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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"introduceyourself",<br>"author":"ablaze",<br>"permlink":"i-m-joe-i-m-irish-and-i-m-ready-to-set-steemit-ablaze",<br>"title":"I'm Joe,<br> I'm Irish,<br> and I'm ready to set Steemit **ablaze**!!",<br>"body":"![RSCN0691.JPG (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmdoueGy8N1KD8y5jFfWwXYnsjC9r6C1Hu1xWaC2X6eB5T\/RSCN0691.JPG)\n\n**Hi everyone,<br> I'm Joe or Ablaze as some of you know me now.** Today is my 30th day on Steemit. When I first joined,<br> I was going to do one of these #introduceyourself posts to let some of you know who I was,<br> and try to get some followers and carve out a little niche for myself here on Steemit. I was going to talk about Sport and Crypto,<br> and other interests of mine. In the end,<br> I decided against it,<br> and said I'd wait until I was here for 30 days and then introduce myself and give everyone some info on what my experience of Steemit has been,<br> while also introducing myself at the same time. So here goes..\n\n# So,<br> who Am I?\n\nLet's kick this intro off! I'm an Irish man\/Dad\/Husband. That's me and my oldest son above,<br> a couple of years ago. We're admiring the view over a lake in Connemara,<br> in the West coast of Ireland,<br> which is where I'm from. But we live just outside the capital city of Dublin,<br> as all the jobs are up this side of the country,<br> at least in my industry :o) \n\n![Family day out 2.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmeaHRhs9S9prPHjcLdj5jq9uuwycypkuBGhPhrVnn7fWz\/Family%20day%20out%202.jpg)\n\n# What do I work at?\nI work as an Optical Engineer for a big Telco,<br> it's a really cool and interesting job,<br> and I might do a post on some of the more interesting parts of it,<br> like helping to fix subsea fibre breaks on the sub-sea fibres that allow us all to communicate from across the globe in milliseconds. The map below shows some of the fibre cables that span the bottom of the oceans,<br> over which our voice,<br> business and data travel daily on the information superhighway. Every now and again,<br> one of these break,<br> usually a fishing trawler drags it along the sea bed and damages it. Then I get a phone call,<br> and a whole series of interesting events happen.. Although not so great,<br> if it happens when your about to tuck into the turkey on Christmas eve! The joys of being on-call! I'll cover this in another post..\n\n![under-sea-cable-map.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmPaAeeZCGz3U23WxWpdzqi4aL4YRwBeBjCNDeg2S766pW\/under-sea-cable-map.jpg)\n# What do I like?\nAnyway,<br> enough about work :o) My interests are many,<br> and include everything from surfing to astronomy; reading to football. I am into a real mixed bag of things,<br> and most recently I took an interest in Cryptocurrency.. I did a load of reading and have built up a solid understanding. That is what lead me to finding Steemit,<br> I'd love to give credit to one of you wonderful folks for bringing me here,<br> but the truth is I kind of stumbled upon the place myself while researching Crypto. So I applied for an account,<br> and waited patiently... an hour turned into two,<br> then a day,<br> then 3 and I still wasn't approved. I started to think I may not get approved,<br> then boom,<br> the mail hit the inbox and in I came.\n\n# Finding Steemit\nThe whole thing was new to me,<br> and I stumbled around the trending page wondering what to do,<br> I upvoted some Crypto posts and commented on a few,<br> then I did my first post,<br> and I got 1 upvote from a guy who said: \"Good post thank you :) I followed you follow me \" I soon realised he hadn't even read my post,<br> as he was having a serious dose of repeat post,<br> as he spattered this same stock message on loads of pages in his attempt to gain followers (I've just checked,<br> he has 48 followers now,<br> so clearly his approach did not work) I was disappointed that noone had read my first post,<br> but promised myself to give it 30 days..\n\n# Fiftywords\nI then had the good fortune to happen upon the the #fiftywords page on day 2. I posted a [50 word story (https:\/\/steemit.com\/fiftywords\/@ablaze\/escape-from-tyranny-50-word-story),<br> and I managed to get 0.28SBD worth of upvotes \u2013 hey this Steemit thing wasn't so bad... I have continued to take part in this since then,<br> and I find it really enjoyable to stop by and see the worlds,<br> thoughts and visions people can conjure up in 50 short words. I'd recommend you stop by and have a look.