Pick up a thread and start pulling and use what you unravel to start knitting your way in

Looks like I'll be starting from bottom up, so I'll start with this quote. The Steem ecosystem is as big as the ocean, and in it you have all forms of lives. Only a few people who came onboard this platform actually knew what they want to do and achieve here, so for those it was easier to know where to look. But for most others, we had to go round the entire ocean picking things one by one, dropping the ones that appeals to us in our net and the rest, discarded into the ocean.

Steem is a special kind of social media, because everyone here have some profit or earnings as their number one goal. Which there is nothing wrong, in fact, it's what is keeping us here. But many fail to create a path for themselves on how to achieve what the want.

Of course, how do you expect someone to create a path when the person isn't even planning to walk a long distance. Short term goals too is why many people have failed to build the right kind of communities around them.

Now talking about mentors. If you want to walk faster, you will have to borrow some knowledge of routes from those who have been there before. Some people like you have lived quite number of years more than those of us in our 20's, and as such have learned a lot more in the outside world which have informed your steps here. So, it's very important that newbies who which to grow faster borrows some knowledge from those who have gone before them. I might not call them mentors, I refer to you guys as my tutors even though you might not know you have students (which is better so you won't ask for tuition fees, lol).

So, @empress-eremmy, you have taken the right step and from what I read here I'm sure you will do well on this platform. I'll take a few minutes to visit your part of the ecosystem. All the best in your journey.