I got about a few dollars in my wallet. This is mainly from trading, gambling winnings and mining profits. I'm putting together my portfolio and start offering my skills in exchange for bitcoin (IE getting a job).
For your alternative to getting a bitcoin jobs:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985550.0I started with alts... LTC and DOGE mining with my Mac. My very first BTC transaction was a purchase of 0.1BTC. I've obtained quite a bit since then through mining, purchases and services.
it is not dumb to have some LTC
(but forget about all other alts...)
LTC just had a huge jump in price, but doge did too, maybe you shouldnt disregard
all the other alts
Alts are pretty much ignored and shunned, but they're actually pretty good.
It's depends on how the dev manage the coin. There are still a coin which everyone want to get the coin, example: LTC, Namecoin.
~iki