The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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I have started getting a little pudgy around the mid section, which isn’t great

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 about your performance. I decided that I must have this setup, which is an Ipod Nano, Nike+ sensor, and the shoes. But nothing in life is free so I needed around $255.00 to in order to have these items. Don’t know about you, but this is a lot of money. I started searching the internet to discover how I could earn some extra cash to buy these things. I discovered Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and tried a few cheap requests. I needed to verify that this would actually pay me and I could achieve my goal of earning the money I needed. I did a couple of surveys and saw that it worked. So I am doing very odd jobs on the Internet as I work towards my goal. So far I have only earned a few cents, but it is a start. Who knows maybe after a couple of days of this I can have ten bucks that will help save me some money, and get in shape. So that is how I got started.

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