There is often a silence and sense of disbelief I’m met with when I tell people I “work for free” and that my employer is, at the end of the day, God.

It is true I have worked for and with many global corporations and high-net-worth individuals, and I still do (I mean, it’s my code after all), but I am not on any payroll.

I don’t receive “benefits” or “typical” social assistance from either.

Eventually, the discussion deepens that surely I am accepting some sort of compensation. I must need to eat, pay bills, and what about my family? “Don’t you have a daughter? A family?”

Yes, this is all true. I need to eat. I need to pay bills, and I do have a daughter and family.

Aha! “Got some crypto hidden away, eh? Sticking it to the man, eh, Satoshi? Or perhaps a secret trust fund?”

There are some things I hold in order to pay for or get access to basic services.

I have a credit card. I have a bank account with a card, and yes, I have a crypto wallet.

“So you’re a liar, you have secret resources. I thought God was your supplier?”

God is.

It may surprise you that I wear clothes and don’t walk around naked. I make mistakes, and I can stutter, and I have a passport because, in this world, nations don’t like for you to just appear in their country with no sense of a footprint of how you got there.

“Don’t you sell domains and broker sales?”

I certainly do, and while it used to be about the money, now my goals are to get the right names to the right groups and people. If I am contacting an individual about a domain, it is because I am, in a sense, compelled to reach out to that party.

When you visit BBC.com, FairTrade.ca, or Amazon.com, I can chuckle a little.

This is 5D chess, not noughts and crosses.

“Okay, okay, so you used to be a moneybags fella and now it’s some vow of poverty schtick. Surely you are not reporting 0 income to the Tax Man. You are receiving big money?”

Oy Vey, actually I am. Reporting 0 (to you), that is, unless it’s truly not beyond gifts and emergency savings, or gifts from friends and family or the community.

“You’re a fraud.”

See sense now.

Did I have coin in the past? Absolutely, and I donated it all away—and some was stolen and lost, sure, but that’s water under the bridge.

“So you accept compensation and donations. Priests, Imams, and Rabbis get a salary or operate under a stipend model of compensation. Is the community I reside in each time compensating me?”

A salary? No. Do I accept compensation? It is an interesting question, and in a sense, yes I do, though not always as money unless it’s a domain-related sale.

Free accommodation, food, and passage to travel, or access to areas that money was never going to buy. Yes, those individuals of faith do generally receive some sort of pay.

However, I am not, for example, a diocesan priest or part of some clergy.

I’m not alone, but I’m operating solo.

Do I have friends in high places? Yes, the highest. Do I assist powerful groups and individuals? Yes, the highest. I’ve also been in shelters, hostels; I’ve sat side by side with people in need and never left until I knew something was set up for them.

Do I tell God everything? Yes.

You get what you give, and I’m tired, weak, and broken. I’m waiting to see what people give back when I’ve given it all. To do that, I work for free.

When something is given or provided to me, I multiply it back.

So maybe I should say: I work for gifts. Currently.

Will I be a salary man again? Only God knows. Maybe if the right domain shows up.

regards,

Alexander / Zenchi