Thank you very much, @sallykwitt! 🙂 I'm really glad if it would keep you going!

To be honest, I thought so too for a long time (that "only the established people will make any cash worthwhile"). But it's not true! OK, established members would always have higher possibility to earn more and quicker, but that also might change through time because of some new kids on the block that would also become 'established' through time. The beauty of Steemit is that that new kid on the block could be you or me, both of us, or anyone else.

Being here almost a year by now, I also had my ups and downs, giving ups and returning backs. As well, through all that time the platform was changing, developing and growing, but also being through some 'less good times' overcoming obstacles and mistakes.
Steemit is a 'living organism' in constant change, from the beginning, and in its essence created the way that it might always be changed, developed and improved by contribution and ideas of any individual or group of individuals! - That's its basic beauty and advantage.

So, what I'm talking now it's something that I tried, checked and tested, and what's currently valid and actual.

All the best, sincerely
Ana-Maria