The story I have joining Steemit is actually quite the opposite (but similar in a way still). I joined Steemis and got into crypto in general shortly after my son was born, but luckily I was in a situation where I didn't have to worry about income. Yet I wanted to see if this is something that I would like to be a part of considering this might come about as a big part for the future world. I've never used FB and in general stayed away from social networks alike. Neither have I ever blogged or made any kind of posts.
I heard of Steemit from (where exactly I don't remember), I think one of "IvanOnTech"s "Good Morning Crypto" streams and forgot about that a few minutes later.
Some weeks later I was talking about old games with a colleague at work and thought "I would love to have a discussion about this with a large group of people, that should be fun" - that's when I remembered Steemit. i thought that if I'm anyway into crypto, I might as well check out a crypto social network. So I registered here, made my first post and went to bed. In the morning I discovered 13 (or something like that) upvotes and 17 comments, that blew my mind :D not to mention 0.20$. I've never thought that I can just write about random things I find worth talking about and that people will actually feel the same way.
So ever since then I've been posting stuff, not only about gaming but about things in life that I find important. And I do not really care about the $$ (not that I have anything against ,of course) as long as I see people replying in the comments.
So that's me (not that anyone would care :) ) but just wanted to say something after you put so much effort into writing the above