This is excellent. It is good to remember that it's more like a lottery than a job, which can reduce resentment when hard work doesn't pay.

Thanks for bringing awareness to the different ways to get compensated. I only recently started participating in contests, and it's a fun way to be on Steemit and get a tiny bit of steem. I try to check out @bola for guess how many regularly; @bola's other contests usually stump me but it's fun to try when I have time.

I started making memes a couple of days ago, and although my first two are more for an internal audience than marketing, I had fun doing them and they didn't take nearly as long as most of my posts.

I definitely WON'T be entering a hot pepper eating contest.