There are some things I have typed and deleted, deleted and typed again. After thinking about it, I decided to start from the time I entered the university campus.
At the beginning of 2017, I entered the university campus. Because of my unsatisfactory college entrance examination results, I was only admitted to a non-key second-tier university. So I didn’t have too many expectations for college life at the beginning. I didn’t listen carefully in class. I was thinking about ways to make money. By chance, I came into contact with campus sponsorship. Maybe many people don’t know what campus sponsorship is? Simply put, schools often hold some large and small activities, such as art festivals, concerts and other activities. There are many things, but most of the activities are not paid for by the school itself. Instead, the external relations department of the department responsible for organizing the activities needs to use various channels to attract sponsors to obtain financial or other sponsorship support.
As a result, this connection between sponsors and schools has gradually given rise to an industry called university sponsorship promotion.
As a sponsor, we undertake new user acquisition tasks from JD.com, Taobao and a series of new apps that require college students to download/follow/apply. After completing the task, we will receive a corresponding unit price*number of new users. Then we keep a portion of the profit for ourselves and give the remaining profit to the school's external relations department in the form of sponsorship fees. In this way, we have completed the new user acquisition task, and the school has received sponsorship fees to ensure the smooth progress of school activities. It can be said to be a win-win cooperation. This model is also called CPA
It was through this model that I earned my first pot of gold in life. In addition to working as a summer job, acting as a driving school agent, recycling second-hand books, and scalping, by the second half of my sophomore year, I had saved up about 100,000 yuan. From then on, I paid my tuition fees every year and didn’t have to ask my family for living expenses. That was a relatively happy time (my assets at that time were 100,000 yuan).
In the first half of 2020, through the accumulation of previous connections and resources, my average monthly income was able to maintain around 10,000 yuan. At the same time, because of the deepening of the circle, I was exposed to more and more fields and met more and more people. Through a friend's introduction, I learned about Qubu. Maybe people in the currency circle have never heard of Qubu, but if I mention Stepn, I believe many people are familiar with it. Yes, in fact, Qubu can be said to be the domestic version of Stepn. Those who know it will understand it. I won’t say much. Through this plate, my assets have reached about 270,000 yuan. (At this time, the assets are 270,000 yuan)
Later, through this dish, I got to know Twitter, and learned about a series of new words and concepts such as cryptocurrency, Crypto, Web3, etc. on Twitter, which completely refreshed my cognition and made my thinking evolve from Web2 to Web3. In the following days, I learned how to trade cryptocurrencies (actually, I only learned how to open long and short positions), so the consequences can be imagined. The familiar experience of losing money came as expected. I made a lot of money, and then under the double blow of O3 liquidation on Huobi and 519, my assets started to lose weight. After a lot of trouble, my assets retreated to about 50,000 (50,000 yuan at this time)
At that time, I lost confidence in Crypto and thought it was bullshit. Then, with the remaining 50,000 yuan, I returned to Web2 and continued my great scalping business, vowing to be the next Linkan. Later, through the China Resources Moutai event, Dayi tea, various commemorative coins and other Web2 scalping projects, my liquid funds came to about 200,000 yuan (the assets were 200,000 yuan at this time)
Although I lost confidence in Crypto at that time, I still had some faith in mainstream assets, because I always believed that the more people opposed something, the greater its potential value might be. So I kept investing in Ethereum during this period, and the arrival of the Mavericks also benefited me a lot, but I never traded in the secondary market again.
At the end of 2021, I opened the door to the NFT world on the recommendation of a friend. I was lucky. Maybe it was based on the instinct of a person who likes to get free stuff, so I worked hard and got a lot of whitelists, including 3Landers and AAC, which made me a little numb. The Freshfools project made me a little popular. After all, it is a proud thing to be able to raise the floor price several times with several holders without the project party doing any work. This is also the first pot of gold I really made in the field of Crypto (500,000 yuan in assets at this time)
The market was not good afterwards, and because my mother had to be hospitalized for surgery, I cashed out half of my money, and put the rest in current account investment. When I ran out of money, I would withdraw some money. Until the Luna explosion, I bought a few thousand yuan of Luna spot at 5 zeros, and it doubled more than 200 times after sleeping, which is equivalent to making hundreds of thousands of dollars in one sleep. I was so happy that I almost jumped up. Then I kept tossing around like this, thinking about building a personal IP, building a community, and relying on my own connections to get some information gaps to earn some relatively stable income (currently assets are less than 1 million)
That's about it. Looking back at my own life, it's very ordinary and normal. Most of the time, I relied on pure luck. I had almost no strength. I relied on luck and popularity to get to where I am now. During this period, I also borrowed online loans. I also cried secretly when I sat on the iron bed in the dormitory because of liquidation, but I didn't dare to tell my family.
After all, the most common lie I've ever told in my life is that it's okay.
(For a complete introduction to this article and the story behind it, see the video on the YouTube channel)
