Yes, yes, yes. I just replied to a frustrated fellow-new-steemer today, and said something to the effect that you've just got to do the work, there's no getting around it.

Here's a link to the response I made, for anyone else who is new and nearly ready to high-tail it out of Dodge:

https://steemit.com/new/@juliany/being-a-new-person-here-is-hard-someone-need-to-create-a-noob-friendly-tutorial-and-sticky-it-lol#@joanroberts/re-juliany-being-a-new-person-here-is-hard-someone-need-to-create-a-noob-friendly-tutorial-and-sticky-it-lol-20170626t223745812z - and now you've got my 2 cents worth twice!