June 2009
196 posts
I am a Mechanical Turk and I LOVE it!
I needed some extra money to help pay for my Amazon purchases, so I decided to search the internet for way to make money. On someone’s website, I found a link to mTurk. I joined it and instantly fell in love with it. All of the hits on mTurk are very easy to do. Some take a lot of time and some take very little time. I was able to purchase my USB memory card reader using money I’ve made on...
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First born
Being the first born in a family is something special. I like to think that I was special, particularly to my maternal grandfather. I never knew my grandmother – she had passed away before my mother got married. In this part of our country, the daughter’s daughter is very special indeed. My parents might have been a bit disappointed because I was not a boy. But I was very plump and cuddly and won...
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I was in real trouble now
Last year on one fine day I was on my way to my home from the Santacruz airport where I work regularly. I am a defence employee who goes on work onto the aircraft everyday. This is at a distance of 8 kilometers from my stay at Sion, Mumbai. I was relatively new to this city, not knowing much about the city, culture, traditions and people. On that day I knew I had enough fuel in my bike when I...
I am a college student who recently found...
I am a college student who recently found Mechanical Turk. So far I have really enjoyed my experience working on this website. I enjoy being able to work from my home and most of the HITs are really easy to complete. With the recent state of the economy, it is pretty difficult to find a job, so this is definitely a great opportunity. You will not find a better and easier way to make some extra...
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He said if i won't give a money the beggar will...
mehul is a wonderful man in my life. He is a very good gentleman.He is having very good helping nature.one day one beggar asked money.He was 7 years old.I said to mehul won’t give money. The beggar boy said i am very hungry my mother also.she couldn’t do any work. please give money sir he asked him.Mehul asked if i give money what u will do i will buy food for me and my mother also.So...
At age 12 I began to doubt my faith
I was fortunate enough to grow up in a Christian home with parents, grandparents and extended relatives who modeled what it meant to be a believer. At age 5, I accepted Christ into my heart. But at age 12 I began to doubt my faith. I had reached that point where my faith had to become my own. I wondered whether or not God was real, if there really was an eternity, etc. I cried out to God asking...
i am just scarred about doing this job first
hai i am just scarred about doing this job first but later i came to know that this is veryintresting and also earnable.for first two days it looks to be wague later i was given with cash for even playing games .that’s it think whether u can make it money easy and fast even at home.it is not joke really it is amazing try it out. u don’t be scarred out of doing this try try try it will...
Obviously, I rock the socks
I am a brand-new single mom of 26 who is raising her 4 1/2 month old son by herself,going to college for the first time to study Visual Communications/Multi Media/Graphic Design,living just minutes from Seattle,who happens to scour Mturk for all the most random tasks possible,just to make a another .10 cents toward a highchair or a walker for my baby boy. Outside of the busy life you’ve...
That fateful day when I found Amazon Mechanical...
I am a college student in a university in Indiana. I was trying to find ways to make extra money online since I kept hearing that people can actually earn big bucks online easily. I searched and searched in Google and it kept coming up with some bogus Web-sites. After about two days and three hours of browsing through these sites, I got so fed-up and decided to call it. I guessed making easy money...
Don't quit your day job
Don’t quit your day job… How many hours a day do I spend in front of a computer? Let’s see, I spend roughly half an hour in the morning, about seven hours at work, another half hour checking email and various social networking sites before dinner, and about two hours after dinner. Although I have become accustomed to having Excel do my calculations for me, quickly adding that up in my...
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I have started getting a little pudgy around the...
In the last six months I have been sitting eight hours a day at my job. I have started getting a little pudgy around the mid section, which isn’t great. So I thought about to start exercising again. I use to run all the time and enjoyed the routine. I decided that I wanted to get some new shoes. I quickly discovered that Nike has a new device that will track your running and give you feedback...
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You give me 250 words to share my story and pay me...
You give me 250 words to share my story and pay me .20 cents for it. Well, that just about sums up life on Mechanical Turk. I’ve only been using Mechanical Turk for about five days and haven’t made much money so far, but Mechanical Turk certainly isn’t my life’s ambition or even my means of supporting myself so I’m not too worried about that. Currently, I am a 25 year...
