Since it seems the OP got the advice that mining bitcoin with a GPU is still possible, i leave following link to one of my calculators:
https://www.mocacinno.com/nonspecialisedmininghardware.phpCPU/GPU mining bitcoin is dead, like A1exander said, you need a lateste gen ASIC and a good electricity rate to mine BTC.
The OP did receive the correct advice about altcoins tough: some altcoins can still be mined with a CPU or GPU, and if you play your cards right and have a little bit of luck, you can make some profit when exchaning them to BTC
About faucets: in my opinion, they're never worth it... In the very beginning, i was told, there were faucets where you'd get allmost a full bitcoin (never bothered to check this, so i don't know if it's real or not). If you had claimed 100 times from these faucets, and helt your BTC, it would now be worth $700.000... However, back then, it took 10.000 BTC to buy a $10 pizza, so the 100 BTC would have been worth 1 cent at the time.
Now, imagine that, instead of claiming 100 times, you worked a low wage job for an hour and made $7, exchanged this $7 for bitcoins... You would have gotten 7000 BTC instead.
My point is: no matter if the bitcoin price rises or falls, in my opinion it's always better to get a job and buy BTC with your earnings instead of wasting your time on faucets.