How much does a dolphin earn in 2 years steeming?

I know no one is hear for the money....that is why we have bots and people constantly complaing about not getting enough votes ;-)

In about 2 weeks I am here for 2 years and pollute this chain with my shitposts..

Before we get to the numbers I want to say that I did not have this much SP all the time but I bought around 20k Steem after being here a month or so. I am no dummy and I am aware that having more Steempower than average will help you here. But I have also seen enough people who started with way less and through constant work build up a nice amount of Steem.

Do they have to work harder? Probably.

I got the stats from https://steemworld.org, which is without a doubt the best site if you want to have a look what is going on with your or another account.

Curation : 1826.87

I have been upvoting pretty consistent, even when I had most of my SP delegated.

Author : 8567.03

I have to say there were times, where I used bots a lot so this number is probably a bit inflated but also brought costs with it so take this number with a grain of salt. On the other hand you cant forget that I should add the SBD but I cant find any numbers for that.
I took breaks multiple times and with this post I have written 728 posts. Some were good, some were meh and some were just bad.

Delegations : 3283.93

This is the number I have from minnowbooster, were I was very active at the start of my journey. Now I check in there from time to time if I feel I am done posting for a while if I can "park" some SP there.
I have given out other delegations without earning though but I think this was never more than 10% of my stack, while with minnowbooster I had almost everything delegated at one point.

At the moment I am delegating to steemhunt (which I have not taking into consideration) and have one active lease.
I also had delegated to boomerang a couple of times (a bot) but this was always for a very short time.

Total : 13676

That is quite a number and more than I thought especially if you take SBD into account. How did I spend it?

With around 3000 Steem I sponsored school for a child. here

I spend a lot on the games floating around here as well. The lion part is still in my account though.

I think for some those numbers seem laughable for others quite big and for some relatable.

For myself those numbers are motivating and I hope for some others as well.

Believe me when I say, I know how frustrating this place can be sometimes and I still remember my first week here, where it felt I was posting and no one cared and you know why it felt like this?

Because no one fucking cared and why should they? I did not know them, they did not know me. It took quite some time till there was a feeling of we.

And this we can be very fragile as well.

If money is the only thing which intrest you here you will not have a good time, believe me I know as there were times I thought I am done here but I am also glad I always overcame those times and enjoy myself here while earning a little something.

“Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade."

-by Matthew Kelly