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I had a much slower month in April. I decided to pull back from Steem a little to focus on finishing up my coding projects so I can work on getting a job as a developer.
It’s kind of crazy to look at the stats for this month compared to the last few, because it shows how much value you get from a single big whale upvote. I only posted 4 times, but still earned $491.12 (I had two big Utopian upvotes), versus earning $992.37 last month from 20 posts. A lot of this also has to do with the big uptick in the market recently, but it’s still interesting to see what a couple big upvotes can do.
Stats
Here’s a summary of my running stats since starting at the beginning of January, along with a list of all my posts for this month and how much they earned.
May Goals
I’m going to be posting less again this month. I really need to finish up this web development program I’m doing and get a job. I'd like to turn in the first draft of my project Course Blocks, and deploy the first iteration of The Creative Crypto. I’ll continue to post on Utopian with my updates!
I’d also really like to finish a couple more videos for DTube so I can release my course about Steem on Udemy, but we’ll see how it goes.
Thanks for sticking with me on this Steem journey so far! It has been fun watching the market — I’m so curious to see how things will develop this year. 🙂
