Confirmed!
I understand how you feel and many can relate to that.
You have done the right choice as it is important not to spend hours and hours producing posts every day. Early on, the majority of the time need to be spent on networking, comment on other people's posts and connect with like-minded people. Having as little as 1-2 posts per week is fine.

Another thing, don't look blindly on the $-upvote values. Many people with high earnings, get it with 1 big upvote. Just work consistently and try to grow your view and upvote count, if you produce good content and are lucky, you might catch a whale in the process.