Right now earning 10 steem per post means being succesful. In the beginning, people were making tens of thousands of Steem per month, and some of those users (gladly just a small % of them) already left and sold everything. There are some horror stories I don´t really care to share, but knowing how some people are, we are better off without them :D
It's great to see newish content creators like you and some others I was lucky to meet with the blocktrades sponsored contest, that kind of content creators is exactly what we need right now.