The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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Off the Beaten Path Part-Time Turker
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The laziest guy in the world

Mechanical Turk keeps me busy at night. God only knows what kind of wacky antics I’d be involved in, if it weren’t for the repetitive clicking that leads to riches. I’m thinking that I’m going to keep “turking,” even when I get back to college. That way I can feel a little better about not getting a real job. I had a real job last year, but I got sick of doing dishes pretty quickly, and I won’t touch one anymore around home. I didn’t get very many hours for that job, so Mturk is actually not a bad alternative. Whatever helps me pay off the credit card balance, I guess. I wasn’t in debt until a few months ago, but I got lonely being the only person in the country that wasn’t, so I took out a credit card. Technically, I was in student loan debt, but I don’t even count that. If I stay in school forever, I’ll never have to worry about paying back my student loans. Perhaps I can start Turking while in class. That way I could take care of two things at once, and I’d probably get just about as much out of classes. Man, this makes me sound like the laziest guy in the world, but maybe I am. I wonder if I could get Guinness to look into that? It would probably entail some money. Or maybe I’ll just try to gain a bunch of weight and get my own TV show.

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