i definitely recommend the bitcoin.org website to get you started with a wallet.
as for grunt type of work, it is possible. basically anything you can do to earn dollars you can do with bitcoins too. i myself have been living on purely bitcoin for 2 years. though my income is not from grunt work, but proper career style of work, there are many opportunities.
grunt style of work such as offering small project services at fivver are small time and slow potential for income. id recommend listing all of your talents and skills that way the community can possibly guide you into the direction to make the best use of your abilities to help maximize your income.
its not just about computer geeks, any skill is useful. for instance we have seen people that can sing being requested to do voice overs and narrations for tutorials, news reports, promotional video's. things that music people never thought of using their vocal talents on.
so feel free to list all your skills and preferred work types and the community can come up with some suggestions
Most of my experience comes from writing texts for adult/porn sites. That's mainly the kind of work that I'm looking for. Though, I'd settle for almost anything that I had the ability to do. I'm not looking for enough money to live off of. I just need enough to order some Fiverr gigs.
I'm trying to get myself over a hump right now. At one time I had a lot of adult sites, but had some Google issues. Now I'm trying to rebuild in the world of mainstream. I really have nothing to invest other than my time. I saw Fiverr accepts Bitcoins, so I thought I'd give this a try.
Where are the best places to try to find work that pays in Bitcoin? I see there's a section here for people offering services. I'll give that a try.