I don't really know too much about feathercoin (you can search on the forum and im sure that you will find lots of posts about it
) but one thing Im sure is that mining is not for you (or for me hehehe) at least not bitcoins, Im running my GPU at 250Mh/s and Im not even getting 0.01 per day 
so my first advice if you want to start making some bitcoins (or whatever other cryptocurrency) is to sell things in auction-like website (like bitmit for bitcoins), do tasks in exchange of those currencies (I know there are several pages that you can do a translation for example and in return they pay you in bitcoins) or help people with your knowledge and be happy with whatever they want to donate, if they want heheBut as everything in the computers world apply the RTFM rule and read, read and read hehehe Im also a newbie and right now im saving little by little so I can invest those bitcoins on hardware to mine more.
Hope this help you
, I am new to this whole cryptoblock mining thing.