I'll just chime in with my boring story too, lol! In 3 months I've gone from $0 -> $400 through a combination of freerolls, free starting capital deals, and grinding 2/5nlhe + 2/5plo with rakeback and other bonuses. My free time these days is limited, so I try to keep my poker play at around 1 hour per day on average.
My personal golden rule in poker is to never make a deposit online from money I have not gotten for free or through poker play. Everything I earn from poker is just gravy, because I am playing simply because I enjoy the game. Quite honestly, I can still have fun playing poker even if it's just for play chips, and I think this goes a long way to helping me be less results-oriented overall. In my experience, the times when I've begun worrying about the money in a real-life context are the times when I end up off my A-game: at times timid, at other times spewing, and almost always vulnerable to breaking BRM and loss-chasing.