so she found something she could do with limited means and that helped her and her family build a slightly better life for themselves...
this kinda reminds me about the tale of the crabs in the bucket...
put one crab in a bucket and it will crawl out
put more crabs in the bucket and no one will crawl out because if they try the others pull them back down...
such is the same a lot with humans (sadly) but steemit seems to be the other way around... we push the good ones to the top with votes from the bottom so that we can all escape the bucket in the end