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The 21st century of glowing rectangles
I recently read an article that was a press release of a study that stated that most Americans spend 90% of their waking hours staring at glowing rectangles. Of course, I read this from my computer’s glowing rectangle. It didn’t surprise me. I spend a lot of time on my computer and have been baffled by the infinite potential of information to be gleamed from this glorious internet. So when I...
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Beggar in Spain
I’ve read a lot of the stories posted in www.mechanicalturkdiaries.com but I think I am not like any of those. I am both a turk and a requester. I am a turk as I love to see what kind of HITs other requesters make and I also get ideas, but I’ve only completed 3 HITs so far, including this one, so I am a lurking turk… so as to say. I am a requester too, a time buyer if you will....
I look forward to seeing what appears next on my...
I am gainfully employed, but currently on a three month sabbatical. The first few days of my sabbatical were horrible because I did not know what to do with myself. Then I discovered Mechanical Turk! I started with a few penny jobs. You know the kind, where you answer a questions. Then I took on a few more complicated hits, like transcription. I have thoroughly enjoyed this work, because it has...
Everything was going very well
A few years ago, I was gardening for my mother. the garden itself had been really overrun with weeds, so I planned to cultivate the entire, very large, garden. I pulled some pointy tools from the shed and began my work. Everything was going very well. The sun was beating down on me and I could feel the tan starting on the back of my neck. I finally got all the weeds out and the time came to begin...
Want to know who I am? Yeah, sometimes so do I
Want to know who I am? Yeah, sometimes so do I. I’d like to think that I’m more than just who I am, that my life has meaning and that I’m meant to make a difference in someone’s life. Maybe I am maybe I’m not. For right now all I know is I have school, a new job, and a girl. A girl who loves me more than anything, and still wants to be with me even after I lie or...
I am one of fourteen, but we are fourteen in a...
I am one of fourteen. That’s right, fourteen. I was born to a family as the fifth child, and there were nine children to follow. My father had only one wife, and she never had any twins or triplets. Oh no, she had us the old fashioned one-at-a-time, not this new age septuplet or octuplet style. I am also young, I am only 23, and my youngest sibling is still 10, so its not like this happened in the...
Exactly 8 weeks ago, my best friend and i, kissed
Out of my high school group, if anyone ever asked who was the most straight of all of us, everyone would always point to me. Everyone else either had experimented with the opposite gender, or wanted to. Females never caught my attention. I never found them attractive. I never saw myself doing anything, not even kissing, with another female. Even when we would throw parties, and i would get wasted...
Or maybe you can give your little boy a little...
In the modern society where we live there are two kinds of people, those with and those without. When you find yourself without, you do anything you can to be one who is with. Did I lose you yet? Well, what I’m talking about is a job. Many of us in this country and in this world including myself are facing hardships like never before and there are very few avenues in which to regain what we...
I have travelled around the world
I have travelled around the world and have been with different individuals, groups, societies and cultures. I have found out that we are divided in many aspects of life. The only thing that could probably unite humanity in its humblest sense is love which is the catalyst towards understanding. For when one loves, understanding seems to be more present than those who does not love nor care about...
I am an old woman now
I am an old woman now, but I was once a beautiful fashion model, living in one of the North’s most populous cities and enjoying life to the fullest. Foolishly, as young and desirable females can sometimes be, I fell in love with a married man who said he loved me back. He may have, but he also loved his wife and he could not leave her, nor did he. When I came to my senses, I was lucky enough to...
My friend told me about Mechanical Turk about 5...
My friend told me about Mechanical Turk about 5 years ago. My wife and I both spend a fair amount of time on the computer and were interested in making money while at home. Since it happened to be around Christmas time when we created our Turk accounts we really just expected to make enough money to buy a present or 2 off of Amazon. At the time we were taking HITs initially they were pretty...
I am from turkey
I am from turkey and have lived in united states for 12 years and i am political science student. I have traveled all over united states and seen many beautiful places and land marks. Recently i was told about couple sites that would pay to do work online and the best one being mturk so i decided to give this a try and this is my second week of using mturk and i am learning a lot about different...
Memoirs of a Geisha
A few years back,I read a book titled, “Memoirs of a Geisha”. My story is not so exotic, but still noteworthy. I was born to a man from the South and a woman from the North. Those two worlds were destined to collide and I was collateral damage. I spent my formative years (2-5) in a foster home, along with my sister. She was a wonderful person who protected me like a mother, although...
