You're absolutely right. It takes a lot of time building a reputation here and one must be patient. I have a full time job and have no intent on quitting any time soon at least until I have 3-5 of my own small business ventures up and running and profitable.

I count steemit as one. Flipping cars as another (Just got started on both). I hope to get into rental property / flipping houses when I have more capital to work with. For now I'm making a point to put up one quality post per day (most days I manage to do it and I spend 1-2 hours on this site per day). I've done exceptionally well my first 10 days here thanks to my hard work and the fact that I have a couple of dolphin friends on here who were kind enough to help me get started.

There is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme that works. They're all scams. One has to be very lucky to get rich quick and doing so often takes a lot of risk (such as the people who got into bitcoin and ethereum early).

Great post. My upvote is worth very very little but here it is for what it's worth.