My Survey-Taking story is a little bit different from yours. For years, folks were saying you could earn from surveys. For years I never qualified to take the surveys. I don't know what happened. I'm still the same person answering the questions the same way. My answers were and are always truthful. The only thing I did different was to click on the Offer Wall at different crypto faucets and take the surveys through that site.
I honestly can't explain why, but all of a sudden, not only did I qualify to take the surveys, but when I did not qualify I still received a small amount for taking my time to try.
I have never spent a day doing surveys. Every once in a while, I check to see if surveys are available and then spend a couple of hours.
I started out with Swagbucks because it can be linked to PayPal. But guess what! Some of the free crypto faucets give out PayPal gift cards. In other words, I could still send my earnings to PayPal. But I don't! Instead I request payment in cryptocurrency. Because I have found ways to grow my crypto by earning interest. Then when I accumulate a certain amount, I convert the crypto to fiat (USD).
Now that I am qualifying to take surveys, I complete a few of them whenever I have some downtime. But instead of requesting payment in USD via PayPal, I withdraw my earnings as crypto and send to a platform that pays interest on my crypto. If I had earned $18.96, I would have converted it to a cryptocurrency and deposited it at a site where it would earn interest.
That's my story. Great article!