It is depended on how you are collecting Bitcoin because if you are collecting Bitcoin as normal way: faucet claiming, ou are really wasting your time doing useless things.
But its definitely worth if effort is somehow adequate to profits. It's good to have something like BTC saving account that would give you even small revenue for deposit.
It is certainly worth collecting bitcoin according to our capabilities and availability of time. We can not require someone who just starts on this to collect large amounts of bitcoin, nor can compare his capabilities with those of an expert trader. I think everyone has the right to do their best, although in the case of those who invest a lot of time just to collect few satoshi through faucets, perhaps it might be more convenient for them to have a normal job to later acquire bitcoins with a part of their income.
I would be very wise if the person that was trading Bitcoins had a goal to try to get as much Bitcoin as possible. If the trader was only trading to get a daily/monthly income in some currency then they might as well trade Forex because they arent 100% in Bitcoin.