I've been on Steemit nearly 11 months and I really haven't made much, I had one post make 31.00 that's my record and it was because a whale somehow upvoted the post, maybe by mistake, randomly or maybe he actually liked the post. But I have made 2000 posts including comments and made over 600 Steem of which I have about 560 in SP so being it doesn't cost more than writing I'm ok with it, only thing that has me worried is the continuous decline in value of Steem, that I would like to see stopped.