The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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Or maybe you can give your little boy a little bonus

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 lost. Many of us are turning towards technology to help out. Everyone says there is tons of money on the internet but most of those people just want to take your money and promise you can do it too but with no results. That’s where Mechanical Turk comes in. No, you won’t become rich over night or even in doing this for years but I can tell you one thing, having that extra 10 bucks in your pocket does and will come in handy when you need to put gas in the car when you finally get the job interview you’ve been waiting for after 6 months of just trying to keep a roof over your head. Even if you’re not struggling like some people are, when was it ever a bad thing to have a few extra bucks that didn’t come out of your weekly paycheck? Or maybe you can give your little boy a little bonus for doing chores without it coming out of your pocket. While I’m no different than anyone else who is scraping together a few extra bucks, I sure am glad that there are a few resources out there to make it a little easier and not to rob us of our wallets and our time.

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