View from the bottom. Making my first post and testing out some dividers and emoji
I kind of want to have a record of progress for myself so I  can look back later from a different perspective. 
Hopefully someone will tag along and gain something from the journey.  


https://steemitimages.com/DQmRjcBd71CLh1tA665BNnkAbgBbUwqx3SVpTrWPAxPFyEy/pearl-pink.png
I am now beginning my 3rd week here and still feeling like a fish out of water except I don't even get to be a fish yet.  The first week felt even lower than plankton maybe sand or something.  It sure is no fun to press the little up button and still see 0.00  Besides I had some very nice people kind enough to upvote some comments and I wanted to pay them back. Also all the reading required to learn the ropes lead me to stumble across tons of really great posts that had few if any votes. 
So off I trot all enthusiastic about getting some bitcoin so I can buy some steem so I can have some SP so my vote won't be 0. 
Well don't think that is as easy as it sounds at least not for a total noob like me. First I had to learn how to acquire the coins.  That was an adventure in itself luckily there are a lot of articles with handy dandy little screen shots to make it seem easy, more upvotes worth 0.00 were gladly bestowed upon these helpful authors. "(added to my list of voteyou later peeps)
Since I have no clue what I am doing I settled on a small amount in case I mess up. I am at this point exactly 1 week in and so excited I will finally get some SP 
(insert a deflated balloon emoji I don't have that yet).... 
It is going to take 7 days for my purchase to clear.  
That gave me a week to learn more about Steemit here are some highlights
🌀 rent a bot get some votes
🌀 don't rent a bot it makes you whale bait
🌀 follow people make friends
🌀 very few are looking for new plankton friends
🌀 whales curate, dolphins post, minnows comment
🌀  small fish better post a bit too or risk never becoming dolphin
🌀 bookmark the emoji list https://steemit.com/emojis/@blueorgy/steemit-emojis-master-list
🌀 book mark the page dividers https://steemit.com/steemit/@odrau/free-page-dividers-for-your-steemit-posts
                           https://steemit.com/steemit/@scrooger/animated-text-dividers-simply-copy-and-paste-gif-dividers
🌀 organize posts you want to save http://www.steemshare.com/users/sign_up
🌀 watch out for contests some are even really easy. 
🌀  patience lots of it


To be continued...