Hey aaronx
Big welcome to steemit on behalf of the steemit community
I'm Bania, 19 years old and a crypto trader too but from Nigeria. I joined steemit recently and I am enjoying every moment here.
You can do well here and build a fulfilling career if you follow the rules.
As a noob focus more creating valuable and quality content than upvoting the best content for curation reward because of your low steem power SP, you wouldn’t earned much of curation reward. So invest time in creating content and well thought out comments on other people’s post.
Here's a couple posts that can help you figure this place out
Complete Guide For Steemit. Everything you need to know 👍 — Steemit
7 Helpful Tools And Apps I Use Daily To Grow My Steemit Account as a Minnow
Hope these help you like they helped me. I'm part of a team and we like to help one another learn quick.
You can learn more by checking this out
Thank you for the links and helpful information Bania. It's cool that were the same age and connect from two entirely different places! I really appreciate your helpful comment and look forward to learning quickly.