My experience selling my first NFT artwork.

After major fomo hearing about how artists are turning to NFT's and making a killing, I decided I would do a little research and try my own creation just to see what the process is like. I felt like Rarible would be a good first place to start and hopefully stand out as a jewel among some of the crap. I already had some ethereum and had to transfer it to a wallet. That's the first fee. Whenever you transfer the stuff, it costs money. I connected my wallet, which practically serves as your profile and place where you keep collectibles as well as crypto. I picked a scan of a drawing that I liked and began the upload process. It's all pretty easy, but they don't really talk about how expensive it is to post things. This scales based on the workload of the network. And now, it's crazy high. I spent about $60 to post after all the fees, and that's when it was pretty low. I was open to any transaction, I just wanted someone to have my art and see how it works, so I left the bid open. After I posted it to the gram, my friend placed a $1 bid! Cool! I'll take anything for the first time trying! Excited, I accepted and found that there was a $100 miner fee... again... to complete the bid. Now, I'm no business major, but none of this makes any sense. So I'm boiling this experience down to the following feelings/possibilities: right now it's too expensive to add your work because a lot of people are using the network to process things. Unless you have work that will sell enough to cover miner fees, it isn't worth it. There may be better websites to post on, but some of them require an application process. Could some sites be playing off the recent publicity and just trying to make a dime off the little guy through fees? How are so many things selling for so low? Fees, fees, and more fees. I once told myself I'd never pay to play again but I feel like I paid and got played... On purpose. Overall, I was happy to take a risk and learn some valuable lessons. Actually, I still haven't really learned much. But I did spend almost $200 to let my friend have a digital version of my art. Can we talk about how nice I am?