\n\n\nI was back writing creatively for the first time since I was a 17 year old student,<br> when I had to write for my English exams,<br> but to be fair I enjoyed it back then too. Then I embarked on a technical career through university and work,<br>so the creative writing never happened again,<br> that is until 30 days ago.. All thanks to Steemit and the warm and welcoming community within it. \n# Freewrite\nOn day 4 I found my new favourite little corner of the internet #Freewrite This is a daily writing exercise organised and administered by the friendly and wonderful @mariannewest. Here you have just 5 minutes to conjure up a story from beginning to end and then post it to your page. This my most recent one https:\/\/steemit.com\/freewrite\/@ablaze\/the-last-one-on-earth-freewrite \n\nI felt so encouraged and appreciated from the beginning,<br> which gave me the confidence to continue to post freewrites,<br> and today I take part nearly every day. The community here is amazing,<br> and there is nothing I love more than reading freewrites,<br> upvoting the ones I love and having a good natter in the comments section underneath. If you are new to the platform,<br> come hang out with us in #freewrite,<br> there are a great bunch of people from around the world here waiting to talk to and encourage you.\n\n# I wrote a song!!!\nWith this new found confidence I entered a [song writing competition (https:\/\/steemit.com\/writing\/@edprivat\/lyrics-writing-contest-the-winner-is-announced) and won! @edprivat is going to compose the music to acompany my lyrics,<br> upload it to Dsound and share 50% of the proceeds with me. But aside from maybe making a few quid,<br> it was so cool to write my first song! And,<br> again this was all thanks to Steemit! This is it.... It's no masterpiece,<br> but I'm still quite proud of it..\n\n**The Man With No Home**\n\n*[Verse 1 *\n*So desolate,<br> so down*\n*When he looks the people flee,<br>*\n*Sits all alone in his hometown,<br>*\n*He's a patriot you see,<br>*\n*This man is just like you and me,<br>*\n*But with no family around,<br>*\n*No dignity is found,<br>*\n\n*[Chorus *\n*He's a lost soul on the road to nowhere,<br>*\n*Switch the penny for the pound,<br>*\n*Trodden dreams upon the ground,<br>*\n*He's a lost soul on the road to nowhere.*\n*Just a lost soul on the road to nowhere.*\n\n*[Verse 2 *\n*This man fought bravely for his flag,<br>*\n*His shoes with holes upon the floor,<br>*\n*Them dirty clothes are made of rag,<br>*\n*To die in war's considered valour,<br>*\n*Not this traffic and its clamour,<br>*\n*Not indignity's cold quiver,<br>*\n*As he poisons his own liver.*\n\n*[Chorus *\n*He's a lost soul on the road to nowhere,<br>*\n*Switch the penny for the pound,<br>*\n*Trodden dreams upon the ground,<br>*\n*He's a lost soul on the road to nowhere.*\n*Just a lost soul on the road to nowhere.*\n\n# Then a poem!!\nAnd before this I wrote [my first poem (https:\/\/steemit.com\/poetry\/@ablaze\/steemitpoetrycontest-16-run-wild) since I was a young child in school. \n\n**Steemit has made all this possible. It is a wonderful platform and I'm so very glad I found it**\n\nI'm a month in,<br> and I've amassed 33.5 Steem Power and over 300 hundred followers,<br> not bad for a little minnow from Ireland :o)\n\n# How many countries can I get a comment from?\nI can't wait to get stuck in and try to make a postive contribution to this budding community.. I'll do my best! If you do leave a comment below,<br> and I hope you do,<br> you might include what country you are from,<br> so I can see how many different continents I can connect with via my introduction!! Well maybe not Antartica,<br> that'd be a tad ambitious :) \n\nI hope it doesn't seem like I'm fishing for comments,<br> that's certainly not my intention...\n\n![SDC10533.JPG (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZs5La1ysj8TQkoeJfosnCtkEtRJHr3C7Ccz84CXettkQ\/SDC10533.JPG)\n\nSo where are you from and what it is your Steemit story or thoughts on the platform?\n\nAs we say in Ireland in our native tongue Go N-\u00e9ir\u00ed an B\u00f3thar leat which means 'may the road rise to meet you'",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"introduceyourself\",<br>\"introducemyself\",<br>\"minnowsupport\",<br>\"ireland\",<br>\"steemit\" ,<br>\"users\":[\"mariannewest\",<br>\"edprivat\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmdoueGy8N1KD8y5jFfWwXYnsjC9r6C1Hu1xWaC2X6eB5T\/RSCN0691.JPG\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmeaHRhs9S9prPHjcLdj5jq9uuwycypkuBGhPhrVnn7fWz\/Family%20day%20out%202.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmPaAeeZCGz3U23WxWpdzqi4aL4YRwBeBjCNDeg2S766pW\/under-sea-cable-map.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZs5La1ysj8TQkoeJfosnCtkEtRJHr3C7Ccz84CXettkQ\/SDC10533.JPG\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/fiftywords\/@ablaze\/escape-from-tyranny-50-word-story\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/freewrite\/@ablaze\/the-last-one-on-earth-freewrite\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/writing\/@edprivat\/lyrics-writing-contest-the-winner-is-announced\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/poetry\/@ablaze\/steemitpoetrycontest-16-run-wild\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"ablaze",
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