In as much as its solely your decision to make to what ever reason you joined this forum for. So I would  not condemn you But it's will still me unfair and inhuman not to render some advise.

I will take this my reply in two part
1. Give your means of earning without rank
2. Give your reason why you need to have a change of heart

1. How to earn without rank... Although the are extremely few projects that's does accept newbies. Higher number of those few projects are not worth the stress.  So there are some projects that's allows newbies who has the copper membership. So you can probably pay for the forums copper membership and be able to wear a signature. Also you might just stick to other campaign in a project for example articles and content or better still social media campaign this those not need you to have any rank.

2. reasons why you should have a change of heart.
 Have you asked yourself, can i earn from doing what I love and doing it well?  the answers is yes in fact that's when you will earn immensely take for examples other professionals they get paid by how good you are at what you do,  and you can't be good at something you do love doing. You probably must have gotten the wrong perception of the forum from wrong advice or what ever way. ranking up here on bitcointalk is not such an enormous task as most people think all you need to is make up your mind. Have a goal and work towards it. Try as much as possible not to me obsessed about earning am not saying you should not earn but don't make it a priority here(here is not a trading exchange) and you might turn the forum into a spam pool. Acquire skills and knowledge. Just be simple and genuinely stick to forum rules. And you might just be earning at a high rank.

Good luck