While I'm at it, the nature of the pool being longer-term, notifications for blocks found would be really helpful (Chrome, email, or otherwise). Or I can just refresh the MONA and ETH pages once or twice an hour like I'm doing now :D

Also in addition to all of the above, if you join the Coin Foundry pool, you would benefit highly from understanding the difference between PPLNS and PPS mining (https://coinfoundry.org/faq) and also be aware that Coin Foundry is not one of the busiest pools out there, so you can wait days between the pool discovering blocks, sometimes weeks (though in theory, your payout should be higher than the penny trickles from busier pools). Again, patience is key with pool mining, mining is not the get rich quick scheme many people say it is.

As far as coins, that's really up to you. No one is going to tell you what to mine, it's going to be trial and error for you to find the right pool, with the right block discovery rate to make your RoI calculations positive. BCN is growing in value, for sure, and mined a few thousand BCN at Minergate when I started out, but end of the day it's the equivalent of a stock market penny stock, so support isn't really that large (you're stuck in the Minergate ecosystem for mining, wallet, and exchanging - with the high fees that come with that when you mine BCN).

Personal opinion: while not ultra popular (anymore) and rather unknown, MONA is still pretty a pretty solid mining choice, and I personally have my rigs going at ETC, BTG, Zcash, and Groestlcoin at another larger pool, and smaller rigs going at MONA, BTCP, and ETH here at CoinFoundry.

Other piece of advice, pay attention to Coin Market Cap, join a few coin-related Discord groups, and get a few more GPUs for your system ;)