This is what the Steem Guild is for. I just resteemed their post and I didn't look to see if your name is on their list but mine is :)

Large gobs of my early big rewards actually came from @anyx @berniesanders @smooth and some others, it was a bit of a thrill when I started seeing @ned showing up at the top of voting lists, but that came later.

I think that once Steem has well proven itself, maybe in the next 6-9 months the price will start to travel a long way upwards, and your rewards will still be the same in Steem, but the Dollar value will be higher again. Back when I started in September, a post I made that did $278 rewards would now only be worth about $50, and I get this amount of vote power thrown at my posts once or twice a month usually.

I think that unless you are living somehere with below-first-world living costs Steem writing is probably just a hobby and maybe a way to share stuff that may have other indirect rewards, like fame, or just satisfying the urge to say something... But if Steem was at $1 in a few months time, and you didn't consider the Steem worth trying to draw out, you might manage to catch another wave upwards as everyone scrambles to get their paws on some Steem, the new cool thing du jour...