Yes, you'll make money. I promise you. Yet removing the worrying about "how much" you make will make it enjoyable. The people I see that are the most unhappy almost always are about not making as much as someone else, not making anything, or asking for people to give them votes.

They don't seem to last. I didn't make a lot on most of my posts starting out and I started out when it was $4/steem so some people were making insane amounts for a post.

A girl makes over $30,000 on a make up tutorial and suddenly we're flooded with other people making make up tutorials. For the time and the amount of people using the platform that type of payout was unsustainable.

I never have had a post over $1000 though I have been here through those times.

My best ever actually was three comments in a row that I wrote where I used poetry as my response on my other account @chaospoet. I made close to $900 total on those three COMMENTS. That's still my personal best.

Most of my posts were under $1 back then, and many were $0. I just started writing things I was interested in, and using this place as kind of a repository for my mind.

Over time I gather followers. I also try to improve my skills and learn more about myself.

I am still not usually on the Trending page, I think I've been number 2 or 3 before there when payouts were at an all time low so it maybe gave me $20 or so. But I do tend to make at least something from every post I make now.

That is pretty cool. Though ultimately I don't care. I have never powered down my steem power. I just post and enjoy it, and become more and more attached to this wonderful community.

Welcome, and I wish you a similar but uniquely you journey.