "job" in over 4 years! 
I'm what they call a *"digital nomad"* only up until recently, I was just a nomad- nothing digital about it.

I was flat broke but recklessly ambitious and passionate when I left my home for this new life that I couldn't even dream of at the time!

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<center> Me at the office 😉 </center>
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[Google](https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&hs=vi5&ei=bPaXWpaRLsTbvASny5iQAw&q=define+job&oq=define+job&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.100942.102285.0.102488.8.8.0.0.0.0.142.727.4j3.7.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.7.722...0i10k1j35i39k1j0i67k1.0.ozP_xyROR5w) says that a **Job** is: "a paid position of regular employment."

Hmmm, I guess Steemit is kind of like a job with no guarantee of salary, no specified hours of work and no boss... **I LIKE IT!** 

Nomad according to [Wiki](https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=define+nomad&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) means:
*"a person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer.*"

That about sums it up. I have been all over the place in the last 4 years and not any of them was *home* and there certainly was no typical, cubicle, traditional *job.* 

Kind of strange eh? Beach office, no one telling me what to do and time off to do what I want. Can you believe it?
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My father just visited me in Bali from Canada (*mostly to check up on me and make sure I wasn't starving*) and his big question was:

 "**HOW ARE YOU SURVIVING** (*without working your @$ off*)?"

Well, honestly, thought out life choices, combined with constantly expanding knowledge, ingenuity, creativity and a side of *crypto.*

### I knew I had to live differently!

I have seen too many people give up their lives, being slaves to something they don't even care about just to pay the bills. It doesn't seem right to me.

After entering the work force too young and melting my creativity away being stuck behind a shitty counter for all of my weekends, holidays and time between getting home from school and going to bed, I developed this need to escape the control and power our society imposses. 

I was this neat, tidy, pretty in pink princess who only knew how to say yes. There was not a 'no' in my body. I'd do anything to make my bosses happy and to feel approval and satisfaction from acknowledgment (*cough, daddy issues, cough.*) 

For years I did what I was told, no questions asked even when I knew it was outside the perimeters of my expectations or role. 
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I put up with so much harassment and sexual abuse in my younger years that no one that age should ever have to experience let alone endure which spiraled into a host of other issues. *I tend to like to do my job without the licking me, thanks...*
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I was young, naive and never learned how to stand up or defend myself. I watched my docile mother always heeding at the foot of my step father. Always trying to please. Always saying 'yes.'

So there I was, too young to know what was coming and raised in a home with high expectations and value placed on the family's reputation and status within the community. So, I smiled big, held my head high and I would never embarrass my parents. Yes, yes, yes. Smile, nod, be obedient and always, always, *pretty, well groomed and properly well behaved.* 

(*Excuse me while I go throw up now...*)
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I bet you can see how this ended up turning into a full 360 of utter rebellion down the line ie. my story of being in the drug gang in Dominican Republic. (*Oh, have I got more of that story for you!*)

Yep so anywhooo... let's skip ahead. 

Here we are now, I'm in my second half of my twenties and I refuse to allow anyone to dictate how I spend my time or short, fleeting, precious life ever again and if anyone thinks they're going to pull one over on me and have me "yessing" when it's completely out of bounds, they're going to get a big, fat no coming at them!
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### That brings me here: Steemit!
I used to refuse to blog because people expected me to and I'm a defiant brat. (*Just kidding, I'm not, I am a self respecting, confident woman who knows her worth!*)

It wasn't until I found Steemit and just started letting whatever I wanted pour into my keyboard that things changed for me. 

I have so many conversations where I'm told what would be better, what would gain more views, more followers, more upvotes and I know guys, I know. I have a back ground in marketing and more than enough experience promoting successfully to know how to do this *big time* but **guess what**? 

This isn't actually my job! I mean sure, it could be considered so as it brings me an income that allows me to participate in our society and all that jazz but I certainly don't see it like that. 

Expectations and rules get me all curled up in a ball like my heart just fell out of my body. 
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**It has to be a choice, freedom, fun, inspirational!**

I love creating from my heart and soul. I love responding to you when I genuinely feel the want to. I love reading your posts when they interest me. I'm not going to be the girl who sucks up to you if I don't want to. I'm soooo incredibly terrible at brown nosing and making my way through being fake. 

**There is a lot of talk nowadays about rules and systems on here that are taking all the fun and freedom away. Nawwwn-uhnnn my friends, not this gal.**

It's incredible to me because I can get accused of being inauthentic because I can be really over the top friendly and engaging but the truth is I can't do it if I don't want to so it's impossible for me to be fake. At the same time, there are some expectations floating around. 

Well that's not going to work for me! I came here to play and inspire and love! I can't force myself to do anything I don't want to without a break down, then you'll see through it and we will be in all sorts of awkwardness.

Sorry guys.
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I suck at doing what I'm told now after all the abuse of power in my life. I'm insatiably rebellious and so when 'boss' says I'd like a story Cece, I post a picture of a sunrise and laugh. When I don't want to come to work, I just don't. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with ideas and retreat into solace. Sometimes I'm filled with energy and vigor to post 'til my hearts' contentment. 
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### I'm such a free spirit and it's so vulnerable but I love it! 
**Instead of obligated, coerced and trapped I'm passionately motivated and inspired!**
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It took me a long time to become this way and it drives my father crazy now (he was just visiting me and hates when he wants me to do something and can't just make me do it anymore *just because*...) 
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### So anyways, what was I talking about? 

I'm a wild fire, my loves. 
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I can't promise you what you're going to get from me but **I can promise you some generalizations:**
### Who I am:
1) I love story telling and have more stories than I could tell in a life time! 
2) I have lots of free time (*when I'm not doing really cool stuff like exploring or creating vegan delicacies to take over the world!*) 
3) I am authentic, vulnerable and genuine with my interaction which means if I don't respond to you, it's because I don't have anything to say/have enough time to/have enough energy to but if I do respond, trust it's from my heart. 
4) I love food. I actually am motivated entirely in life by food so there will always be food shared here. 
5) I like interacting and sharing with you and it brings my soul happiness to be able to express my creativity instead of letting it fester and rot inside so I appreciate more than you know, your supporting me! 

Right now I'm living off my personal savings (*wahoo crypto!*) and anything I get in SBD meaning, the more I earn, the more cool stuff I do and share with you, win-win haha :)
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### <center>Cheers to more adventures, vegan food, crazy stories and LOVE!</center>
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Sending you love today and everyday!
Yours truly, 
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