cheers mate for the head start, I've myself started on masternodes with Nodium it's been backup by Mocho on twitter, the entry is about .24 BTC and return are just over $200/week still waiting for the first payment to come though but looks promising, to look for masternodes I go there:
I think Nodium is a good first timer, easy tutorial to setup and active help on discord, but that is just my opinion.
RE: WTF is a Masternode?