For me in practice, I hardly have made any serious gains from Bitcoin, Yeah, apart from using it as a payment medium for jobs I do for clients. Are there other ways people like us who are late adopters benefit from Bitcoin?
It is still never too late to benefit from bitcoin. You can invest in it, and you will earn money from it. When the time comes, thousands of people will still be making money from it, so you can also do it, but I think what you should do is invest, which will take a long time before you get proof of it. However, you cannot get it for free. You will use your own money to purchase the amount you can afford, and you will also use the amount you can afford to lose.
As long as you can allocate your money by weekly or monthly to buy Bitcoin, you will have a chance to have Bitcoin and benefit from Bitcoin.
The OP should not forget to use the amount he can afford to lose because, even aside from allocating weekly or monthly money to invest in bitcoin, there is still a possibility that he still does not know the risk attached to bitcoin investment, so it’s better. I think he should learn about it first before he takes any further steps towards investing in bitcoin, or maybe he should start with a small amount of money and then continue learning the knowledge of how bitcoin investment works.