It took me weeks to get any traction really. And it took about 4 months to get 100 followers. For me though, some of my content attracted more active and higher rep followers.
As an example of content volume, I have a couple of posts on my word count. Over two weeks I posted around 43000 words in about 75 posts of original content across several fields of interest. That is a masters thesis in length. Most didn't get more than a couple dollars.
I have been working very hard at this since arrival and I feel like it is only now I am starting to get the hang of it and still I get posts with very low returns often.
There is more value here for me in what I write than what I get paid for it. There is also the value of interaction with some great people. It is easy to count success on reward but it is not a good indicator of value at all.