I think the best thing steem has done for me is given me a renewed interest in software development. I have been developing for twenty years and was mostly retired when I came across steemit. I started back at it tinkering around with the code for fun and soon found myself neck deep in developing apps that are actually used by a fair number of people around here.
Last week I was happy to see the second code change I submitted go live on steemit.com. But I am far more excited about apps like 
I have more stuff in the works at the moment and while some of it is in the background some of the other things I am working on will be very public soon.
I have to be honest and say that with that renewed interest in dev has certainly come some money and that has been really nice as well.
The image below really has nothing to do with the post but I found it on pixabay and thought it was cool.