For trading and investing each have advantages, disadvantages, characteristics, and mechanisms. Investment should be made based on current capabilities and situation because if you push yourself too much to get big profits in a short time, it will be detrimental and give you a high burden.
There are people that are new to investing but despite the bad situation that they've got and with the little investing capital that they have, they're managing to grow it a little by little.
The situation is really a struggle for every one of us but that shouldn't be the reason for one to stop investing.