That’s $1,200.00 in my pocket
I have been using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for about a week now. I suppose I have become a bit addicted to it. I guess the fun of Mechanical Turk is that it is sort of like a game for me… like I am completing tasks in a game for “points” except the “points” are actually real money. I wouldn’t be here, spending hours on completing tasks for under minimum wage pay each day, if it wasn’t fun. Oh, well, I suppose it’s educational, too. I like completing writing HITs(such as paraphrasing sentences, rewriting articles, or writing new articles entirely) as they are good practice for improving my vocabulary and literary skills in general. The reason I initially joined MTurk is because I’m saving up for a netbook laptop that I hope to be able to buy in about a month from now. It’s impossible for me to get a job right now, so I’m hoping that “turking” will help me at least shave off a decent chunk of the $320 that I have to come up with by then. (So far, my earnings have averaged $1.67 a day, and that’s with half of my total submissions still pending. If I keep this up for exactly one month from today, I will at least earn $50 towards my future laptop. Given that half of my submissions are still pending, that could be about a good $100 towards my laptop! Now, say I do this for a whole year, averaging about $100 per month. That’s $1,200.00 in my pocket for whatever I want, earned in my spare time.) I can see myself using it past that point, though. Instead of wasting my time with television and unproductive activities on the internet, I can turk away my boredom and earn a little bit of extra spending money all at the same time… and that’s what I love about Mechanical Turk.
