I know my life is good, just wish I wasn’t so broke after studying my ass off my whole life
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 time. A penny earned is really a penny earned on MTurk. HITs can be so boring, but much better than doing nothing at my desk job. This is my first year working in the “real world” and I didn’t realize the amount of money I take home would be so drastically lower than the money I earn. Income taxes are making it impossible to save money. I barely get by, I’m in a lot of credit card debt from college, and I’m working on MTurk in my “free time.” The daily grind gets boring. I live for the weekend, not that I have money for entertainment or fun or anything. I know my life is good, just wish I wasn’t so broke after studying my ass off my whole life. I need to have one of my wisdom teeth removed but I don’t have insurance. It hurts these past few days. Can’t afford to have them extracted, can’t afford not to. I guess that’s life.
