My name is Amankwah Amoako Kwaku from Ghana, West Africa and this is a brief story about my journey so far. Many have come and gone but I am glad to be part of the few that stayed. It started awful and it still awful sometimes but because we knew and understood what this system was about, we invested not just a portion of our small savings but also our time and energy writing quality posts and replying numerous comments. This made me in particular connect with some amazing people such as 
Hive account@richforever ,
Hive account@mosunomotunde ,
Hive account@anaman , 
Hive account@mcsamm ,just to mention a few. Steemit has offered me with a lot and I know the coming years is going to be bigger and better.
A big thank you to my high school buddy 
Hive account@tj4real who saw it fit to share the good news with me and countless others. I have a story to tell one day and steemit will play a major role in that story. The truth is simple and it is that the work done here is as hard as anywhere but if you learn the rules and apply them very well, it wouldn’t feel like work to you. I quite remember in my first week of joining this community.That was the week before HF19 and at that time, I didn’t know a lot about the platform but I kept applying what I had been told and the night before the hardfork, I checked my incoming rewards and it was around $25. That wasn’t bad for me since I had never worked for any money at that time. The next morning came and to my surprise, my $25 reward had turned a little over $250 and I just couldn’t believe my eyes. I then gained faith in this system which made me read the whitepaper and consequentially making a dangerous bet which turned out very well.
Steemit has made me realize how possible it is for just about anyone to make their voice heard and get paid doing that. So, I took part in promotional campaigns to help more of my country folk get on board. Most people were and still are skeptical about it which is very sad to me. There are a lot of opportunities out there in the real world and in the blockchain ecosystem as well. Steemit has proven itself to me to be one of the most profitable and worthy ventures deserving of my time and energy. I just hope and pray many realise and grasp this opportunity while steem is undervalued.
