I hope you enjoy being here.
A tip: Don't get impatient and do not concentrate on how much you earn - that comes later.
Enjoy yourself making interesting posts and being friendly to other poster (comments to their posts will earn you real followers - the other kind, they just want to say, hey, look I have 5,000 followers. Who cares, right? What you want is followers who read or view your posts and discuss the posts with you.
Be careful, there are some nasty people who flag (negative vote), costing you money and even destroying your Rep. Avoids fights, after all, if you do not like somebody, just 'Mute' them.
Thank you for the advice. So far Steemit seems like a great community especially with people like you. Maybe I just haven't seen the "bad" yet. Anywho~ thanks again! ;)