I gotta say, you are one of the guys that made me see the true potential of Steem.
What actually drew me in here is the possibility to have an easy space and with a lot of potential public to read what i write.
What i observed in life is that in the end, the people that get sucess (the good kind of sucess) are the ones that end up doing what they enjoy.
The greatest names i admire in the end got where they are today because they had passion for what they were doing. The money and the sucess were not their main objective.
These days you can still see some people coming around with big ideas that will get big, and as collateral, they will make a lot of money (the one that came to my mind right now is the Creator of the Ethereum Protocol)