...You want to get paid? Go and do something useful for others. That's how the economy works, after all.
fully agreed on that.
there are still lots of opportunities* in the btc world to make a good profit.
*:
-think like an entrepreneur, not like a crook.
-make something that you are missing (others might be missing it aswell and might be willing to pay for it).
-use btc in the old-fashioned buy-and-sell-stuff way.
-earn in fiat (as op said), invest a third of your savings (really just the savings part of your income!) in btc.
-diversify. do all of the above.
-do not get greedy. you will then cause miscomfort to others (karma goes to hell) and very likely be put out of business by someone even more greedy than you.
but that´s just my 0.005 btc