there is still a lot of way and opportunities to make money from bitcoin, you can work freelance for bitcoin, trading bitcoin with alt coin can be very profitable if you are patience and know how to trade properly, there is no easy way to earn bitcoin, you need to work hard to earn your coin, after you got some coin you can used it to open a site or a shop that can make profit
Yes there are many things that you can do with bitcoins, if its an investment for you then better you hold them for a long term and if you are a risk taker then you can spend them in trading where you always have an opportunity to grow them in long term and at the same time allowing you to make good profits.