I started with the faucets but after three months I'm still sitting at 0.06 BTC - god knows how much time and effort I've put in to make a few cents. Mining looks like the only way to go, which also means spending cash up front to get a decent rig. There really seems to be no way to get BTC with a willingness to work hard - you actually need a computer to do the work for you ... seems a bit limiting way to earn money when there are myriad ways to earn fiat currency!
Hey I've been here for 3 months or so and I've earned my first bitcoin and I don't plan to mine in the near future, you will find lots of opportunities in this forum for earning bitcoins.
Start small, grow big.
And it took me like 2 days to understand faucets only pay your time if you live in poorest country of the world, I just wanted to see a few numbers different then zeros in my wallet.