Just don't get your hopes up too much, Steemit is like becoming a professional football player, not impossible but highly unlikely. Like all things, the early adopters make the most out of it, two years in now... it's just ticking along. It's like buying Bitcoin and thinking it's going to increase 10,000% it's just not going to happen. Should have bought it 5 years ago, you've missed the boat now.

I'm not trying to discourage you at all, just trying to inject some realism. Everyone comes to Steemit now thinking they're going to strike it rich, become the next internet sensation but it's just not going to happen. I write because I like writing and only come here to chat to people, even now I earn about $0.30 on average per article, and I've written quite a few. And as I recently discovered my votes aren't worth a curation crap either.

Keep at it and you might get a large following and earn some spare change out of it, but the days of using Steemit to earn an income are long gone I think, everyone missed that train.