Most pools are <abbr title="Pay Per Last N Shares">PPLNS</abbr> pools, which means that you only get paid when a miner on the pool finds a block. If the pool you are mining on is small, this can take a few days to weeks.
An active Monero mining community on Reddit is [/r/MoneroSupport](https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroSupport/). You can also join [#monero-pools on Libera](https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#monero-pools) or Matrix (#monero-pools:monero.social).