I was surfing through a forum this year March, so I saw a post about steemit, I clicked on it to know about it, after reading some pages, I headed to steemit website and created an account, but unfortunately I read that a message will be send to my mail within seven business day. I sat down and start checking my mails everyday until the last , I finally gotten approved. Due to some reason then I started working In April. It wasn't cool at first, I post randomly without yielding good results. Then I came across a community which is Steemians Arena, I was advised there to be doing what I love to do, and I was a mathematics lover, I started writing on mathematics and the earning started.
My reputation now is 45 with 20SP, I have earned many SBD and STEEM which I can't really remember the actual amount.
Only 20 SP but many SBD and STEEM? Did you sell it? WHat did you spend it on?
I had a similar experience: when you find your niche, a community around an interest, you will thrive and be motivated to invest more work into your posts :)