My name is Nnochiri Chimaobi Victor, 400L student of political science and public administration, University of Uyo. From ABIA state in Nigeria and I joined steemit December 21St.
As a newbie, I'm going to put up five(5) challenges I'm currently facing as a newbie.
I'd like to appreciate @Gidionline 
The five challenges face by newbies
Inability to get your post to a wider audience:
(As a newbie I'd be using myself as a case study) . Whenever I take my time to study and spend hours putting together a sumptuous write up which should actually educate and get me some earnings. I always face the issue of getting a wider audience view my post(especially whales abroad).
The difficulty of getting upvotes
Every newbie on steemit on joining was oriented to the fact that "any post pays you good money", so with such orientation, every newbie post's to earn. Therefore when posts doesn't get you desired upvote or earning, that could be a big challenge.
Getting in touch with the whales
This is actually a major problem, as newbies who don't know their way around and actually want upvote producing big steemit dollar would not when to follow up a whale or what to do to become a whale. This could really be challenging. Most time even after following the whales up, they don't seem to have interest in you or what you have to offer.
The complex nature of steemit and the newbie without a guide
This one is hilarious. I remember my ordeal the first time I resteemed my own post in the bid the get more upvote. Some newbies don't know their way around the steemit platform and at such they make many mistakes and at times even copy post they like instead of resteeming and at such 
writing a very good introductory post
As easy as writing an introductory post is many newbie find it quite challenging to put up a sensible introductory post. Often they use the wrong tags.
These challenges are numerous, but these are the obvious challenges newbies face on steemit.
