There are a lot of factors involved in determining whether bitcoin mining will be profitable or not. Most important factor is electricity. In my country, electricity is quite cheap and thus I was thinking to start mining myself. However, when I started reading about how to do the set up, I realized that maintenance can be a tricky job for a person like me. I do not even have much time left regular job to read detailed tutorials related to setup and maintenance. Seeing these problems, I finally dropped the idea for some time.