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RE: 👧 12-Year-Old Hiver Withdraws $150 HBD 🏦 Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next 🤔
Haha, the first thing she said to herself when I gave her $110, and then she combined it with her roughly $40 was, "I could buy three bicycles with this money." I think she understands the effort she put in to earn this money, so I hope she'll spend it wisely. An adult working full time around these parts can barely surpass $200 a month, so she's doing quite well for 12 years old.
I could never get her to hustle up money like I did when I was a kid, going door to door offering to wash cars, mow grass, clean gutters, etc., but she's still got some social phobias I want her to overcome. The dominance of screens in our lives now is partly responsible for the new generation not knowing how to socialize like we did.
I like the thought of a new HBD-based life, and will continue powering up HIVE until I find that medium between long-term passive income and the risk of having my 95% of my life savings in the Hive-o-sphere. I guess time will tell how the experiment goes, but it's not like there are tempting places like shopping malls or movie theaters here in the wild west of the Cardamom Mountains.
When we imagine various businesses for the new potential land, almost none of them compare to us working full-time on Hive. The only thing I can imagine is to open up an afterschool program to teach computer literacy, English, cryptocurrency, photography, and Hive-blogging.
Three bicycles, hahahaha, I love it! Did you ask her how many bikes she can ride at the same time? 😜 But I'm sure eventually she'll figure out what she wants to spend her cash on. And even in the absence of movie theaters and malls, I'm sure there is some equivalent temptation around that she'll discover. And in case she tries to be wise and hold on to her money, she will learn first hand the problem of inflation, and how money tends to rot away, that is lose value over time. In any case a good lesson. --- Now I'm just thinking: those three bikes may not be a bad idea after all. There may be a business idea lurking...
Ahhh yes, I remember trying to hustle for money as a 12-year-old in Germany. Very discouraging! In the US the people probably told you no straight up, by simply saying "I don't need your services, kid." or maybe even "I don't have money to pay you." Then you could just shrug it off, and keep trying with other folks. In Germany it was almost always something like: "You know I can get in trouble if I employ you before you're 14." or the cheeky "You're welcome to shovel the snow in my driveway today, but I can't pay you until you're 14."(boohhhh!) Oh yes, those damnable child labor laws! They just encouraged me to go back home to watch TV. 😩 Also when I was in high school in the States, where most of my peers delivered pizza or jobbed at the mall, I couldn't follow suit because I didn't have a work visa. 😖 No wonder I turned out the way I did: a bunch of skills, but always shy of employment. Oh well, maybe it's better this way.
My best wishes with the land, and the business ideas. I'm sure you'll be amazing at it! Can't wait to read the posts.
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