It’s true that Bitcoins have changed many life completely. I mean for some it has become boom and for few it has become curse. Keeping the bad sentiments away, it’s really amazing to hear OP’s story that due to Bitcoins he is enjoying his work and working from the comfort of his home. Many of us hear treat Bitcoins as an asset, but here for the OP it’s the payment currency. I am sure that OP will be saving some of those Bitcoins and holding it to cash out at later period of time and possibly with a higher value. Keep it up OP. More success will surely knock your door.
It's really not an easy task to be patient during the period where it has gone down so much, of course it is a bad period to be in, not only it is harder to make money by trading, but it is also harder to find jobs right now as well, freelances and crypto workers are making much lesser amount of money, but the ones that stick right now could make a bigger network.
And that is the thing that matters the most, if you end up working hard then you could build a high network and get more people on your side and they can vouch for the good job you did for them when the market is bear, and you can profit with that during the bull run and make a big amount of money. Something you did as a "favour" for 500 bucks today, could be charged 5000 during bull.