Your passion for this platform and for helping others is incredible. I am relatively new to steemit and I find the most value in the interactions I have with others about their posts and in the process of creating and posting my own content. I feel like there are some larger life lessons in here somewhere - like if you spend our time thinking you deserve to be making loads of money on the platform then you'll mostly just be pissy and bitter about how it's not working out for you. On the other hand, if your focus is on all the cool people you're meeting and producing great content, then you'll build community and have content to be proud of and over the long haul, you might have a bonus which is a little extra spending money. The second choice is win win! Thanks @papa-pepper for being a great advocate for steemit and the community!