That's no problem, it took me like a half hour to stare at a blank screen to figure out to write for a first post. You sure aren't the only one nervous to start here. As long as you have genuine conversations, find topics or just even individual people here you like to chat with, that's all it takes. One point of early advice you may use or not that's obviously totally up to you. Be careful to not go upvoting everything in sight, lol. Just about everybody does that when they start and it takes like 3-4 sometimes 5 days for it to recover and when it gets really depleted it's really not worth that much anyways. People on here would more like to hear an interesting comment, joke, or just good conversation rather than get a vote from us when we first start, to tell you the truth, lol. If you vote up to about 8-10 times a day your voting power will recoup 20% per 24 hours. So, your being the engineer, you see the math pattern there. There are two great resources steemd.com/@anceli and steemworld.org/@anceli that will show you your account info and details.