In steemit if you want to grow it will be really hard for you to get goods reward for scratch.
Coming in game as a little fish will not work even with great projects. Because at this time people that "became" famous here was most of them also early investor too, in therme of participation in the network but also in crypto investment.
Two possibilities :
- Investing now and buy a lot of power (as it's cheap).
- Or stop wasting time and do something really useful instead of focusing only on the steem you earned.