Joined in 2018, Writing in 2019

I joined the Steemit community a year ago. I had just been approved as a new user and was getting ready to post my intro. I started familiarizing myself with the site, read some posts, and generally just tried to get a feel for what people did here. But right before I was about to write my first post something big happened that changed my life.

The Backstory First

I come from the great Republic of Texas, and have been living in the Kingdom of Thailand since 2007. For most of my time in Thailand, I worked for a pretty solid company. It was such a good venture that we got bought for $35 million. After a four-year corporate merger, the new owners shut us down. This plunged me into the deep end of Thailand's job-seeking pool against my will. More specifically, I was in Phuket's job-seeking pool–a painful experience that would last 13 months.

Finally a Job Offer

This is when I first discovered Steemit. Oddly enough, the very next day I was given a decent job offer in Northern Thailand. As a husband and father of two, I took the job. We packed up and moved north to the beautiful city of Chiang Mai.

The new job went well at first, but the man who hired me was soon squeezed out of the company. His replacement wasted no time in restructuring the team which included giving me my walking papers.

Back in the South Again

The good news is we're back in Phuket where the skies are blue and the air is clean. While Chiang Mai is amazing in many respects, it suffers from having the unlucky distinction for having the world's worst air quality for the months of March and April each year. Chiang Mai beats beats out the worst polluted cities in China and India every year. And while we have escaped the pollution, we met some wonderful people up there who cannot.

Writing Against the Odds

I don't think I can think of a more difficult beginning to start writing a blog. I'm looking for work while home schooling two young and very energetic kids that need constant attention. My laptop was dropped which shattered the screen and the new house we moved into doesn't have water or electricity (which I plan to explain in an upcoming blog).

Kick Life in the Face

Now life is difficult for billions of people around the world, so I have no plans on throwing myself a pity party here. I say, "Bring it life! Come at me bro. Imma kick you in the face!" I'm no Steemit expert, but I'll do my best to jump in and be a constructive contributor to the community. I'm looking forward to meeting some cool Steemers and sharing another point of view on this big, amazing world.