To be honest, you will be wasting your time trying to earn money with get-paid-to sites and surveys. It would be better to get a 2nd job than do that. If you want to make money on the internet then start a blog or website about a subject you are interested in.
Write articles, blogposts, upload videos, pictures and continue to promote your site online. After you start receiving a decent amount of visitors apply for Google Adsense and earn revenue from advertisements on your site. You can create a website for under $100 just buying a domain name and hosting with Godaddy then building a free Wordpress site.
Before you get started watch videos on Youtube about creating Wordpress blogs and making money from them.
I do agree with you. get-paid-to sites or survey is waste of time. Nobody can earn good money with these sites. You have to sell your staffs or skills to earn good money from internet.