Ive been on the platform for I guess a month already and some of my colleagues who were just new got their pay outs already. It makes me a bit sad that my contents are still not appreciated by others but it also what keeps me going still. It challenges me day by day to enhance my blogs and to make the content even more interesting for the readers to see. Yes you are indeed correct. Steemit is definitely for aspiring authors and one of those is me. Still fighting here.