WRITING

I’m having a Tiborg Deluxe, an Ethiopian Style Coffee Stout brewed by Ugar Brewery in a place with an impossible name in Hungary. Are you ready? The place is called Törökszentmiklós.

Read it once and say it again with your eyes shut and perfect Hungarian accent and win 1,000 LUNA. Hell, let’s live a little. You can even win 100,000. They’re worth close to nothing anyway. As we all know.

The reason I mention the beer I’m having is dual: one, it’s very good. And two, I just wanted to write.

I started writing over ten years ago but I’ve only been doing that professionally for three years in the sense that before 2019, I had to work other jobs to sustain myself because monetising creativity is the work of the devil. No, wait, let me rephrase that. Trying to monetise creativity is the same as trying to live in Serbia as a teetotaller: it’s doable, but difficult.

Back in 2016, I was looking for a gig as a content creator and happened upon a crypto exchange whose name I won’t mention, all I can tell you the name begins with W and ends with Irex. It was just a two-bit start-up back then and even though I’d heard of BTC before, I had no idea what I was going to do with it.

I asked to get paid on PayPal and thankfully, they refused. They said: “nope, crypto only.”

That, as you can imagine, turned out all right.

I wrote my first ‘car review’ in 2007, using the ‘notepad’ feature during a lunch break at the company I was working for at the time and nearly fifteen years down the line, I’m still in love with writing.

I love cars, crypto, watches and just in general I’m fond of all the domains and topics I cover while writing. But at the end of the day, to quote my former employer and the main reason why I started writing: “if you want to make a living writing about stuff, you have to like the things you write about, but you have to love writing.”

So what was the point of this post? No idea. But this beer is so good.

I will be covering cars, watches and tech here on TCI