While you stood to say you're still an amateur, I want to use that medium to let you know that mining is an expensive program and so also it's complex that requires exhobitant apparatus which many miners has regretted ever being in the mining pool.
Be let known that the profitabilities are usually not assured so that you don't just think you're bumping into an overnight or assured million dollars pool.
You can best go on research to satisfy your instincts.