I have always been a bit of an insomniac
I have always been a bit of an insomniac. So I usually spend many a late nights or early mornings just wasting time sitting at my computer. I mostly click away and “stalk” people on social networking sites or I will visit all my favorite store’s websites to wishfully view the many beautiful clothes that I can’t afford. But now, on those many nights I can’t sleep or days I don’t have to work, I can...
I like to find new ways to make money
I like to find new ways to make money, so I put a request in google. There was alot webs sites that came up. One was, 25 unusual ways to make money. You could guess alot were USUAL, collect cans, beg, etc. The one stood out, Be a mechanical turk. I had never hear of this type of way to make money. I have spent alot of time avoiing scams, but after careful research. I did my first one and was...
I'd never won a fight in my life
I’d never won a fight in my life, even though I’d been in them every day from kindergarten through fourth grade. Every day, I got taunted, I lost my temper, I charged someone bigger than me, and I got beat down. So the awkward new seventh-grader at my day care saw this and thought kicking my ass would be a good way to gain acceptance. Never mind that I was four years younger. Well,...
He will come and visit me here in the Philippines
Hi!,im Paris(anonymous name) and my story is bout how I will meet the guy of my dreams. First, im a gay and i have a boyfriend living in the US. He’s a gay also. At first we start our conversing in Tagged.com, we’re friends only at the beggining. As a matter of fact i dont give much attention to him everytime i reply to his messages. Its because i have another boyfriend also in London....
Due to the current global recession, I lost my job...
Due to the current global recession, I lost my job last year. For five months I tried hard but was not successful in finding a job of my choice. I was working as a manager in a reputed firm, but the jobs that were available to me were for a much lesser designation and salary. I was devastated. I went into depression. Life seemed worthless. My situation deteriorated so much that I had to take...
Cadence stared out the window of the New Hampshire...
Cadence stared out the window of the New Hampshire diner and wondered why she was not heartbreakingly unhappy. The first snow was falling; the flakes melting the instant they touched the ground as if even they could not stand the thought of settling in a place this downtrodden. In reality her surroundings were not depressing. Some people found it majestic (and if she really thought about it...
Trying to scrape up a little cash
I am an unemployed college student from Washington trying to scrape up a little cash. I have tried like mad to get a job for over six months but haven’t had any luck except for a few random one of two time gigs. I hoped to be able to use Mechanical Turk to make a decent amount of money, but the well paying hits seem to be few and far between. I often spend hours on the computer every day so...
Your Anonymous Turk in L.A.
Unemployed student and mom who is desperate for work, that’s my byline. Thanks to an awesome website dedicated to helping people find legitimate online work without being ripped off I am a Turk. I find myself spending long hours looking for enough hits so I can afford a tank of gas but the well paying hits a few and far between. I need to pay my late car note and get a tank of gas, rent a textbook...
There has been a report about a black man carrying...
Friday night, I go to a gas station, and I get a water cup. I’m on my way back to my spot when all of a sudden a cop car stops in front of me and flashes its lights. I don’t know what is going on so I slow down. All of a sudden a cop gets out. “Down on the ground and spread them!” I hear him cocking a gun. So I get down on the ground with my hands spread where the cops can...
I am working on Amazon Turk to make extra money
I am working on Amazon Turk to make extra money with which to use as part of my down payment and closing costs for my new home purchase that I plan to make towards the end of this year. My husband and I can not wait to buy our first starter home and to begin a little family of our own. I am 22, have a great career, and married my husband 2 years ago. We have been together since I was only 13 years...
My collage days
Hi I’m Mal. I love my collage days because of cultural programs. The same thing i hate too, because i can’t attend my classes. I use to be in stage always. A special notice will go to our class teacher’s for permission. We are six girls important for collage cultural dances.Our collage is new to our city, trough this cultural programs only it got famous. So always our collage...
He was invisible to the world
This is the story of an errand boy that at an early age lost his parents and learned to survive on his own facing tragical challenges. Because he was an errand learned to dominate every creature surrounding him. For example he would not get stung by bees. He would play with the most disgusted gross animal and it would not harm him. Neighbors ignored him. It seemed like he did not exits. He was...
I decided I would confront her, and I met her with...
