Don't look at all those "low end" jobs as an insult to your intelligence and ambition; instead, view them as opportunity to gain valuable life experience that can be used in your writing. Even if you are writing fantasy, your characters are still human (or at least human-like in that they probably have emotions and relationships and crises that make a good story), so it would benefit you tremendously to interact with as many different people as possible. You can meet some fascinating people in those "crappy" jobs you talk about, if you only talk to them and see what is under the surface.
Good writing doesn't come from being hunched over a computer, alone, all day. If I were you I would definitely not just get some online job. Get a job where you have to interact with people, and learn things you have never done before. Use the things that happen to you each day as an opportunity for a writing exercise.
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