Alas, the golden days of mining are pretty much over. At least for the little guy miners like myself. I started mining May 11 after procrastinating for over a week. The rewards were good, I was getting 10 Steem a day on a i5. Now that rig is lucky to get two steem a day.

As of this writing, Steem is $1.58 so I figure by not starting mining when I should have, I left over $300 in Steem unclaimed. Of course some other miner, smarter than me, got the Steem. Kudos to you! You saw the value and seized the opportunity.