Firstly, goodluck to you, hope you earn more and more ETH for your hard work.
I have tried many ways to own the first cryptocurrencies, but their value is not over $5, while time & effort is hard to count because so much

Of course, I used to expect that today's $5 will become $5K or $5M someday in the next 10 years. But expectations were still just expectations, I chose to work for $5 or join some bounty campaigns to get free tokens, then sold and bought ETH.