I started 2017 broke and with a very low wage. My girlfriend also broke up with me in the beginning of the year.
Although I had committed some trade mistakes I was able to get 400% gains, thanks to btc. This gave me hope and made my year a lot better.
I wonder how many people bitcoin "saved" this year, even preventing some suicides maybe.
Your post looks very much like standard MLM stories. " I was broke ... and now I am earning XYZ 000 $ ... ", but yes, it happened to most of us. From the beginning of 2014 I multiplied 4 times number of my BTC and I saw rise of my initial investmestment of more then 70 times in terms of USD. And 2017 was particularly good year for trading crypto.
I was not exactly broke in the begining, but my future was uncertain in that time, Bitcoin has changed a lot in my life.
So happy trading, mining, promotion ... etc for everyone in this New 2018. Just don't go all in, diversify in order to reduce risk and gain maximum.