So for the last three nights I have had the most vivid, confusing dreams, they’ve actually led me to consider buying one if those silly dream dictionaries. I think I’ve probably been having them because I’m going through the home buying process right now. A few of the main points though… I had this little baby bird that kept following me. It wasn’t some beautiful...
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Have kids, you'll love having a family, everything...
I can’t decide whether or not I want to have children. I’m turning 29 in less than two months and have been married for over three years. We bought this house, this new construction duplex, almost two years ago and finally got our first tax bill. It’s $6,000 per year. Our mortgage payments have shot up, and life in general is just getting more and more expensive. How do people...
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My English is quite limited
I start in and do this through a friend referral. My first target is to feel crestfallen capital by my English is quite limited, and how the new acquaintances that I have not. But after a few times to familiarize yourself with the Hits, I feel this is a really interesting job. It helps me improve their English as well as the ability to write, find information … According to my experience...
People wrote Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox
So I’ve been Turking since this whole thing began, as it turns out. I remember back when MTurk first went online and the big buzz was about all the pictures that were being put up, thousands upon thousands of H.I.T.s every second, paying a penny a pop, and all you had to do was pick whether it was a building of some kind or nothing at all. Man those were the days, because when that happened,...
I went on to study under an artist
I hated attending catholic school. The other children made fun of me and even at a young age i was acutely aware of the hypocracy both in their attempts to hurt me daily and in the failure of the teachers to step in. I refused to go to a catholic high school, instead taking my chances enrolling in a public scool for the first time. There i found friends for the first time and my previous imersion...
We live in a world where people are worthless and...
It’s not easy being a college student in this economy. Sure it’s fun for a while and then the bills stack up. I’m trying out this MTurk for a while. At the very least it will help with the bills until I can find a better job. It is a humbling experience fnding yourself working for pennies with a college education. Maybe things will get better soon, maybe they won’t. Life...
I know my life is good, just wish I wasn’t so...
I am a 23-year-old woman trying to make ends meet living in New York City. I was looking for ways to make some extra money and found MTurk. It was fun at first, but after a while it seems like online slave labor. It takes me a month to earn $10. I do it whenever there is a lull at my real job. I have a cubicle with walls so nobody around here has noticed (I hope!) when I do random HITs in my spare...
I once had a dream of taking off from everything
My family. It is large and blended in many areas and we all love each other dearly. No one in this family has step parents or step/half siblings. When the blended families came in, they were accepted wholly. In one case it meant that I became a great grandmother at the age of 52 but so be it. That great grand puts a sparkle in my eye as quick as any of the rest and I love her for it. I once had a...
I will never forget my time spent there
There was a time when I found myself walking down a sidewalk, in a small town. Well, it wasn’t really all that small, but that section was. It was the downtown section, that was small town, but with more to share than any other one I had been too previously. It was autumn, the leaves just adding to the scenery and atmosphere there. It was the first time in life that I had that feeling of being...
God has guided me the whole way
I was an awkward kid, a little less confident than one should be, but as I grew up, I became the person I knew I should be. It took me awhile to come into my own, but I finally figured out what God wanted me to do with my life. When I was younger, I had grandiose visions of owning the largest computer company in the world, and I guess I felt the world owed me something. I planned on doing this by...
I'm Just A Girl
I am just a girl. I grew up in very humble surroundings in a tiny little town. I was protected from everything imaginable by my Mother. Although she kept me sheltered from the world, I still managed to experience everything that you would never want to have happen to your daughter. I attempted suicide when I was 14. I was raped when I was 15 by an adult on our family. I had my first child when I...
With an MBA program I expect to emerge with...
I have been working for last 8 years and I am doing well in my career. However, in long term I want to be an entrepreneur. And despite my experience, I feel I still lack in some important knowledge and management skills, especially in marketing and entrepreneurship. I am also aware that my knowledge of international business is insufficient. Since dealing with aspects of international business...
My mom’s actually the one who introduced me to...
I’m spending the summer before my junior year of college sitting at home in the suburbs with my family (including my adorable 16-month-old brother). This isn’t exactly what I had planned on doing this summer. I applied for two medical research internships but didn’t get either. I applied for an unpaid position mentoring at-risk middle-schoolers and was told I would have gotten it if the program...